From: mhammond@bnr.ca (Mike Hammond)
Subject: Re: Weird Al Songs
Reply-To: mhammond@bnr.ca
Organization: BNR Ottawa, Fibre Systems Development
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 21:31:58 GMT

In article <0f2xKe_00WBO83gVlb@andrew.cmu.edu>, Steven Pei-Han Chai <sc5x+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

|> I'm a major Weird Al fan and I'd like to make sure that I know as much
|> as I can about all of his publicated songs.  Because somtimes I hear a
|> parody of a song, but I never heard the original.  Then I happen upon
|> the original song and then I understand the parody song.  So just to
|> make things perfectly clear to me and all others who are in the same
|> predicament:
|> 
|> From his first album:  Weird Al Yankovic....
|> 
|> Ricky                       (parody of Micky)
|> I Love Rocky Road           (parody of I Love Rock & Roll)
|> Stop Dragging My Car Around (parody of Stop Dragging My Heart Around)
|> My Bologna                  (My Sharona)
|> Another One Rides The Bus   (Another One Bites The Dust)
|> 
|> From his second album:  Weird Al In 3-D
|> 
|> Eat It                      (Beat It)
|> The Brady Bunch             (The Saftey Dance)
|> King of Suede               (King of Pain)
|> Theme to Rocky XIII         (Rocky's Theme Song)
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Also known as ``Eye of the Tiger''.

As well, somewhere on this album was ``I Lost On Jeopardy!'', which
I believe is a parody of ``My Love's In Jeopardy'', or something
like that. Anyone?
 
|> From his third album:  Dare To Be Stupid
|> 
|> Like a Surgeon              (Like a Virgin)
|> I Want A New Duck           (I Want A New Drug)
|> Yoda                        (Lola)
|> Girls Just Wanna Have Lunch (Girls Just Wanna Have Fun)
|> 
|> From Polka Party!
|> 
|> Living With A Hernia        (Living In America)
|> Addicted To Spuds           (Addicted To Love)
|> Here's Johnny               (Dear Johnny)
|> Toothless People            (Ruthless People)
|> 
|> From Even Worse:
|> Fat                                   (Bad)
|> (This Song's Just) Six Words Long     (Got My Mind Set On You)
|> I Think I'm A Clone Now               (I Think We're Alone Now)
|> Lasagna                               (La Bamba)
|> Alimony                               (Mony Mony)
|> Twister ??????????                    (Sounds like the Beastie Boys)

I don't think that it's a song parody, just a style parody. (Of course,
I'm probably, wrong, but what the heck! :-)

|> From UHF and other stuff:
|> 
|> Money For Nothing/Beverly HillBillies     (Money For Nothing)
|> Isle Thing                                (Wild Thing)
|> She Drives Like Crazy                     (She Drives Me Crazy)
|> SPAM                                      (STAND by R.E.M.)
|> 
|> And finally, from Off The Deep End:
|> 
|> Smells Like Nirvana        (Smells Like Teen Spirit)
|> I Can't Watch This         (U Can't Touch This)
|> The White Stuff            (The Right Stuff)

``Taco Grande'' is a parody of ``Rico Suave'' by Geraldo (or something like that! :-),
which was a rap song combining English and Spanish. (The fact that it's a parody 
*should* be on the liner notes.

|> The Plumbing Song          (Don't Forget My Number and Blame It On The Rain)

My favorite off this album, since I was/am an admitted fan of the people who
sang the songs for Milli Vanilli. :-)

|> Sincerely,
|> 
|> 
|> ---Happy  (happy+@cmu.edu)

There may be more, but these are just off the top of my head. I'll check
my tape collection tonight, and if there are any more, I'll post them 
tomorrow.
-- 
(By the way, please don't try to e-mail me between September and December
1992, because I won't receive it. Please post any responses instead.
Thanx. (However, feel free to e-mail any flames! :-) :-)

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