"Father Christmas," The Kinks (RCA)

If you're looking for someone to satirize the whole idea of Christmas, Ray Davies would be high on the list of suspects to do so. This 1976 song by the Kinks does exactly that, intimating that happy holidays are a luxury for the rich and that for everyone else, it's every man for himself. Father Christmas gets mugged by a bunch of street toughs in this anti-classic. Though it bowed to little notice, this song has become a much-covered classic in recent years as well as an often-chosen addition to modern rock Christmas anthologies.