Weekly Weird Al Wednesday

One of my favorite thing Al has done is taking super serious, songs and replacing the deep, meaningful lyrics with the plot of a summer blockbuster movie.

I want to shine the 'Weird Al' spotlight on a song from the 1986 album Polka Party!, the Talking Heads inspired "Dog Eat Dog"

Weird Al Yankovic is out on his 'Ridiculously Self-Indulgent Ill-Advised Vanity Tour' where he's playing all originals, no parodies. Here are 3 of his best.

What makes "Amish Paradise" so special is that Al's gift for clever turn of phrase and twisting of expectations is on full display.

Al has never really explicitly delved into issues. but, there are two instances I want to talk about when the art had a more serious tone than usual.

There is one song of Al's that is the least good of them all, OK it's the worst, "Genius in France."

'...I love to rap about rap in a rappin' way." A short take on the rapper 'Weird Al.'

"Party at the Leper Colony" from 2003's Poodle Hat had fallen off my radar, I'd forgot how fun it is. Lyrically it is made up entirely of dismemberment puns. Entirely.

One of the simple joys of each 'Weird Al' album (except the first one) is the polka medley. Before the world of mashups and mix shows Al was taking bits of pop songs and stringing them together in a new creation.

I've been slammed on the ground by a cold this week. This was the only song I could think of. From Al's 1995 album Bad Hair Day, the grunge style parody "Callin' in Sick."