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POLKAS. The following is a chronological listing of all the polka medleys that Al has put out on his commercially-released albums, along with the names of the songs included in each one: “POLKAS ON 45” (1984) Jocko Homo (Devo) Smoke On The Water (Deep Purple) Sex (I’m A…) (Berlin) Hey Jude (The Beatles) L.A. Woman (The Doors) In-A-Gadda ...
Dare to Be Stupid (1985) "Weird Al" Yankovic's Greatest Hits (1988) The Best of Yankovic (1992) Permanent Record: Al in the Box (1994) The Essential "Weird Al" Yankovic (2009) Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) (rerecorded version) Parody of " Like a Virgin " by Madonna. "Livin' in the Fridge".
SongAlbum (s)Original Or Parody"30 Rock Theme Parody"Medium Rarities (2017)Parody of "30 Rock Theme" composed by ..."Aardvark"Original, part of "The Carnival of the ...Alapalooza (1993) Permanent Record: Al in ...Parody of "Achy Breaky Heart" by Billy ..."Addicted to Spuds"Polka Party! (1986) "Weird Al" Yankovic's ...Parody of "Addicted to Love" by Robert ...- Amish Paradise. A little biased because the video — guest-starring The Brady Bunch star Florence Henderson — is so funny. But there’s also working in Gilligan’s Island into the song.
- Eat It. I think one of my favorite moments in any Weird Al song is him taking Michael Jackson singing “Oh Lord!” in Beat It and turning it into “Oh lard!”
- Smells Like Nirvana. A rarity from Yankovic: Making fun of the original songwriters instead of turning into a song about anything else. And it’s fantastic, including the fact that it is hard to bargle nawdle zouss with all these marbles in my mouth.
- White and Nerdy. Weird. Al. Rapping.
- Matt Sulem
- “My Bologna” Somewhat appropriate given the artist, “Weird Al” Yankovic’s first single, “My Bologna,” was recorded in a men’s bathroom, as this was the only space available to a student disc jockey at Cal Poly in 1979.
- “Another One Rides the Bus” “Another One Rides the Bus” was recorded in an actual studio (live, in Dr. Demento’s booth, to be precise) but that doesn’t mean it’s a high-quality recording.
- “Ricky” Weird Al’s “I Love Lucy”-themed song, “Ricky” (a spoof of “Mickey” by Toni Basil), wasn’t just his first stint in the Hot 100, but it was also his first televised music video.
- “I Love Rocky Road” To get permission for his fourth single (and second about food), “I Love Rocky Road,” Weird Al didn’t need to ask Joan Jett, the artist known for “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll” but instead a member of The Arrows, who originally recorded the song in 1975.
- Paul Mccartney
- Eminem
- Prince
- Jimmy Page
- Coolio
- Michael Jackson
- Weezer
- Daniel Powter
- James Blunt's Record Label
- Lady Gaga’s Management Team
Weird Al wanted to parody the Wings song “Live and Let Die,” but Paul McCartney turned him down. “I wanted to do ‘Chicken Pot Pie,’ and Paul was a good sport,” Yankovic explained. “He said, ‘I would love for you to do this, but could you not make it about chicken because I’m a vegetarian. I don’t want to condone the eating of animal flesh.’” But “I...
In 2003, Weird Al intended "Couch Potato" to be the first single off his then-new album, Poodle Hat. The song was a parody of Eminem’s Academy Award-winning song “Lose Yourself” from 8 Mile. While Eminem gave Weird Al permission to parody the song, the rapper denied him permission to use it as a single or make a music video. “Eminem was fine with m...
Over the many decades of Weird Al’s career, Prince was the one recording artist who never let him parody one of his songs. It wasn’t for lacking of trying: Yankovic tried to do spoofs of “Kiss” and “1999” starting in the 1980s without success. “The only person who’s consistently said no has been Prince. I haven’t approached him in 20 years,” Yankov...
While he’s a big fan of Weird Al’s music, guitarist Jimmy Page declined Yankovic permission to turn Led Zeppelin songs into a polka medley. However, Page did allow Weird Al to do an interpolation of “Black Dog” in Yankovic’s “Trapped in the Drive-Thru,” which is a parody of R. Kelly’s “Trapped in the Closet.” Yankovic told the Toronto Sun, “It’s ac...
Although Weird Al received permission from Interscope Records to parody “Gangsta’s Paradise,” rapper Coolio didn’t give Yankovic consent to write the parody “Amish Paradise.” After the Grammy Awards in 1995, Coolio spoke outagainst the parody, saying, “[I] ain’t with that … I think that my song was too serious … I really … don’t appreciate him dese...
Although Michael Jackson gave Weird Al permission to spoof “Bad” and “Beat It” into the parody songs “Fat” and “Eat It,” respectively, the King of Pop denied Yankovic consent to parody his 1991 song “Black or White.” “Michael wasn’t quite so into it, because he thought ‘Black or White’ was more of a message song, and he didn’t feel as comfortable w...
In 1996, Weird Al included a number of popular alternative rock songs into one polka medley called “The Alternative Polka.” He originally included a snippet of Weezer’s “Buddy Holly,” but then the band reconsidered. “‘Buddy Holly’ by Weezer was originally in ‘The Alternative Polka,’” Yankovic said on his website. “In fact, it was completely recorde...
In 2006, Weird Al wanted to spoof Daniel Powter’s “Bad Day” with the parody “You Had a Bad Date,” but the recording artist denied Yankovic permission to record it—at least at first. “And then literally the day before we went into the studio to record ‘White & Nerdy,’ we got a call saying he changed his mind and he wanted to do it after all,” Yankov...
After receiving James Blunt’s blessing to parody his hit song “You’re Beautiful,” Weird Al recorded and planned to release the spoof “You’re Pitiful” as the first single from his 2006 album “Straight Outta Lynwood”—but Blunt’s label, Atlantic Records, stepped in and denied Yankovic any use of the parody because they felt it might hurt Blunt’s brand...
In 2011, Weird Al jumped through a number of hoops in an effort to get approval to turn Lady Gaga’s hit "Born This Way" into a parody called "Perform This Way" for his 14th studio album: When her management team demanded to hear the track before granting permission, Yankovic wrote and sent them the lyrics. They responded, “She actually needs to hea...
The complete Weird Al comparison playlist. Every song that was a direct parody of another song will be included, prefaced by the original song. 1983 Album 1 : (Self Titled) Hey Mickey/ Ricky I Love Rock n Roll / I love Rocky Road Stop Draggin' My Heart Around/ Stop Draggin' my Car Around My Sharona/ My Bologna Another One Bites the Dust/ Another One Rides the Bus 1984 Album 2: Weird Al ...
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The complete Weird Al comparison playlist. Every song that was a direct parody of another song will be included, prefaced by the original song. 1983 Album 1 ...
