Christmas music that doesn't suck

Christmas has a way of being really annoying here in America. I will stipulate that, sure, the crass commercialism is probably responsible for 95% of the obnoxiousness, but  let's not forget about the music. When I hear Bing Crosby crooning "White Christmas" over the lousy PA system at some mall in  mid-November, I tend to want to break things. And as for truly bottom-of-the-barrel schlock like Trans Siberian Orchestra, the less said the better. If, like me, you are  sick of the same old christmas music at this point—when, by dint of repetition, even decent stuff like Brenda Lee singing "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" makes you gnash your teeth, you may find yourself asking "isn't there something that will get me in the holiday spirit that I haven't heard before"?

Yes, yes there is. Forthwith, my list of awesome Christmas music you may or may not have heard before.