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40 Years of Weird Al

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  • SaraLunaSaraLuna Registered User regular
    Al is like a super stand-up guy though, so I won't be surprised at all if he changes the line for live performances or even the video

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  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    edited July 2014
    It occurred to me that Lame Claim to Fame is a song made for me, since all my celebrity meetings are on par with it (seeing a TV vet from behind and at a distance, summoning the store manager for a football star, etc).

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  • DiplominatorDiplominator Hardcore Porg Registered User regular
    I just looked it up and according to Google Weird Al and Kim Kardashian actually have birthdays two entire days apart.

    I feel betrayed.

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  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    Today's video: Lame Claim to Fame

    http://youtu.be/yazr8JkazmE

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  • SanderJKSanderJK Crocodylus Pontifex Sinterklasicus Madrid, 3000 ADRegistered User regular
    Bruce Dickinson would appreciate the amount of cowbell in that one.

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  • SageinaRageSageinaRage Registered User regular
    edited July 2014
    Lame Claim to Fame is my least favorite song on the album, but that is a fantastic video. I really like when they make videos that actually enhance the song and add their own style and humor, and don't just try to show exactly what's in the lyrics.

    edit:: it helps that I like the music a lot, though I don't really know the band he's mimicking, do they have a similar style in their videos?

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  • TubularLuggageTubularLuggage Registered User regular
    I do like the Lame Claim to Fame video. It has a really neat style to it.

    I am becoming increasingly worried though that we aren't going to get a My Own Eyes video featuring the actual Foo Fighters.

  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    I'm gonna guess that the polka will be the last video

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    my favorite part of that video is all the times dr. demento shows up

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  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    my favorite part of that video is all the times dr. demento shows up

    I like the My Bologna reference at the beginning. It's kind of humorous when you think of how many people Weird Al really knows.

    Also, all the videos seem like they are custom made to be gone through frame by frame. For instance, there's one point where the pushpins spell out something, but I haven't taken the time to figure out what.

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  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    i like how the visuals in the video get increasingly more elaborate and surreal

    like it starts off with just animated photos in the scrapbook and then it moves up to being like a whole papercraft city

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    http://youtu.be/I9bSme47xYA

    al did a quick phone camera record shortly before the filming of tacky began

  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    it helps that I like the music a lot, though I don't really know the band he's mimicking, do they have a similar style in their videos?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs7RwL56YHc

    He does look exactly like the lead singer, definitely has the same feel, although they seem too 'low rent' for complicated animation like that.

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  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    edited July 2014
    The Geek wrote: »
    I'm gonna guess that the polka will be the last video

    If he does the traditional "splice the music videos" for this, I will only accept Colbert's video for "Get Lucky".

    Edit: Specifically the Matt Damon Booth section.

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  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    Holding out for a Jackson Park Express video.

    A man can dream...

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  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    Also Mandatory Fun is like six bucks on Amazon right now.

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  • Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    Also Mandatory Fun is like six bucks on Amazon right now.

    god damnit i just bought it at 10 on friday. you're welcome internet.

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  • SyphyreSyphyre A Dangerous Pastime Registered User regular
    I just wanted to come into this thread and say that Foil is amazing.

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  • DisruptedCapitalistDisruptedCapitalist I swear! Registered User regular
    I don't even want to hear Royals anymore.

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  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    I'm totally gonna buy that Tacky shirt.

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  • knitdanknitdan In ur base Killin ur guysRegistered User regular
    I realized how little pop music I am aware of when I couldn't identify most of the songs being parodied. I think I'm the only person in the world who hasn't heard "Happy".

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  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    Naah, I haven't heard it either.

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  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    The Geek wrote: »
    I'm totally gonna buy that Tacky shirt.

    Aaaaaaand bought

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  • Lost CanuckLost Canuck World's Greatest Escape Artist Doctor Vundabar's Murder MachineRegistered User regular
    I really appreciate that in Lame Claim to Fame, Al is six degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon.

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  • ASimPersonASimPerson Cold... and hard.Registered User regular
    edited July 2014


    A year!

    And also Al actually is only separated from Kevin Bacon by two degrees
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  • knitdanknitdan In ur base Killin ur guysRegistered User regular
    I understand that "spastic" is considered to be offensive.

    But why isn't "lame" being attacked for the same reason?

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  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    Same reason "dumb" isn't being attacked: it's a very common insult whose origins have been forgotten by most people.

    "Spastic", from what I understand, is very clearly a slur in the UK.

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  • DiplominatorDiplominator Hardcore Porg Registered User regular
    edited July 2014
    Looks like the last video is Mission Statement, but it's not loading.

    Foo Fighter cameo hopes: dashed.

    EDIT: Found a working version

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  • JoeUserJoeUser Forum Santa Registered User regular
    edited July 2014
    I thought there would be 8 videos

    Edit: whoops there are

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  • Mr. GMr. G Registered User regular
    JoeUser wrote: »
    I thought there would be 8 videos

    Doing one for every day of the week plus another Monday is 8 videos

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  • joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    And I'm pretty sure the last one is going to be the polka, but I've been wrong once before

  • DiplominatorDiplominator Hardcore Porg Registered User regular
    Alas, you're wrong now. Mission Statement is the eighth video.

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  • VyolynceVyolynce Registered User regular
    Looks like the last video is Mission Statement, but it's not loading.

    Foo Fighter cameo hopes: dashed.

    New wish: footage of Foos covering "My Own Eyes" in an actual concert.

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  • UnbrokenEvaUnbrokenEva HIGH ON THE WIRE BUT I WON'T TRIP ITRegistered User regular
    Mission Statement video in the style of those RSA Animate vids with someone drawing in marker as the narrator speaks

  • statlerstatler Registered User regular
    Speaking of bands covering Weird Al tributes, have there been any reports of TMBG covering Everything You Know Is Wrong in concert?

    That seems like a very TMBG thing to do.

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  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    I really want someone to put together an album of the bands Al has parodied or style-parodied where they do his versions of their own music.

    I mean, there are other tribute albums out there, and this idea seems like it would go over well.

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  • TubularLuggageTubularLuggage Registered User regular
    edited July 2014
    I will say, it really makes me happy to see Weird Al doing so well. He just seems like a legitimately rad person.

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    When will we know if Mandatory Fun hit #1?

  • ElbasunuElbasunu Registered User regular
    It was already #1 on the only site that mattered: Amazon.

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