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So, apparently, "Dog Eat Dog" off Weird Al's album "Polka Party" is basically all about mocking the Talking Heads's style.

The Weird Al Effect? I suppose thats the closest thing we've got. (WARNING: tvtropes will ruin your life. Do not click on that link if you have things to do today.) But yes. Funny how all it takes is an album for a random Al song to go from being "meh, whatever" to being absolutely *wonderful*!

~Sor
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Forgotten origins and remembered derivations are the way of the world since the dawn of humanity. Mithras forgotten as Christianity surrounds the world? Same thing. Monty Python, we know, but Flanders & Swann? Beyond the Fringe? The Goon Show? Vivian Stanshall?

Without understand the precursors and the contemporaries, one does not truly understand anything. The same is true in art and music and everything else I've encountered - it's all organic and the public has, as Steve Martin so rightly and memorably asserted before your time, a short attention span.

I understand this "Weird Al Effect" personally.

I didn't realize "Yoda" was a parody, because when I first heard it (1987 maybe) I had never heard the song "Lola"...

Of course the fact that I was 7 probably had something to do with that. My parents thought that was a little too young to learn about transvestites.

I remember reading a rant in someone's LJ a while ago that if you like "the Weird Al version" of a pop song, then you really can't say you "hate ALL pop music". Since his parody is a song with the same music/style - albeit with a singer can actually write his own lyrics - it's still pop-music.

But then again, what do I know about parody and comedy music? (Http://www.thefump.com)

WARNING: tvtropes will ruin your life.

Is there a tvtropes article on the tvtropes effect? I wonder what it would link to.

Also: wait a minute, are you implying that you are unfamiliar with the Talking Heads?!

Listen to this first, it's my favorite: http://www.mediafire.com/?fzyqn20zkcd

Listen to this next, almost every song is better live than in the studio: http://www.mediafire.com/?a520m5dfyfg

See the "Stop Making Sense" movie.

Call me when you're done.

Oh wait, forcing people to engage with the things I like doesn't dispose them positively towards the material, right? Um. Oops. Ok, take a listen to the album in the first link, and tell me whether you enjoy it. Just put it on in the background. It's danceable and fun without being poppy; the rhythms are fascinating, and the lyrics have a sort of paranoiac power. It's probably one of the best albums ever made by a person.

Once, back in the early 1990's, I made a tape that had all the songs on it that Weird Al parodied for

avjewe's birthday. It involved a lot of driving around to libraries in other counties to get the albums, since I didn't want to pay for them. It was an interesting project.

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