bibliophage 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. The recording of that live performance was the one used on the Weird Al album where “Another One Rides the Bus” first appeared. It was also, without question, Al’s first hit song.
You may worship me now.
How about “Mr. Polpeil”
“you can even cut a tin can with it, but you wouldn’t want to!”
WeirdAl is God. And I love that name!
…Before you know it, all the kinfolk are a-sayin’,
Yeah, Buddy, move away from there.
That litle Clampett got his own cee-ment pond.
That little Clampett, he’s a millionaire.
Now everyone said Californy
Is the place that you oughta be.
We got to load up this here truck now.
We got to move to Beverly.
Hills, that is.
Swimmin’ pools,
Move-a-move-a-movie stars!
Twice, Weird Al has done something on his albums that was rather … weird. He just does a remake, a “cover version” if you will, of a short song he heard on television. And it lasts about 30 seconds.
Like I said, he’s done this twice, once with a straigh cover version of the jingle from the “Twister” commercial (right hand blue!), and once with the theme from “George of the Jungle” (before that awful live-action Disney movie came out).
I absolutely cannot figure out what Al was up to with these two songs. And, no, this does not automatically make Al a “genius.”
“Taco Grande” always gives me the jones for a sizzlin’ fajita skillet.
But if anyone here knows me at all, then I’d vote for “Trigger Happy” :D.
And I can swear that when he wrote “You Don’t Love Me Anymore” he was talking about me and my ex SO.
ExTank
“Mostly Harmless :wally”
I first heard “The Night Santa Went Crazy” on the radio while negotiating narrow backroads one snowy Christmas Eve. It made me laugh so hard I had to pull off the road to avoid killing myself.
Yes, he certainly is! I finally saw him live this summer, and it was hilarious. One of the songs I liked best seems to be a “concert-only” song (maybe he can’t get the proper permission to release it on CD?), and it was a parody of the Titanic song called “The Toppings Will Go On and On”. Of course, he wore a pizza-delivery uniform and carried a pizza box. It seems that food will always make a good parody topic.
The LASIK surgery/longer, less fluffy hair seem to have made him more attractive to certain friends of mine who saw the show with me. But it certainly did not make him any less funny.
tracer said:
Actually, the Twister one is not a straight cover version. It’s more of a fake-rap version. “All the girls and homeboys playin’ twister…” He also throws “illin’” and “chillin’” in there somewhere.
Tamex: When I saw Al a few weeks ago, he didn’t play the song you mention. Alas…
You don’t need permission to cover or parody a song; Weird Al always does, though, I guess out of politeness. He may also get out of paying the standard royalty, which he’d have to cough up if he released “The Toppings Will Go On” without whatshisname’s permission.
Or, he may simply have more material than he can get around to getting released.
Several years they played part of that as a “Name that Tune” radio q - with no word…the people were going nuts, repeatedly guessing “King of Pain” until someone got smart…LMAO…
My favorite changes almost daily, but lately it has been “Albuquerque”.
Absolutely hilarious.
I had said to tracer:
I should note that, the more I thought about it, the more it seems like a parody of the way the Beastie Boys sang at the time, with New York accents and all.
Theme Song to Rocky XVIII
You Don’t Love me Anymore
Brady Bunch
I think that Albuquerque is the funniest song since Existential Blues by Tom “T-Bone” Stankis. 
It’s the Wizard
‘I’d rather have this bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.’
Damn your eyes slythe.
Poppies, poppies, poppies…
Sorry, dude, no worshipping from me
I was listening to Dr D in Kentucky in 1977. June 30, 1980
As for my fave: ‘One More Minute’ and ‘Albuquerque’ (God, I hate that word)
Where the hell did THAT date come in (June 30, 1980) must have been from something my roommate pasted in earlier…
I can’t believe that no one has mentioned THE best Weird Al song yet.
“Frank’s 2000 Inch TV!” C’mon! I mean, it combines my two loves, Weird Al, and The Simpsons!
“And I’m mighty proud to say,
(yes I’m mighty proud to say)
Now I can watch The Simpons from thirty blocks away!”
Nature Trail To Hell
One More Minute
I’ll be mellow when I’m dead. [That’s me. :rolleyes:]
Christmas at Ground Zero (The ONLY Christmas Carol)
Can’t Watch This (I agree!)