We are flush with the usual wide and varied selection of music-related gifts to please the rock snobs on your list. Here are a few of the top picks:

Led Zeppelin

Mothership and More

(Atlantic)

No one wants coal in their stockings, but who wouldn’t like a little Led? Arguably the greatest straight-ahead rock-and-roll band of their day—we’ll let them fight it out with the Who for that one—and, barring 1992’s short-lived, two-CD remasters set, long a band that eschewed the notions of a best-of or greatest-hits set, is finally captured in a concise compendium. Page, Plant, Jones and Bonzo are captured here on two discs of hand-picked favorites, from “Good Times Bad Times” to “All of My Love,” which highlight the power and magnificence of a true rock-and-roll colossus. The set’s third disc is a DVD that includes a bevy of long unseen live footage to further back up the band’s claim to the throne of best rock-and-roll band ever. Long a holdout in the online digital boom, Zep finally gives downloading fans the chance to boogie with Stu as the band’s entire back catalog—complete albums or songs a la carte—are available starting this week as downloads from all online music retailers. The complete recordings, including every album both studio and live, are available as download for $99.99. Just think of the wrapping paper you save. Not enough? It also includes an expanded and remastered version of Led Zeppelin’s concert opus The Song Remains the Same with six added tracks and expanded liner notes by Cameron Crowe.

Flight of the Conchords

Complete First Season

(HBO Video)

How long can the world ignore the awesome power of New Zealand’s fourth most popular folk duo? Follow the Kiwi duo Flight of the Conchords—Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement—as they earnestly struggle to make it in a New York City littered with crummy gigs, problems with women, hallucinations of David Bowie and their one relentless, undying fan named Melissa. Easily 2007’s television highlight, the complete first season of HBO’s Flight of the Conchords is available as a two-disc set. Clement and McKenzie’s sharp comic wit as they endure their bumbling manager Murray and fumble from one bad gig to another is only bested when they turn it all into music. Now you can revel in watching and re-watching the music videos within the episodes, from the brilliant Pet Shop Boys-esque “Inner City Pressure,” to the smooth crooning of “Mermaids,” to the just barely curse-word-free hardcore hip-hop number “Mutha Uckas” and the flawless Thin White Duke homage “Bowie in Space.” Stay at home, paint lightning bolts on your wanger and enjoy!

Nick Drake

Fruit Tree box set

(UME/Fontana)

As writer Peter Paphides states in his notes for the new edition of Fruit Tree, “With every passing year, it becomes a little less accurate to say that Nick Drake has a cult following.” Drake is one of those artists whose legend gets larger as each year passes, in spite of being virtually unknown when he died more than 30 years ago. The British singer/songwriter’s pastoral, often otherworldly blend of folk and jazz has earned its place in the pantheon of popular music. Long considered the ultimate treasure trove of Drake’s catalog, the Fruit Tree box collected his three proper albums—Five Leaves Left, Bryter Layter and Pink Moon—plus the outtakes/rarities disc Time of No Reply. The set went out of print in the early 2000s, just as another Drake resurgence was launched with the use of the track “Pink Moon” in a long-running Volkswagen TV spot hit, creating an opportunity for the ever-growing legions trying to piece together the singer’s legacy. Fruit Tree finally returns, albeit without Time of No Reply. In its place is the DVD of the remarkable documentary A Skin Too Few.

Pearl Jam

Immagine in Cornice:

Picture in a Frame DVD

(Monkeywrench Records)

Don’t call it Pearl Jam’s Rattle & Hum. Though the band has become a stadium goliath on a level that few bands this side of U2 can claim, Pearl Jam has kept the power but eschewed the pomposity of such a label and remained an everyman band. Here photographer/filmmaker Danny Clinch artfully captures the Seattle band across the Italian leg of their 2006 European tour. Immagine in Cornice doesn’t have Clinch sticking Eddie Vedder and company into scripted situations and bogus behind-the-scenes interviews, but instead uses the time in between the music for a more impressionistic view of traveling through the Italian locales. Ultimately, the film relies on what it should: the music. The combustive force of Pearl Jam as a live act is more than enough to carry the film, which collects songs played by a band still peaking some 15 years in. The songs included here are enough to make any Pearl Jam fan smile, including propulsive takes of “Life Wasted,” “State of Love and Trust,” “Porch” and “Alive,” as well as an exceptional rendering of the Who’s “A Quick One (While He’s Away),” in which Vedder fronts tour support act My Morning Jacket.

Joy Division

Reissues and Control soundtrack

(Rhino)

Nothing says holiday cheer like the gloomy music and story of a doomed bloke from gray Manchester, England, who hung himself just hours before heading off to America and impending rock stardom. The legend of Ian Curtis and Joy Divison—like that of the aforementioned Drake—seems to grow exponentially every few years as new generations discover the dark rapture and unparalleled intensity of the band’s post-punk template. Rhino Records has revisited the band’s catalog, reissuing double-CD, collector’s editions of Unknown Pleasures, Closer and the live recording Still, all expanded with rare and unreleased music. The first disc of each set features the original album remastered, while the second disc contains unreleased live performances. Offered exclusively at Rhino.com, the Joy Division Vinyl Box contains 180-gram vinyl editions of the three albums for a paltry $199.98, a small price to pay for so much anguish, pain and dark new wave on black vinyl. Then there’s Anton Corbjin’s biopic on Curtis, Control, which boasts a stellar soundtrack featuring Joy Division and new material from JD post-posits New Order, as well as pertinent period material from Iggy Pop, Roxy Music and Kraftwerk.