Re: P.O.D. + WEIRD AL

Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 21:53:17 -0400
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"David Bruce Murray" <email-address-deleted> wrote in message
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> I'm there. Weird Al has never failed to disappoint me with his humor.
I bought this earlier today and have experienced it one time thru so far.
There's some hilarious stuff, like the Spiderman story set to the tune of
Billy Joel's "Piano Man." "Bob" is my favorite cut, because I "got it" by
the time he was into the second verse. Of course, I was reading the lyric
sheet in the CD, so I had an advantage of sight as well as sound. It's the
sort of song that if you don't get it, it will seem like the stupidest thing
you've ever heard. (And no, I didn't remember reading your comment that gave
it away earlier in this thread, Ed.) Once you get it, you realize all the
work that had to go into creating it. The man is a genius.
I wasn't real crazy about the long cut at the end of the CD (the Zappaesque
thing). It doesn't measure up to the similarly exhaustive piece at the end
of _Running With Scissors_ or the "Biggest Ball Of Twine In Minnesota."
I enjoyed the parodies, but I'm so out of touch with current pop music, I
didn't know a couple of the originals . . . the Nelly song or the Avril
Lavigne song. The Eminem thing is pretty good, and I recognized the
Backstreet Boys number. What set's Weird Al's parodies above most is that
each song stands alone as a cohesive comedy piece whether or not you
recognize the tune.
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David Bruce Murray / email-address-deleted
---Making hay while the sun shines---
"I know a pagan piano riff when I hear it." ---Dr. Bobby Clark
written May 7, 2003 by "The Original Tenor of the Cathedral Quartet"