# New Weird Al Album (What songs are parodied?)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-weird-al-album-what-songs-are-parodied/175647>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 16, 2003, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-weird-al-album-what-songs-are-parodied/175647 "2003-05-16T09:44:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mr\_Sherbet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@Mr\_Sherbet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Sherbet)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-weird-al-album-what-songs-are-parodied/175647/1 "2003-05-16T09:44:38Z")

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I wanna know what songs Weird Al parodies on his new album?  
Anyone have any info?

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**Author:** ![Bill\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-weird-al-album-what-songs-are-parodied/175647/2 "2003-05-16T10:04:15Z")

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Here’s what I’ve heard:

Album name: Poodle Hat

Couch Potato (Eminem’s Lose Yourself)  
Hardware Store  
Trash Day (Nelly’s Hot In Herre)  
Party At The Leper Colony  
Angry White Boy Polka (medly of The Hives, The White Stripes, The Strokes, System Of A Down, Limp Bizkit and Kid Rock)  
Wanna B Ur Lovr  
A Complicated Song (Avril Levigne’s Complicated)  
Why Does This Always Happen To Me  
Ode To A Superhero (Billy Joel’s Piano Man)  
Bob  
Ebay (Backstreet Boy’s I Want It That Way)  
Genius In France

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**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-weird-al-album-what-songs-are-parodied/175647/3 "2003-05-16T10:13:58Z")

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Sod it. Not one parody whose original I like.

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**Author:** ![Kyomara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8edcca/32.png) [@Kyomara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyomara)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-weird-al-album-what-songs-are-parodied/175647/4 "2003-05-16T11:02:36Z")

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I now want to hear this album sooooooooooo badly.

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**Author:** ![Anal\_Scurvy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@Anal\_Scurvy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anal_Scurvy)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-weird-al-album-what-songs-are-parodied/175647/5 "2003-05-16T13:11:14Z")

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I downloaded the songs from Kazaa Lite and not one of them would play. Yet some songs had upwards of fifteen users to download from. Is this some new digital protection I hadn’t heard about? It made me paranoid that my computer was broken. (I know there’s some iffy business regarding file-sharing on SDMB, so let me just say that I’m buying the album on the 20.)

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**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2003, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-weird-al-album-what-songs-are-parodied/175647/6 "2003-05-18T05:17:01Z")

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**Anal** : what happens anymore is record companies put up bogus files with the real names to try and deter people from downloading. Of course, some file sharing apps have “rate this file” features to weed these out. And the battle wages on.