Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
AL YANKOVICThere are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
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One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don’t realize there’s a lot of craft behind the comedy.
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In the ’80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV.
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I’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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He died a long painful death. However, you’ll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.
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Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I’d just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
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I’d like to be able to be more topical and timely and more of-the-moment and I think the way to do that is, instead of waiting until I have twelve songs to release all at once, just to release them as I come up with them.
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I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.
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Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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Because you’re supposed to lose yourself in the character, but sometimes people look at a character and go “Oh, it’s ‘Weird Al.'”
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You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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I always try to put myself out of my comfort zone and out of my depth, and hopefully somewhere along the line I’ll catch up.
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Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you’ll be watching TV, and it’ll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you’ll actually find yourself thinking,
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It was difficult to get into my friends’ rock bands when I was a teenager.
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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The window doesn’t open, the fan is broke, and my face is turning blue. I haven’t been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.
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I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
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My own personal tastes don’t really have an effect on whether song is a parody target or not. But having said that,
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And then I’ll try and arrange them in a way that they would tell a semi-cohesive story.
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You fake something until you’re good at it.
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I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you’re doing?
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