Shut Up Weird Al is Awesome

naengwen

This guy



He's got style parodies



And polka medlies



And parody parodies



And awesome stuff



Also he makes fun of pop songs too, that's pretty cool.

Also something about kick ass music videos that you'll have to go to YouTube and sit through 30 seconds of advertising to see.

Also he had a TV show and a movie which are largely considered by all critics everywhere to be... y'know what fuck critics.

And he probably has his own postage stamp and his face on a form of currency in a foreign country, I'm sure.

Point is, there ought to be at least ten threads worth of people professing their undying love to him every second on this forum alone.

The mods might be cross about that though so we'll start with this one. Get to professin'.

Tonkka

Dare to be stupid.

Centipede Damascus

Weird Al can never die.

Cilla Black

Yeah, Weird Al is still great and super catchy.

Xehalus

Weird Al is the realness.

RMS Oceanic

Love dat Weird Al

Shorty

I've got Dare To Be Stupid on vinyl

Shorty

halkun

Best song, or bestest song?

ThatDudeOverThere

weird al threads usually die around page 7 but they are fun while they last

ThreadbareSock

I will never not be impressed by his hair.

Also I enjoy his music.

Anialos

Weird Al is great. I don't think I've heard a song of his I disliked. That is quite a feat considering the raw product he works with.

Veretas

ThatDudeOverThere wrote:

weird al threads usually die around page 7 but they are fun while they last

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED

Veretas

but first I'm gonna try and sleep

Local H Jay

Quoth

I hear his live show is amaaaazing

Lord Dave

Quoth wrote:

I hear his live show is amaaaazing

It really is

Shorty

my favorite weird al song



and also because it's inevitable

marty_0001

Did I even know what Albuquerque was back when I listened to this? Unlikely.

Shorty

my favorite part of albuquerque is

YEAAAAHHHHHH WHADDAYA WAAANT

weedly weedly weedly

Matev

These are all correct opinions to have.

Needs more "Everything You Know Is Wrong" in here though.

Shorty

Matev wrote:

These are all correct opinions to have.

Needs more "Everything You Know Is Wrong" in here though.

IT'S RIGHT UP THERE FUCK'S SAKE

animal companion

weird al is the best

let's get beyond page 7 okay??

halkun

True fact:

Albuquerque has the same exact running time as Meatloaf's "Anything for Love"

Henroid

When I was younger, going into highschool, people use to say I look like Weird Al. Which I didn't mind, I use to listen to his music all the fucking time.

Then I stopped. Not on purpose, it just happened. And then people started to say I look like Howard Stern I guess.

Last Weird Al song I listened to was his parody of the Lady Googoo song. And it was awesome.

Henroid

Oh my god, Trapped in the Drive-Thru is fucking glorious.

Beasteh

my best friend when i was a kid was from boston

and he was the biggest weird al fan i have ever seen

kind of infected me, i still remember all the lyrics from bad hair day/running with scissors

#pipe

Spudge

It's hard to find a youtube video of this that doesn't suck but

Bossking

I love Weird Al with all my heart and I cannot wait for the day when he returns to Earth to bring his followers to heaven

but oh my god, I rewatched UHF a week ago and it was the single most horrible thing I had ever seen in my life

Also I always loved Headline News but I think I might just love it for its brilliant use of kazoos

Antimatter

dare to be stupid is my favorite song of his for obvious reasons
but, you know what, i'm going to show how well weird al does his job. consider the devo vids NSFW, spoiler tagged for the uninterested.

Spoiler:

towards the very beginning of the video, where the band is in radsuits with green lighting and a white floor is JUST LIKE the Devo vid for Satisfaction. the guitarist even has a toaster attached to his guitar, which has a payoff later. Weird Al is wearing goggles, which Mark Mothersbaugh wore in Satisfaction and Freedom of Choice

Spoiler:

the flipping man at 0:41 of Dare to be Stupid is also a reference to a later part of Satisfaction, which has the performer "Spazz Attack" flip himself on his back and then pop back up to continue dancing
the cowboy at 0:53 is a general reference to the Whip It video which everyone already knows god damn it
the black and white video clips that start at 0:58 are a reference to the video in the Devo vid Beautiful World

Spoiler:

at 1:30, the band is posed like Devo in their short video for Devo Corporate Anthem, itself a reference to Rollerball

Spoiler:

the togas at 1:33 are a reference to Freedom Of Choice, which had a line referring to Roman Philosophers

Spoiler:

the stop motion in general could be seen as a reference to Freedom of Choice, which has some as well
2:30 is yet another Freedom of Choice reference, a man who has to choose between a banana and an accordion. in the original video, a man had to choose between a gun and a grenade, and a woman between a couple of other things.
the line "mashed potatos can be your friends" is likely a reference to the fact that Devo calls their fans Spuds. the Mr. Potato Heads in the video at 3:05 could be a continuation of that.
the stockings worn over the heads of the band members at 3:11 are a reference to Jocko Homo's music video
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x195lt_devo-jocko-homo_music

The lines to the song itself are filled with pop culture, which Devo itself satirized. there's a reason that Mark Mothersbaugh, frontman for Devo, said that Dare to be Stupid was the greatest Devo song.

Yukira

Oh man, I've probably heard the Weird Al parodies before the original songs. I heard "Smells like Nirvana" so many times before finally hearing "Smells like Teen Spirit" once I was so confused as to why there was no cow mooing or the singer gargling water.

I kept wondering "So when does the mumbling start and words start happening?"

Langly

I used to have the whole running with scissors album memorized, especially Albuquerque

Langly

So I have seen questlove hanging out with Weird Al, Stephen Colbert, and Karmin covers. He has been on an episode of Yo Gabba Gabba.

He seems, just maybe like the coolest guy ever to have lived.

Blake T

Weird al has gotten old and it feels awkward that he is still doing the same thing.

joshofalltrades

Bossking wrote:

but oh my god, I rewatched UHF a week ago and it was the single most horrible thing I had ever seen in my life

Scurrilous fucking lies! What the hell is the matter with you?!

Bedigunz

Wikipedia wrote:

In 2004, Yankovic's parents were found dead in their Fallbrook, California, home, apparently the victims of accidental carbon monoxide poisoning from their fireplace that had been recently lit. The flue was closed, which trapped the carbon monoxide gas inside the house, suffocating them.[35] Several hours after his wife notified him of his parents' death, Yankovic went on with his concert in Mankato, Minnesota,[40] saying that "since my music had helped many of my fans through tough times, maybe it would work for me as well" and that it would "at least ... give me a break from sobbing all the time."

Goddamn

Langly

jesus

The Geek

The Geek

POKÉMON MASTER WT SHERMAN

weird al was the first act i ever saw live

it was an outdoor show at ocean downs in september of 1999

i saw him at the warner theatre in october

he's still wonderful