# Best song on Weird Al Yankovic's Polka Party
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**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [September 26, 2010, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-weird-al-yankovics-polka-party/555128 "2010-09-26T19:14:44Z")
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### Author:  [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2010, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-weird-al-yankovics-polka-party/555128/1 "2010-09-26T19:14:44Z")
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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### Author:  [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2010, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-weird-al-yankovics-polka-party/555128/2 "2010-09-26T19:19:56Z")
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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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2010, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-weird-al-yankovics-polka-party/555128/3 "2010-09-26T20:14:09Z")
Another for _Christmas At Ground Zero_. Second place goes to\* Good Enough For Now\* and _Addicted To Spuds_.
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### Author:  [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2010, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-weird-al-yankovics-polka-party/555128/4 "2010-09-26T21:01:30Z")
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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### Author:  [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2010, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-weird-al-yankovics-polka-party/555128/5 "2010-09-26T23:01:29Z")
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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### Author:  [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2010, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-weird-al-yankovics-polka-party/555128/6 "2010-09-27T04:44:47Z")
“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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### Author:  [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2010, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-weird-al-yankovics-polka-party/555128/7 "2010-09-27T05:44:05Z")
Had to go with _Good Enough For Now_. _Christmas at Ground Zero_ was quite good as well.
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### Author:  [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2010, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-weird-al-yankovics-polka-party/555128/8 "2010-09-27T14:13:55Z")
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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### Author:  [@Reloy3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reloy3)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2010, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-weird-al-yankovics-polka-party/555128/9 "2010-09-27T14:37:47Z")
Christmas was great, but the best was “Good Enough For Now”.
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### Author:  [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2010, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-weird-al-yankovics-polka-party/555128/10 "2010-09-28T21:40:35Z")
> [@fusoya](#):
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> 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).
Which songs were these videos of?
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### Author:  [@carlb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlb)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2010, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-weird-al-yankovics-polka-party/555128/11 "2010-09-29T01:36:49Z")
_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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### Author:  [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2010, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-song-on-weird-al-yankovics-polka-party/555128/12 "2010-09-29T01:47:00Z")
> [@TBG](#):
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> > [@fusoya](#):
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> > 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).
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> Which songs were these videos of?
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.