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?
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.
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.
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).
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!”
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.”
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)
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.
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.