# Best song on Weird Al Yankovic's Dare To Be Stupid **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 23, 2010, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-weird-al-yankovics-dare-to-be-stupid/554807 "2010-09-23T20:08:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-weird-al-yankovics-dare-to-be-stupid/554807/1 "2010-09-23T20:08:38Z")
Trivia for Al’s third album: - Was the first ever comedy music CD ever released (1985) - Was gonna include the song When Eggs Fry, parody of When Doves Cry, but Prince didn’t have a sense of humor about it (just like he blocked 1999 from being in Polkas on 45) - Contains a newly recorded version of Yoda, which was written over 5 years ago and was planned for the first album, but had so many legal hoops to jump through that it took that long to get everyone’s approval. I personally hate the version on this album (even though I love the song itself), and greatly prefer the accordion-led version, which is the one they perform live. - Nominated for best comedy grammy, but lost to Bill Cosby. - Contains Al’s only album-released straight cover - State of Shock, Sharp Dressed Man, What’s Love Got To Do With It, Method of Modern Love, Owner of a Lonely Heart, We’re Not Gonna Take It, 99 Luft Balloons, Footloose, The Reflex, Metal Health, Relax ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-weird-al-yankovics-dare-to-be-stupid/554807/2 "2010-09-23T20:13:00Z")
This is a tough one. _Dare To Be Stupid_ and _Like A Surgeon_ are both excellent representatives of a style parody and a specific song parody. _One More Minute_ is also really good. Ultimately, though, I have to go with _This Is The Life_, because one, it’s a fun song, and two, it’s the theme to _Johnny Dangerously_. And that’s awesome. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-weird-al-yankovics-dare-to-be-stupid/554807/3 "2010-09-23T20:17:36Z")
I went with _This Is The Life_ though I would put about half the album a very close second. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-weird-al-yankovics-dare-to-be-stupid/554807/4 "2010-09-23T20:19:45Z")
Interesting that the first two votes are for _This Is the Life_. I would have expected \*Yoda \*in a runaway. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-weird-al-yankovics-dare-to-be-stupid/554807/5 "2010-09-23T20:21:34Z")
> [@StusBlues](#): > > I would have expected \*Yoda \*in a runaway. I think I’ve only listened to it twice a _long_ time ago, and I dimly recall not being terribly impressed with it. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-weird-al-yankovics-dare-to-be-stupid/554807/6 "2010-09-23T20:23:21Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > > [@StusBlues](#): > > > > I would have expected \*Yoda \*in a runaway. > > I think I’ve only listened to it twice a _long_ time ago, and I dimly recall not being terribly impressed with it. It was Al’s live encore for a loooong time. ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-weird-al-yankovics-dare-to-be-stupid/554807/7 "2010-09-23T20:35:30Z")
And it still is. Note that This Is The Life was written for the film first, not the album. I’ve always wanted to try a Perrier bath. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-weird-al-yankovics-dare-to-be-stupid/554807/8 "2010-09-23T20:36:26Z")
I voted for the title track, because it’s a great song full of great advice for living. [QUOTE=Weird Al] You can be a Coffee Achiever You can sit around the house and watch _Leave It To Beaver_ The future’s up to you So whatcha gonna do? Dare to be stupid! [/QUOTE] But “One More Minute” and “Yoda” are close runners up. ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-weird-al-yankovics-dare-to-be-stupid/554807/9 "2010-09-23T23:04:56Z")
One More Minute is great all around, but my favorite part is this segue: > [@](#): > > 'Cause I’d rather spend eternity eating shards of broken glass > Than spend one more minute with you. > > I guess I might seem kind of bitter . . . It makes me giggle every time. I also like Dare to Be Stupid, Yoda, and Slime Creatures from Outer Space. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-weird-al-yankovics-dare-to-be-stupid/554807/10 "2010-09-24T13:49:40Z")
One More Minute. ("… I’m standing all alone at the gas station of love, and I have to use the self-service pumps…") One of Al’s most risque lines until… well, probably ‘I Wanna Be Ur Lover’. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-weird-al-yankovics-dare-to-be-stupid/554807/11 "2010-09-24T13:56:15Z")
One More Minute As you might tell from my votes in these things I’m partial to Al’s original satires. And that one’s one of the all time great post-break up songs. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-weird-al-yankovics-dare-to-be-stupid/554807/12 "2010-09-24T13:59:24Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I voted for the title track, because it’s a great song full of great advice for living. > [QUOTE=Weird Al] > You can be a Coffee Achiever > You can sit around the house and watch _Leave It To Beaver_ > The future’s up to you > So whatcha gonna do? > Dare to be stupid! But “One More Minute” and “Yoda” are close runners up. [/QUOTE] I’ve always lived by the belief, “Mashed potatoes can be your friend,” so _Dare to be Stupid_ got my vote, too. ---
**Author:** ![Haunted\_Pasta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/94ad74/32.png) [@Haunted\_Pasta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haunted_Pasta)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-weird-al-yankovics-dare-to-be-stupid/554807/13 "2010-09-24T15:37:08Z")
Put down that chainsaw and listen to me: \*One More Minute \*is the funniest song not just on this record, but ever. I’m mostly not into Al’s parody songs, but “I Want a New Duck” is elevated because of the bad puns. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-weird-al-yankovics-dare-to-be-stupid/554807/14 "2010-09-24T22:42:55Z")
This is really painful having to choose one… Dare to be Stupid gets the nod, being on The Transformers The Movie soundtrack gets it one extra point, just enough to nudge it past Like a Surgeon, Yoda, One More Minute, I Wanna New Duck, Slime Creatures From Outer Space, Girls Just Wanna Have Lunch, and Cable TV. Yeah, I really like this album, lol ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-weird-al-yankovics-dare-to-be-stupid/554807/15 "2010-09-25T15:24:42Z")
> [@CandidGamera](#): > > One More Minute. > > (“.. I’m standing all alone at the gas station of love, and I have to use the self-service pumps..”) > > One of Al’s most risque lines until.. well, probably ‘I Wanna Be Ur Lover’. It took me _years and years_ to see the naughty pun from that line. I just never think of Weird Al and risque lyrics to anything. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2010, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-weird-al-yankovics-dare-to-be-stupid/554807/16 "2010-09-25T19:18:44Z")
> [@EvilTOJ](#): > > > [@CandidGamera](#): > > > > One More Minute. > > > > (“.. I’m standing all alone at the gas station of love, and I have to use the self-service pumps..”) > > > > One of Al’s most risque lines until.. well, probably ‘I Wanna Be Ur Lover’. > > It took me _years and years_ to see the naughty pun from that line. I just never think of Weird Al and risque lyrics to anything. I didn’t realize that line had a dirty connotation until this thread. Now it’s right there, slapping me in the face. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-weird-al-yankovics-dare-to-be-stupid/554807/17 "2010-09-27T14:27:31Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > > [@EvilTOJ](#): > > > > It took me _years and years_ to see the naughty pun from that line. I just never think of Weird Al and risque lyrics to anything. > > I didn’t realize that line had a dirty connotation until this thread. Now it’s right there, slapping me in the face. :smack: .. That’s what \*she \*said.