| | Weird Al Yankovic Running With Scissors CD Weird Al Yankovic Discography of CDs
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When this accordion-wielding parodist first came into the public eye with '80s mock-rock hits like "Another One Rides the Bus" and "My Bologna," few would have guessed he'd still be charting with his quirky brand of humor in 1999. Al's up to his old tricks with a vengeance here, using the melody of Don McLean's folk-rock epic "American Pie" to relate the tale of the PHANTOM MENACE installment in the STAR WARS series. He takes on hip-hop, too, turning "It's All About the Benjamins" into the computer ode "It's All About the Pentiums." The contemporaneous neo-swing craze is similarly skewered as "Zoot Suit Riot" becomes the nutrition-conscious "Grapefruit Diet." Al's capable of writing uproarious original tunes as well, as evidenced by the Zydeco stomper "My Baby's in Love With Eddie Vedder." Here, the man who parodied Nirvana so successfully takes grunge's heir apparent into his sights, with hilarious results.
Personnel: "Weird Al" Yankovic (vocals, accordion, keyboards); Mary Kay Bergman, Tress MacNeille (vocals); Jim West (guitar, banjo, background vocals); Marty Rifkin (pedal steel guitar); Pat Sauber (banjo); Tom Sauber (fiddle); Joel Peskin (clarinet); Tom Evans (saxophone); Lee Thornberg (trumpet, trombone); Warren Luening, Tavis Werts (trumpet); Bill Reichenbach, Dan Regan (trombone); Tommy Johnson (tuba); Ruben Valtierra, Kim Bullard (keyboards); Steve Jay (bass, background vocals); Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz (drums, percussion, background vocals).
Entertainment Weekly (7/23/99, pp.65-6) - "...demonstrates Yankovic's jokes are eminently listenable....the real kick is that he gets the music exactly right....so absurd you've got to laugh....compared with most comedy recordings these days, RUNNING WITH SCISSORS is a cut above." - Rating: B Running With Scissors Music Weird Al Yankovic Running With Scissors Songs Running With Scissors Music Review Average Rating: (4.7 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews somehow, not the best thing i've heard from al
maybe running with scissors was good for its time and i'll admit there's stuff here that's always gonna be funny, but here, i feel wierd al has failed me with his parodies. this is one of those albums where al's originals will do more for me than his parodies ever will.
from least funny to most side splitting.
1. Germs
2. Pretty fly for a rabi
3. the saga begins
4. polka power! not to say it's not a good polka.
5. jerry springer
6. my baby's in love with eddi vedder
7. it's all about the pentiums.
8. wierd al show theme.
9. your horoscope for today. would have put it closer to the top but by the time i bought this cd i'd heard it too often
10. tryuck drivin' song, not that it deserves that position.
11. grapefruit diet.
12 albaquerkee, don't think i've spelled that right but i swear this 12 minute ramble makes the album. i've heard better from Al.
Submitted by Trent Wellard (Australia)
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 Oh My God
This is the best stuff he's written yet. He definitely shows a great sense of humor while at the same time including some great beats behind it all.
Submitted by Zack (Barrington, RI, USA)
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Weird Al's best yet
Weird Al's CD "Running with scissors" is hillarious! Especially the song Albuquerque. I laughed so hard I peed my pants!
Submitted by a reviewer (Salem, Massachusetts, USA)
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This album has good music with genius lyrics. Its a album you can listen to over and over again and never stop laughing. If you like UHF or any other of his music you will like this cd.
Submitted by a reviewer (Indiana)
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This is perfect Weird Al material. I am left speechless. Undeniably funny. This album, along with Off the Deep End, proves that Weird Al is one not to be forgotten.
Submitted by y2jmann01 (Rhode Island)
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Buy Running With Scissors CD Purchase Running With Scissors CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Weird Al Yankovic CD (1983)
Running With Scissors
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Like an X-ray of a dinosaur egg, this debut Weird Al Yankovic production provides a detailed glimpse of the creature to be grown. "Another One Rides the Bus" is the earliest of his arena rock parodies, recorded in 1980 during an on-air appearance on the Dr. Demento show and a classic piece of musical humor. Already he had developed his knack of knocking the wind out of any pretentious, overblown rock anthem by slightly adjusting the lyrical content. Once one of these songs was describing the boring, mundane activities of the non-rock star, it was if a new life were born within the song. "My Bologna" demonstrated the concept as applied to the fine art of making the stupid much stupider. A later album title by this artist would be ...
| | Weird Al Yankovic Dare To Be Stupid CD (1985)
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Dare to Be Stupid begins with what is perhaps Weird Al Yankovic's best parody ever, the brilliant and cutting "Like a Surgeon." Turning the tacky Madonna hit inside out and upside down, Yankovic comes up with a hilarious satire of the medical profession. Although the implications were probably missed by the none too bright Madonna, and may not have even been intentional on the part of Yankovic, it was a rich idea to use his parody to ridicule a serious subject rather than just take another poke at junk food or game shows. The record's title track follows, and it is the best of Yankovic's original songs that had been recorded so far. Any song that begins with a request to put down your chain saw can't be all bad. One of the best ...
| | Weird Al Yankovic Even Worse CD (1988)
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Trust Weird Al Yankovic to name an album "Even Worse" even as his recordings were getting better again. After a bit of a slump, he rebounded in 1988 by making fun of the same old guy again, Michael Jackson. Video played a big part in the success of "I'm Fat," based on "I'm Bad." In fact, one could say it was a whole new ball game for parody artists if they were expected to provide a video with state-of-the-art special effects such as the fat suit Yankovic had designed for himself, which probably cost more than the entire budget of a Homer and Jethro album. There was also a change in the relationship between Yankovic the satirist and his target, Jackson, as the latter star's hold on his audience was beginning to wear thin by the late '80s. ...
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