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WEIRD AL YANKOVIC AND FAMILY

[A_Former_Democrat]

Saw an interview with him on Fox & Friends last week. Cool guy.

My fave: I Lost on Jeopardy . . .classic

[SES1066]

The man IS A GENIUS and an apparent good guy! Yet here the Rolling Stone is interviewing HIM?!?!? Wowsers!

I love “Word Crimes” but I had to get the lyrics to fully follow it, my classical music ears aren’t suited to Al’s speed!

[VanDeKoik]

One of the few decent people in the music business.

He’s been doing this stuff through at least 4 different decades, and it is still hilarious.

I really want to know the rest of the list, but I just cant go to Rolling Stone.

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16 unremarkable things...except the first one, maybe.

Well it is Rolling Stone, so...

[LiberConservative]

White and Nerdy. My favorite. Even Chamillionaire who did the original “Ridin’” loved it and claims Ridin’ might not have been as big of a hit if it were not for Al spoofin’ it.

[SevenofNine]

have you see VH-1 behind the music
Victoria Jackson once said she try talk Weird Al down from Chocolate high LOL! seriously that funny documentary

[SamAdams76]

I'm not surprised Weird Al finally landed at number one on the charts.

This was his first album in which he fully exploited digital media. He made a video of every song before the album was even released and they quickly got hundreds of millions of views on sites like YouTube. Yes, I said hundreds of millions.

He's always been a favorite with the geek crowd but after this release, he is now a major international superstar and he is now more famous than most of the artists he has parodied over the years.

I think he could be bigger than The Beatles. I'm not kidding.

I'm buying some Hawaiian shirts and growing my hair long.

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[COBOL2Java]

Funny movie

[Thorliveshere]

Loved Weird Al ever since I heard him on Dr. Demento.

I think my favorite all-time not-a-romantic song of his is “One More Minute.” A classic in its own right.

I really have to give props to the band, my GOSH, the ability to mimic the music of other musicians, and sound just AS GOOD, is just fantastic! I mean Jim West on guitar!! Wow!

[MuttTheHoople]

Weird Al's best parody is "Dare to Be Stupid"....it wasn't a direct spoof of any DEVO song, but the whole Devo style.

DEVO members said it was brilliant. They said it was better than anything they did, that he out-DEVO'd DEVO.

To me, I always use "Dare To Be Stupid" whenever I'm debating a Leftist Regressive on Facebook or some message board.

[P.O.E.]

It was a long, long, long time ago.

Seems like only yesterday

[OldMissileer]

One of his best songs is “Christmas At Ground Zero.”

A hoot.