Best song on Weird Al Yankovic's Polka Party

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One of Al’s worst-selling and most forgettable albums. This is the album which made Al realize that you can’t stay on top forever. The biggest problem with this album is almost all of the parodies are from film themes, just about all of which are completely forgotten now, and weren’t very good songs in the first place. Supposedly Al’s record label also rushed him to get it recorded and released as fast as possible, before they could finish perfecting it and get a good lead single. Al got one great music video out of this album, followed by a music video which MTV refused to air at all (and I honestly can’t blame them either). Fortunately, all of the originals on this album are strong, providing some good substance.

Christmas At Ground Zero was the first Weird Al song I ever heard.

This album got another best comedy grammy nomination, but lost to Whoppi Goldberg.

  • Sledgehammer, Sussudio, Party All The Time, Say You Say Me, Freeway of Love, What You Need, Harlem Shuffle, Venus, Nasty, Rock Me Amadeus, Shout, Papa Don’t Preach. Preach was a last minute replacement for Everybody Have Fun Tonight, which Wang Chung denied.
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the only one of these topics where it is not a hard choice

Christmas At Ground Zero. The only song of those I like, except for the polka one

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Another for Christmas At Ground Zero. Second place goes to* Good Enough For Now* and Addicted To Spuds.

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Christmas At Ground Zero is in my ‘so I don’t go batty’ holiday playlist, so it’s gotta get my vote.

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Gotta go with the flow here. This is the first album with a polka that I really enjoyed, and Living With A Hernia, Addicted To Spuds, and Here’s Johnny are all decent, but Christmas At Ground Zero is a classic. The Night Santa Went Crazy is better IMO, but not by much.

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“Xmas At Ground Zero” is on my “anti-sappy Xmas songs” list. I like “Living With A Hernia” as well but the Xmas song wins it.

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Had to go with Good Enough For Now. Christmas at Ground Zero was quite good as well.

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I had to go with Christmas at Ground Zero, but ‘Good Enough for Now’ and ‘One of Those Days’ are both strong contenders.

Fun Fact : Toothless People is my least favorite Weird Al song. (Runner-Up : Airline Amy.)

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Christmas was great, but the best was “Good Enough For Now”.

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Which songs were these videos of?

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Christmas at Ground Zero by a mile. I think it was the first original Weird Al song I heard that made me really listen to the man’s talent. Beside the humor in the lyrics, the music is just pitch-perfect; the jingle bells in the background, the deep honking sax, the vaguely '50s sound to the song - it’s all fantastic.

After that song, I started paying a lot more attention to his original material. If you haven’t already, download and listen to Don’t Download This Song. Again, it’s just spot on for that genre; flugelhorns, massed choir voices, a chord change in just the right place. The man’s a freaking genius, and incredibly versatile.

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Living With A Hernia & Christmas At Ground Zero.

Toothless People was my least favorite Al song for a long time too…at least until Trash Day came out.