Sleighed: The Other Side of Christmas, various artists (Hip-O)

The mega-monolith Universal record company saw that its competitor Warner was making good scratch and getting good press with its Rhino subsidiary and threw together the Hip-O imprint for creating its own compilations of previously released material, although with far less forethought and wit. Nearly all of this stuff comes from some corner of the far-flung Universal universe, so you're likely to have at least some of this stuff on other albums. But some of these tunes are just obscure enough that you may want this 2000 collection anyway. More familiar tunes include the Smithereens' "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," Spinal Tap's "Christmas With the Devil," Beck's "Little Drum Machine Boy," and Sonic Youth's version of "Santa Doesn't Cop Out on Dope." Less than Jake give us a punk-thrash "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer," Goldfinger reggaes up "White Christmas" and a couple of novelties earn the Parental Advisory sticker, like Red Peters' "You Ain't Getting Shit For Christmas" and The Little Stinkers' "I Farted on Santa's Lap." Out of print, so click the cover to check 3rd-party sellers at Amazon, prices vary from reasonable to collector's level.