Christmas 2000, Eric Alexandrakis (Y&T Music)

This self-issued set of Christmas rockers from the above-mentioned year is not bad at all. "All I Want For Christmas is You" is a clattery electronic shuffle with a bit of science fiction in the lyrics leading up to the simple sentiment of the refrain. "Christmas On the Moon" keeps up the sci-fi sentiment, although it could have got into the rocking part a bit earlier to suit me. "Santa Claus is Dead" is more of a novelty, good fun, and the title ends up being wrong. Alexandrakis previously released "Moon" as a single, and for 2001 he has "Here Comes the Snow!," a 3-inch CD EP with the title song, an almost Cajun fiddle and squeezebox stomp, the "karaoke" version of "All I Want," and an instrumental, "Theme From the Motion Picture Stealing Christmas," that probably works better as soundtrack; it steers into that no-Manheim-zone a bit. He also has "Have a William Shatner Christmas," a short, clattery noise that Star Trek completists will want. UPDATE: The collections are all broken up on iTunes, the only place that has this stuff, which is why all these links are posted separately.