# Your Favorite Weird Al Song **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 17, 2000, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-weird-al-song/37207 "2000-10-17T01:39:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Running\_with\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Running\_with\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Running_with_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-weird-al-song/37207/61 "2000-10-19T19:24:00Z")
I don’t think anyone’s mentioned My Bologna, which, if IIRC, was the first song released by him. Fairly sure it was on Dr. Demento. [nitpick] > [@](#): > > Tracer wrote: > > \*I was a listener to the Doctor Demento Show in the late 1970s, back when it was only broacast locally on KMET in Los Angeles. > > I was there, listening to Doctor Demento, the night that Weird Al Yankovic played “Another One Rides the Bus” live on the air.\* If you’re implying that you were listening to Dr. D. in the late '70s when Another One Rides the Bus was first broadcast, can’t be; Queen’s **The Game** (where Another One Bites the Dust appears) wasn’t released until 1980. You’ve got your dates wrong, I’m afraid. [/nitpick] ---
**Author:** ![Malarky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Malarky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malarky)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-weird-al-song/37207/62 "2000-10-20T01:43:15Z")
I love Weird Al…am I the only woman to find him sexually attractive? I mean, I’d SOOOO do him!!! Anyway, one of my favorite songs by him is “Alternative Polka”, especially the part where he turns “Closer” by NIN into a polka song, lol :D:D:D ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-weird-al-song/37207/63 "2000-10-20T04:39:33Z")
This is the perfect thread for me. I’m an Al aficianado (there should be a magazine called that) from way back. Anyway, my favorites (No, I can’t choose one.): [ul] [li]Amish Paradise _We’re all crazy Mennonites/Living in an Amish paradise_. Best thing to come out of rap.[/li][li]It’s All About The Pentiums. Another of my favorites. How about these little gems: _Got a flat-screen monitor, 40" wide/I believe that yours says, “Etch-A-Sketch” on the side_[/li][li]Spam (Great song, you can’t go wrong with lyrics like _Spam in the place where I work. (you’re obsessed)/[/li]Think about the way it’s processed, wonder if it’s some kind of meat._) [li]Everything You Know is Wrong. Very surreal, not to mention hilarious.[/li][li]Cavity Search. How about these lyrics: _Listenin’ to the Muzak/Hearin’ people scream_. Simple genius.[/li][li]Since You’ve Been Gone. How about this: _It couldn’t hurt any more if you shoved/A red hot cactus up my nose_.[/li][li]Buckingham Blues. One of his great obscure works.[/li][li]Jerry Springer. Maybe it’s like watching a train wreck, but I like hearing: _It’s just as low as you can go/The guests are tacky and they’re lacking in their hygiene_[/li][/ul] Anyway, that’s just a few I can think of. ---
**Author:** ![David\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@David\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_B)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2000, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-weird-al-song/37207/64 "2000-10-21T13:18:48Z")
You know what really pisses me off? _UHF_ (the movie, not the album) is out of print. Dammit, I want that movie! ---
**Author:** ![HelloKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2000, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-weird-al-song/37207/65 "2000-10-21T14:56:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JimmyNipples \* > \*\*No one mentioned **Fat** yet? > > Ham on, > Ham on Whole Wheat > > He’s so fat his shadow weighs 32 pounds. > > Who’s fat? \*\* You ain’t fat…you ain’t NOTHIN’!! ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2000, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-weird-al-song/37207/66 "2000-10-21T19:29:26Z")
frogstein wrote: > [@](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > Tracer wrote: > > > > \*I was a listener to the Doctor Demento Show in the late 1970s, back when it was only broacast locally on KMET in Los Angeles. > > > > I was there, listening to Doctor Demento, the night that Weird Al Yankovic played “Another One Rides the Bus” live on the air.\* > > If you’re implying that you were listening to Dr. D. in the late '70s when Another One Rides the Bus was first broadcast, can’t be; Queen’s **The Game** (where Another One Bites the Dust appears) wasn’t released until 1980. You’ve got your dates wrong, I’m afraid. Um … er … well … (oh, I know!) 1980 was part of the '70s! You know, like how the year 2000 is still part of the 20th century 'cause the 21st century doesn’t start until 2001? Yeah, that’s it, that’s the ticket! (Whew, got outta that one by the skin of my teeth.) But whatever date it was, and however many other radio stations Dr. Demento was being networked to when it happened, I **was** listening the night Weird Al first performed “Another One Rides the Bus.” I remember it distinctly, because I had **not** heard Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust” at that point, and so I had absolutely **no** idea what Al was parodying. And a few months later, with “Another One Rides the Bus” in the Number One position in Dr. Demento’s Top Ten for the umpteenth time, I had a dream about a killer bus in which I heard the first song I went on to write on my own, titled “Don’t Ride the Bus.” No relation whatsoever to Weird Al’s song, noooooo… ---
**Author:** ![kuwatto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6a8cbe/32.png) [@kuwatto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kuwatto)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2000, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-weird-al-song/37207/67 "2000-10-21T19:45:17Z")
“Christmas at Ground Zero” it can stay stuck in my head for hours It’s Christmas at ground zero there’s panic in the air I’ll duck and cover with my yuletide lover underneath the sirens blare he also mentions in the song that if the radiation level is OK, they will go see all the new mutations on New Years Day. MAD genius!😛 ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2000, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-weird-al-song/37207/68 "2000-10-21T20:23:46Z")
Dare To Be Stupid One More Minute Christmas At Ground Zero. I wish I could write parodies as good as he does. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-weird-al-song/37207.md?page=3)