VH1 The Big 80s Christmas, various artists (Rhino)

This field has been plowed before -- in fact, it's been plowed by Rhino as part of the "Just Can't Get Enough" series. VH1 being what it is though, what we have is a far more mainstream 80s Christmas compilation. Nearly every song on this 2001 collection is mentioned elsewhere on the site, and many have been on numerous compilations. That said, it does have the not-easily-found-otherwise Los Lobos song "Rudolph the Manic Reindeer." And they exhibit a little taste by giving us the Bob and Doug MacKenzie "12 Days of Christmas." Otherwise, no surprises, but if you don't have the majority of these tunes already you're going to want this. The Ramones, Pretenders, George Thorogood, The Alarm, Queen, Pat Benatar, Hall and Oates and Billy Squier are on the set list, and here's one more chance to get the Bing and Bowie tune. Out of print, but 3rd parties have copies at Amazon.