At the end of the year I enjoy getting a stack of music mags and hunkering down, especially when we have a snow storm!! Luckily last weekend I scored a copy of Uncut which comes with an awesome CD.
It samples songs that were represented on John Peel's Festive Fifty, which was an end of year chart that he used to do, cool picture of him on the cover too. It has a few classics on there from Robert Wyatt, Billy Bragg and Pavement. But there are a few obscure gems too, like The Woodentops doing 'well well well' which has been ringing in my head for over 2 decades but I never had a copy until now! Also played an old Felt track with Liz Fraser on vocals tonight, she's one of the Cocteau Twins who dominated the Festive 50 for several years...it's a good stocking stuffer for the musichead on your list...happy snow day everyone!