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So out of curiosity, what do people think is Al's best album? I'd say a toss up between Running With Scissors and Off The Deep End.
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Mine's a toss up between Straight outta Lynwood and Bad Hair Day, but the latter has both Santa Craziness and Amish Paradise, and the Alternative Polka is one of my favorites.
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Holy poo poo... so, I kept thinking, without going into the discography, "Ok, I owned Bad Hair Day... since there, there was, what... Poodle Hat? And then Mandatory Fun?" Totally forgot about Running With Scissors and Straight Outta Lynwood. I think I'm going to just look up Weird Al on wikipedia and learn everything there is in one go.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Holy poo poo... so, I kept thinking, without going into the discography, "Ok, I owned Bad Hair Day... since there, there was, what... Poodle Hat? And then Mandatory Fun?" And Alpocalypse.
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Ensign_Ricky posted:So out of curiosity, what do people think is Al's best album? I'd say a toss up between Running With Scissors and Off The Deep End. Dare to be Stupid, maybe? Tough question.
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Ensign_Ricky posted:So out of curiosity, what do people think is Al's best album? I'd say a toss up between Running With Scissors and Off The Deep End.
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Jul 19, 2014 06:00
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Definitely a toss up between Bad Hair Day and Running With Scissors for me. Although I do hold The Food Album and Alapolooza close to my heart as well since those were the two Weird Al albums my family had when I was a young 'un
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Just an hour away from the next video! (They come out at 11 AM EST/8 AM PST) Can't wait to see what we get!Ensign_Ricky posted:So out of curiosity, what do people think is Al's best album? I'd say a toss up between Running With Scissors and Off The Deep End. Personally, I don't find any of his albums to be better than any other. I love them all. I will admit, however, that Even Worse and Running With Scissors have special places in my heart. Even Worse was the first "Weird Al" album I ever owned, and Touring With Scissors was the time I got to see him in concert. My wife had bought tickets, and didn't tell me, making it a surprise.
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Running with Scissors and Straight Outta Lynwood are pretty perfect.
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I had listened to Weird Al before Straight Outta Lynwood, but that was the album that came out while I was in college and made a true fan of his work. White and Nerdy was my anthem during those years (despite not being white) and Trapped in the Drive-Thru was amazing from start to finish
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Video's up! http://popcrush.com/weird-al-yankovic-first-world-problems-video/
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That wasn't bad but I'm getting the feeling he should have saved Word Crimes for last
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How did he fit his hair under that wig?
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I liked this video much more than Sports song and Handy. I'mk not sure if I like it more than Foil, because I do like the abrupt change in tone on that one. edit: Clockwork Rocktapus posted:That wasn't bad but I'm getting the feeling he should have saved Word Crimes for last I'm feeling this too. I now seriously doubt that there will be any videos that top Tacky or Word Crimes. Start and end strong.
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Clockwork Rocktapus posted:That wasn't bad but I'm getting the feeling he should have saved Word Crimes for last Well you want to sell as many albums in the first week as possible. He's actually on track to potentially have his first number 1 album: http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6165950/weird-al-mandatory-fun-billboard-200
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Jul 19, 2014 16:45
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Since these are all singles, could he possible have 12 songs on top 100?
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These non-parody songs are ok but not really that catchy for me. Really loved foil/handy, word crimes and tacky were only ok for me, but the video for tacky was sweet.
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I've listened to the album a few times now, and while I like it for the most part ("Word Crimes" is excellent and should have been the lead song on the album,) I feel like some of the songs are updated versions of songs he's done in the past. "Handy" almost seems like a redo of "The Plumbing Song" and "My Own Eyes" feels like an update of "Midnight Star." Obviously, the music and lyrics and new, but the subject matter is so closely related, they feel like rehashes to me. Don't get me wrong, I like the new songs, but I feel like I've heard them before. "Sports Song" and "Jackson Park Express" are tied, for me, as the worst songs on the album. I love the long format songs he's done on the past few albums - "Drive Through" and "Genius in France" are amazing, but there is no payoff in "Jackson Park". In addition, "JPE" also seems like a rehash of "Good Old Days", where the story starts off sweet, but goes off the rails when the narrator turns out to be a complete maniac. "Good Old Days" was a much better song, and took far less time to get to the point. "Mission Statement" started off as a dislike for me, but it's really growing on me - I think the style of the song far outshines the lyrics. Also, the use of a counter-culture folk song to convey corporate bullshit is particularly inspiring. "Now That's What I Call Polka" seemed to be really short, compared to the past few polkas he's done, am I wrong? Also, if you haven't checked out his YouTube channel, there are a shitload of videos for his songs. I was just thinking what an awesome video could be made from "Party in the CIA" when, blammo, there it is. The amazing thing is that it was very close to what I envisioned (though I wasn't expecting it to be animated.)
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First World Problems was another "just alright" video. Unless one of the last couple videos he releases is really great, he probably should've stopped after Handy.
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Amanda Palmer, who did vocals on "First World Problems" just posted a pretty cool blog post about Weird Al's influence on her life and music career.
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Bass Bottles posted:How did he fit his hair under that wig?
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weirdojace posted:Amanda Palmer, who did vocals on "First World Problems" just posted a pretty cool blog post about Weird Al's influence on her life and music career. pro-click, this owns, everyone read it second-hand smegma posted:drat, Inactive is the tits. I really hope he does a video for it, it's definitely one of the best on the album.
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I LOVE the Pixies, so First World Problems is a loving great song, at least to me. It seriously sounds like about 15 Pixies songs put together. Debaser, No. 13, Tame... great stuff.
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The only way First World Problems could be a more accurate Pixies parody would be if one of the verses was half in Spanish.
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Blackbelt Bobman posted:Sports Song was meh to begin with and this video added nothing. Definitely the weakest one. "Mission Statement" is almost too painfully true for me to enjoy - the kind of circular nonsense language is so common at my work. "Jackson Park Express" surprised me with some of the stranger lyrics. Weird Al jokes about decapitation, poo, murder, death, etc, but he's never gotten sexually graphic in his songs, or at least very often (with the brilliant exception of "I'm stranded all alone at the gas station of love, and I have to use the self-service pumps" from "One More Minute") so I nearly choked on my mac n' cheese listening to the line, "I want you inside me ... (long pause) ... like a tapeworm!" Awesome. Count me in as a lifelong fan. I'm not a very "loyal" music fan in general - I get the music I like and there are few artists who are "auto-buys" for me. Or even regular buys. I think Weird Al is the one artist whose albums I always buy right when then come out.
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Henchman of Santa posted:The only way First World Problems could be a more accurate Pixies parody would be if one of the verses was half in Spanish. There was going to be a verse about his gardener, but...
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I think that he was smart to release these the way he is. The parody songs are always going to grab the zeitgeist the hardest and there was bound to be some drop off throughout the week. So starting strong was the best way to get people interested. I'm just hoping for a ten minute long epic conclusion with a "Jackson Park Express" video. I know that probably won't happen though.
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What is the Pixies song that is most like the chorus of First World Problem? That's the fun part with Al, I have almost zero musical knowledge and hear a lot of songs through him, and thus get to find a lot of cool music I've never heard before.
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Clockwork Rocktapus posted:What is the Pixies song that is most like the chorus of First World Problem? That's the fun part with Al, I have almost zero musical knowledge and hear a lot of songs through him, and thus get to find a lot of cool music I've never heard before. Overall the song that it's sounds the most like is probably Debaser. The intro alone is super close and it has the same lyric "echo" in the chorus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P3lhrwio-M
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Can we talk about how UHF is the best thing Al did in his entire career? Because that is seriously my favorite movie. Getting my entire extended family together and watching it is like a religious experience, most of us can quote the entire thing and we have to yell at each other to stop. I definitely wore the gently caress out of my VHS copy. The DVD is great because the commentary track is amazing, the deleted scenes and features and stuff are hilariously narrated by Al as well. I guess this year would be the 25th anniversary, right? EDIT: Monday is the 25th anniversary of the release of UHF. Everyone should watch it in celebration. Blackbelt Bobman fucked around with this message at 03:06 on Jul 20, 2014 |
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AnimeJune posted:"Jackson Park Express" surprised me with some of the stranger lyrics. Weird Al jokes about decapitation, poo, murder, death, etc, but he's never gotten sexually graphic in his songs, or at least very often (with the brilliant exception of "I'm stranded all alone at the gas station of love, and I have to use the self-service pumps" from "One More Minute") so I nearly choked on my mac n' cheese listening to the line, "I want you inside me ... (long pause) ... like a tapeworm!" Awesome. A lot of his songs are pretty messed up when you listen to them. Like "Melanie." When you're a kid, it's cute and absurd. When you're an adult, holy gently caress, you realize how messed up and creepy that song is. Weird Al gets away with it because he's supposed to be funny. But like if Sting sang the song, everyone would be like... Well, actually they'd probably think it's a lovely song about a guy who would be willing to kill himself to prove his love for a woman he's stalking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqmApJCgqnU
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berzerkmonkey posted:I've listened to the album a few times now, and while I like it for the most part ("Word Crimes" is excellent and should have been the lead song on the album,) I feel like some of the songs are updated versions of songs he's done in the past. "Handy" almost seems like a redo of "The Plumbing Song" and "My Own Eyes" feels like an update of "Midnight Star." Obviously, the music and lyrics and new, but the subject matter is so closely related, they feel like rehashes to me. Don't get me wrong, I like the new songs, but I feel like I've heard them before. That's nothing really new, Al recycles his previous material quite a bit, "Do I creep you out" is a recycle of "Melanie", "First World Problems" is a recycled "Why does this always happen to me?", "Couch Potato" is a recycle of "Syndicated Inc." is a recycle of "I can't watch this" is a recycle of "the brady bunch", "Perform this way" is a recycle of "Smells like Nirvana", "Since you have been gone" is a recycle of "One more minute", "White and Nerdy" "All about the pentiums" and so forth, but then again, who cares? mikemil828 fucked around with this message at 06:15 on Jul 20, 2014 |
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Blackbelt Bobman posted:Can we talk about how UHF is the best thing Al did in his entire career? Because that is seriously my favorite movie. Getting my entire extended family together and watching it is like a religious experience, most of us can quote the entire thing and we have to yell at each other to stop. I definitely wore the gently caress out of my VHS copy. The DVD is great because the commentary track is amazing, the deleted scenes and features and stuff are hilariously narrated by Al as well. I guess this year would be the 25th anniversary, right? I attended the last concert of the Alpocalypse tour which coincided with the 25th anniversary of the filming of UHF in Tulsa (so a local radio station in Tulsa threw this big celebration for him and had an expensive guided tour to all the filming locations which I didn't bother to attend). Al mentioned this at the concert of course and thanked the city for the support. Of course, the Brady Theater misspelled his name on the marquee, but it was still a blast. The city presented him with a sweet plaque, a commemorative "Weird Al Yankovic" day and the official Weird Al Yankovic supply closet at the radio station. I don't know if he's doing anything for the anniversary of UHF's release, since Al did say he's going to do the album promotion, then take a vacation to recuperate, and start the Mandatory Fun tour in 2015. quote:That's nothing really new, Al recycles his previous material quite a bit, but then again who cares? Al's said he's nothing if not redundant, but he also hates being predictable and repetitive, so we'll see if he starts branching out more when he goes completely digital now that he's freed from the constraints of a record contract. Not that I had any problems with the album but "Handy" really did feel like a rehash of The Plumbing Song. I still dig it though because it's drat catchy and he did some great word-smithing as usual.
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drat is that all done by hand or digital? Don't really like the song but that video looks like it took ages to do.
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