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A lot of rap songs don’t usually have a lot of melody per se.

Al Yankovic

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
I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
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Esteem Hockey Little Lost Made Self Team
I suppose I had my rock star fantasies while I was singing into my hairbrush in the bathroom mirror, but I never really consciously said, ‘OK, this is what I’m going to do for a living and I’m going to be Weird Al.’
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Bathroom Fantastic Go Hairbrush Live Mirror OK Rock Sing Star Suppose Weird
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
Then I try to come up with ideas for parodies. And 99% of those ideas are horrible.
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Come Horrible Idea Parody
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 like to think that I’ve gotten better at what I do. I spend more time and pay more attention to detail album after album. But pretty much it’s stayed the same.
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Ablum Album Attention Better Detail Gotten More Pay Spend Think Time
Left all my Beatle records out in the sun, got a coke bottle stuck on the end of my tongue.
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Bottle Coke End Got Left Nestle Record Stuck Sun Tongue
I don’t like to label myself. I know I’m very hard to pigeonhole.
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Hard Know Label Like Myself Pigeon
I decided that I wanted to be a voice on every animated cartoon in the history of the world – even shows that haven’t been on the air for a very long time, that’s going to be harder to pull off.
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Animate Cartoon Decide History Long Show Time Voice Want Worlds
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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Appreciate Enjoy Favorite Gitar Kind Music Personal Set Strange Well
I make charts of songs that are good candidates, good targets, so to speak.
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Candidate Chart Good Idea Song Speak Target Try
I’m watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
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Chart Head Hope Pop Something Watch Week Will
You can play some schlock like New Kids On the Block.
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Block Kid Kids New Play Scholar Some
There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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Arm Challenge Clever Different Fashion Lot Parody Sign Song
A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.
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Artist Supportive Year
People never ask people doing serious music, ‘Do you ever think about doing funny music?’
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Do Funny Music People Serious Think
My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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Book Decison Enetr Parody Personal Read
The music has always been my bread and butter, and I’ve focused more of my attention on that.
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Always Attention Bread Butter Focus Music
Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You’ll have plenty of time to be low-key when you’re laid out on the slab.
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Grab Gusto Inspirational Key Lead Low Out Time
No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.
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Car No Tape Track
I was a huge fan of ‘Mad’ magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I’d scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I’d wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.
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Around Bookstore Fan Find Huge Issue Life Magazine Old Scour Revolve
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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Another Better Chance Drawer Guy Movie Script
Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.
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Album Medley Percent Polka Probably
There 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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Candidate Clever Enough Good Ostensibly Parody Song Think
I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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Comedy Geek Important Inside Thing
As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.
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Doe Internet Like Out Stuff Suit Turn

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