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[Redezra]

Huh. I would have put money on Manoka being the one to necro-post this.

Don't worry Phate, you can hang out in my clubhouse where there are no manokas.

[ᗅᗺᗷᗅ]

I'd still love to do this.

 

*turns to look at KingBiscuit*

[KiWi]

Not Ebay, nor Going to the Drive Thru.

Y'all have some shit taste. I don't even remember what this is for.

Did we ever have a thread for Mandatory Fun? I got a lot of play from that album.

[ᗅᗺᗷᗅ]

Yeah this thread was started basically in response to Mandatory Fun's release. We were planning to do a Jorost & The Beard fake radio special, but it never panned out. Although like I said, I'm still game.

[Haflinger]

I find the fact that Amish Paradise is ahead of Eat It to be very sad.

[ᗅᗺᗷᗅ]

Hmm. "Eat It" is a classic, of course, but I think I like "Amish Paradise" better. It's more clever, and the juxtaposition of the gangsta rap style with the absurd lyrics really highlights the absurdity. "Eat It" feels more like it was meant for kids.

[Haflinger]

"Eat It" was released when I was fourteen.

[HordeLorde]

*oh well since you old codgers wanna stick to the classics and forget what the point of Weird Al's farce is all about lemmee remind you of the "good ol days" with these two forgotten gems...a back to back sneak attack here on 107.9 The Geezer*

[Haflinger]

The other problem I have with "Amish Paradise" and "My Bologna" is that I actually really like "Gangsta Paradise" and "My Sharona." Whereas "Beat It" is a song that screams for a parody.

[HordeLorde]

Weird Al parodies songs that have usually been overplayed on the radio to the point of annoyance which is why so many of his parodies are of pop songs(along with the fact that pop uses some of the simplest rhyming schemes for a bout 95+% of what it produces.) So when one of his songs starts you think "OMG not this song again..wasnt it just played like 14 minutes ago...wait....it sounds weird....wha the.... OH FUCK YEAH ITS WEIRD AL! thanks AL for describing my ear pain to the ENTIRE MUSIC INDUSTRY by creating a parody to this annoying song"

To find people upset with any Weird Al song/album(save for the artists being parodied) is surprising....especially when it comes in the form of "You dang kids and your strange zippity zappa boobang music! back in my day weird al parodied kings! KINGS I TELL YOU!".   pshhhhh phooey and puhshaw! Weird Al's music is meant to make the rest of the music industry look like fools! a vote against his work is a vote for hearing the same old shit over and over and over again until you go deaf or gauge out you own ear drums(whatever comes first)

[HordeLorde]

to prove my  point

[Haflinger]

The artists being parodied do not object to Weird Al's parodies. He is not legally required to, but he gets permission from the original artist every time before making one of his parodies.

 

There's a somewhat famous example of this policy, when he wanted to do a parody of "Money for Nothing." He contacted the guys at Dire Straits, and Knopfler said "OK but only if you let me play guitar for you."

 

Weird Al not being a complete retard and knowing who Knopfler is of course agreed.

 

The funny part of course being that "Money for Nothing" is in itself a parody of a guy Knopfler met in real life.

 

[HordeLorde]

The artists being parodied do not object to Weird Al's parodies. He is not legally required to, but he gets permission from the original artist every time before making one of his parodies.

 

There's a somewhat famous example of this policy, when he wanted to do a parody of "Money for Nothing." He contacted the guys at Dire Straits, and Knopfler said "OK but only if you let me play guitar for you."

 

Weird Al not being a complete retard and knowing who Knopfler is of course agreed.

 

The funny part of course being that "Money for Nothing" is in itself a parody of a guy Knopfler met in real life.

 

I moreso meant that i wouldnt be surprised if artists if an artist was upset with his parody of their song. my fault for this misunderstanding should have watched the word crimes video before i posted lol.

lol parodies of paradies.....i wonder if thats a stable paradox?

[Haflinger]

Well, the way I saw Knopfler telling it he was in a department store back in the 80s and they had a wall of TVs set up all showing MTV. And there was this kinda obnoxious guy reeling off all kinds of deprecatory comments about the pop stars on display. So he wrote "Money for Nothing" which was a song from the point of view of this asshole, except without all the unbroadcastable swear words lol.

[Manoka]

Dare to be stupid? That or party in the CIA.

 

[HordeLorde]

Well, the way I saw Knopfler telling it he was in a department store back in the 80s and they had a wall of TVs set up all showing MTV. And there was this kinda obnoxious guy reeling off all kinds of deprecatory comments about the pop stars on display. So he wrote "Money for Nothing" which was a song from the point of view of this asshole, except without all the unbroadcastable swear words lol.

the song wouldve been at least another 7 minutes long if it had swear words

[Redezra]

Party in the CIA is the theme song for the clandestine department I totally do not head.

[Shokkou]

Of course you don't. I'm in charge here, and it's quite a feather in my cap if I do say so myself.

[Redezra]

Oh Shokkou, not that department. That other department!

[Shokkou]

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the CIA, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Big Guys, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in hothead warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire Central Intelligence Agency. You are nothing to me but just another Bane. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before in Eastern Europe, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of hired guns across the USA and your mask is being pulled off right now so you better prepare for the fire, mosquito man. The fire that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, Redezra. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just before I throw you out of my plane. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire aircraft of the CIA and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you big guy. If only you could have known what unholy reckoning your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, no charge, you goddamn idiot. It will be extremely painful for you. I will crash this plane all over you and you will drown in it with no survivors. You're fucking dead, big guy.

Edited by Shokkou, 18 October 2015 - 03:24 AM.