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Weird and wonderful sounds from outsider to weird covers and occasionally painful stuff from the Golden Age Of Stupidity.

Monday 4 - 5pm (EST) | On WFMU's Sheena's Jungle Room
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Favoriting March 20, 2023: SHY #205 - Weird Al Songs In the Style Of

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Approx. start time
Me  Stop Hitting Yourself Intro   Favoriting Sheena's Jungle Room  Sheena's Jungle Room Records  NOW  CD-R   
Weird Al Yankovic  Mr. Popeil   Favoriting In 3D  Rock 'N' Roll Records  1984  LP  0:01:57 (Pop-up)
Weird Al Yankovic  Dare To Be Stupid   Favoriting Dare to Be Stupid  Scotti Bros. Records  1985  LP  0:06:58 (Pop-up)
Weird Al Yankovic  Dog Eat Dog   Favoriting Polka Party!  Rock 'N' Roll Records  1986  LP  0:10:20 (Pop-up)
Weird Al Yankovic  You Make Me   Favoriting Even Worse  Rock 'N' Roll Records  1988  LP  0:14:01 (Pop-up)
Weird Al Yankovic  Twister   Favoriting Even Worse  Rock 'N' Roll Records  1988  LP  0:17:10 (Pop-up)
Weird Al Yankovic  Good Old Days   Favoriting Even Worse  Rock 'N' Roll Records  1988  LP  0:18:11 (Pop-up)
Weird Al Yankovic  Velvet Elvis   Favoriting Even Worse  Rock 'N' Roll Records  1988  LP  0:21:29 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Killer Watts 
I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman   Favoriting
Golden Hour Of Golden Instrumental Hits Featuring The Many Moogs Of Killer Watts 
Golden Hour 
1974 
LP 
0:25:53 (Pop-up)
Weird Al Yankovic  Everything You Know Is Wrong   Favoriting Bad Hair Day  Scotti Bros. Records  1996  CD  0:28:06 (Pop-up)
Weird Al Yankovic  I'm So Sick Of You   Favoriting Bad Hair Day  Scotti Bros. Records  1996  CD  0:31:44 (Pop-up)
Weird Al Yankovic  Genius in France   Favoriting Poodle Hat  Volcano  2004  CD  0:35:01 (Pop-up)
Weird Al Yankovic  Bob   Favoriting Poodle Hat  Volcano  2004  CD  0:43:55 (Pop-up)
Weird Al Yankovic  Pancreas   Favoriting Straight Outta Lynwood  Volcano  2006  CD  0:46:17 (Pop-up)
Weird Al Yankovic  Craigslist   Favoriting Internet Leaks EP  Volcano  2009  EP  0:49:59 (Pop-up)
Weird Al Yankovic  Lame Claim to Fame   Favoriting Mandatory Fun  RCA  2014  CD  0:54:46 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Urfalı Babi 
Şiş Kebap (Şiş Kebap)   Favoriting
Disco Kebap 
S&S 
1978 
LP 
0:58:29 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 📖 Swag For Life Member 3:58pm
WR:

In the style of Al or Al in the style of, but didn't Al always do songs in the style of?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:58pm
Scott_Oz:

Weird Al Songs in The Style of SLAP!!
G'day Greg & Hit Parade!
🌏🌄☕😎🤙💨🍺🌻
  3:59pm
John R.:

Hi Space Brother Greg and DJ GG, and all!
Avatar 📖 Swag For Life Member 4:02pm
WR:

Oh, in style but not particular song being parodied. Yes, not aware of that.
Avatar 4:02pm
spacebrother:

Hey WR! I hope I explained it well enough.
Avatar 4:03pm
spacebrother:

Hello Scott!
Avatar 📖 4:04pm
Mr Fab:

Hey Spacebrother!

Diggin the B Fifty-Als.
Avatar 4:04pm
David in California:

↳ Song: "Mr. Popeil" by "Weird Al Yankovic"
Hello, Greg. Al is doing a very creditable Fred Schneider here.
Avatar 4:04pm
spacebrother:

I think this material is the real hidden genius of Weird Al.
Avatar 4:04pm
spacebrother:

Hey David - I totally agree.
  4:04pm
John R.:

SBG:👍
Avatar 4:06pm
spacebrother:

Hey Fab! Yeah, finally a theme show that I can carry all the way through the hour.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:06pm
Jan Turkenburg:

Hey Greg and fellow listeners!
Avatar 4:07pm
spacebrother:

It's JAN!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:07pm
Barno in Akron:

How do you do, fellow kids?
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spacebrother:

It's BARNO!!
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spacebrother:

The video for this is totally amazing.
  4:10pm
John R.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMhwddNQSWQ
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:10pm
Barno in Akron:

↳ spacebrother @4:08
Howdy, DJ Greg!
Avatar 4:11pm
HyperDose:

Love today's theme! Weird Al was my very first concert
Avatar 4:11pm
spacebrother:

↳ HyperDose @4:11
Hey HyperD!
Avatar 4:12pm
spacebrother:

↳ HyperDose @4:11
Ha, DEVO was mine!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:12pm
Aitch:

Weird Al playing Sydney, but no-one will come with me
Avatar 📖 Swag For Life Member 4:13pm
WR:

While not overtly parodic, still finding humor in his "in the style ofs".
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:13pm
Sem:

Hey, Spacebrother, and brother and sisters from another Mother.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:14pm
Sem:

*brothers*
Avatar 4:15pm
spacebrother:

↳ Aitch @4:12
I would fly out there, but I's po.
He has a pretty extensive back catalog, I didn't realize until i started putting this show together.
Avatar 📖 4:15pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Song: "You Make Me" by "Weird Al Yankovic"
I thought "Oingo Boingo" within like 5 seconds of this song starting.
Avatar 4:15pm
spacebrother:

↳ Sem @4:13
Hey Sem!
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spacebrother:

↳ Mr Fab @4:15
It's pretty perfect.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:16pm
Aitch:

Just looked, was last Monday..
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:17pm
Sem:

Al is one of my great pleasures in life.
Avatar 4:17pm
spacebrother:

↳ Aitch @4:16
:(
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:19pm
Aitch:

↳ Song: "Good Old Days" by "Weird Al Yankovic"
Ha!
  4:20pm
ike-o:

Peace
  4:21pm
ike-o:

Love this look at Al's work
Avatar 4:22pm
spacebrother:

↳ ike-o @4:20
Hello -ike-o!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:22pm
coelacanth∅:

Greetings Greg, spacebrothers, spacesisters
  4:22pm
ike-o:

And one of my favorite whose line games
Avatar 4:24pm
spacebrother:

↳ coelacanth∅ @4:22
Greetings!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:24pm
coelacanth∅:

the police... maybe a little better.

was the last one Warren Zevon, or Dean Freedman?
  4:24pm
John R.:

SGB: Excellent selections! Greg, Have every listened to Todd R. and Utopia’s take on the Beatles : Deface the Music? Kind of in the vain of The Rutles, but like these tracks, stand on their own.
  4:24pm
JetBoy of Astoria:

That’s a great Stewart Copeland impression the drummer is doing
  4:24pm
Dean:

James Taylor
Avatar 4:24pm
spacebrother:

↳ coelacanth∅ @4:24
I'll reveal it in the back-announce.
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spacebrother:

↳ Dean @4:24
Bingo!
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Mr Fab:

↳ coelacanth∅ @4:24
James Taylor, I thought?
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spacebrother:

↳ John R. @4:24
I love that album.
  4:25pm
Dean:

For some reason lately I've been buying up JT albums, listening to them, and really enjoying them.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:26pm
coelacanth∅:

haha...JT.
i was going to ask if i should keep guessing!
i didn't think it was Zevon because the lyrics are too much exactly like his!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:28pm
Barno in Akron:

TMBG
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spacebrother:

↳ Barno in Akron @4:28
YES!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:29pm
Barno in Akron:

This is one of my favorite Weird Al tunes - It's perfectly TMBG
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spacebrother:

↳ Dean @4:25
Never could get into his stuff for some reason.
Avatar 4:29pm
spacebrother:

↳ Barno in Akron @4:29
It's spot on.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:30pm
coelacanth∅:

wish i'd heard the others. wouldn't have gotten oingo boingo because i disengaged from all those standard 80s formula crappy crap quickly enough back then to differentiate between them.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:31pm
Aitch:

reminding me of what 80s radio sounded like, scary times
Avatar 4:32pm
spacebrother:

↳ coelacanth∅ @4:30
I never thought of OB as formulaic. It BECAME formulaic. They played for free at my college to promo their first album, so my exposure to them was different. And they were from L.A.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:33pm
Barno in Akron:

Huey Lewis and the News?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:33pm
coelacanth∅:

yeah this is spot-on.
...it must be pretty easy to parody certain bands, like the talking head -that really just became a parody of themselves after the 4th album...
or jethro tull -obviously
Avatar 📖 4:33pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Song: "I'm So Sick Of You" by "Weird Al Yankovic"
Joe Jackson? Wow, who'd think to parody him.
Avatar 4:33pm
spacebrother:

↳ Barno in Akron @4:33
I think it's supposed to be Elvis Costello.
Avatar 4:34pm
spacebrother:

The next one is really easy, and amazing.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:34pm
Barno in Akron:

↳ spacebrother @4:33
Hahaha! I can see that now :)
Avatar 📖 4:34pm
Mr Fab:

I was just gonna say! Yep, EC. Haha, I used to get him and Joe Jackson confused.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:34pm
coelacanth∅:

i'm not thinkinhg Joe Jackson at all.
maybe squeeze? or elvis costello?
  4:34pm
Dean:

Def EC.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:35pm
Hopey Sockmonkey:

This ending is very Elvis Costello. Great show, spacebro!
Avatar 4:36pm
spacebrother:

↳ Hopey Sockmonkey @4:35
Very. And thank you!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:36pm
Hopey Sockmonkey:

Zappa?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:36pm
Jan Turkenburg:

↳ Hopey Sockmonkey @4:36
what else? was my first thought too.
  4:37pm
Dean:

Osmond Bros. meets Zappa
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:37pm
Sem:

↳ Hopey Sockmonkey @4:36
Vocal style quite similar, certainly.
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spacebrother:

↳ Dean @4:37
LOL!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:37pm
coelacanth∅:

Dean i was thinking Zappa meets beach boys... but then, they weren't that different!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:38pm
Jan Turkenburg:

↳ Sem @4:37
Plus the xylophones and breaks with funny rifs
Avatar 📖 4:38pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Song: "Genius in France" by "Weird Al Yankovic"
THis is amazing. Even includes the doo-wop. So many Zappa references.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:38pm
Sem:

Jerry Lewis was considered a genius in France.
  4:38pm
John R.:

Whoa… “Super Zappaesgue”!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:39pm
Hopey Sockmonkey:

↳ Mr Fab @4:38
SO MANY references. Really amazing!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:39pm
Sem:

↳ Jan Turkenburg @4:38
Ruth Underwood-style xylophone runs...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:40pm
Sem:

*that's right*
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:40pm
Jan Turkenburg:

↳ Sem @4:39
yep
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:40pm
Sem:

*multiple time signatures*
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:41pm
Jan Turkenburg:

↳ Sem @4:40
check!
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spacebrother:

This is pretty much a masterpiece.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:41pm
Jan Turkenburg:

brass arrangements
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Mr Fab:

and length!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:42pm
coelacanth∅:

spacebrother @432 i've heard a few songs only, probably, but i remember when oingo boingo had that hit (if they had more than 1, then it was the first one) it just sounded like more of the usual crap to me...fueling my complete withdrawal from pop/rock music until the pixies came.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:42pm
Jan Turkenburg:

I didn't see that banjo coming however
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spacebrother:

↳ coelacanth∅ @4:42
I can totally see how that would happen.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:42pm
Sem:

www.reddit.com...
  4:43pm
Dean:

Saw Oingo Boingo as Mystic Knights of... when they did a weird local TV show in the LA area. I seem to remember it was in black-and-white, and the band wore gorilla outfits.
Avatar 4:44pm
spacebrother:

This song is entirely palindromes.
  4:44pm
Dean:

Sure as heck sounded like George Duke tickling the silicon ivories.
  4:44pm
wenzo:

Hey howdy
  4:44pm
JetBoy of Astoria:

I think I know this one!!
  4:44pm
wenzo:

Hi Jan 👋
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:44pm
Sem:

1st LP I bought: Weasels Ripped My Flesh. Even that was a melange, of sorts.
Avatar 4:45pm
spacebrother:

↳ Dean @4:43
They were on the Gong Show at the time too.
  4:45pm
ike-o:

Unfortunately many bands in the 80s were awesome before they got popular
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spacebrother:

↳ wenzo @4:44
Hey Wenzo!
  4:45pm
ike-o:

Before/until
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spacebrother:

↳ JetBoy of Astoria @4:44
Forgot to say hi!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:46pm
Jan Turkenburg:

↳ wenzo @4:44
👀 wenzo!
Avatar 📖 4:46pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Song: "Bob" by "Weird Al Yankovic"
So many Dylan parodies. Such a fat target. Even Simon & Garfunkel couldn't resist, and Paul Simon is not known for his sense of humor (to put it mildly).
  4:47pm
ike-o:

Here's yer Beach boys?
Avatar 📖 4:47pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Song: "Pancreas" by "Weird Al Yankovic"
I was hoping you'd play this! Truly incredible. Like the Zappa one, so many Beach Boys references.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:47pm
coelacanth∅:

...so i should dabble in oingo boingo. it wouldn't be the first artist to experience a change in my perception... although i'd put money on only a marginal acceptance!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:48pm
Hopey Sockmonkey:

I had no idea that Weird Al recorded so many "In The Style Of" parodies! Was only really familiar with Dare to be Stupid (because it's so spot-on).
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:48pm
coelacanth∅:

well, both the beach boys and Zappa were pretty formulaic after all. their own formulas, but still formulas.
  4:49pm
Dean:

By the time OB joined A&M they had completely lost my attention.
  4:49pm
ike-o:

If nothing else it's fun ti try to imagine how that was bleeding edge technology
Avatar 📖 4:49pm
Mr Fab:

I played this for someone studying to be a medical assistant, who said it was scientifically accurate. Al does his homework!
  4:50pm
Dean:

Lynwood is just north of Compton, and it's where WAY grew up. Nice connection there.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:50pm
coelacanth∅:

okay Dean that helps, thanks
Avatar 4:51pm
HyperDose:

Straight Outta Lynwood engineered by Rafael Serrano. I'm a fan!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:51pm
coelacanth∅:

hahaha... he could've gotten sued for this one
Avatar 4:51pm
spacebrother:

That's actually Ray Manzerek playing keys on this track.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:52pm
coelacanth∅:

↳ spacebrother @4:51
oh good thing!
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spacebrother:

↳ coelacanth∅ @4:52
Maybe that's why!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:53pm
coelacanth∅:

this is genius!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:54pm
Scott_Oz:

↳ coelacanth∅ @4:53
Ain't it!
  4:54pm
Dean:

Sounds like Morrison doing Zappa.
  4:54pm
wenzo:

I wonder if any of these were inspired by actual ads or if he just made them all up
Avatar 4:55pm
spacebrother:

↳ wenzo @4:54
Defintely inspired, at least.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:55pm
Jan Turkenburg:

Amazing episode, Greg. Learned a lot!
Avatar 4:55pm
HyperDose:

Wayne's World 2 is one of the few sequels that is just as good as the first movie
Avatar 4:56pm
spacebrother:

↳ Jan Turkenburg @4:55
Thanks Jan! I had fun putting it together.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:56pm
Scott_Oz:

↳ HyperDose @4:55
Or bad?
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spacebrother:

↳ HyperDose @4:55
Agreed.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:56pm
Hopey Sockmonkey:

Gotta run, but thanks for hipping me to all these tracks, spacebro!
Avatar 4:57pm
spacebrother:

↳ Hopey Sockmonkey @4:56
Sure! Thanks for being here!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:58pm
Aitch:

Great stuff Greg, loved it.
  4:58pm
ike-o:

Finally some cowbell
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:58pm
Scott_Oz:

Shit the Show went quick! Thanks Greg, great clever fun mate.
🌏☀️☕😎🤙💨🍺🌻
Avatar 📖 Swag For Life Member 4:59pm
WR:

Fun tunes, fun times in the comments.
Avatar 4:59pm
HyperDose:

Thanks, Greg! 🛸
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:59pm
Sem:

Thx, Spacebruh, brilliant selections.
  4:59pm
John R.:

Fun show !! Thanks SBG.😊
Avatar 📖 5:00pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Song: "Lame Claim to Fame" by "Weird Al Yankovic"
I seem to recall the actual Southern Culture on the Skids played on this?
Avatar 5:00pm
David in California:

Thank you, Greg. I've enjoyed the show.
  5:01pm
JetBoy of Astoria:

Fun show today!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:01pm
coelacanth∅:

Thanks spacebrother!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:02pm
Barno in Akron:

Thanks!
Avatar 📖 5:02pm
Mr Fab:

I have rarely laffed as much in one radio show, Spacebrother.
Avatar 5:03pm
spacebrother:

Thanks to all and thanks for the very lively chatroom today!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:04pm
coelacanth∅:

(let the self-flaggelation resume)
Avatar 5:08pm
spacebrother:

↳ coelacanth∅ @5:04
Always!!
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