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In the 1990's, Rhino Records partnered with Billboard Magazine (the music industry's leading journal) to produce a long series of brief, budget-priced discs of generally excellent music. Most consisted, by definition, exclusively of top hits. Billboard Rock 'n' Roll Christmas (1994) ventured farther afield and, in the process, created one of the best collections of its sort. I banished it from my Top 20 Albums list due to the unfortunate inclusion of Weird Al Yankovic's hideous "Christmas At Ground Zero," but every other song approaches or achieves greatness. It's a mixed bag, but a it's a groovy bag. (Consumer alert: like Rhino's other Billboard collections, Rock 'N' Roll Christmas has just ten tracks. The series includes Greatest Christmas Hits 1935-1954, Greatest Christmas Hits 1955-Present, Greatest R'n'B Christmas Hits, and Greatest Country Christmas Hits.)