"The Night Santa Went Crazy," Weird Al Yankovic (Rock 'n Roll/Scotti Brothers)

Al's second Christmas song, from the 1996 single of "Amish Paradise" and his album Bad Hair Day, is a power-pop ode to a militia-ready Santa who levels his North Pole workshop and gets taken out by a SWAT team. It's kind of heavy-handed; "The Only Law Santa Claus Understood" from the Chris Stamey album is a better stab at an outlaw Father Christmas. But it's not bad for all that. Like Al's previous holiday tune "Christmas at Ground Zero," this is not a parody but a fully original song. As there were 10 years between Al's two Christmas songs, he's overdue for a third.