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They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.

Al Yankovic

It fit pretty nicely into my schedule because we’d pretty much finished the bulk of promotion for Mandatory Fun and were just getting geared up for the World Tour so this was a nice time for me to be working on it.
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Bulk Finish Fit Mandatory Nicely Pretty Promotion Scheule
I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
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Accordion Amuse Cut Extreme Paly Rock Song Teenage
I’m very analytical, I’m very precise.
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Analytical Precise Very
I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
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Coming Drive Excite Guitar Lot Music Nirvana Point
Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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never Put Velvet Weight
I don’t want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that’s more my personal taste.
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Appreciate Favorite Guitar Kind Modern Music Personal Pooh Pop
Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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Forty Job Listen Music Now Right Top
You got me stranded on the bungee tower of love.
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Bungee Love Lower Relationship Strand Tower
Maybe I’ll make a huge color tapestry from my belly button lint.
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Belly Button Color Huge Maybe Social Taboo
People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
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Get Better People School
I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.
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Artist Feel Idiosyncraisies Learn Like Musical Original Something Song Sound Try Twist
I’m free to do what I please, I’m probably not going to do albums. Just because I think releasing tracks as singles is a better way for me to stay topical.
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Album Better Free Go Please Probably Realise Topical Way
Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.
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Build Fan Feature Guess Huge One People Plura Specific Wrote
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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Able Instead Moment More Release Song Think Timely Topical War
Ever since the day you left me, I’ve been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
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Almost Dear Ever Feel Left Me Miserable Since You
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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Band Comedy One Overlook Peeve Pet Problem Realize Same Sometimes Talent

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