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down our picks for the top 10 Weird Al
Yankovic original songs before we begin
we publish new videos every day
so be sure to subscribe for more great
content for this list we’re looking
beyond Al’s classic song parodies to
admire some of the hilarious tracks he
wrote himself we’re basing our picks on
a mix of clever lyrics catchy melodies
and how well he managed to tackle the
various musical styles of other artists
without reworking one of their actual
songs
number ten UHF in the late 1980s while
promoting his new movie Weird Al got
surprisingly meta taking inspiration
from old TV station ad campaigns al
wrote a song celebrating his fictional
channel of course the song EE serves as
a love-hate letter to television in
general as Yankovic both praises and
mocks the couch potato lifestyle UHF is
one of the only tracks and Al’s
discography that doesn’t pull from a
specific artist and so in the video he
impersonates as many acts as humanly
possible
al truly outdid himself in this video
amongst the parodies of everyone from
Talking Heads to ZZ Top he even managed
to squeeze in a reference to the Outer
Limits
[Music]
number nine everything you know is wrong
[Music]
They Might Be Giants are known for their
liberal use of the accordion a fact that
made them an easy target for Al taking
to task the band’s often absurdist
lyrical style Yankovic tells a surreal
story of a man’s reality defying life
through strangely optimistic lines about
dying
I’ll also poked fun that they might be
giants as use of cheery melodies over
dark subject matter
Yankovic delivers one of his most
impressive vocal performances when he
talks about heavens dress-coat at
lightning speed never losing pace with
the song al even shreds out on the
accordion solo giving they might be
giants a run for their money
number eight Frank’s 2000 TV though by
1995 Weird Al had written enough songs
about television to release an entire
album of the stuff they weren’t all in
celebration of the old idiot box
adopting the euphoric sounds of REM to
sing about his neighbor’s colossal
screen Al sets his sights squarely on
consumer culture
[Music]
taking people’s obsession with large
television to a hyperbolic extreme I’ll
claims the screen would make Robert De
Niro’s mole ten feet wide borrowing our
eum’s looping harmonies Yankovic
produced a surprisingly catchy bit of
commentary while it might not Dorf a
redwood tree like al claims a 2000 inch
TV would have been roughly 100 feet tall
at the time
number 7 pancreas paying homage to beach
boy Brian Wilson Weird Al decided to
show some love to an organ that’s been
sorely undervalued over the years even
while kidding around
al manages to accurately describe all
the pancreas functions including
metabolizing carbohydrates the song’s
final section lists off all the
pancreatic enzymes somehow producing a
rhyme for the islets of langerhans
emulating the crazy composition of songs
like God Only Knows Howells harmonies
are almost as big as the range of
instruments behind the track it has even
earned praise from musicians who played
with Wilson over the years
number six Albuquerque
following the similarly long rug burns
hit dicks automotive Weird Al made an 11
minute epic about the mundane
chronicling a man’s life in New Mexico
City
I’ll intentionally wrote the track to
annoy fans with a successive runtime
treat if you wanna hit okay then clean
despite Yankovic’s malevolent intentions
the track became such a fan favorite
that he started to encore with it
unsurprisingly with all the songs boring
tangents it still Al’s longest song to
date the lyrics were so long that even
his liner notes on running with scissors
were cut off to joke that the words were
too long for the page number 5 one more
minute
I’ll had a hard time staying funny when
his girlfriend broke up with him ahead
of his third album instead of crying
Yankovic wrote a breakup ballad to fire
back at his ex taking cues from the
classic do off songs I’ll belts about
happily eating shards of broken glass
rather than seeing his lover again
[Music]
Yankovic subverted cliche love songs
through intensely visual lyrics that
suggests swimming through razor blades
while hilariously over-the-top the
bitter lyrics apparently actually proved
therapeutic for Al if this wasn’t enough
al allegedly rips an actual photo of the
ex in the music video number four CNR
very few people have the faintest idea
who Charles Nelson Reilly is these days
but that wasn’t going to stop Weird Al
from writing about him anyways despite
Riley’s place in history as an obscure
comedian the lyrics claim he could
excrete diamonds and figured out
ColdFusion inspired by songs like the
denial twist and dead leaves and the
dirty ground al sets his anthem to the
guitar stylings of the White Stripes as
crazy as Enka Vicks lyrics are the
ridiculous storytelling actually fits
Jack White’s riding style quite well
just in case you wanted to face Riley
yourself comedy site JibJab even lets
you put your face in Al’s video number
three
skipper dad after hearing a disheartened
skipper complaining on the Disneyland
Jungle Cruise Weird Al knew he had a
song on his hands
[Music]
framing has track around failed acting
students al took full advantage of the
bittersweet tones of Weezer while
overtly catchy the lyrics are
surprisingly dark and real making it one
of the ANCA Vic’s more tragic songs to
make sure his skipper dialogue sounded
right al poured through his old scripts
and guidebooks from the Disney ride in
addition to researching the ride in
detail Yankovic even called in a few
favors to get an authentic skipper
costume from Disney to perform the song
live I’ve been on the ride plenty of
times when I grew up in Southern
California so going to Disneyland was
just part of my childhood
number 2 Bob with Weird Al’s talent for
wordplay it shouldn’t be surprising that
he wrote a track using palindromes
[Music]
giving his best take on Bob Dylan
Yankovic delivers a solid impression as
he rambles through some nonsense lyrics
upon closer reading however every phrase
like madam I’m Adam reads the same
forwards and backwards
the real feat however is that the
gibberish lyrics sound exactly like the
puzzling poetry Dylan would sing in his
songs for the music video
Yankovic parodies the flashcards from
Dylan subterranean homesick blues so
fans could read all the lines for
themselves before we get to our topic
here are a few laughable mentions
[Music]
then I tied her to a chair and I shaved
off all her hair and I left her in the
[Music]
number-one dare to be stupid al has
written a lot of funny lyrics over the
years but dare to be stupid found him
writing knockout melodies as well
unleashing catchy synth hooks on his
listeners Yankovic’s Devo pastiche was
arguably on par with any Devo song Al’s
keyboard sounded so good that DeVos Mark
Mothersbaugh said it was the most
beautiful thing he’d ever heard
reversing classic idioms
I’ll made sure his lyrics were just as
memorable as the music a clear fan of
New Wave icons Yankovic references at
least 10 different Devo clips in the
video al even mentions mashed potatoes
as a reference to DeVos favorite food
item
[Music]
do you agree with our picks check out
these other great clips from watch mojo
and subscribe for new videos every day
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 Weird Al
Yankovic original songs before we begin
we publish new videos every day
so be sure to subscribe for more great
content for this list we’re looking
beyond Al’s classic song parodies to
admire some of the hilarious tracks he
wrote himself we’re basing our picks on
a mix of clever lyrics catchy melodies
and how well he managed to tackle the
various musical styles of other artists
without reworking one of their actual
songs
number ten UHF in the late 1980s while
promoting his new movie Weird Al got
surprisingly meta taking inspiration
from old TV station ad campaigns al
wrote a song celebrating his fictional
channel of course the song EE serves as
a love-hate letter to television in
general as Yankovic both praises and
mocks the couch potato lifestyle UHF is
one of the only tracks and Al’s
discography that doesn’t pull from a
specific artist and so in the video he
impersonates as many acts as humanly
possible
al truly outdid himself in this video
amongst the parodies of everyone from
Talking Heads to ZZ Top he even managed
to squeeze in a reference to the Outer
Limits
[Music]
number nine everything you know is wrong
[Music]
They Might Be Giants are known for their
liberal use of the accordion a fact that
made them an easy target for Al taking
to task the band’s often absurdist
lyrical style Yankovic tells a surreal
story of a man’s reality defying life
through strangely optimistic lines about
dying
I’ll also poked fun that they might be
giants as use of cheery melodies over
dark subject matter
Yankovic delivers one of his most
impressive vocal performances when he
talks about heavens dress-coat at
lightning speed never losing pace with
the song al even shreds out on the
accordion solo giving they might be
giants a run for their money
number eight Frank’s 2000 TV though by
1995 Weird Al had written enough songs
about television to release an entire
album of the stuff they weren’t all in
celebration of the old idiot box
adopting the euphoric sounds of REM to
sing about his neighbor’s colossal
screen Al sets his sights squarely on
consumer culture
[Music]
taking people’s obsession with large
television to a hyperbolic extreme I’ll
claims the screen would make Robert De
Niro’s mole ten feet wide borrowing our
eum’s looping harmonies Yankovic
produced a surprisingly catchy bit of
commentary while it might not Dorf a
redwood tree like al claims a 2000 inch
TV would have been roughly 100 feet tall
at the time
number 7 pancreas paying homage to beach
boy Brian Wilson Weird Al decided to
show some love to an organ that’s been
sorely undervalued over the years even
while kidding around
al manages to accurately describe all
the pancreas functions including
metabolizing carbohydrates the song’s
final section lists off all the
pancreatic enzymes somehow producing a
rhyme for the islets of langerhans
emulating the crazy composition of songs
like God Only Knows Howells harmonies
are almost as big as the range of
instruments behind the track it has even
earned praise from musicians who played
with Wilson over the years
number six Albuquerque
following the similarly long rug burns
hit dicks automotive Weird Al made an 11
minute epic about the mundane
chronicling a man’s life in New Mexico
City
I’ll intentionally wrote the track to
annoy fans with a successive runtime
treat if you wanna hit okay then clean
despite Yankovic’s malevolent intentions
the track became such a fan favorite
that he started to encore with it
unsurprisingly with all the songs boring
tangents it still Al’s longest song to
date the lyrics were so long that even
his liner notes on running with scissors
were cut off to joke that the words were
too long for the page number 5 one more
minute
I’ll had a hard time staying funny when
his girlfriend broke up with him ahead
of his third album instead of crying
Yankovic wrote a breakup ballad to fire
back at his ex taking cues from the
classic do off songs I’ll belts about
happily eating shards of broken glass
rather than seeing his lover again
[Music]
Yankovic subverted cliche love songs
through intensely visual lyrics that
suggests swimming through razor blades
while hilariously over-the-top the
bitter lyrics apparently actually proved
therapeutic for Al if this wasn’t enough
al allegedly rips an actual photo of the
ex in the music video number four CNR
very few people have the faintest idea
who Charles Nelson Reilly is these days
but that wasn’t going to stop Weird Al
from writing about him anyways despite
Riley’s place in history as an obscure
comedian the lyrics claim he could
excrete diamonds and figured out
ColdFusion inspired by songs like the
denial twist and dead leaves and the
dirty ground al sets his anthem to the
guitar stylings of the White Stripes as
crazy as Enka Vicks lyrics are the
ridiculous storytelling actually fits
Jack White’s riding style quite well
just in case you wanted to face Riley
yourself comedy site JibJab even lets
you put your face in Al’s video number
three
skipper dad after hearing a disheartened
skipper complaining on the Disneyland
Jungle Cruise Weird Al knew he had a
song on his hands
[Music]
framing has track around failed acting
students al took full advantage of the
bittersweet tones of Weezer while
overtly catchy the lyrics are
surprisingly dark and real making it one
of the ANCA Vic’s more tragic songs to
make sure his skipper dialogue sounded
right al poured through his old scripts
and guidebooks from the Disney ride in
addition to researching the ride in
detail Yankovic even called in a few
favors to get an authentic skipper
costume from Disney to perform the song
live I’ve been on the ride plenty of
times when I grew up in Southern
California so going to Disneyland was
just part of my childhood
number 2 Bob with Weird Al’s talent for
wordplay it shouldn’t be surprising that
he wrote a track using palindromes
[Music]
giving his best take on Bob Dylan
Yankovic delivers a solid impression as
he rambles through some nonsense lyrics
upon closer reading however every phrase
like madam I’m Adam reads the same
forwards and backwards
the real feat however is that the
gibberish lyrics sound exactly like the
puzzling poetry Dylan would sing in his
songs for the music video
Yankovic parodies the flashcards from
Dylan subterranean homesick blues so
fans could read all the lines for
themselves before we get to our topic
here are a few laughable mentions
[Music]
then I tied her to a chair and I shaved
off all her hair and I left her in the
[Music]
number-one dare to be stupid al has
written a lot of funny lyrics over the
years but dare to be stupid found him
writing knockout melodies as well
unleashing catchy synth hooks on his
listeners Yankovic’s Devo pastiche was
arguably on par with any Devo song Al’s
keyboard sounded so good that DeVos Mark
Mothersbaugh said it was the most
beautiful thing he’d ever heard
reversing classic idioms
I’ll made sure his lyrics were just as
memorable as the music a clear fan of
New Wave icons Yankovic references at
least 10 different Devo clips in the
video al even mentions mashed potatoes
as a reference to DeVos favorite food
item
[Music]
do you agree with our picks check out
these other great clips from watch mojo
and subscribe for new videos every day
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