It’s impossible for me to hear “Safety Dance” without superimposing the Brady Bunch theme song over it.
“The Saga Begins”
“Headline News”
A tie between “One More Minute” and “This Is The Life”, although “One More Minute” probably has a small edge.
I’d like to add “Eat It” to the list, it’s been a while since I’ve listened to it, in fact my copy is an album (reember those kiddies). i think I’ll try to find someone who still has a turntable.
Keith
I like them all for different reasons. I think I have to go with Pentium though. I love the video.
[sexy voice] It’s all about the pentiums baybee {sexy voice}
yep love that and the line that goes
I’d rather clean all the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue that to spend ONE MORE MINUTE with you.
Slightly off the track, do you think Al is as funny since he had that LASIK surgery and got rid of his glasses?
“Another One Rides the Bus” is exceptionally cool. I especially love all the low-tech noises in that one.
I used to be nuts about “Nature Trail to Hell – in 3D,” but I’m better now.
And I actually like “Smells Like Nirvana” better than the original – it sounds almost exactly the same, but you can understand the words!
My favorites have been mentioned already:
Smells Like Nirvana
Amish Paradise
Yoda - “I know Darth Vader’s really got you annoyed/ But remember if you kill him then you’ll be unemployed/ Oh my Yoda, Yo-yo-yo-yo-Yoda”
Lessee, nobody yet has mentioned:
“King of Suede”
“If you need a tuxedo for your junior prom
(that’s my size up there)
we will get you the best one that’s made in Taiwan
(that’s my size up there)
we’ve got every color, we’ve got ev’ry shade
here I am, right next door to Willie’s Fun Arcade
and it’s all guaranteed to never shrink or fade
'cause I’m known the world over as the King of Suede…”
“Stop Draggin’ My Car Around” (off his first album)
“Dog Eat Dog” (a Talking Heads parody, on Polka Party!)
“I Think I’m a Clone Now”
“Signing autographs for my fans,
come and meet the carbon copy man,
livin’ in stereo, it’s alright
well, I can be my own best friend and I can send myself for pizza so I say:
I think I’m a clone now, there’s always two of me just a-hangin’ round
I think I’m a clone now, 'cause every pair of genes is a hand-me-down.”
“I lost on Jeopardy!, baby, ooooo…”
And non-parodies:
“Midnight Star”
“Eat jelly donuts and lose twenty pounds a day,
hear the story of the man born without a head,
and top psychics all agree, that the telephone company,
will have a brand new service that lets you talk to the dead.”
“Slime Creatures from Outer Space”
“Nature Trail to Hell”
“Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota”
and:
“You Make Me”
“You make me want to break the laws of time and space,
you make me want to eat pork,
you make me want to staple bagels to my face,
and remove them with a pitchfork…”
I think most of us like his songs even more over time.
I’ve had one of my favorites, Dare to Be Stupid, stuck in my head for the past two hours and now I come here and find this thread. What are the odds?
My other favorite is The Saga Begins, which I am not allowed to sing at my parents’ house anymore because the constant repetition almost drove my brother insane (even though he sings it almost as often as I do). I also like Smells Like Nirvana.
Too bad I didn’t get to see Weird Al’s concert when he was in town last week.
This is too good. Lots of my favorites have been mentioned, so I’ll have to put in a word for [list][li]Pretty Fly for a Rabbi "People used to scoff, now they say ‘Mazel tov!’ He’s such a macher 'cause he works his tuchis off[/li][]Jerry Springer[]Grapefruit Diet “I used to live on chocolate sauce, made sumo wrestlers look like Kate Moss”[]Slime Creatures from Outer Space “They got hands all covered with fungus; They got eyes like some kinda bug; I sure hope they don’t come in here, I just shampooed the rug” and[]All the Polka compilations - you haven’t lived until you’ve experienced “Hey Joe” polka-style, complete with yodelling segue into “Burning Down the House.”
Gotta go with “One More Minute”. Always loved it.
Mr. Frump
Nature Trail to Hell
Midnight Star
What can I say? I’m old school.
Being a devoted Twineologist (my very very own religion) I must say my favorite is definitely “The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota”. I, of course, make an annual pilgrimage to the Twineball, which truly exists and resides in the little town of Darwin, MN. (pop. 200, except every second saturday in August, which is designated Twineball days, and draws a crowd of at least a dozen or two outsiders)
Sample of lyrics (from memory, correct me if I screw up):
“I parked the car, and walked with awe-filled reverence towards that glorious huge majestic sphere.
I was just so overwhelmed by its sheer immensity, I had to pop myself a beer.”
and
“We stayed that night at the Twineball Inn,
and in the morning we were on our way home again,
but we didn’t really want to leave,
that was perfectly clear.
I said, ‘Kids I can see you’re all sad to go’,
But I winked my eye and I said, ‘Ya know,
I’ve got a funny kind of feeling we’ll be comming back again next year.’”
You say that it’s your birthday,
Well it happens every year.
We’ll eat a lot of broccoli
And drink a lot of beer…
I don’t know if this is a hijack or not…
I saw something on either VH-1 or MTV last weekend that profiled Weird Al and he went from, never-paid-much-attention-yeah-he’s-kinda-funny status to the guy’s a genius. I don’t know if it was my mood or what, but it’s quite possible that he’s the most well-adjusted millionaire in Hollywood. Either that or he paid off the editors of the program.
BTW, my favorite is Another Rides the Bus.
oops. Another One…
You should be good and happy that there’s someting you can eat,
A million people every day are starving in the street!
Your daddy’s in the gutter with the wretched and the poor;
You’re mommy’s in the kitchen with a can of Cycle 4.
There’s garbage in the water,
There’s poison in the sky,
I guess it won’t be long before we’re all gonna die!
Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday to you!!
Happy Birthday! Happy Birthday to you!!
Oh, man. I haven’t thought of that one in years. I can’t believe the lyrics are still floating around my head!
There are so many!
But here’s one that hasn’t been mentioned yet.
I wish I were a surgeon just so I could play this during operations!