Classic or Dud: Weird Al Yankovic

BECAUSE THERE'S PLENTY OF ROOM

a nice roomy cell sounds nice yes thank you

VG forgot to mention that we filled it with farts

are they smelly farts?

lots of people eating fried and poached eggs around here. they are probably smelly.

pickled weiners.

also vegemite

FWIW I find it kind of endearing (if bizarre) that this weird release format is putting really close, brief attention on what are, videos aside, obviously Weird Al album tracks, a dicey category of song for at least two decades. Love the guy at his best but buying a Weird Al CD always involved some recognition that there would be some lame jokes that didn't work, some concepts pushed too far, some forced wackiness etc etc - - - so yeah surprise surprise not all these tracks are genius, I'm just amazed he can still actually knock out a few parody songs that people like and laugh at, this late in his career.

*gives weird al a treat*
*pats weird al on head*

i think the pastiches on this one are better executed than the straight-up parodies tbh

"on this one" hardly necessary there imo

yeah, still blown away by the pixies one

there should be a playlist of pixies parody songs

There is no class of patients referred to simply as "spastic" by doctors in North America (and I don't think in the UK either). The word sometimes is used as an adjective to describe a pattern of gait or a form of dysarthria.

thanks for clearing this up Plasmon; I would hope it was obvious that I was referring to the former usage as being nonexistent in the US

many many xp

there should be a playlist of pixies parody songs

It's called Indie Cindy.

haaaa

My piano teacher from high school has been in Al's touring band for >20 years :)

and he's the newbie of the group! i don't know why i find the consistency of his line-up so cool but i do

from steve jay's website:

Stephen's bass recording credits include 3 Grammy winners and 9 Grammy nominated albums. He is the credited bassist on 9 Gold and 5 Platinum albums (RIAA). Stephen specializes in combining ethnic and modern instruments to create a blend of the exotic and contemporary. His world music experience includes live performance and studies throughout West Africa and Southeast Asia. From his field recording of world music Stephen produced 2 albums for the Nonesuch Explorer Series. He has scored more than seventy nationally broadcast PBS specials and series episodes, including three George Foster Peabody Award winners, and contributed to TV and feature films. His background includes a BA and MM Graduate Fellowship in composition, and studies with composers John Cage, Lucas Foss, Max Neuhaus and Charles Wuronien. Stephen's past work includes performing and recording with Rick Derringer, Wayne Shorter, Hugh Masekela, Alex Acuna, Luis Conte, Isah Hamani, Joe Higgs, Betty Buckley, Jimmy Haskell and others. He is an original and continuing member of "Weird Al" Yankovic's band.

"oh and i've played Eat It for 30 years"

Ruben's:

After leading Santa Cruz, California's most popular funk/fusion group Rush Hour for seven years, Rubén moved to L.A. Soon after arriving, he was playing, recording and traveling the World with members of groups such as Santana, Aretha Franklin, Elton John, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, Chaka Khan, Shakira, Marc Anthony, Tom Jones, Temptations, Deniece Williams, Natalie Cole, Tower of Power, et al.
Following International tours with rock legend Glenn Hughes/Deep Purple and blues legend Charlie Musselwhite, Rubén found himself touring and recording with Rock/comedy icon "Weird Al" Yankovic.

if i was rick rubin i'd try to get weird to make an album of songs that either stuck to his original accordion/fart sound template or really let his band of jazz-fusion guys wild out. "We either need to move forward, Weird...or we need to go all the way back...back to My Bologna."

"what if instead of making the band listen to ariana grande...why don't you just play 'Gollum' with the accordion...and let them react in the moment. Roll tape."

Apparently most of the fart sounds from his earlier albums came courtesy of "Musical Mike" Kieffer who hasn't seemed to have worked with Al since Headline News. But I do knd of miss that sound he brought to the recordings, as juvenile as it might be.

yeah the ones added to the mtv theme here are pretty great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evEHos82Wew#t=38

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/e3662085fb/american-psycho-with-huey-lewis-and-weird-al

Countdown to Weird Al KEXP session and cinema verite video from the La Blogotheque folks in 5...4...3...

Listening to "Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota," dying of lols I'm not even sure it gave me as a lad. Would have been a great career-ender, really.

i was just hoping i could play this song as a fun intro to my classes in the fall and i can't because of the stupid mouthbreather thing
which means it's only good for the "grammar nazis", who are not my people

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LL, have you seen this?
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=13521

I have just been alerted to the existence of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBvh6JPSmy0

I thank you, Weird Al, from the bottom of my heart.

I think I've waited my whole life for "Mandatory Fun."

mo-ne-tiiiiizze our asssets

Paul McCartney, also a Yankovic fan, refused Yankovic permission to record a parody of Wings' "Live and Let Die", titled "Chicken Pot Pie", because McCartney is a vegetarian and found the parody to be improper.[81]

oh paulpaws

Today is the most time I've spent with Weird Al since listening to Dare to Be Stupid/Polka Party for about 2 years straight. What a treasure.

THIS SONG IS JUST SIX WORDS LONG
THIS SONG IS JUST SIIIIX WORDS LONG

From the excelsior thread:

What Carl Wilson gets wrong is his theory that Weird Al coarsens pop music when actually his pastiches and parodies show how songs about surgeons, Jeopardy, the Amish, etc are no more banal than pop songs. Dare to be stupid!

I always liked his pseudo-cock rock number "Young, Dumb, and Ugly"

RYE OR THE KAISER

omg don't eat prunes again

Accordion is amazing on ^that

Pixies have been done definitively. I just don't see the point of anyone ever trying it again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTZ0hYlto7Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmGy3WAQ_wk

that prunes thing has such a great punchline.

https://twitter.com/alyankovic/status/490724534513700864

hey now. take that off-topic post to the feminist theory thread.

but joking aside, I'm glad he apologized and confirmed that he did not know.

Yeah...the guy has never toured Europe in his entire career, so I could easily see him being unaware of a lot of language differences between here and England

I saw weird al in England, btw

He goes by 'Daft Albert' in England tho

Yeah but when he did ATP he said in an interview that he'd never performed in Europe before for 30 years

Hoping he'll replace the word with "fuckstick" in future editions and live shows