'Weird Al' Yankovic Posted Sun Jul 9 12:17:13 BST 2000 by Squigy

Any thoughts?

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Posted By Al on Sun Jul 9 12:29:34 BST 2000:

his polka medleys - classics

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Posted By Anonymous on Sun Jul 9 12:43:16 BST 2000:

'Yeird Al' Wankovich.

Do you see?

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Posted By Slightly_outrageous on Sun Jul 9 12:55:09 BST 2000:

who be he..?

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Posted By Justin on Sun Jul 9 16:35:55 BST 2000:

>who be he..?

son of Polish accordion virtuoso Al Yankovic, who made numerous albums for the US market during the 80s and 90s. His gimmick is to take a pop hit of the day and change the words (a more proficient and accurate version of The Barron Knights, I suppose). But the polka medleys are brilliantly executed (you've got to hear Metallica's Enter Sandman segue into Cherry Pie by Warrant and Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice) and he did once do a song for his movie UHF (late night BBC1 every now and then) entitled Conan The Librarian.

Crap, but I laughed.

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Posted By Slightly_outrageous on Sun Jul 9 16:56:35 BST 2000:

may just have to dig that li'l gem up...

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Posted By Justin on Sun Jul 9 17:03:11 BST 2000:

>may just have to dig that li'l gem up...

The one I mentioned is called "Polka Your Eye Out" a medley consisting of:
"Cradle Of Love" by Billy Idol
"Tom's Diner" by Suzanne Vega
"Love Shack" by B-52s
"Pump Up the Jam" by Technotronic
"Losing My Religion" by REM
"Unbelievable" by EMF
"Do Me Baby" by Bel Biv Devoe
"Enter Sandman" by Metallica
"The Humpty Dance" by Digital Underground
"Cherry Pie" by Warrant
"Miss You Much" by Janet Jackson
"I Touch Myself" by Divinyls
"Dr Feelgood" by Motley Crue
"Ice Ice Baby" By Vanilla Ice.

It's on the album "Off the Deep End" (released in about 1993, also contains "Smells Like Nirvana" which is entertaining enough, and features a mock-up of the Nevermind sleeve on the cover).

If nothing else, you marvel at the musicianship - a polka band playing at breakneck speed. Jawdropping.

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Posted By Anonymous on Mon Jul 10 10:40:18 BST 2000:


Don't forget 'Eat It.' - His take off of M Jacksons 'Beat it.'

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Posted By TJ on Mon Jul 10 11:24:08 BST 2000:

Weird Al - often irritating and pointless, but often brilliant too. Best moments:

1) UHF - quite a good film if you give it a chance.
2) Redoing 'Macarthur Park' as 'Jurassic Park'
3) A polka version of 'Boehmian Rhapsody' - the entire song in two minutes flat.

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Posted By Squigy on Mon Jul 10 11:26:00 BST 2000:

Just wondered cos I got a copy of his late '80s album 'Even Worse' recently (Bad - Even Worse. Geddit!?!?) and I thought it was great, especially his spoofs 'I Think I'm A Clone Now' and '(This Song's Just) Six Words Long'.

And vada www.weirdal.com for a giggle.

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Posted By mk on Mon Jul 10 15:48:31 BST 2000:

"the saga begins" is my favourite:
the whole story of sw ep 1 to tune of American pie
also his Livin' in the fridge (aerosmith - livin on the edge) is cool
and the red hot chile pepprs / flintstones thing...

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Posted By kinder surprise on Tue Jul 11 21:54:57 BST 2000:

I only know of his version of that Jone Osbourne song. His edition is entitled 'What if God Smoked Cannabis.'

He is a great philosopher.

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