Classic or Dud: Weird Al Yankovic

how to fix? we can fix it a little by changing "just" to "only" (makes the words align more with the original song) but song's is still song's

Y'know, Al gets a lot of grief but having heard every morning moron on the radio try and write song parodies and fail miserably, it tells me that there's an art to what he does and that he's among the best at it.

Also, caught him live with my brothers (one of whom worships Al) and my then 7-year old son. We had a blast. Really, really funny show for all of us, which I think also says something.

It was surreal eating Chinese food after the show and, peering out the window, seing a line of Storm Troopers marching down the street like it was nothing (they had appeared in the show earlier).

I saw him twice last year. Totally spot on in Portland. Then he stole ATP fest even though he had a high fever and his voice was giving out. Incredible performer. Comedy genius. And the same band since 1981. Those guys can play anything.

I will not miss him again.

Having wanted to go to ATP for the more ATP-esque acts (with "lol Weird Al" as a side-thought) and missed it, Weird Al is now totally the act I most regret not having seen. I'm not even that familiar with his stuff, which is a lot less well-known in the UK, though probably getting less so thanks to Youtube etc.

If it's any consolation, the dude was really sick that night. It was clearly not his best performance. But he gave it his all anyway. I like that.

My interview with him is the most-viewed page on my blog.

Would pay money to see this as a full-length movie:

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/3231da28bb/weird-the-al-yankovic-story?rel=player

Haha! They played that "trailer" as one of the many AV interludes when I saw him in concert. Awesome...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWLNq193DBY

this is fuckin sick

Hell yes on that Owner Of a Lonely Heart breakdown!

perform this way video is strangely hypnotic/disturbing

vote in the poll! POLLka Party: "Weird Al" Yankovic's Polka Medleys

Wonderful interview:

http://www.avclub.com/articles/weird-al-yankovic,58244/1/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAZ-2gMJXY0

back on his feet, now he's choppin up meat

A Gen-Y classic.

Gen Y? Kids today a bunch of Rocky fans?

anyone who miscredits the title of that song is missing out on the best joke imo

I took this photo of "Weird Al" Yankovic at the godspeed you! black emperor-curated ATP festival in December last year...

http://krakow.zenfolio.com/img/v34/p200752422-3.jpg

His set was fantastic fun.

can't get "Here's Johnny" out of my head even though that song is stupidly unfunny

that said I do get a huge kick out of the two-note guitar solo on "Generic Blues"

great photo!!

Thanks! I really enjoyed his set. Within the context of the rest of the festival it was really quite different, in a good way. I wholly applaud gy!be for asking him to play the event.

i remember having some convos with some of the more chin-strokey types there about "how do you think al will be recieved?" since it was basically The Wire Tapper in festival format. The answer was WITH RAPTUROUS OPEN ARMS.

I was in the front row. :D

Indeed!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GSgc2yD_jU

I think I like this better than "Closer"

the lyrics are certainly no more embarrassing

In Brooklyn next month

http://thewildhoneypie.donyc.com/event/2013/06/09/weird-al-karaoke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdyLNXdeO-Q

Songs in the video:

Flatbush Avenue
Spam Eater
Feel Like Throwing Up
Avacado
Sometimes You Feel Like A Nut
Take The L Out Of Liver
Fatter
Whole Lotta Lunch
We Got The Beef

lol, he barely even tried on those lyrics, which somehow makes the medley even funnier

weird al has some strange preoccupation with food. he seems to find them inherently funny.

He's right!!

"Flatbush Avenue" had me rofling

yesss

http://gawker.com/5993520/huey-lewis-and-weird-al-reenact-classic-american-psycho-scene-in-honor-of-sports-30th-birthday

Don't just stare at it, EAT IT

Those lyrics are pretty good for one-verse parodies to throw into a live set I think! They might need another couple drafts to be album-worthy but whatever.

still basically classic though: http://www.theonion.com/articles/weird-al-yankovic-nears-completion-of-livin-la-vid,697/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM1FAq7jd5k

From 5/6/94 - "Weird Al" Yankovic faces off against Little Richard, the late James Brown, and Lee "Mr. Soul" Greenwood.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BqHT6u8CcAEX54X.jpg

new album is gr8t

you should never write words using numbers unless you're seven or your name is Prince

maybe it was cultural satire

The Pixies style parody is so on point.

it's a great pixies song

Haha, "First World Problems" is so fucking expertly done. I'm cracking up just at the arrangement.

There have already been three songs that I don't know what they are parodies of :/

dyingggg

ok I just heard First World Problems and now I'm gonna go find the rest - a+

Oh because they aren't parodies. I feel a little better now. Though I didn't know the Foo Fighters song.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/32/MandatoryFun.jpg

I picked up that it was a Foos parody, but barely. xp