music Weird Al Yankovic

[Mysterystar 5]

yes! i love him!

i love his song Hardware store and idk why but i listen to it ALL THE TIME! ITS SIMPLY AMAZING!

[concertoldham 140]

Weird Al's pretty damn cool. He's so clever with his parodies. And he actually doesn't have a bad voice either.

[Alleviate 342]

  On 2012-08-17 at 4:19 AM, 'Fghik' said:

I remember long ago, back in my years of first and second grade; Weird Al was the coolest thing since....Ever? There was a time where my buddies and I had every one of his songs memorized, and everyone would listen in awe at his brilliance and creativity...

 

But you know, as soon as the internet became more-widely-used; anyone, anywhere, could become a "Weird Al." Anyone could create their own parody renditions of popular songs, and publish them on sharing-sites for all to hear. Now you can hardly watch any video on youtube without seeing a parody-song as a "Related."

 

The world is now full of "Weird Al"s, and now I could care less for the real/original--or any number of the fake/new--Weird Al. There are now too many parody songs to keep track of, so why bother? I honestly can no longer see anyone's fascination with this guy seeing as how anyone with any smidgen of creativity could do the exact same thing just as easy.

 

That's wrong...Very few people can parallel his talent for this stuff.

I can see what you mean about other's doing it, but not many are very good, or they lack that certain spark WAY has.

 

Eh, You're entitled to yo' own views though I guess.

 

-Joe-

 

  On 2012-08-17 at 8:04 AM, 'Mysterystar' said:

yes! i love him!

i love his song Hardware store and idk why but i listen to it ALL THE TIME! ITS SIMPLY AMAZING!

 

Try to remember all of the items in the list!

It's actually impossible, seriously, I tried, and I am god ^-^

 

-Joe-

 

  On 2012-08-17 at 4:52 AM, 'Ajay' said:

oh and my copy of the Alapalooza album has been signed by Weird Al Yankovic. my brother got it signed for me when he went to a concert.

 

That is sooo lucky!

Damnit! I wish could ever even See Al himself, screw anything else, just hear him singing, live, something like Party in the CIA...In front of the CIA HQ

That would be epic!

 

-Joe-

[HowlDash23 79]

Anyone here a fan of Weird Al Yankovic's crazy music? xD I love listening to his older stuff and when I get the chance to, bits of his newer songs.

[tanoshii 131]

I think he's a genius. I loved his older stuff, haven't really checked out any of his newer songs though.

 

 

That would have to be my personal favorite.

[AngryGamer432 155]

i really like his music. I think his older music is a lot better than the newer music like She drives like crazy and like a Surgeon. I think he is a genius and his music is funny and somtimes better than the original song.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgnlSJRBTRo

Edited August 19, 2012 by Thatpony124

[Cookie Feather 490]

I like "White and Nerdy" and "I'm Fat" out of his songs. His older songs are better. He's such a silly guy.

[Jibus 192]

 

Seriously I think we've had enough Weird Al Threads, We even had one a couple days ago!! Im Pretty Sure We All Know Weird Al Amazing that was already obvious.

[Dusty Soul 2,613]

The man is like the master of parodying songs. I do like his older songs more then his newer ones though. Amish Paradise is my favorite.

[HowlDash23 79]

  On 2012-08-19 at 11:30 PM, 'Honey Puff' said:

I like "White and Nerdy" and "I'm Fat" out of his songs. His older songs are better. He's such a silly guy.

 

i love White and Nerdy. and yeah....his older stuff gotta love the classics.

[Abstract 832]

Trapped in the Drive-Thru was genius. It needed to be as long as it was, wouldn't have had the same effect otherwise IMO. And of course, there's all his other great material. He's got a knack for it, what can you say?

[TheFabulousPony 102]

I used to listen to it when I was little kid lol Then I kinda just.. moved on. I now find it insulting to great music, I find it cheesy and I find it unbearably irritating when people constantly talk about him...ESPECIALLY if they either don't know, or appreciate the songs he is making a parody of.

[null1 606]

UHF was a good film. I also had a DVD with several of his music videos. From the beginning to his parody of Star Wars in 1999/2000.

[BtrDinkyDooMaslow 28]

OMG I LOVE HIM! SUPER DUPER FUNNY!

my favorites are Virus Alert, Ebay, and White and nerdy!

haven't heard those.... check them out!

[Cocodrillo 1,566]

Yeah I love White&Nerdy too, it´s story of my life... another of my favs are The Night Santa Went Crazy and You don´t love me anymore. And I´m sure there´s a bunch of his fans since I´ve seen like 5 topics about Al.

[Scootaloo Is Best Filly 578]

I love this guy's music so much. Doesn't matter, old stuff new stuff. I listen to everything from this guy. My one wish in some new album he makes a song about Friendship Is Magic or Bronies in general.

[Captain Derp M.D. 159]

UHF was a great movie. Emo Phillips and Michael Richards cracked me up, as did Al, of course.

 

As for saying that Al's music is "insulting" to great music, I don't think that's the case. The man makes quality parodies, better than the crap on youtube. There was once a time when having Weird Al parody your song was the highest of honors. The only time I can recall anyone being mad about it was Coolio and the "Amish Paradise" incident.

 

I know from interviews with Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic that Kurt Cobain was flattered to have him parody Smells Like Teen Spirit.

[Silent Giggles 13]

Just listening to "Weird Al", browsing the forums, and thought, "how many others here are also into the king of parodies?" so i'm just curious. If you're into Al, let's start a conversation. If not, then that's fine with me. Stay here, move on, whatever you want. So yeah, that's all i have to say right now.

[Ferret Girl 2,642]

Weird Al !

 

I love almost all his parodies. He has such a creative mind :3

The first and only concert I ever went to was a Weird All concert for my birthday, a few years back.

[Champion RD92 8,658]

I used to listen to some of his songs. I like the song "White and Nerdy" it's catchy lol

 

Here's some of the lyrics lol

 

I've been browsing, inspectin'
X-men comics you know I collect 'em
The pens in my pocket
I must protect 'em
My ergonomic keyboard never leaves me bored
Shopping online for deals on some writable media
I edit Wikipedia
I memorized Holy Grail really well
I can recite it right now and have you ROTFLOL
I got a business doing websites
When my friends need some code who do they call?
I do HTML for them all
Even made a homepage for my dog!
Yo! I got myself a fanny pack
they were having a sale down at the GAP
Spend my nights with a roll of bubble wrap
POP POP! Hope no one sees me gettin' freaky!

[Evilshy 5,091]

I like most of his stuff, but some is kind of annoying :/

 

I love the polka mashups of pop music, though. Those are always great

My favorite of his songs would probably be Couch Potato. I've always found Eminem funny for some reason, and it get's even funnier with Weird Al.

[thebobmaster 31]

I love Weird Al songs. Couldn't even say what my favorite is. However, top 5, in no order, would be "White and Nerdy", "Perform this Way", "Trigger Happy", "Hardware Store", and "Polka Face".

[Silent Giggles 13]

  On 2013-04-26 at 4:38 PM, Evilshy said:

I like most of his stuff, but some is kind of annoying :/

 

I love the polka mashups of pop music, though. Those are always great

My favorite of his songs would probably be Couch Potato. I've always found Eminem funny for some reason, and it get's even funnier with Weird Al.

Yeah i knew i was in love with his music once i heard the polkas. it's takes a certain kind of genius, and no small amount of insanity to turn some songs like "Down With the Sickness" and "Bohemian Rhapsody" into upbeat polkas

[Blue Moon 6,342]

Weird Al is amazing. His parodies are hilarious and are actually pretty catchy. I really like "Jurassic Park" and "Perform this Way".

[Shanks 10,816]

Weird Al and I go way way back, he makes a ton of great song parodies and makes some pretty awesome original songs too like Mr Frump in the Iron lung

 

 

and Truck Drivin' Song

 

http://youtu.be/FZSBrM2SybY