Several Weird Al songs are very good, including many parodies (though since he didn’t write the music for those, I’ll keep them out of this thread).
I think that Hardware Store is simply brilliant. Wonderful rhythms and timing, and just infectious.
“The story opens in the Rhine River. In it.”
Flanders and Swann - The Gnu Song; Have Some Madeira, M’dear
Harnick’s Merry Minuet
Lotsa material from revues.
The Boston Beguine (From New Faces of 1952) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc5eqmucGl4
Lizzie Borden (ibid.) (cover by Chad Mitchell Trio) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wlO-J0v9ZY
The Borgias Are Having an Orgy
April in Fairbanks
My favorite of Al’s originals is “My Baby’s In Love With Eddie Vedder” from his album “Running With Scissors” . It’s a Cajun (Zydeco?) tune, and works completely apart from the lyrics.
Update: I have to say, Al’s band is easily the most musically nimble around. Who else can go from Metal to Rap to Polka to Country to Folk to whatever…in the same concert?
Harvey and Sheila, by Allen Sherman.
*Harvey and Sheila
Harvey and Sheila
Harvey and Sheila
Flew TWA
They bought a house one day
Financed by HFA
It had a swimming pool
Full of H2O
Traded their used MG
For a new XKE
Switched to the GOP
That’s they way thing go.*
…which is just “Hava Nagila” with different words. I assumed the OP was about original novelty or joke songs and specifically excluded parodies.
I’m 45.
I loved this album as a kid; my sisters and I would play this and act it out all day long.
I still have it today.
Just wanted to throw my support in for Tenacious D as being musically talented as well as hilarious (assuming your sense of humour leans a certain way).
I also like The Lonely Island.
How on earth has Flight of the Conchords not been mentioned here yet? Or have they?
Good God. I mean, I like Snoopy versus the Red Baron myself. And Snoopy’s Christmas is OK to hear once a year, right before Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.
But four albums? They milked the joke for four frigging albums? By the end, were they singing Snoopy Takes a Dump? :eek: 
:eek:
I like Potato’s in the Paddy Wagon. It’s better folk than a lot of real folk!
“The Element Song” by Tom Lehrer
“The War of 1812” by Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie
“Big Joe Mufferaw” by Stompin’ Tom Connors
“The Richter Scale” by the Quidnuncs
“Opblaaskrokodil” by Ome Henk
Anything by Richard Cheese
“Rasputin” by Boney M
“Kung Fu Fighting” by Carl Douglas
“Killer Klowns” by the Dickies
“Rocked by Rape” by the Evolution Control Committee
The Theme to M.U.L.E. (I don’t know if it has a name) by
“All the Nations in the World” by the Animaniacs
“All the Words in the English Language” by the Animaniacs
“These Are the Daves I Know” by Bruce McColloch
“Bats in the Belfry” by Napoleon XIV
“The Ballad of Irving” by Frank Gallop
“Boot to the Head” by the Frantics
“Rodeo Song” by the McLean Brothers
“Invasion of the Gabber Robots” by the Laziest Men on Mars
“Green Eggs and Ham” by Moxy Fruvous
“Bananaphone” by Raffi
“Camel Toe” by Fanny Pack
“Barbie Girl” by Aqua
“The Philosopher Song” by Monty Python
“The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny” by Lemon Demon
Heh. No, they stopped recording new Snoopy material after “Snoopy for President” (released summer of '68) until they did “Snoopy vs. Osama” (single, 2006). They did re-edit the first three songs to sound like a news broadcast; these were released on Snoopy and His Friends and re-released on Merry Snoopy’s Christmas.
The fellows from Florida typically filled out their albums with original songs (e.g.: “It’s Sopwith Camel Time”, “Airplane Song (My Airplane)”, “Shot Down”, “Down Behind the Lines”, “Baby Let’s Wait”, “Any Wednesday”) and covers (e.g.: “Biplane ‘Evermore’”, “Bo Diddly”, Road Runner", “Gimme Some Lovin’”, “Li’l Red Riding Hood”, “The Jolly Green Giant”, “Alley Oop”, “The Ballad of Bonnie & Clyde”, “The Battle of New Orleans”, “Honey”, “By the Time I Get to Phoenix”). Yeah, they mostly recorded covers, probably because none of their non-Snoopy stuff went very far.
Their only non-Snoopy song in the top 40 was “Baby Let’s Wait” whereas “Snoopy vs. the Red Baron” peaked at #2. “Return of the Red Baron” also made the top 40, “Snoopy’s Christmas” was the big Christmas hit of 1967, but the fad was over by “Snoopy for President”.
“I Don’t Need a Bag” by The Abe Lincoln Story.
Weird Al is mentioned enough in the thread I didn’t see that it mattered.
Not heard everything they’ve done, but Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie - The Canada Song, is pretty good. Do believe that’s original.
Well, Jman did say at the top of this page, “Several Weird Al songs are very good, including many parodies (though since he didn’t write the music for those, I’ll keep them out of this thread).”
My favorite Christmas song is by Weird Al: Christmas At Ground Zero.
I didn’t see it and I did a ctrl+f for it. I particularly enjoy “Most Beautiful Girl In the Room” (You’re so beautiful…like a tree!), “Ladies of the World” (All you lady-man ladies!), and '“Business Time” (You know when I’m down to my socks, it’s business time). All these can be enjoyed via youtube.
Almost anything of P.D.Q. Bach’s that Peter Schickele has “discovered”. I am particularly fond of “The Abduction of Figaro” and “Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice (an opera in one unnatural act)”.
Well, my bad there as I find I scan threads like these more for titles than overall comprehension. However, the distinction wasn’t made in the op.
Oooh… Avenue Q’s Internet is for Porn. Loved the whole production.
Just off the top of my head (I don’t think anyone’s beaten me to them…apologies if they have):
The Ballad of Barry Allen by Jim’s Big Ego
Whatever Happened to the Chainsaw Juggler by the Four Postmen
Great Idea for a Song by Worm Quartet (not the best recording)
Robot Cat by Logan Whitehurst and the Junior Science Club