This dork seems to have no experience with any Weird Al Yankovic before he was tasked with writing this piece. It reads like it is straight out of a Wikipedia article.
I’ve seen him live twice and it was a lot of fun.
Weird Al, John Madden, Burt Rutan, Devin Nunes, Ozzie
Smith, Mike Krukow, and yours truly all have one thing
in common.
Give up?
We all graduated from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. I
happened to be living in SLOtown when Al was a
college student. His first accordion parody got a
lot of play on the local R&R station. It was called
My Bologna and it was a send up of My Sharona by
The Knack (?).
The guy is funny.
Went to a Weird Al concert in Dayton maybe 7-8 years ago. Great fun. His band is top notch too, capable not just of playing anything, but playing it so that it sounds like the original.
Every boy has the same epiphany the first time they hear “jingle bells, Batman smells” or “on top of spagetti”... that you can make a song funny by changing the words. Weird Al made a career out of it. I was fortunate enough to see him in Boise for the Alpocalypse tour. My favorite (and appropriate now) us “Cats in the Griddle”.
He can sing. Check out his cover of George Harrison’s “What is Life”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXMq3QJwJiA
He's mastered the art of being musically timeless.
I saw him live in 1983 (I was 13) at Astroworld in Houston, TX. Even got his autograph.
Amazing show, had a blast.
He’s clean, fun and constantly making fun of modern music with their permission. He had his first number one album just a year or two ago. That’s more a reflection of how low modern music has sunk than his quality.
Bfl
I love Weird Al. See the video “Foil.”
A rarity....ninety- nine posts and all are on
the positive side of the topic! Make it an even 100!