# 27 Cheers! Weird Al has a new album coming out! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 9, 2003, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-cheers-weird-al-has-a-new-album-coming-out/167642 "2003-04-09T20:52:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-cheers-weird-al-has-a-new-album-coming-out/167642/1 "2003-04-09T20:52:48Z")
I’ll undoubtedly be the only one posting to this thread, but as the biggest CFoA around, I’d be remiss if I didn’t tell the world. Weird Al’s newest album “Poodle Hat” is coming out on May 20! There’s a picture of the cover at [www.weirdal.com](http://www.weirdal.com) . Not sure of any of the parodies or original songs, just the name of the album. But that’s enough to get my accordian folding! Plus, Al has a cameo on the Simpsons on April 13th! This Sunday! It’s Al’s birthday gift to me! ---
**Author:** ![diku](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@diku](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diku)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-cheers-weird-al-has-a-new-album-coming-out/167642/2 "2003-04-09T20:54:33Z")
I thought he was dead… Must be a comeback album… ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-cheers-weird-al-has-a-new-album-coming-out/167642/3 "2003-04-09T20:55:43Z")
I must let my brother know! ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-cheers-weird-al-has-a-new-album-coming-out/167642/4 "2003-04-09T20:56:55Z")
Don’t call it a comeback! He never left! ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-cheers-weird-al-has-a-new-album-coming-out/167642/5 "2003-04-09T20:58:15Z")
Just noticed on the album cover…looks like a Christina Aguilera look-alike in the front right side, but not so whore-like 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-cheers-weird-al-has-a-new-album-coming-out/167642/6 "2003-04-09T21:04:47Z")
I’m going to see him in Gulfport NO MATTER WHAT. I saw him several years ago. He puts on a fun stupid concert. Though this time I guess he won’t have his mom to introduce him. “My son, Alfred!” 😃 She was so NORMAL. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-cheers-weird-al-has-a-new-album-coming-out/167642/7 "2003-04-09T22:50:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by whiterabbit \* > \*\*Though this time I guess he won’t have his mom to introduce him. “My son, Alfred!” 😃 > > She was so NORMAL. \*\* Why not? Did she pass away? If so, that’s sad…I went to see Weird Al a few years ago, and I remember his parents introducing him. Al puts on a great concert, and I hope he comes round these parts again real soon. ---
**Author:** ![dogchow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e495f1/32.png) [@dogchow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogchow)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-cheers-weird-al-has-a-new-album-coming-out/167642/8 "2003-04-09T23:36:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by whiterabbit \* > \*\*I must let my brother know! \*\* So must I! Wait a minute…if I don’t tell him, I can get the CD for his birthday! I won’t have to get him Yu-Gi-Oh cards after all! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Astralbovine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Astralbovine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astralbovine)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2003, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-cheers-weird-al-has-a-new-album-coming-out/167642/9 "2003-04-09T23:51:11Z")
I’m not a fan of Weird Al, and I otherwise wouldn’t be posting in here, but it HAD to be said: Doesn’t “Poodle Hat” sound extremely close to “Mink Car?” ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-cheers-weird-al-has-a-new-album-coming-out/167642/10 "2003-04-10T01:53:39Z")
See, EVERY album Al makes is a comeback album, on account of he said so in his _Behind the Music_ episode because he makes an album only every couple of years because he likes the slow pace of it and stuff. Heh. ---
**Author:** ![Weird\_AL\_Einstein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c67d28/32.png) [@Weird\_AL\_Einstein](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weird_AL_Einstein)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-cheers-weird-al-has-a-new-album-coming-out/167642/11 "2003-04-10T02:07:38Z")
Well it’s about #$$%^& **TIME**! Four years! Four &\*^^& **years** , people! ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-cheers-weird-al-has-a-new-album-coming-out/167642/12 "2003-04-10T02:37:40Z")
Weird Al on Simpsons, eh? With few exceptions, all guest shots since like Michelle Pfeiffer and Aerosmith have lacked. Do recall Bart is a mortal enemy of Dr. Demento (And Linda Lavin.) ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-cheers-weird-al-has-a-new-album-coming-out/167642/13 "2003-04-10T02:57:16Z")
No, the concert I saw was at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Southern California, not far at all from where he grew up. I don’t think he takes his mom on tours with him is all. Everybody was cheering for Mom as much as they were for Al himself. ---
**Author:** ![Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dread_pirate_jimbo/32/3897_2.png) [@Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dread_Pirate_Jimbo)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-cheers-weird-al-has-a-new-album-coming-out/167642/14 "2003-04-10T04:20:01Z")
I’ve been a big fan of Al since back in the day when Dr. Demento was playing his all-accordian, pre-fame stuff. I even got to interview him for my university newspaper when he did his first cross-Canada tour in 1995 (it’s not every day that I get to speak to a Grammy winner). Extremely well-spoken, candid, and thoughtful for a guy who makes a living by being a buffoon. The concert two weeks later was great – he and his band play a very engaging, surprisingly slick show. Yay for a new album. I await with baited breath… ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-cheers-weird-al-has-a-new-album-coming-out/167642/15 "2003-04-10T06:58:03Z")
Ah yes… I was working at KSLY/San Luis Obispo in 1982 when Al was just starting out - he’d come by our radio station every few weeks with new tapes for us to listen to. Our morning host, Captain Buffoon, was the first DJ (IIRC) to play Al’s music. Dr. Demento may have made him a household word, but Captain Buffoon made him a local star. And **DPJ** , I must second your impression of Al. Incredibly intelligent, slightly warped, and extremely polite and fun to be around. Although I haven’t seen him since 1983… 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-cheers-weird-al-has-a-new-album-coming-out/167642/16 "2003-04-10T08:07:09Z")
Actually, that album cover reminds me a lot of the cover for Billy Joel’s _Turnstiles_. ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-cheers-weird-al-has-a-new-album-coming-out/167642/17 "2003-04-10T13:26:59Z")
Mink Car … isn’t that TMBG? Anywho, I am sooo happy about this. I was just wondering the other day when he’d have a new one coming out. My only problem is I also have to get another copy of _Running with Scissors_ since mine got repo’d with my old car. Dagummit. ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-cheers-weird-al-has-a-new-album-coming-out/167642/18 "2003-04-10T13:30:54Z")
Well, there’s a song cue if I ever heard one. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-cheers-weird-al-has-a-new-album-coming-out/167642/19 "2003-04-10T13:57:43Z")
“Stop Draggin’ My Car Around!” ---
**Author:** ![c\_goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@c\_goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_goat)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-cheers-weird-al-has-a-new-album-coming-out/167642/20 "2003-04-10T14:09:57Z")
But… I’m not yet sick of listening to Running With Scissors… it’s too soon I tell you. I’ll definitely see him on tour again. I’ve seen him 3 times already. Hooray for Al! I wonder if he made a new Star Wars song, since at the last concert those were the two biggest hits, and Episode 2’s been out long enough. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-cheers-weird-al-has-a-new-album-coming-out/167642.md?page=2)