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Weird Al Yankovic – Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (Original Soundtrack) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:18:09 minutes | 822 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings
The foremost song parodist of the MTV era, “Weird Al” Yankovic has carried the torch of musical humor more proudly and more successfully than any performer since Allan Sherman. In the world of novelty records – a genre noted for its extensive back catalog of flashes-in-the-pan and one-hit wonders – Yankovic was king, scoring smash after smash over the course of an enduring career that has found him topically mocking everything from new wave to gangsta rap. Alfred Matthew Yankovic was born October 23, 1959, in Downey, California.
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Weird Al Yankovic – The Essential Weird Al Yankovic (2009)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:33:10 minutes | 1,74 GB | Genre: Rock, Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Volcano – Legacy
Two disc career-spanning collection of tracks hand-picked by Weird Al himself. Yankovic is a true artistic genius in the classic sense of the word. No other artist can parody a song or a music video without being directly compared to the maestro. Throughout his career, Al has offered up an alternate reality of sorts to the history of pop music, lovingly re-casting hits of all genres into bizarre and hilarious songs and videos that themselves have become hits.
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‘Weird Al’ Yankovic – Straight Outta Lynwood (2006/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 47:49 minutes | 582 MB | Genre: Rock, Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Volcano/Legacy
“Straight Outta Lynwood” is the twelfth studio album by “Weird Al” Yankovic, released on September 26, 2006. It was the sixth studio album self-produced by Yankovic. The musical styles on the album are built around parodies and pastiches of pop and rock music of the mid-2000s. The album’s lead single, “White & Nerdy”, is a parody of Chamillionaire’s hit single “Ridin'”. The single peaked at number nine on the Billboard Hot 100; “Canadian Idiot” also charted, peaking at number 82.
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“Weird Al” Yankovic – Mandatory Fun (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 45:26 minutes | 525 MB | Genre: Humour
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Records Label
Already accepted as a bona fide talent in the world of parody – his musicianship, comedic timing, his pop-culture reference awareness, and his great wordplay are all well-documented – the only thing that matters when it comes to “Weird Al” Yankovic albums is how inspired the king of novelty songs sounds on any given LP. On his 14th studio album, Mandatory Fun, the inspiration meter goes well into the red, something heard instantly as Iggy Azalea’s electro-rap “Fancy” does a complete 180 thematically on the opening “Handy,” the song now heading toward the local home improvement store where the craftsmen vogue in their orange vests and blow sweet come-ons like “I’ll bring you up to code” and “My socket wrenches are second to none.” Pharrell’s “Happy” becomes “Tacky” and Al’s amazing ability to follow an everyday poke (“Wear my Ed Hardy shirt with fluorescent orange pants”) with something brainy and reserved (“Got my new résumé, it’s printed in Comic Sans”) surprises once more, but for end-to-end “wows,” it’s his brilliant redo of Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines,” now the smug and twerking “Word Crimes,” which gives copy editors, English professors, and grammar nerds a reason to hit the dancefloor (“And listen up when I tell you this/I hope you never use quotation marks for emphasis!”). Hardcore and hilarious musical moments start to happen when Imagine Dragons’ “Radioactive” becomes “Inactive,” a singalong anthem for the sluggish and the slovenly (“Near comatose, no exercise/Don’t tag my toe, I’m still alive”) with a dubstep-rock bassline that sounds like Galactus burping. Better still is the every-Al-album pop-polka medley, this time called “Now That’s What I Call Polka!” which polkas-up Daft Punk (“Get Lucky”), PSY (“Gangnam Style”), and Miley Cyrus (“Wrecking Ball”), and with more Spike Jones-styled sound effects than usual. As for the originals this time out, the “you suck!”-minded “Sports Song” will be unavoidable under Friday night lights once a teen gets hold of it, while the ranting and wonderfully weird “First World Problems” sounds more like the Pixies than anything the Pixies did in 2014. Wonders never cease on Mandatory Fun, and neither do the laughs.
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“Weird Al” Yankovic – Alpocalypse (2011/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 46:00 minutes | 571 MB | Genre: Humour
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Volcano
From its smattering of cute original songs to its wealth of brilliant parodies, Weird Al’s Alpocalypse fits the Yankovic album template splendidly, offering a great gut busters-to-groaners ratio, and featuring one of the best pop-in-a-polka-style medleys in the man’s catalog, “Polka Face.” The inspired medley covers everyone from Kesha (“Tik Tok”) to Owl City (“Fireflies”) at breakneck speed, but the highlight has to be Al’s take on Kid Cudi (“Day ‘N’ Nite”) where backpacker lyrics (“The lonely stoner seems to free himself at night”) meets babushka music. “Party in the C.I.A.” takes a Miley Cyrus cut and turns it into a glittery covert operations party (“Payin’ the bribes like yeah/Pluggin’ the leaks like yeah”) while “Whatever You Like” is the T.I. track of the same name but on food stamps, promising the ladies any flavor of Top Ramen they crave. The creative high point is “CNR,” which has to be the only White Stripes-influenced, Charles Nelson Reilly S&M song in the known universe, and if you’ve ever sold any unwanted crap online, “Craigslist” will be a close second. Only bummer for loyal fans is that five of these tracks are repeated from the Internet Leaks EP, but ignore that redundancy, and Al remains the undisputed king of the parody song.
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“Weird Al” Yankovic – Straight Outta Lynwood (2006/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 47:49 minutes | 582 MB | Genre: Rock, Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Volcano
Three years between Weird Al Yankovic albums has been the norm since the ’90s, but a lot happened to the parody king between 2003’s Poodle Hat and his 2006 release, Straight Outta Lynwood. First off, Poodle Hat stalled after one single. Then while on tour promoting the album, Yankovic’s parents were both killed in their home from carbon monoxide poisoning. Al handled the issue quickly and honestly with his fans, promising to carry on before disappearing for a couple years to cope. Then he came back with the pretty good “You’re Pitiful” – a riff on James Blunt’s “You’re Beautiful” – and as the track wormed its way around the Internet, Blunt’s label, Atlantic, recanted their permission for the parody after they had already granted it. The latter event is something Al’s been through before and it always drums up some hype, but his quick and snide reference to Atlantic Records in the “White & Nerdy” video seemed genuinely ticked and wiped away some suspicion the whole thing was staged. “White & Nerdy” – a suburban take on Chamillionaire’s big hit “Ridin'” – is the hilarious reason to celebrate his return, and the album it lands on is inspired. The original, non-parody material is usually where the man stumbles, but here the ridiculous “Weasel Stomping Day” and clever “Don’t Download This Song” offer something that isn’t filler. “White & Nerdy” – where the terminally uncool singer boasts he’s a “whiz at Minesweeper” and “fluent in JavaScript as well as Klingon” – is up there with his best, and “Canadian Idiot” – a hockey-loving, toque-wearing rip on Green Day’s “American Idiot” – is great, making this effort already one highlight better than Poodle Hat. The latest installment in his series of polka parody melodies – this time it’s “Polkarama!” – is a brilliant roll through the recent hits of Modest Mouse, 50 Cent, Rihanna, and many more with a short tribute to the legendary Spike Jones stuck at the end, a thrilling moment for novelty fanatics. Topping it off is the 11-minute “Trapped in the Drive-Thru,” which turns R. Kelly’s epic “Trapped in the Closet” into an excruciating – but funny – wait for that greasy bag that will most likely contain the wrong order. This handful of prime Yankovic overshadows the only mildly humorous Usher and Taylor Hicks parodies and the couple original tunes that really drag, but Yankovic’s fans don’t expect perfection until the next “best-of” rolls around. Lynwood’s highs are higher than usual, with Yankovic trying harder and landing more shots. Turns out novelty music’s silliest hitmaker is a survivor.
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“Weird Al” Yankovic – Poodle Hat (2003/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 54:41 minutes | 662 MB | Genre: Rock, Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Volcano
It’s been said that artists will truly know they’ve entered pop culture when Weird Al Yankovic records a parody of their hit. But what does it mean when pop culture is ahead of Weird Al? Take his parody of the Backstreet Boys’ “I Want It That Way,” which Yankovic turns into “eBay,” but his satire is not far removed from the auction website’s own advertising campaign of 2003, where people rave about the junk they bought on eBay to the tune of “My Way” (“I did it eBay”). What does this mean? Well, to begin with, that Weird Al’s sensibility has been so thoroughly assimilated by mass culture that it’s tougher than ever for him to stay ahead of the game, but it also means that he’s getting predictable. Even worse for his music, he’s getting older and he doesn’t have a finger on the pulse of pop culture anymore. Like Bill O’Reilly ranting about how hip-hop will lead to the destruction of America (something he actually did on The O’Reilly Factor the week Poodle Hat was released), offering generalizations about a culture he doesn’t understand, Yankovic seems removed from the culture he’s commenting upon, picking up on cues he’s heard on Clear Channel radio and read in Entertainment Weekly without exploring the music much itself. For instance, “Angry White Boy Polka,” his latest installment in his series of polka parody melodies, is undone by his lack of understanding of the subject, in particular how the White Stripes, the Strokes, and the Hives – none of whom are angry in the slightest – are the polar opposite of Limp Bizkit, Disturbed, and Papa Roach, and their nü-metal ilk (for that matter, Kid Rock is many things, but he ain’t angry). Then, there’s his parody of Eminem’s “Lose Yourself,” for which Marshall Mathers refused to let Alfred Matthew Yankovic make a video – an event that gave Poodle Hat a lot of press upon its spring 2003 release. It was the first time an artist denied Al the permission to make a video and all the press portrayed it as another time that Mr. Mathers turned stone-cold humorless in the face of a silly joke (it was Triumph the Insult Comic Dog at the VMAs revisited); after hearing Yankovic’s “Couch Potato,” it’s hard not to sympathize with Em, since unlike his other big pop hit parodies, this has nothing to do with the song. Weird Al doesn’t pick up on the theme of the song, or the sound of it, or the lyrics to create a parody, he simply picks television at random, as if jokes about American Idol and Survivor will guarantee laughs and airplay. On top of the randomness of the subject, the jokes are simply bad, culminating in a “My Tivo Thinks I’m Gay” joke ripped off from Mike Binder’s unspeakably awful HBO series Mind of the Married Man, where it was done better.
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