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I think it’s fine to good. There’s definitely a sense of early installment weirdness throughout the album, but it works for what it is. It feels a lot more experimental than his subsequent albums, and it feels more like Al expected it to be a one and done novelty album and wasn’t sure he’d be able to sustain an entire career, so it’s kind of structured more like what you’d expect ...
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- Dare to Be Stupid. Year: 1985. Notable songs: Like a Surgeon, Yoda, Dare to Be Stupid. There’s nearly a 30 year span between Yankovic’s two best albums. That is obscene.
- Mandatory Fun. Year: 2014. Notable songs: Word Crimes, Tacky, Foil. Eight days, eight music videos. That’s how Yankovic unveiled his most recent album and it.
- "Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D. Year: 1984. Notable songs: Eat It, I Lost on Jeopardy, King of Suede. This was the moment Yankovic arrived and the WAU cemented its place in the zeitgeist.
- Bad Hair Day. Year: 1996. Notable song s: Amish Paradise, Gump, The Night Santa Went Crazy. Iconic parodies? Bad Hair Day’s got them in spades, whether that’s Amish Paradise, Gump or the vastly underrated Phony Calls.
- "Weird Al" Yankovic
- Alapalooza
- UHF - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
- Mandatory Fun
- Polka Party!
- Dare to Be Stupid
- Poodle Hat
- Running with Scissors
- "Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D
- Bad Hair Day
Okay,so number 14 of 14 is Al’s debut album. This is by no means a badalbum, but as Al continued making music over the years he really cameinto his own, and refined the craft of musical humor which left thisalbum in the metaphorical dust. The parodies on this album are decentenough. The originals leave a bit to be desired. Personally, I likethe son...
What can I say? Just about every artist hasan album that has to come after a best-selling album. That next albumis almost always never as good. Enter Alapalooza. This album tried tolive up to its predecessor, but fell short. This is the only album bythe weird one that includes a good handful of forgettable tracks (forme, anyway). However, there ARE...
To accompany the marvelous (even if it was flop at the box office)film UHF, Al released a soundtrack album. It seems Al was quite busyduring the making of the movie because the album has its share ofaudio bits from the film (like the fake commercials for “Gandhi II”and “Spatula City”). However, the songs that are on this albumare pretty good, for t...
I feel kind of bad that this album is only at number 11 on my listseeing as how it's Al's first album to hit #1 on the Billboard Top200. Don't get me wrong, it is a very good album, but Al's had betterin my opinion. To be honest, some of the problem could be due to thefact that the quality of the popular songs that have been coming outof late are j...
Polka Party! is a very underrated album. It did not do very wellupon its initial release. What can I say? Some people are juststupid. Granted, this isn't Al's best album, but it's by NO means abad one. I particularly like this album's original compositions."Don't Wear Those Shoes" is a bit of a guilty pleasure ofmine. I'll admit its premise is kind...
One of Al's biggest albums of the 80s, Dare to Be Stupid offerssome of Al's most memorable songs...but also some that aren't somemorable. Two songs from this wound up being used in movies: theoriginal "This is the Life" was used for the openingcredits of the gangster spoof movie Johnny Dangerously, and the song"Dare to Be Stupid" was used in the 19...
Poodle Hat is a terrifically solid album. There's only really onesong on the album that I come close to not liking, but then I listento it and it becomes a sort of guilty pleasure. That song is "TrashDay," parody of Nelly's "Hot in Here." This is one ofthe albums where I like the originals more than the parodies, but theparodies are darn good too (...
I feel sort of biased on this one. Running With Scissors was myfirst "Weird Al" album, and is one of my very favorites.Just a heads up. Haha. Let's start with the first track, "TheSaga Begins." Al got permission from George Lucas to read theofficial synopsis for Star Wars: Episode I several weeks before itcame out in theaters so that the song could...
After his debut album the year prior to this, it didn't take Allong to come into his own. His second album was a huge hit, mainlybecause of his popular Michael Jackson parody "Eat It." Thesong actually remained Al's highest-charting single until 2006, andthe music video is a terrific shot-by-shot spoof of the original.Another great parody on the al...
Bad Hair Day may arguably be Al's best know album, mostly becauseof its hit parody single "Amish Paradise," which is abrilliant concept. Al combines Coolio's gangsta rap with lyrics aboutliving the rough life...in Amish country. At that time, it becameAl's most popular song. A big song in '95 was U2's "Hold Me,Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" which was...
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May 3, 2023 · "Weird Al" Yankovic's self-titled debut came out 40 years ago, on May 3, 1983. ... Polka Party! was Yankovic's fourth album, ... who remains active and was, after all, a good enough sport to ...
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Released: May 3, 1983 [6] "I Love Rocky Road". Released: July 5, 1983 [5] "Weird Al" Yankovic is the debut studio album by American parodist Alfred "Weird Al" Yankovic. The album was the first of many produced by former The McCoys guitarist Rick Derringer. Mostly recorded in March 1982, the album was released by Rock 'n Roll Records as an LP ...
- September 14, 1980–February 11, 1983
- Comedy
- May 3, 1983
"Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D followed in February 1984. It peaked at number 17 on the Billboard 200 and was certified platinum by the RIAA, [5] [7] while also charting in Australia and Canada. [9] [10] The album's lead single " Eat It " was a commercial success, topping the Australian singles chart and also reaching the top 15 in Canada and the ...
"Weird Al" Yankovic Mandatory Fun (2014) If this is Weird Al's final album, then he ended on a bang. Some of his best songs ever land on this album and it still manages to be fresh and creative even though it was his 14th album. 9/10 Favorite song parody: Foil: I think this is one his most clever punchlines in any of his songs.
