Weird Al

[SoonDragon67]

Dec 20, 2013 14:04:33 GMT -5 wildknight said:

Dec 20, 2013 14:00:57 GMT -5 miketheratguy said:

It's a cover of a Devo song, so the title is pretty apt.

It's not, actually. It's one of his "style parodies" where he just lampoons a musical style, it's not a cover of any particular song 8)

I always preferred his style parodies to his direct parodies...

[miketheratguy]

Dec 20, 2013 14:00:44 GMT -5 wildknight said:

Dec 20, 2013 13:59:49 GMT -5 miketheratguy said:

I find that "Jurassic Park" is actually a legitimate improvement over the original song.

... yes, but that's also true of every Madonna and Michael Jackson parody he ever did.

Lol I know, right? Even before I hit "create post" I was thinking "but wait a minute, this would apply to anything he covered from Nirvana as well...

Seriously though, I think the pitch and tone of his take on "MacArthur Park" is actually legitimately more pleasant to the ear.




(Anyone who's actually interested in comparing need only check out a random 30 seconds of the first version, I don't expect you to sit here and listen to a 7 minute song).

[miketheratguy]

Dec 20, 2013 14:04:33 GMT -5 wildknight said:

Dec 20, 2013 14:00:57 GMT -5 miketheratguy said:

It's a cover of a Devo song, so the title is pretty apt.

It's not, actually. It's one of his "style parodies" where he just lampoons a musical style, it's not a cover of any particular song 8)

Oh really? I thought that it was a riff on an actual Devo production. That it's not makes it even better.

[miketheratguy]

Dec 20, 2013 14:02:11 GMT -5 SoonDragon67 said:

Dec 20, 2013 13:59:49 GMT -5 miketheratguy said:

I find that "Jurassic Park" is actually a legitimate improvement over the original song.

When I first heard the original I thought it was a parody.

I honestly did as well. Sort of, anyway. I thought that someone had taken Weird Al's parody and simply tried to make a new, legit song out of the melody. That's ironically what sent me to find out what the original song was to begin with, so imagine my surprise when it turned out that the crappy pretender was the one that came first.

Great melody, terrible singing.

[SoonDragon67]

Dec 20, 2013 14:12:31 GMT -5 miketheratguy said:

Dec 20, 2013 14:02:11 GMT -5 SoonDragon67 said:

When I first heard the original I thought it was a parody.

I honestly did as well. Sort of, anyway. I thought that someone had taken Weird Al's parody and simply tried to make a new, legit song out of the melody. That's ironically what sent me to find out what the original song was to begin with, so imagine my surprise when it turned out that the crappy pretender was the one that came first.

Great melody, terrible singing.

Not to mention the actual lyrics to the original song.

"Spring was never waiting for us, girl

It ran one step ahead

As we followed in the dance



Between the parted pages and the prayers

Still love's hot, fevered iron

Like a striped pair of pants



MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark

All the sweet, green icing flowing down

Someone left the cake out in the rain



I don't think that I can take it

'Cause it took so long to bake it

And I'll never have that recipe again, oh noooooo



I recall the yellow cotton dress

Foaming like a wave

On the ground around your knees

Birds like tender babies in your hands

And the old men playing checkers, by the trees



MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark

All the sweet, green icing flowing down

Someone left the cake out in the rain



I don't think that I can take it

'Cause it took so long to bake it

And I'll never have that recipe again, oh noooooo



There would be another song for me

For I will sing it

There would be another dream for me

Someone will bring it



I will drink the wine while it is warm

And never let you catch me looking at the sun

And after all the loves of my life

After all the loves of my life, you'll still be the one



I will take my life into my hands and I will use it

I will win the worship in their eyes and I will lose it

I will have the things that I desire

And my passion flow like rivers through the sky



And after all the loves of my life

Oh, after all the loves of my life

I'll be thinking of you - and wondering why



MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark

All the sweet, green icing flowing down

Someone left the cake out in the rain



I don't think that I can take it

'Cause it took so long to bake it

And I'll never have that recipe again

Oh noooooo, o-oh no-ooooo
"

[wildknight]

That song does sound more like a "joke" song than something that was meant to be taken seriously.

[SoonDragon67]

But yeah, my favorite parody of his would be the Star Wars one, because not only was it pretty great on its own, but it also was parodying an amazing song.

[Deleted]

I honestly feel that Weird Al belongs in the rock and Roll Hall of Fame

[Deleted]

Also I like his song "Hardware Store" the best.

[charliebucketsgranpa]

Hardware Store is pretty good.

[miketheratguy]

I don't think I've ever heard Hardware Store. What's that one about?

And yeah I could definitely see Al in the hall of fame. He's an immediately identifiable part of music culture and quite talented in his own right.

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[SoonDragon67]

Jan 17, 2014 10:22:02 GMT -5 @crazyday said:

I honestly feel that Weird Al belongs in the rock and Roll Hall of Fame

No.