so glad to finally be failing - "Weird Al" Yankovic

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Jun. 16th, 2009 at 12:28 AM

Nice, it's Weird Al's new video, hot off the presses :)

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hammercock wrote:

Jun. 16th, 2009 05:15 am (UTC)

I love that he got Ray Manzarek to play keyboard. :)

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thatwesguy wrote:

Jun. 18th, 2009 12:34 am (UTC)

Oh my God, that's fantastic.

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dcltdw wrote:

Jun. 16th, 2009 12:46 pm (UTC)

I suspect this would be funnier if I knew the original. It sounds very Doors-y. :)

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hammercock wrote:

Jun. 16th, 2009 04:53 pm (UTC)

I don't think this one's a direct parody of a particular Doors song, but one in the style of the Doors. Weird Al does a lot of in-the-style-of songs as well as direct parodies. One of my favorites is the Zappa-style "Genius in France," which happens to feature guitar work by Dweezil Zappa. It's awesome. :)

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flexagon wrote:

Jun. 17th, 2009 03:05 am (UTC)

Most of it's a pretty straight parody of "When the music's over", actually. Definitely the beginning and the end.

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thatwesguy wrote:

Jun. 18th, 2009 12:35 am (UTC)

He does lots of "style parodies." A double-digit percentage of his output, I believe.

See "Dare To Be Stupid" for a fantastic Devo cover that is not the cover of any particular Devo song, for example.

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crs wrote:

Jun. 18th, 2009 01:10 am (UTC)

Yep, as I recalled from some VH1 special talking about Dare To Be Stupid, and as Wikipedia handily recounts: Shortly after the song was released, Yankovic received a letter from Mark Mothersbaugh congratulating him on writing "the perfect Devo song". He has also said that it was "beautiful ... and I hate him for it, basically."

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yakshaver wrote:

Jun. 16th, 2009 12:59 pm (UTC)

Fantastic.

What would be even more fantastic would be the Doors video this is based on. Except that I'm pretty sure, from a fair bit of youtube searching just now, that it doesn't exist.

Which, come to think of it, marks Weird Al as even more of a genius: Hi imagined the perfect Doors video in order to parody it.

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lokiect wrote:

Jun. 16th, 2009 01:53 pm (UTC)

I always have this problem of hearing the original in my head and thinking that it's better (I know, not a popular stand in geek circles. but knowing the original isn't popular in geek circles either ;9 ) of course, I love the doors and they are such easy targets!

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