Just to post something that hasn't already been posted.
Amazing original: Hardware Store
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t6hagxzSdw
Amazing parody: Word Crimes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc
I love Weird Al because he does so many different styles and genres that there's something for everyone to love. I don't think I've ever met a person that just hates everything he does.
What a pitch perfect snapshot of a certain part of the 90s the whole thing is
It's kind of amazing how the song encapsulates 90's computing
Sorry, OP, but Amish Paradise is easily the best Weird Al song
CNR doesn't get enough love.
Picking a single song from Weird Al would be to hard. I've been listening to him since I was a kid, so longer than the median GAFfer has been alive. In every decade he just keeps dropping great songs that skewer pop and immortalize it at the same time.
I'm also a huge fan of his polka medleys.
I'm also a huge fan of his polka medleys.
You're just about as useless as jpegs to Hellen Keller
"Bob" is a lyrical masterpiece. It's a song created completely using rhyming palindromes. Even the title, which is a reference to being in the musical style of Bob Dylan, is a palindrome. It's nonsense lyrics are also a reference to Dylan's often strange lyrics.
https://youtu.be/JUQDzj6R3p4
Amish Paradise - Best parody
Dare to Be Stupid - Best imitation
Dare To Be Stupid is the best song.
Got to see him in concert this past year which was awesome. I'd have to put It's All About the Pentiums at the top of my list as well. I also really dig Dare to be Stupid (thanks to my love of Transformers The Movie).
It's a close one between Hardware Store and Dare To Be Stupid for me.
Dare to be Stupid is one of the greatest songs ever.
Also a shoutout to the madcap nonsense that is his polka medleys, without which his albums would all be missing a little something.
Oh my god I only just now realized they guys at the begining of the white and nerdy video are Key and Peele
Amish paradise is not only funny but it's legit a dope song. Was listening to it more than the original song.
In an interview on VH1's Behind the Music, Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh stated in reaction to the song that: "I was in shock. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard. He sort of re-sculpted that song into something else and... I hate him for it, basically."[2][3]
It's like having a drive in movie in your own living room.This thread has nowhere near enough Frank's 2000" TV.
I've been listening to him since he dropped My Bologna on Doctor Demento.
Hell, I might have heard it the first time it was broadcast!
I'm old.
Dr. Demento is where I first heard him, too. I used to lay in bed in the dark listening to it when I was a kid. It was so crazy and special.
Nature Trail to Hell is my jam.