Ho Ho Ho Spice, various artists (Volunteer) 

This 2002 benefit for the Hospice Awareness and Benefit Project, organized by the St. Barnabas Health Care System of Millburn, N.J., not only supports a really good cause, but it's the absolute bar-none deal of the century if you like alternative rock and Christmas music. (More so if you can get it at the used prices currently showing on Amazon; click the cover.) I've got tons of the songs on this 2-CD collection and yet there's a ton more I don't have. Let me just rattle off some of the artists on this: Chris Stamey and the dBs, Stewart Copeland of the Police in his Klark Kent persona, NRBQ, 5 Chinese Brothers, Graham Parker and Nona Hendryx, Wednesday Week, Brave Combo, the Cucumbers, Jim Babjak's Buzzed Meg, Flat Duo Jets, The Butties, Better Than Ezra -- that should give you an idea, and that's only about a quarter of the cuts on this album. You may well have accumulated most of the cuts on this album via other means by now, but this double-set remains worth searching out.