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.
AL YANKOVICNot 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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You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.
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You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don’t step on my blue suede shoes.
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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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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.
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So then why get upset if somebody like me Tries to look at the world just a bit differently?
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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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I’ve done a movie and a TV series, and someday I’d like to do a successful movie and a successful TV series. That would be nice.
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Sometimes I get, “Have you ever thought about doing real music?” I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.
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I’ve learned how to use my spam filter pretty effectively.
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It’s hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
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I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.
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So I try not to pick songs that I know would drive me crazy.
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I don’t really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I’ve never been to therapy so there’s probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don’t know.
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You still have Top 40 radio now, but it’s 40 different stations. There aren’t many hits that everybody knows, and there aren’t many real superstars.
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