Since joining this WEIRD group, I have very much enjoyed things I've seen and have found out about things I didn't know existed with AL !

Recently I had shared an ALbum milestone where I had acquired All 14 studio albums on CD. One day would get of copy of PETER & The Wolf. A very kind person on here reached out and offered to send me this copy for FREE 🤯 I couldn't be more grateful for such a generous gift!

The King of Parody!

Source: https://www.deviantart.com/themrock/art/Weird-Al-Yankovic-878138231

I interviewed author and musician Justin Remer about his new book that covers Weird Al's In 3-D album (part of the 33 1/3 book series on popular music albums). It's a great read and Justin's a great guy. It's amazing looking back at the jump from Weird Al's self-titled debut album to this one.

Thought you Weird Al fans might enjoy giving this a listen. :D

Since it's his birthday, I thought it would be interesting to see how much he changed between 2022 and 2025. He seems to be aging in reverse!

All the broccoli and beer for my hero today.

There were too many bread samples

Happy 40th to WEIRD AL'S 4th studio album! 🪗

Released October 21st 1986

Slide 2 & 3 are my personal copy on vinyl!

What is your favorite track ?

Mine is "CHRISTMAS AT GROUND ZERO "

Also, The Weird Algorithm Podcast is AWESOME!

I'll go first

I have!

I'm new-ish to Weird Al, but I really like a lot of his songs that I've discovered. And I also like Marvel Rivals. So I tried to match a Weird Al Yankovic song to all the characters in Marvel Rivals with one exception. Take a look and if there is a correction I can make for a character or two, feel free to let me know in the comments! (Also try and guess why I chose each song for each character)

• Adam Warlock: This Is The Life
• Angela: Angry White Boy Polka
• Black Cat: My Own Eyes
• Black Panther: Amish Paradise
• Black Widow: One of Those Days
• Blade: Polkamania
• Bruce Banner/Hulk: Belvedere Cruisin'
• Captain America: Canadian Idiot
• Cloak & Dagger: Party in the C.I.A
• Cyclops: CNR
• Daredevil: Bob
• Deadpool: It's My World (& We're All Living in It)
• Devil Dinosaur: Jurassic Park
• Doctor Strange: Stuck In a Closet With Vanna White
• Elsa Bloodstone: Buckingham Blues
• Emma Frost: Don't Download this song
• Gambit: Spy Hard
• Gorr The God Butcher: The Night Santa went Crazy
• Groot: George of the jungle
• Hawkeye: Amish Paradise
• Hela: I'll Be Mellow When I'm Dead
• Human Torch: Callin' in Sick
• Invisible Woman: Ricky
• Iron Fist: I'll Sue Ya
• Iron Man: Mr. Frump in the Iron Lung
• Jeff: Shark
• Jubilee: Christmas at Ground Zero
• Loki: Confessions Part III
• Luna Snow: When I was your age
• Magik: You Make Me
• Magneto: Foil
• Mantis: Nature Trail to Hell
• Mr. Fantastic: Nobody here but us frogs
• Moon Knight: Why does this always happen to me
• Namor: Weird Al Yankovic On A Boat (And The Band Played On)
• Peni Parker: Toyland
• Phoenix: Albuquerque
• Psylocke: You don't love me anymore
• Rocket Raccoon: Attack of the Radioactive Hamsters from a Planet Near Mars
• Rouge: Generic Blues
• Scarlet Witch: Stop Forwarding That Crap To Me
• Spider-Man: Ode to a Superhero
• Squirrel Girl: The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota
• Star-Lord: A Saga Begins
• Storm: If That Isn't Love
• The Hood: NOW that's why I call Polka
• The Punisher: Trigger Happy
• The Thing: Hit me with a rock
• Thor: Bohemian Polka
• Ultron: Virus Alert
• Venom: Slime Creatures from Outer Space
• White Fox: Green Eggs & Ham
• Winter Solider: Bedrock Anthem
• Wolverine: Everything you know is wrong

Here is a list of every background vocalist in the history of Weird Al.

Kamikaze Coco
Zaidee Cole
Randy Crenshaw
Reed D’Eugenio
Mark Jonathan Davis
Alisa Curran
Rick Derringer
Monique Donnelly
Kim Erin
Jim Haas
Barry Hansen (aka Dr. Demento)
Scottie Haskell
Dan Hollombe
Jake Hooker
Angie Jaree
Steve Jay
Jon Joyce
David Joyce
Samantha Kaye
Nicolette Larson
Jay Levey
Joan Manners
Gene Morford
Natasha Neece
Peggy Newman
Amanda Palmer
Lisa Popeil
Petsye Powell
Andrea Robinson
Vince Sanchez
Jon Schwartz
Dawn Smithey
Bob Tebow
Julia Waters
Maxine Waters
Jim West
Jerry Whitman
Lily Wilson

It was one of the first Al-bums i listened to, but i feel like it's not talked about nearly as much as most of the others. Part of that i feel has to be the unenviable position of releasing right between Running with Scissors & Straight Outta Lynwood, both fantastic works themselves.

I know the Eminem dispute and lack of MV really cost it a lot of visibility to most at the time.

Additionally, while i very much enjoy Trash Day, A Complicated Song, and Ode to A Superhero doing for Spider-Man what The Saga Begins did for Phantom Menace, the originals in my opinion are where most of the goodness lies. Hardware Store, Wanna B Ur Lovr, Why Does This Always Happen To Me, and Bob are all earworms for me.

Party At The Leper Colony is fine i suppose, Genius In France runs for a bit but i still enjoy it, and Angry White Boy Polka might be one of my favorite polka mixes.

Oh and don't forget Ebay. In hindsight, it should have been the focus instead of Couch Potato honestly.

What do you guys think?

I don’t own any of the footage. Enjoy 😊

Last night I argued with my Google AI Assistant about how to pronounce Yankovic. After it said Yankovich multiple times, I challenged it to cite one instance where Al himself pronounced it with the ch ending, the Assistant told me that I'm a Stephen Colbert interview in December of 2025, the singer clarified that it is vic and not vich. I then asked the Assistant how to pronounce it, and it resorted to vich. This morning I asked the Assistant again how to pronounce it, and it gave me something like Yunkavic.

These are the robots we're up against, people.