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Imitation is the most flattering form of sincerity.

by Max on Mon 23 Jun 2008 01:09 PM PDT | Permanent Link

I'm doing a week of Weird Al. You all know him as the world's premier creator of music parodies. You probably got a good laugh out of songs like "Eat It", "Fat" and "Smells Like Nirvana." You probably did not, however, see his movie (it's pretty funny), and you may have used a peer-to-peer program to download some crappy novelty song that was miscredited to him. Man, that's irritating. And we Al fans really hate it when you call him "Yankovich." Please stop that.

In any case, I'm going to do something a bit out of the ordinary. Rather that focus on his song parodies, I will highlight his artist or "style" parodies. In addition to doing send-ups of popular songs, he also likes to record original songs very much in the style of a particular musician or band, and the list of people he has honored in this manner reads like a virtual who's-who of my favorite artists. So, the MSaD is showing off a week of "Weird Al" Yankovic in pastiche mode.

Wikipedia article on "Weird Al" Yankovic

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Re: Imitation is the most flattering form of sincerity.

by tuuur on Thu 26 Jun 2008 05:15 AM PDT | Profile | Permanent Link

Hey, a Weird Al week, excellent idea! You already posted 2 songs I didn't know yet, so thanks for that.

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Some of my online cohorts at the Songfight community decided to create blogs to highlight songs they like. I am now doing it as well, because I am a total lemming.

Songfight is a weekly songwriting competition based on titles provided by the site's administrators. I post there under the handle "Albatross." Go check it out. It's a gas.

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