WEIRD AL
Proof that accordion lessons pay off.
(Weird Al Yankovic)
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Weird Al is more popular now than some of the artists he spoofed.
Win.
Weird Al kicks total ass, but look at some of the “artists” he parodied. Not too mention a whoole bunch of crappy songs. But yeah, I totally love the man.
A-MEN!!! AL totally ROCKS!!! There are some of his songs that I never heard of until he did them and THEN I check them out. A number of times, he has improved the song. HE has one hand on the pulse of pop music and the other on his accordion,a toe in the light socket and an elbow in a bowl of orange Jello ™!
awesome! (second!)
About 25 years in the biz, and he’s as funny as ever!
31 years…
wat iz ur fave song by him?
Another One Rides the Bus
Mine too! Me and a friend are working on am music video for it XD
The Rye or the Kaiser
Yes, I agree. Theme from Rocky XIII is a great song!
Amish Paradise (the video rules supreme!)
A whole bunch, but The Night Santa Went Crazy comes to mind
White and Nerdy!!
It’s a tie between Fat and Eat It!
I can’t decide between Eat It or Canadian Idiot
All About the Pentiums… Awesome song…
That’s a WIN of a song
Nature trail to hell, in 3 D.
Bob.
One more minute..
“Stranded all alone at the gas station of love, and I have to use the self service pump” Pure Poetry.
“Hardware Store” is one of the greatest songs composed in the last 200 years. And “Dare to be Stupid” is an anthem to which every human being should adhere religiously.
Either A Complicated song or Christmas at Ground Zero XD
“Your Horoscope for Today” or “Why Does This Always Happen To Me”.
I love him…”Stuck in the Drive-Thru” is pretty good too…
white and nerdy
Spike Jones is smiling in the afterlife knowing his legacy and style lives on.
The amazing thing with Al? He’s TRULY talented, a sort of renaissance musician. This gives him the ability to be so funny in so many styles – he could have been a “straight” musician, but this expresses his considerable skills even more.
Please remeber to credit his band that can go from Madonna to Led Zeplin in the blink of an eye.
All of those guys qualify a genius.
Genius attracts genius. And Al was really, really lucky to find Jon Schwartz as early as he did in his career. You don’ got a good drummer, you don’ got crap.
You are so right! I’d drum for weird Al in a heartbeat if “Bermuda” ever quit.
Great, the lessons have paid off for one person out of how many forced to take lessons?
Accordion lessons are an end in and of themselves!!
ACCORDION! not accordian!
idiot…
THANK YOU!
Spelling classes would pay off as well…
My favorite Weird Al song is Amish Paradise too. (In case anyone would like to know…)
That’s hard – favorite song would have to be “Livin’ in the Fridge” -
For the simple fact I’m an Aerosmith fan too, and STILL find myself singing Al’s lyrics to the original song, when it comes on the radio…..
And, there have been others for whom accordion lessons led to success – Dennis DeYoung of Styx, for example (and, having heard that band since they tossed him out after 25 years, they should just drop the S from their name and go by Tyx, cause they majorly suck without him)
But… Dennis deYoung is a FRICKING IDIOT. His shows are like a Vegas drag queen act. He clearly wishes he could do Broadway. It’s VERY MUCH NOT rock and roll, that’s for dang sure.
And Styx were never that bloody great anyway. They had like, one great album around 1976 or 77 and after that, gllleeehhhhccchh. “Mr. Roboto” oh my GOD, that’s not rock. Chuck Berry would stab you in the neck for calling that rock.
Forge – maybe you ought to check out their later stuff, after Kilroy was Here (which was their low point prior to DD’s exit); Brave New World was probably their best, from the band pretty much tearing itself apart at the time. It was typically his non-rock material that kept the band from spiralling out of control (James Young thinks Styx is Hard Rock, which is even scarier than trying to label Dennis as anything other than pop/showtunes. Wyld Stallyns is more Heavy metal than Styx).
And, Dennis DID do Broadway – it was working on a musical of The Hunchback of Notre Dame at the same time Styx was touring, and the constant shuffling back and forth is part of what led to them kicking him out. At least he’s still playing theaters, instead of county fairs and town festivals like his former bandmates. They only ever play venues where the audience isn’t “Free to attend” when grouped with 2-3 other bands.
Favorite Weird Al song: Pancreas. 2nd place belongs to Harvey the Wonder Hamster. I can’t put my finger on it, but these two put a smile on my face like no other.
those are excellent too! I didn’t know anything about the Pancreas until Weird AL put it to music!
I then saw a tv show and they were talking about the pancreas, and I already knew the terms because of Al’s song!! 
THank YOU AL for being HIGHLY entertaining AND educational!!!
Nature Trail To Hell In 3D!!!!
And the all time classic EAT IT!
My ideal concert:
Anna Russell Sins PDQ Bach, accompanied by Victor Borge, the Spike Jones Orchestra, and Wierd Al Yankovich.
No. This cannot be. The world would explode from an overdose of WIN.
But if it didn’t, I’d totally pay to see that. Heck, I’d pay to see Peter Schickele playing the left-handed sewer flute.
Victor Borge and Spike Jones are dead; Anna Russell is still alive, but she no longer performs. (She lives in an Assisted Living facility in suburban Toronto.)
Its up to Al and Pete, I guess.
Peter Schickele getting the Original Johnny Carson Way More Awesome Than You’ll Ever Dream Tonight Show Orchestra to play a piece on their mouthpieces was pretty amazing in and of itself.
He also plays the dill piccalo.
There is no H in Yankovic… And you misspelled Weird.
I have found my eighth intelligent person. Let’s also not forget accordion. Notice it’s spelled with an O.
PDQ BACH!!! When I was in high school my band went to see PDQ Bach- AWESOME!!! I have only seen commercials for Victor Borge’s stuff, but from what I saw, he was hilarious! Heard Spike Jones’ stuff on Dr. Demento’s CD’s (good stuff) but Anna Russell???
I had no idea other people liked Victor Borge and PDQ Bach as much as I did (of course, this is a Weird Al thing; we appreciate high levels of both musical and comic genius). I was lucky to see VB twice before he died, and his second show was better than his first.
Favorite Weird Al songs: White and Nerdy, It’s All About the Pentiums, Smells like Nirvana, Amish Paradise, Hardware Store, and the Weird Al Theme Show Song.
Oh. And Alberqurque. Or however you spell it. “But I do have a box of starving, crazed weasels.” “I’ll take that.”
heheheh I love ALL of those, but there are very few songs by W.A. that I don’t like. Weird Al was actually the second concert I ever saw. “Like a Surgeon” was FABULOUS Live. I have seen him live twice since.
“Hey. You got weasels on your face.”
“Hey, mom, what’s up with all the sauerkraut?”
I mean i know this cat has alot of money and all that. But if accordion lessons get me super weird hair and facial expressions and a horrible taste in clothes i could give a rats ask *little girl monster threats* about how much money i make lol
Don’t care about the money? Hmm. Well, his wife’s so gorgeous most guys would crawl through a mile of broken glass if it meant they got to touch her hem. If that helps.
lols, watch the ‘making of’ on the back of the dual disk Straight from Lynwood disk
I know. You sure get your money’s worth out of that album.
i actually made a Weird Al Mii for my Wii when i play Wii Music, just because there’s an accordion
weird al rules. to have sucess as a musician you need one of your songs beeing covered by him. otherwise you fail.
which means that the Backstreet Boys are awesome. actually the Ebay song IS quite hilarious.
Actually it means that the Backstreet Boys were successful with their music (as in POPULAR), it does not mean they were ‘awesome’. A lot of really popular music can truly suck…. for instance, take country music, the whole genre is TERRIBLE, but for some reason a fairly sizable number of people still subject their ears to it every day, kills brain cells in my opinion, but they still do…no accounting for taste, that lot.
Accordion lessons: contributed
Being a remarkable, once-in-100-years kind of genius like Mozart or Beethoven: Rather more significant.
You probably won’t get laid nearly as much with an accordion as with a guitar, but the women you do end up going out with are far, FAR more interesting.
You make me laugh. Not sarcastically, either.
Hey, he can do things with an accordion few people know how to do, so who knows who you can attract with that?
::nod nod:: Same as driving a Volvo. Any dweeb can get his Dad to buy him a Camaro, but if you pick a boxy little brown sedan with an automatic transmission it says you’re more interesting than the random jerk in a snazzy car. Generally.
Forge, I totally agree.
Really a great guy, very kind. Love his music and band, taking up the accordion myself.
STUCK IN THE DRIVE THRU!
Go accordion
my dad took accordion lessons with him. i just went over to the teacher’s house last year and he showed us the picture of weird al as a kid. it was funny.
very good musician.
Dear Al,
Thank you for your dedication in mocking the pop scene for over 30 years.
You first made me laugh like never before upon your release of “Eat It”. Of course this led into the realm of Doctor Demento which led mee to experience classics like Spike Jones and Tom Lerher. No I never poisoned pigeons in the park but such fare allowed me to indulge my twisted side without fear of being judged harshly.
As a kid, I was an ardent devotee to your hijacking of Mtv under the guise of ALtv where you first exposed me to the greatness of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Greg Proops in addition to your own marvelous contributions such as Harvey the Wonder Hamster.
You made records after that which I bought as soon as I discovered them. My friends ridiculed me relentlessly but their inability to see your brand of awesome makes me pity them all the more. If people can’t see the genius in “Dare to be Stupid”, they might just be hopeless.
After several years I thought you were done but then you came out with “Fat” which killed me all over again.
You even made a movie which I thought was the bet thing ever which was a significant accomplishment considering it came out the same week as Tim Burton’s Batman. Who knew that you would be the one to discover the actor we would later come to know simply as “Kramer”. “Where’s my mop?!” And in life, on some level, isn’t that what we’re all asking? Where’s my mop indeed Mr. Richards. You may have offended a lot of people during an ill advised improv scene at a small comedy club but that’s not what I remember. I remember a bit part in a small budget film called “UHF” and that’s how you shall remain.
Dear Al,
As I grew older I fell into the career of information technology so when you released “It’s All About the Pentiums” I was beyond ecstatic. I knew those lyrics by heart not because of rot memorization, but because your knowledge of computer technology was so spot on that no one, save the most bitter of overweight geeks wearing Frank Frazetta t-shrts, could criticize you. It was as though you understood the heart of the geek and for but a brief period, your heartbeat along with so many others, was one with all creation, and it was good. Lord it was geeky beyond compare, but you, in a supremely unique and geeky way, had touched the sublime and you brought us along for the ride.
Dear Al,
I saw you play during your Alapalooza tour. Your faithful bandmates who had been with you for years, was with you still and didn’t seem to mind in the least when you referred to them as the “Alapalosers”. When you played “Smells Like Nirvana” specifically in tribute to Kurt Cobain’s tragic passing, you inspired one of the most vicious mosh pits I’ve ever experienced. I’ve been to more punk and speed metal shows than I can remember and only Motorhead had a pit more brutal. My elbow hurt for two weeks afterward. I didn’t treat it like an injury. I thought of my nagging aches as premature enlightenment.
Dear Al,
Your dedication to music has made you a better hip-hop artist than most comers in the field.
Fuck Coolio! People will remember Amish Paradise first and foremost. Coolio’s original “Gangster’s Paradise” would have been all but forgotten if not for you. I’m still waiting for Coolio to apologize to you. Hopefully, someday, Coolio will man up and give you the credit you’re due.
Dear Al,
At a time when we were all waiting for the new Star Wars flicks with baited breath and poorly constructed costumes, you were there with us. Your hair was longer, while your glasses, moustache and Hawaiian shirts were gone. We were skeptical at first but that didn’t matter. Your Jedi inflected rendition of American Pie proved to be far more epic than any of George Lucas’ ill-written prequels. Suddenly we all remembered the greatness of your “Lola” cover called simply “Yoda”.
Dear Al,
You’ve got more left in the tank? Unbelievable!
“White and Nerdy” was totally unexpected and completely awesome. You demonstrated not only that you have more of a grip on what hip than any of us ever had, but in your parody, you easily surpassed the ability of most aspiring rappers. It’s as though you are made of musical awesome! You make it look easy while others struggle.
Dear Al,
You are not one to be deterred. You are not one to be denied. You are the perpetually underestimated soul that never gives up and continues to win despite those who never counted you in the running. You are a juggernaut of nerdy success to all of us who ever wore headgear, played D&D when we couldn’t get dates, drank Mountain Dew and insisted, while in a headlock, that science was superior to athletics.
Dear Al,
You were always in our corner and we are always in yours.
We can only repay you by occasionally buying a track from iTunes and emulating the awesome you have shown us for more than half of your life on this rock.
From one geek to another, thank you Al.
Thank you for all you have given us and continue to give us.
We will boldly march forth and dare to be stupid.
We will dare to be stupid indeed.