Classic or Dud: Weird Al Yankovic

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

Crosby, Stills & Nash, Southern Culture on the Skids and Cat Stevens seem like weird choices for style parodies in 2014, though.

his style parodies are always kinda anachronistic

Southern Culture on the Skids is a weird choice for any time period.

"Word Crimes" is the best.

it's really underappreciated that al has had the same backing band for 30 years.

al is a better singer than pharrell

"Word Crimes" really is the best.

al is a better singer than pharrell

― katherine, Tuesday, July 15, 2014 11:28 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

― guwop (crüt), Tuesday, July 15, 2014 12:33 PM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

On numerous occasions, Prince has refused Yankovic permission to record parodies of his songs. Yankovic has stated in interviews that he has "approached him every few years [to] see if he's lightened up."[76] Yankovic related one story where, before the American Music Awards where he and Prince were assigned to sit in the same row, he got a telegram from Prince's lawyers, demanding he not make eye contact with the artist.[61]

it should have been sent by carrier dove

d0v3

I would say Prince has no sense of humor, but he's capable of being dryly funny now and then.

dying @ the prince story

Prince himself is totally funny, but he doesn't like people making fun of him

Isn't it more that's he's just really overprotective of use of his music/image outside of his own control? Like not letting any of his music be on YouTube for example

mildly scandalized that weird al would say "cunning linguist"

That's racy by Al standards, yeah.

he did once make an 'original' song that was as "I'm not touching you! I'm not touching you!" close to a "Let's Go Crazy" parody as he could get away with:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCs6pKXJ0t4

Eh, Dare to Be Stupid was the first album my parents every confiscated from me, primarily due to the quote of Frankie Goes to Hollywood during the polka "When you wanna come?" LIKE I WOULD HAVE EVEN UNDERSTOOD WHAT THAT MEANT WHEN I WAS SIX YEARS OLD MOM! SHIT! Anyway, there have been a couple other racy moments in the Weird Al canon, but I can't think of them right now.

Prince himself is totally funny, but he doesn't like people making fun of him

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, July 15, 2014 1:44 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

given that this was the official cover art for a Prince single recently, if i was Yankovic i'd totally approach him again:

http://media.musicfeeds.com.au/files/4f30f18ddd63fccaa75482a81e7361e2.png