10-30-2005, 01:15 AM | #1 |
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Weird Al
Does anybody know if he comes up with his own lyrics? My iPod was just on shuffle and I heard "The Saga Begins", and really it is very good and creative lyrically. I used to listen to Al, and I went to a concert a few years ago, and I really think he is pretty good if he does in fact write his own stuff.
In The Saga Begins, he tells the whole Phantom Menace story, and it literally boggles the mind to wonder how they come up with some of those transitions and rhymes. Amish Paradise is another really good one I think. Its weird because his music is meant for the younger audience, but the lyrics in just about all of his songs are put together really well. Dont Mess With Kids |
10-30-2005, 01:18 AM | #2 |
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He does infact write his own music.
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10-30-2005, 01:18 AM | #3 |
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Errr.... lyrics.
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10-30-2005, 01:17 AM | #4 |
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He does both, Dustin. But yeah, he writes the lyrics on his parodies. That's why in the song liners it shows his name as teh writer.
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10-30-2005, 08:35 AM | #5 |
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A long, long time ago
In a galaxy far away Naboo was under an attack And I thought me and Qui-Gon Jinn Could talk the federation into Maybe cutting them a little slack But their response, it didn't thrill us They locked the doors and tried to kill us But we escaped from that gas And met Jar-Jar and Boss Nass We took a bongo from the scene And we went to Theed to see the queen We all wound up on Tattooine That's where we found this boy Oh my, my, this here Anakin guy Maybe Vader someday later But he's just a small fry He left his home and kissed his mummy goodbye Saying 'Soon I'm gonna be a Jedi Soon I'm gonna be a Jedi' and that's all I care to remember |
10-30-2005, 09:54 AM | #6 |
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Weird Al is the man....he's genius
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10-30-2005, 10:38 AM | #7 |
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Weird Al is a brilliant songwriter. Contrary to popular belief, good parody is damned hard to write, and every album he puts out has four or five amazing ones. Plus, his polka medleys are always hilarious.
I've always preferred his original stuff, though. I have a soft spot for "Albuquerque," "You Don't Love Me Anymore," "One More Minute," and "Melanie," I guess. |
10-30-2005, 12:27 PM | #8 |
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I Love Rocky Road is his best song.
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10-30-2005, 12:40 PM | #9 |
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My Bologna
Gump was pretty funny, too. |
10-30-2005, 01:13 PM | #10 |
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Amish Paradise
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10-30-2005, 04:05 PM | #11 |
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10-30-2005, 04:20 PM | #12 |
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Gump was my favorite
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10-30-2005, 06:45 PM | #13 |
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I always liked his original material the best - like most of the songs for UHF.
My brother and his buddy went to Al's live show on the Running with Scissors tour. Can't remember how long ago that is, I think it was in summer '99. |
10-30-2005, 06:49 PM | #14 |
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Albuquerque is one of my favourite songs ever.
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10-30-2005, 07:04 PM | #15 |
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I saw him last year on the Poodle Hat tour. It was the night before his parents died.
Weird Al in concert is amazing. His energy is crazy contagious and, even though it was a casino theater (meaning that most of the people there were high rollers rather than Al fans), everybody got into it. My biggest disappointment is that he didn't play Albuquerque. And for the un-Al-aware, here are the lyrics to Al's masterpiece: Way back when I was just a little bitty boy living in a box under the stairs in the corner of the basement half a block down the street from Jerry's Bait shop You know the place well anyway, back then life was going swell and everything was just peachy Except, of course, for the undeniable fact that every single morning My mother would make me a big bowl of sauerkraut for breakfast Awww - Big bowl of sauerkraut Every single mornin It wa driving me crazy I said to my mom I said "Hey, mom, what's with all the sauerkraut?" And my dear, sweet mother She just looked at my like a cow looks at an oncoming train And she leaned right down next to me And she said "IT'S GOOD FOR YOU" And then she tied me to the wall and stuck a funnel in my mouth And force fed me nothing but sauerkraut until I was twenty six and a half years old That's when I swore that someday Someday I would get outta that basement and travel to a magical, far away place Where the sun is always shining and the air smells like warm root beer And the towels are oh so fluffy Where the shriners and the lepers play their ukuleles all day long And anyone on the street will glady shave your back for a nickel Wacka wacka doodoo yeah Well, let me tell you, people, it wasn't long at all before my dream came true Because the very next day, a local radio station had this contest To see who could correctly guess the number of molecules in Leonard Nimoy's butt I was off by three, but I still won the grand prize That's right, a first class one-way ticket to Albuquerque Albuquerque Oh yeah You know, I'd never been on a real airplane before And I gotta tell ya, it was really great Except that I had to sit between two large Albanian women with excruciatingly severe body odor And the little kid in back of me kept throwin' up the whole time The flight attendants ran out of Dr. Pepper and salted peanuts And the in-flight movie was Bio-Dome with Pauly Shore And, oh yeah, three of the airplane engines burned out And we went into a tailspin and crashed into a hillside And the plane exploded in a giant fireball and everybody died Except for me You know why? 'Cause I had my tray table up And my seat back in the full upright position Had my tray table up And my seat back in the full upright position Had my tray table up And my seat back in the full upright position Ah ha ha ha Ah ha ha Ahhhh So I crawled from the twisted, burnin' wreckage I crawled on my hands and knees for three full days Draggin' along my big leather suitcase and my garment bag And my tenor saxophone and my twelve-pound bowling ball And my lucky, lucky autographed glow-in-the-dark snorkel But finally I arived at the world famous Albuquerque Holiday Inn Where the towels are oh so fluffy And you can eat your soup right out of the ashtrays if you wanna It's OK, they're clean Well, I checked into my room and I turned down the A/C And I turned on the SpectraVision And I'm just about to eat that little chocolate mint on my pillow That I love so very, very much when suddenly, there's a knock on the door Well now, who could that be? I say "Who is it?" No answer "Who is it?" There's no answer "WHO IS IT?" They're not sayin' anything So, finally I go over and I open the door and just as I suspected It's some big fat hermaphrodite with a Flock-Of-Seagulls haircut and only one nostril Oh man, I hate it when I'm right So anyway, he bursts into my room and he grabs my lucky snorkel And I'm like "Hey, you can't have that" "That snorkel's been just like a snorkel to me" And he's like "Tough" And I'm like "Give it" And he's like "Make me" And I'm like "'Kay" So I grabbed his leg and he grabbed my esophagus And I bit off his ear and he chewed off my eyebrows And I took out his appendix and he gave me a colonic irrigation Yes indeed, you better believe it And somehow in the middle of it all, the phone got knocked off the hook And twenty seconds later, I heard a farmiliar voice And you know what it said? I'll tell you what it said It said "If you'd like to make a call, please hang up and try again" "If you need help, hang up and then dial your operator" "If you'd like to make a call, please hang up and try again" "If you need help, hang up and then dial your operator" In Albuquerque Albuquerque Well, to cut a long story short, he got away with my snorkel But I made a a solemn vow right then and there that I would not rest I would not sleep for an instant until the one-nostrilled man was brought to justice But first, I decided to buy some donuts So I got in my car and I drove over to the donut shop And I walked on up to the guy behind the counter And he says "Yeah, what do ya want?" I said "You got any glazed donuts?" He said "No, we're outta glazed donuts" I said "Well, you got any jelly donuts?" He said "No, we're outta jelly donuts" I said "You got any Bavarian cream-filled donuts?" He said "No, we're outta Bavarian cream-filled donuts" I said "You got any cinnamon rolls?" He said "No, we're outta cinnamon rolls" I said "You got any apple fritters?" He said "No, we're outta apple fritters" I said "You got any bear claws?" He said "Wait a minute, I'll go check" "No, we're outta bear claws" I said "Well, in that case - in that case, what do you have?" He says "All I got right now is this box of one dozen starving, crazed weasels" I said "OK, I'll take that" So he hands me the box and I open up the lid and the weasels jump out And they immediately latch onto my face and start bitin' me all over (rabid gnawing sounds) Oh man, they were just going nuts They were tearin' me apart You know, I think it was just about that time that a little ditty started goin' through my head" I believe it went a little something like this . . . Doh Get 'em off me Get 'em off me Oh No, get 'em off, get 'em off Oh, oh God, oh God Oh, get 'em off me Oh, oh God Ah, (more screaming) I ran out into the street with these flesh-eating weasels all over my face Wavin' my arms all around and just runnin', runnin', runnin' Like a constipated weiner dog And as luck wouls have it, that's exactly when I ran into the girl of my dreams Her name was Zelda She was a caligraphy enthusiast with a slight overbite and hair the color of strained peaches I'll never forget the first thing she said to me. She said "Hey, you've got weasels on your face" That's when I knew it was true love We were inseperable after that Aw, we ate together, we bathed together We even shared the same piece of mint-flavored dental floss The world was our burrito So we got married and we bought us a house And had two beautiful children - Nathaniel and Superfly Oh, we were so very very very happy, aw yeah But then one fateful night, Zelda said to me She said "Sweetie pumpkin? Do you wanna join the Columbia Record Club?" I said "Woah, hold on now, baby" "I'm just not ready for that kinda commitment" So we broke up and I never saw her again But that's just the way things go In Albuquerque Albuquerque Anyway, things really started lookin' upi for me Because about a week later, I finally achieved my lifelong dream That's right, I got me a part-time job at The Sizzler I even made employee of the month after I put that grease fire out with my face Aw yeah, everybody was pretty jealous of me after that I was gettin' a lot of attitude OK, like one time, I was out in the parking lot Tryin' to remove my excess earwax with a golf pencil When I see this guy Marty tryin' to carry a big ol' sofa up the stairs all by himself So I, I say to him, I say "Hey, you want me to help you with that?" And Marty, he just rolls his eyes and goes "No, I want you to cut off my arms and legs with a chainsaw" So I did And then he gets all indignant on me He's like "Hey man, I was just being sarcastic" Well, that's just great How was I supposed to know that? I'm not a mind reader for cryin' out loud Besides, now he's got a really cute nickname - Torso-Boy So what's he complaining about? Say, that reminds me of another amusing anecdote This guy comes up to me on the street and says he hasn't had a bite in three days Well, I knew what he meant But just to be funny, I took a big bite out of his jugular vein And he's yellin' and screamin' and bleeding all over And I'm like "Hey, come on, don'tcha get it?" But he just keeps rolling around on the sidewalk, bleeding, and screaming (screaming sounds) You know, just completely missing the irony of the whole situation Man, some people just can't take a joke, you know? Anyway, um, um, where was I? Kinda lost my train of thought Uh, well, uh, OK Anyway I, I know it's kinda been a roundabout way of saying it But I guess the whole point I'm tryin' to make here is I hate sauerkraut That's all I'm really tryin' to say And, by the way, if one day you happen to wake up And find yourself in an existential quandry Full of loathing and self-doubt And wracked with the pain and isolation of your pitiful meaningless existence At least you can take a small bit of comfort in knowing that Somewhere out there in this crazy mixed-up universe of ours There's still a little place called Albuquerque Albuquerque Albuquerque, Albuquerque Albuquerque, Albuquerque Albuquerque, Albuquerque Albuquerque, Albuquerque I said "A" (A) "L" (L) "B" (B) "U" (U) "querque" (querque) Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque Albuquerque (belch) |
10-30-2005, 07:19 PM | #16 |
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10-30-2005, 10:42 PM | #17 |
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Albuquerque is my favorite Weird Al song. I also like "Your Horoscope for Today" and "Amish Paradise" I'm a huge Weird Al fan.
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10-30-2005, 10:54 PM | #18 |
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My favorite Weird Al song is the one where he sings about Santa going nuts and killing everyone and roasting rudolph with a flame thrower or some shit.
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10-30-2005, 11:15 PM | #19 |
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Christmas at Ground Zero?
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10-30-2005, 11:15 PM | #20 |
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Why Does This Always Happen To Me? is brilliant as well.
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10-31-2005, 04:34 PM | #21 |
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You Don't Love Me Anymore is ROFL
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10-31-2005, 11:06 PM | #22 | |
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11-01-2005, 02:38 AM | #23 |
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Pretty gross to have two Christmas parody songs, really.
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11-01-2005, 07:40 AM | #24 |
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I love all of Weird Al's songs, "Pretty Fly for a Rabbi" and " A complicated song" Really stand as one of my 2 fave songs though and the "Lose yourself" parody he did in his last album.
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11-01-2005, 02:55 PM | #25 |
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i love weird al...ive always had a soft spot for smells like nirvana and taco grande besides some of the other's mentioned. loved uhf too
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11-02-2005, 10:18 PM | #26 |
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I looove Smells Like Nirvana
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11-03-2005, 12:12 AM | #27 |
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The Lose Yourself one is Couch Potato, isn't it?
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11-03-2005, 01:06 AM | #28 |
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Yep. "You're gonna lose your mind watchin' TV / They told me / They scold me / But I still tune in every show"
(Lyrics from memory. Probably mashed two stanzas together or something) |
11-03-2005, 06:48 PM | #29 |
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I just DLd the Amish Paradise video
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11-04-2005, 10:12 AM | #30 |
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The Saga Begins (tune of American Pie)
A long long time ago in a galaxy far away Naboo was under an attack And I thought me and Qui-Gon Jinn Could talk the Federation into Maybe cutting them a little slack But their response, it didn't thrill us They locked the doors and tried to kill us We escaped from that gas Then met Jar Jar and Boss Nass We took a bongo from the scene And we went to Theed to see the queen We all wound up on Tatooine That's where we found this boy... Oh my my, this here Anakin guy May be Vader someday later - now he's just a small fry And he left his home and kissed his mommy goodbye Sayin' "Soon I'm gonna be a Jedi" "Soon I'm gonna be a Jedi" Did you know this junkyard slave Isn't even old enough to shave But he can use the Force they say Ahh, do you see him hitting on the queen Though he's just nine and she's fourteen Yeah, he's probably gonna marry her someday Well, I know he built C-3PO And I've heard how fast his pod can go And we were broke, it's true So we made a wager or two He was a prepubescent flyin' ace And the minute Jabba started off that race Well, I know who would win first place Oh yes, it was our boy We started singin'... My my, this here Anakin guy May be Vader someday later - now he's just a small fry And he left his home and kissed his mommy goodbye Sayin' "Soon I'm gonna be a Jedi" "Soon I'm gonna be a Jedi" Now we finally got to Coruscant The Jedi Council we knew would want To see how good the boy could be So we took him there and we told the tale How his midi-chlorians were off the scale And he might fulfill that prophecy Oh, the Council was impressed, of course Could he bring balance to the Force? They interviewed the kid Oh, training they forbid Because Yoda sensed in him much fear And Qui-Gon said, "Now listen here Just stick it in your pointy ear I still will teach this boy" He was singin'... My my, this here Anakin guy May be Vader someday later - now he's just a small fry And he left his home and kissed his mommy goodbye Sayin' "Soon I'm gonna be a Jedi" "Soon I'm gonna be a Jedi" We caught a ride back to Naboo 'Cause Queen Amidala wanted to I frankly would've liked to stay We all fought in that epic war And it wasn't long at all before Little Hotshot flew his plane and saved the day And in the end some Gungans died Some ships blew up and some pilots fried A lot of folks were croakin' The battle droids were broken And the Jedi I admire most Met up with Darth Maul and now he's toast Well, I'm still here and he's a ghost I guess I'll train this boy And I was singin'... My my, this here Anakin guy May be Vader someday later - now he's just a small fry And he left his home and kissed his mommy goodbye Sayin' "Soon I'm gonna be a Jedi" "Soon I'm gonna be a Jedi" We were singin'... My my, this here Anakin guy May be Vader someday later - now he's just a small fry And he left his home and kissed his mommy goodbye Sayin' "Soon I'm gonna be a Jedi". |
11-04-2005, 10:55 AM | #31 |
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Best. Parody. Ever.
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11-04-2005, 06:02 PM | #32 |
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Star Wars is the crappiest thing ever. Nerd city.
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11-06-2005, 01:58 AM | #33 |
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Doesn't take away from the fact that "The Saga Begins" is an amazing song.
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11-06-2005, 03:30 AM | #34 |
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The lyrics in The Saga Begins are just so great, because they go along with everything in the movie while including small things. Like one line he uses Yoda language etc. Really a good song if you listen to it and are familiar with the plot of the movie.
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11-08-2005, 10:46 PM | #35 |
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I got the Ultimate Video Collection too. It's just awesome.
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11-08-2005, 10:59 PM | #36 |
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My best friend's fiancee has that. Let me borrow it one weekend (then, I captured the "Headline News" and "Spy Hard" videos to my computer to complete my Weird Al playlist). Now it's on my Christmas list.
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