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Ableist Kinkshamer posted:And before you sanctimoniously chide me for being proudly ignorant of pop music, I'd like to add that I'm also proudly ignorant of anime, comic books, and pick up artistry,
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Finally had a chance to listen to this album last night and there were parts of "Jackson Park Express" that made me laugh like a moron. Specifically this: Jackson Park Express posted:I would make any sacrifice for your love I love Al.  Edit: EXPRESS not ExpressWAY Ugh Cherokee Jack fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Jul 24, 2014 |
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Man, all this Pharrell talk makes me feel old because apparently, I'm the only one who remembers him from N*E*R*D's "Rockstar." That's where he got his start, and they were pretty big in production.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:
I want dibs on lets do the time warp.
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Then, I glanced down at her shirt for a second in a way that clearly implied I like your boobs
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berzerkmonkey posted:Yep - because if he had gotten out of the house more, he probably would have bumped into Pharrell filming the "Happy" video right on his very own street! How crazy is that? But unfortunately, Kheldarn is obviously some agoraphobic freakshow who, for whatever reason, doesn't inundate himself in every single aspect of popular culture. Ableist Kinkshamer posted:I never even heard of him until I heard Get Lucky, but then again I don't go out of my way to learn trivia about music that I don't like to listen to. I never said that it was impossible to find this stuff out, only that most people don't know or care and I stand by that. How many people who listen to the radio do you think even know what a producer does? I'd guess not very many. Now consider that people who don't know what a producer does are unlikely to care who the producer is.  lol
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Cemetry Gator posted:Man, all this Pharrell talk makes me feel old because apparently, I'm the only one who remembers him from N*E*R*D's "Rockstar." That's where he got his start, and they were pretty big in production. If you really wanna feel old, technically he got his start with Blackstreet since he worked under Teddy Riley. And if you know who Teddy Riley is, congrats you're probably eligible for AARP.
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comes along bort posted:If you really wanna feel old, technically he got his start with Blackstreet since he worked under Teddy Riley. And if you know who Teddy Riley is, congrats you're probably eligible for AARP. But... No Diggity was a timeless classic. It's ageless, like a Flock of Seagulls and Miami Vice, the TV Series.
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Cemetry Gator posted:But... No Diggity was a timeless classic. It's ageless, like a Flock of Seagulls and Miami Vice, the TV Series. No Diggity still gets a great reaction whenever someone does it at the the Chinese restaurant a few blocks away during karaoke night.
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Cemetry Gator posted:Man, all this Pharrell talk makes me feel old because apparently, I'm the only one who remembers him from N*E*R*D's "Rockstar." That's where he got his start, and they were pretty big in production. "Rump Shaker" by Wrecx-N-Effect was definitely quite a while before that...
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Can I interrupt the circlejerk about who heard of Pharrell first to point out that there is now a porn parody of UHF?? http://www.avclub.com/article/weird-al-yankovic-inspires-uhf-porn-parody-has-off-207273  quote:“Weird Al” Yankovic inspires UHF porn parody, has officially “made it” Article is SFW, links within the article are not.
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Manley Pudowsky.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Manley Pudowsky.
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Anthony Fantano did a review.
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Fess up, who else spotted Tommy Wiseau in Lame Claim to Fame? He's sitting behind Steve Buscemi.
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My friend, Tim, posted his behind the scenes photos for Lame Claim to Fame on his Facebook the other day and I wanted to share them with you but I wasn't sure how to post them here. Luckily, it looks like his roommate did a Behind the Scenes writeup here with the same photos: http://www.geekscape.net/a-look-behind-weird-als-lame-claim-to-fame-music-video
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Did anyone else notice Trogdor in the Word Crimes video? There's actually a poo poo load of references in that video, it's pretty great.
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Y'all need to randomly click the related videos when you listen to stuff on youtube. That's how I stay up to date with current music!
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Good news UHF fans: Shout Factory just announced it's getting a blu-ray release in November! What gets me even more excited is an announcement they made about a more obscure Weird Al release. They'll also be releasing The Compleat Al on DVD! If any of you are unfamiliar with it, The Compleat Al is a mid-80s mockumentary about his Al's life and career. It features a lot of original material along with clips from some early Al TVs and all of his music videos up to Dare to be Stupid. I had this on VHS growing up and nearly wore out the tape from watching it so much.
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Diabolik900 posted:Good news UHF fans: Shout Factory just announced it's getting a blu-ray release in November! I seem to recall either Running With Scissors or Poodle Hat included a short film about him (ah, the glory days of multimedia CDs), was that from The Compleat Al?
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Running with Scissors includes a video excerpt from his "There's No Going Home" Disney special. Poodle Hat contains his home videos from when he was a kid. I don't think either of them have to do with The Compleat Al.
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Edit: ^^^^^ thanks! This is The Compleat Al: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Gn1irk1eY
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Al was on Tom Green Live and was presented with his album framed with the billboard no. 1 chart. He started tearing up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iH_FO1_Ofk
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Diabolik900 posted:Good news UHF fans: Shout Factory just announced it's getting a blu-ray release in November! Ah good, I'm glad I'm not the only one who wore out their VHS copy of The Compleat Al
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ComposerGuy posted:Al was on Tom Green Live and was presented with his album framed with the billboard no. 1 chart. He started tearing up. Awww, I have an irrational "bro crush" on Weird Al mostly because aside from making funny music that I've enjoyed for literally my entire life, he generally just seems like he's a really grounded, good, and nice man that truly deserves the success of this album, as unexpected as it may be for him. And he has a wife and a kid now, plus more success than ever, I guess I just feel happy for him and think he deserves it. He paid his dues over 30+ years. Go Al! EDIT: It doesn't hurt that this newest album is his best work yet. I truly have not enjoyed an album of his this much since "Running With Scissors."
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I think you need to go back and listen to In 3D. Buy Me a Condo and Mr. Popeil are two of the best songs in his catalogue. It's non-stop great songs. The only one that kinda sucks is the Brady Bunch. And the first record is really underrated. I feel like there's an alternate reality that branched off after that first record where Al could have turned into a punk rock/counterculture legend, but we got the one where he just made parody songs instead. BigFactory fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Jul 30, 2014 |
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ComposerGuy posted:Al was on Tom Green Live and was presented with his album framed with the billboard no. 1 chart. He started tearing up. Is this the first comedy album to hit #1? I know Jeff Foxworthy and Adam Sandler have gotten up to the top 10 or so.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpaWZfJG0pg I loved Mission Statement and this tribute to Al's discography is just the perfect way to top this release. I love Weird Al since I was in High School and it's great that so many years later, he is still the best.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Is this the first comedy album to hit #1? I know Jeff Foxworthy and Adam Sandler have gotten up to the top 10 or so. It's not the first, but it's been fifty years since the last one.
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Last one was My Son, the Nut by Allan Sherman who did "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh." He also did a parody of "Pop Goes the Weasel" called "I Hate the Beatles" which is, if you look it up on Youtube, the most excellent example of Old People Not Getting It I've ever seen in my life.
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BigFactory posted:I think you need to go back and listen to In 3D. Buy Me a Condo and Mr. Popeil are two of the best songs in his catalogue. It's non-stop great songs. The only one that kinda sucks is the Brady Bunch. Maybe it's nostalgia, maybe it's because it was the first Weird Al album I ever bought (on tape, the year it came out; man I'm old) but I think that In 3D holds up very well. It might not have the production of his later albums but it's pretty solid from top to bottom. "You could even cut a tin can with it! But you wouldn't want to!" I also remember seeing all the commercials for the products mentioned in "Mr. Popeil."  Anyways, to me it was his best album until Even Worse and when UHF came out I'm pretty sure I wore that tape out because I played it constantly. Thank goodness for the invention of CDs. As a kid I heard of "Another One Rides The Bus" but I never heard it. I figured it might have appeared on some demo album that probably didn't exist. It actually wasn't until I was about 16 or so when I was able to find a copy of his first album. I'd be interested in that alternate reality branch you mentioned because it'd probably be pretty wild.
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I have been going through and listening to all of Al's Albums again, and drat Dare to Be Stupid is really good. Almost every song on it is awesome. Really the only albums that are kinda mediocre are Polka Party, Alapalooza and maybe UHF. The album not the film, which rules.
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Blackbelt Bobman posted:I have been going through and listening to all of Al's Albums again, and drat Dare to Be Stupid is really good. Almost every song on it is awesome. Really the only albums that are kinda mediocre are Polka Party, Alapalooza and maybe UHF. The album not the film, which rules. I'd rather listen to Polka Party than Off the Deep End.
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Polka Party was the album that got me to memorize all of the different types of hernias when I as 11.
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I've been a Weird Al fan since I was like 8, but I actually just listened to Polka Party for the first time the other day. It was the one album I never owned for some reason as a kid. I knew Living With a Hernia, Addicted to Spuds, and Christmas With Ground Zero thanks to various compilation albums, but the rest was all new to me. It was ok, but not his strongest. Alapalooza was the first one I owned as a kid, so of course I loved it then, but I haven't listened to it in full in ages. I'll have to listen again and see how it compares. I always thought it was funny how Polka Party's relatively weak sales and the Coolio thing were the best Behind the Music could come up with for Al's dark moments.
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I've always loved this. Bonus for having Aaron Paul as Weird Al, and Al himself as the record exec. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcNuiri2dV0
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Diabolik900 posted:
And UHF being a box office failure. And having not been married yet at the time they filmed it.
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BigFactory posted:I'd rather listen to Polka Party than Off the Deep End. Good songs on Polka Party: - Living with a Hernia - Dog Eat Dog - Christmas at Ground Zero - maybe Addicted to Spuds - Polka Party Good songs on Off the Deep End: - Smells like Nirvana - Trigger Happy - I Can't Watch This - When I Was Your Age - Taco Grande - You Don't Love Me Anymore - Polka Your Eyes Out Advantage: Off the Deep End EDIT: Trigger Happy, Smells Like Nirvana, Taco Grande and You Don't Love Me Anymore are four of his best songs. However, I am listening to Running With Scissors right now and I think that it and Dare to be Stupid are his best. Truth.
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