Wierd Al Yankovic

[Moskitto]

My brother got a CD of MP3s by someone called "Wierd Al Yankovic." He does lots of stuff, Like he's got this 11 minute song which is someone's really funny life story. Or he does spoofs of other songs like one called "Amish Paradise" to the tune of Gangsta Paradise which goes.

As I walk through the Valley where I harvest my grain,
I take a look at my wife and realise she's very plain,
But that's just perfect for an Amish like me,
You know I shun fancy things like electricty.

At 4:30 in the morning i'm milking cows,
Zebodiah feeds the Chickens and Jacob ploughs,
You know i've been milking and ploughing so long,
Now even Ezekial thinks that my mind is gone,

I'm a man of the land, I'm in 2 dicipline,
Got a bible in my hand and a beard on my chin,
And if I finish my chores, and you finish thine, then tonight we're gonna party like it's 1699.

(Edited by Moskitto at 2:50 pm on May 19, 2002)

[BOZG]

Yeah, he makes songs that take the piss out bands but he mainly focuses on pop bands and artists. For example

Oops, I Farted Again (Oops I Did It Again) --- Britney Spears

Which Backstreet Boy Is Gay? (I Want It That Way ) --- Backstreet Boys

[Moskitto]

Will the real Slim Shady please shut up.

Alberqueque is brilliant, there's this bit where it goes.

... Except everyday my mum would make me a big ol bowl of sourcrout for breakfast.

ARGH

BIG BOWL OF SOURCROUT

EVERY SINGLE MORNING

It was driving me crazy so I say to my mum, Hay Mum, What's with all the sourcrout?

[Zippy]

I used to have a few mp3's but they got deleted when my computer went down. The spoof of Smells Like Teen Spirit is amazing. :)

Weird Al Yankovic is by far funnier than The Shirehorses aswell, a mock band who try to spoof songs; sometimes they win and sometimes they lose.

Zippy.

[El Brujo]

Also, Pretty Fly For a Rabbi (Pretty Fly For a White Guy) by the Offspring.

[Fires of History]

I have always like Weird Al because I love spoof comedy.

Albequerque is my favorite though. I love the part where he's on the plane and he says:

You know I've never been on a real airplane before,
And I gotta tell ya' it was really great,
Except that I had to sit between two large Albanian women with excrutiatingly severe body odor,
And the little kid in back of me kept throwing up the whole time,
The flight attendants ran out of Dr. Pepper and salted peanuts,
And the in-flight movie was BioDome with Pauly Shore,
And, oh yeah, three of the airplane engines burned out,
And we went into a tailspin and crashed into a hillside and the plane exploded in a giant fireball and everybody died...

Except for me...

YOU KNOW WHY?!

CUZ I HAD MY TRAY TABLE UP!
AND MY SEAT BACK IN THE FULL UPRIGHT POSITION!
HAD MY TRAY TABLE UP!
AND MY SEAT BACK IN THE FULL UPRIGHT POSITION!
HAD MY TRAY TABLE UP!
AND MY SEAT BACK IN THE FULL UPRIGHT POSTION!

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!! That whole song is a trip!!!

But my second favorite by him is:


Your Horoscope For Today

Aquarius!
There's travel in your future when your tongue freezes to the back of a speeding bus
Fill that void in your pathetic life by playing Whack-A-Mole seventeen hours a day

Pisces!
Try to avoid any Virgos or Leos with the Ebola virus
You are the true Lord of the Dance, no matter what those idiots at work say

Aries!
The look on your face will be priceless when you find that forty pound watermelon in your colon
Trade toothbrushes with an albino dwarf, then give a hickey to Meryl Streep

Taurus!
You will never find true happiness- what you gonna do, cry about it?
The stars predict tomorrow you'll wake up, do a bunch of stuff, and then go back to sleep

That's your horoscope for today!!!

Gemini!
Your birthday party will be ruined once again by your explosive flatulence
Your love life will run into trouble when your fiance hurls a javelin through your chest

Cancer!
The position of Jupiter says that you should spend the rest of the week face down in the mud
Try not to shove a roll of duct tape up your nose while taking your driver's test

Leo!
Now is not a good time to photocopy your butt and staple it to your boss's face, oh no
Eat a bucket of tuna-flavored pudding, then wash it down with a gallon of strawberry Quik

Virgo!
All Virgos are extremely friendly and intelligent- except for you
Expect a big surprise today when you wind up with your head impaled on a stick

That's your horoscope for today!!!

Now you may find it inconceivable or at the very least a bit unlikely that the relative position of the planets and the stars could have a special deep significance or meaning that exclusively applies to only you, but let me give you my assurance that these forcasts and predictions are all based on solid, scientific, documented evidence, so you would have to be some kind of moron not to reaize that every single one of them is absolutely true

Where was I?

Libra!
A big promotion is just around the corner for someone much more talented that you
Laughter is the very best medicine, remember that when your appendix bursts next week

Scorpio!
Get ready for an unexpected trip when you fall screaming from an open window
Work a little bit harder on improving your low self-esteem, you stupid freak

Sagittarius!
All your friends are laughing behind your back (kill them)
Take down all those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine you've got hanging in your den

Capricorn!
The stars say that you're an exciting and wonderful person, but you know they're lying
If I were you, I'd lock my doors and windows and never never never never never leave my house again

That's your horoscope for today!!!

As an existentialist, I am always attracted to music that is meaningless, or highlights meaninglessness. I love trance because the songs are whatever you want them to be, whatever you want them to mean. I love grunge because half the time the songs are about the meaninglessness of it all. And, finally, I love spoof songs because they are meaningless. A lot of my friends make fun that I like Weird Al, saying that his songs are "silly," "meaningless," and "innane."

Well, isn't that what all music is? Is pop any more meaningful? Is rock? Is any other genre? Like all things, meaning is only the meaning you assign.

I don't know for sure if Weird Al has some larger philosophical point, but I like to think so anyway.

Is his music any less "meaningful" than any other? I doubt it.

[I Will Deny You]

Weird Al annoys the living shit out of me. The only funny songs I ever really liked were "My Girlfriend's Girlfriend" and the Discovery Channel song. ("You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals . . . ") And that Harvey Danger song was okay too, I guess.

Lindsay

[Raztro]

Quote: from BornOfZapatasGuns on 2:53 pm on May 19, 2002

Which Backstreet Boy Is Gay? (I Want It That Way ) --- Backstreet Boys


lmfao!!! that used to be my fav one...especially the last sentence....whiiich bascksteet boy is gay? o....k.....we're all gay

[guerrillaradio]

Quote: from I Will Deny You on 9:41 pm on May 21, 2002
...the Discovery Channel song. "You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals . . . "

That was Bloodhound Gang wasn't it??

[bleed3r]

Indeed it was the bloodhound gang.. now THERES a band that i can't stand. One of the guys from that band gave my girlfriend a hickey when she tried to take a picture with him at a concert... Fuck that... Dirty pedophile asshole. I'll kill him long before i aim at a capi soldier, that i can promise.

Your horoscope for today is my favorite wierd al song.. Other than that, hes prettymuch just another guy i listened to in third grade. I don't find a lot of it funny anymore, but i still think hes a very cool guy. You should see some of the interviews that have been done. or "AL TV", the show that replaced MTV for like a week. Very funny.

(Edited by bleed3r at 4:55 pm on May 22, 2002)

[Hayduke]

Yeh Amish paradis is hilarious.
Saw the clip as well.

Dont forget the MJ imitation from " IM Bad " to " IM Fat "

[Moskitto]

The AOL Song's good as well.

[bleed3r]

Weird al has quite a few albums, but many of the songs you find online labled as him aren't really by him. Stupid people find a funny song and automatically assume it's weird al and then label it to him. This happens a lot with music online but with weird al it's like an epidemic.

[Sharule]

I like Albuquerque the song because A: I can spell it right, unlike some of you(j/k) and B: I live there. I use to Like weird al a lot, but I just sort of grew out of it, and I dont know if he is going to make another Album...

[suffianr]

His parodies are a lark, but his own songs are shite...really, his own lame polka songs irritate the hell out of me!