"I Want an Alien For Christmas," Fountains of Wayne (Atlantic)

You have to go back to "Santa and the Satellite," or at least "A Spaceman Came Traveling," to find another outer space Christmas song. This 1997 alt-pop tune is a killer, with lines like "I want a little green guy who's three feet high with 17 eyes that knows how to fly." The "flip side" (you don't turn CDs over, you know) is "The Man in the Santa Suit," in which the streetcorner Santa gets no respect. There's a two-line tune about "Hanukkah under the stars" tacked onto the end of this, but it's too short to issue a full Hanukkah alert. All of this single is now available on FoW's odds-n-sodds collection from 2005, Out Of State Plates.