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Featuring bands like The Flaming Lips, Calexico, The Dandy Warhols, Gorky’s Zygotic Mycni, Eels, Giant Sand and many more acts that were big in the ’90s, this collection of original songs, covers and re-worked Christmas classics actually lives up to its title. While it is sadly out of print, it can be found online (YouTube seems to have most of the tracks), and sellers on eBay and Amazon are offering used copies with elevated price tags. However it is well worth the expense in order to hear Belle & Sebastian offer up an un-ironic and endearingly earnest version of “Oh Come, Oh Come, Emmanuel,” Grandaddy’s “Alan Parsons in a Winter Wonderland” and Teenage Fanclub’s “Christmas Eve.” While the album came out 12 years ago, it has aged well enough that it would be surprising if the album didn’t still sound great in another decade or two.