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.
― just call me brian (krakow), Monday, 1 August 2011 21:51 (twelve years ago) link
can't get "Here's Johnny" out of my head even though that song is stupidly unfunny
― frogbs, Monday, 1 August 2011 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
that said I do get a huge kick out of the two-note guitar solo on "Generic Blues"
great photo!!
― it was pleasant and delightful, just like (La Lechera), Monday, 1 August 2011 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― just call me brian (krakow), Monday, 1 August 2011 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
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
― james blood ulver (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 1 August 2011 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
Indeed!
― just call me brian (krakow), Monday, 1 August 2011 22:11 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GSgc2yD_jU
I think I like this better than "Closer"
― crüt, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 23:39 (twelve years ago) link
the lyrics are certainly no more embarrassing
In Brooklyn next month
http://thewildhoneypie.donyc.com/event/2013/06/09/weird-al-karaoke
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 May 2013 18:07 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdyLNXdeO-Q
Songs in the video:
Flatbush AvenueSpam EaterFeel Like Throwing UpAvacadoSometimes You Feel Like A NutTake The L Out Of LiverFatterWhole Lotta LunchWe Got The Beef
― ttyih boi (crüt), Monday, 3 June 2013 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
lol, he barely even tried on those lyrics, which somehow makes the medley even funnier
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Monday, 3 June 2013 16:12 (eleven years ago) link
weird al has some strange preoccupation with food. he seems to find them inherently funny.
― Poliopolice, Monday, 3 June 2013 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
He's right!!
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 3 June 2013 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
"Flatbush Avenue" had me rofling
― ttyih boi (crüt), Monday, 3 June 2013 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
yesss
― some dude, Monday, 3 June 2013 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
http://gawker.com/5993520/huey-lewis-and-weird-al-reenact-classic-american-psycho-scene-in-honor-of-sports-30th-birthday
― m0stlyClean, Monday, 3 June 2013 23:36 (eleven years ago) link
Don't just stare at it, EAT IT
― today's tom soy yum, mean mean thai (Spectrist), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 00:33 (eleven years ago) link
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/
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 03:21 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 30 March 2014 05:30 (ten years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BqHT6u8CcAEX54X.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 21 June 2014 03:14 (ten years ago) link
new album is gr8t
― maura, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 16:32 (nine years ago) link
you should never write words using numbers unless you're seven or your name is Prince
― guwop (crüt), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 16:33 (nine years ago) link
maybe it was cultural satire
― festival culture (Jordan), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 16:36 (nine years ago) link
The Pixies style parody is so on point.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 16:48 (nine years ago) link
it's a great pixies song
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 16:50 (nine years ago) link
Haha, "First World Problems" is so fucking expertly done. I'm cracking up just at the arrangement.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:01 (nine years ago) link
There have already been three songs that I don't know what they are parodies of :/
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:02 (nine years ago) link
dyingggg
― mattresslessness, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:03 (nine years ago) link
ok I just heard First World Problems and now I'm gonna go find the rest - a+
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:03 (nine years ago) link
Oh because they aren't parodies. I feel a little better now. Though I didn't know the Foo Fighters song.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:04 (nine years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/32/MandatoryFun.jpg
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:05 (nine years ago) link
I picked up that it was a Foos parody, but barely. xp
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:13 (nine years ago) link
Crosby, Stills & Nash, Southern Culture on the Skids and Cat Stevens seem like weird choices for style parodies in 2014, though.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:21 (nine years ago) link
his style parodies are always kinda anachronistic
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:24 (nine years ago) link
Southern Culture on the Skids is a weird choice for any time period.
"Word Crimes" is the best.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:25 (nine years ago) link
it's really underappreciated that al has had the same backing band for 30 years.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:28 (nine years ago) link
al is a better singer than pharrell
― katherine, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:28 (nine years ago) link
"Word Crimes" really is the best.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:29 (nine years ago) link
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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]
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:35 (nine years ago) link
it should have been sent by carrier dove
― da croupier, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:36 (nine years ago) link
d0v3
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:37 (nine years ago) link
I would say Prince has no sense of humor, but he's capable of being dryly funny now and then.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:37 (nine years ago) link
dying @ the prince story
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
Prince himself is totally funny, but he doesn't like people making fun of him
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:44 (nine years ago) link
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
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:46 (nine years ago) link
mildly scandalized that weird al would say "cunning linguist"
― da croupier, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link
That's racy by Al standards, yeah.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 18:02 (nine years ago) link
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
― some dude, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 18:06 (nine years ago) link