# Favorite Weird Al Song? Album? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 29, 2004, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-weird-al-song-album/242608 "2004-04-29T02:20:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Nightsong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nightsong/32/3083_2.png) [@Nightsong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightsong)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-weird-al-song-album/242608/21 "2004-04-29T18:49:50Z")
Out of all his songs I’ve heard so far (I haven’t gotten _Poodle Hat_ yet), my favorite by far: “Traffic Jam” _…now I’m no genius, but one thing I know, I shouldn’t have had that bag of bran muffins an hour and a half ago…_ A great song to sit in the car, drumming on the steering while, while waiting for the traffic to clear. 🙂 * * * \<\< Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult. \>\> ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-weird-al-song-album/242608/22 "2004-04-29T18:50:52Z")
If you haven’t seen it, check out this Flash animation video for Angre White Boy Polka. [http://www.weirdal.com/polka/angrywhiteboy.htm](http://www.weirdal.com/polka/angrywhiteboy.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-weird-al-song-album/242608/23 "2004-04-29T19:10:02Z")
Can’t settle on a favorite song, but by far my favorite album is _Running with Scissors_. Every song on that album is at least as good or better than every other Weird Al song I’ve ever heard. It’s a work of genius. With one exception: Grapefruit Diet. Gee, how imaginative: a Weird Al song about food! :rolleyes: And is it just me, or does _Albuquerque_ sound distinctly Dead Milkmen-ish? ---
**Author:** ![Reloy3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Reloy3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reloy3)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-weird-al-song-album/242608/24 "2004-04-29T19:25:12Z")
My favorites: One More Minute Good Enough for Now Good Old Days Melanie Can you tell I love the originals (non-parodies). I once sang One More Minute at a High School talent show - shoot, getting close to 2 decades ago. I also love a bootleg copy of Free Delivery - a Celine Dion parody he did on concert but never released - Classic. I also used to have an old album he did of a parody of Peter and the Wolf with the part of Bob the Janitor played by the accordian. I Don’t know what happened to it, but I never saw it again and would give up a lot to have it again. Good luck to Al as he deals with his loss. ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-weird-al-song-album/242608/25 "2004-04-29T19:38:59Z")
> [@gonzoron](#): > > “Biggest Ball of twine in Minnesota” Ack! How could I forget this classic?! I’ve even _been_ there, several times! 🙂 ---
**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:** [April 29, 2004, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-weird-al-song-album/242608/26 "2004-04-29T19:54:36Z")
> [@Reloy3](#): > > I also used to have an old album he did of a parody of Peter and the Wolf with the part of Bob the Janitor played by the accordian. I Don’t know what happened to it, but I never saw it again and would give up a lot to have it again. I have this, and love it; it’s a shame it went out of print. It’s also got a sequel to Saint-Saens’s Carnival of the Animals, with poems by Al. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-weird-al-song-album/242608/27 "2004-04-29T20:40:10Z")
> [@BlackKnight](#): > > Ack! How could I forget this classic?! > > I’ve even _been_ there, several times! 🙂 Let me third _The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota_, which is a truly fantastic song… I also quite like the _American Pie_ parody about Episode 1, and many many other songs. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-weird-al-song-album/242608/28 "2004-04-29T22:16:45Z")
My favorite is “Everything You Know is Wrong” or “I was only kidding” but there are so many that I like (Christmas at Ground Zero, The Night Santa Clause Went Crazy). ---
**Author:** ![YellowTail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b5ac83/32.png) [@YellowTail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YellowTail)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2004, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-weird-al-song-album/242608/29 "2004-04-29T22:45:57Z")
The only one I can think of that hasn’t been mentioned yet is M-m-m-my Bologna! “Such a tasty snack/I always eat too much/and throw up/but I’ll soon be back for my yi yi yi yi whoooo!” ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2004, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-weird-al-song-album/242608/30 "2004-04-30T00:22:24Z")
With his last couple of albums, I’ve started liking the originals more than the parodies–mainly because I either don’t know or don’t like the original song (exceptions being “The Saga Begins” and “Ode to a Superhero”). On _Poodle Hat_, I thought “Bob” and “Genius in France” were a couple of brilliant–I guess you could call them “pastiches”–and “I Wanna B Ur Lover” was hillarious. And I would like to second “My Baby’s in Love with Eddie Vedder.” ---
**Author:** ![Ms2001](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ms2001/32/18463_2.png) [@Ms2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms2001)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-weird-al-song-album/242608/31 "2004-05-03T00:58:58Z")
> [@Mr2001](#): > > As for the originals, the first one I think of is “Frank’s 2000 Inch TV”. Yikes, how could I forget “Trigger Happy”? I’m a sucker for surf music. _Oh, I still haven’t figured out the safety on my rifle yet (bop doo wop, sha wop wop doo wop) Little Fluffy took a round, better take him to the vet (bop doo wop, sha wop wop doo wop)_ ---
**Author:** ![Yesterdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/d07c76/32.png) [@Yesterdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yesterdog)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-weird-al-song-album/242608/32 "2004-05-03T02:05:36Z")
UHF is my number 2 fav movie. My number one being SpaceBalls. As far as the song goes, my fav is Amish Paradise, sung to the tune of Gansta’s Paradise by Coolio. “Even Eziekiel thinks that my minds is all wrong” or something like that. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-weird-al-song-album/242608/33 "2004-05-03T03:22:44Z")
I love so much of his more recent stuff, but “Yoda” still ranks as my #1 fave. We saw him in concert last year, though, and to be honest, I enjoyed just about everything he did. My son exposed me to endless hours of Weird Al as he was growing up, so I have a great fondness for just about all his stuff. “Christmas at Ground Zero,” “One More Minute,” his American Pie Ep. 1 parody, and on and on. My young persons saw Weird Al perform at Magic Mountain outside LA about, oh, 12 years ago now. His mother came out and introduced him to the crowd, “My son Alfred.” I wasn’t there, but they were thrilled to see her and reported that she just seemed like the sweetest woman who was still mystified by the cuckoo she’d found in her nest. What a tragedy to lose his parents like that. ---
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-weird-al-song-album/242608/34 "2004-05-03T03:33:30Z")
> [@Ryan K](#): > > As far as the song goes, my fav is Amish Paradise, sung to the tune of Gansta’s Paradise by Coolio. Major nitpick, this is NOT a Coolio song, Coolio remade a song by Stevie Wonder (“Pastime Paradise” from “The Secret Life of Plants”), the original is a beautiful song. Unclviny ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-weird-al-song-album/242608/35 "2004-05-03T05:51:53Z")
Its all about the pentiums has always been a favourite of mine, being a geek. The music video just makes it all that much better. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2004, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-weird-al-song-album/242608/36 "2004-05-03T07:58:47Z")
Favorite songs/videos- Amish Paradise and the Flintstone/RedHotChiliPeppers thing “Yabbadabbadabbadabbadoo now!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-weird-al-song-album/242608.md?page=1)