O Come All Ye Faithful: Rock For Choice, various artists (Columbia)

Some might find a bit of irony in Rock For Choice sponsoring a Christmas album, but that's a discussion for some other site. Personally, I found this 1996 album a bit weak, partially because two of the better cuts appeared on other albums previously: Henry Rollins' "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" was on A Lump of Coal and Juliana Hatfield's "Make It Home" was already on Atlantic's You Sleigh Me. Sponge brings "Christmas Day," Bush offers "Good King Somethingorother" with a taste of "Hey Joe" thrown in, Luscious Jackson perform "Queen of Bliss," the Cranes take on John and Yoko's "Happy Xmas (War is Over)," Face to Face do "Blue Christmas," the Presidents of the United States of America's "Christmas Piglet" is slight even for them, but a nice female Ramones cop comes from Dance Hall Crashers on their own "I Did It For the Toys." Hanukkah alert: Shudder To Think perform "Al Hanisim." Third-party sellers on Amazon had this pretty cheap last time I looked; click the album cover to see.