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List of songs recorded by "Weird Al" Yankovic

List of songs recorded by "Weird Al" Yankovic

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"Weird Al" Yankovic is a multiple Grammy Award-winning American musician, satirist, parodist, accordionist, director, television producer, and author.

"Weird Al" Yankovic in 2003

He is known in particular for humorous songs which make fun of popular culture or parody specific songs by contemporary musical acts, or both. His works have earned him three gold and five platinum records in the U.S.

Songs on Yankovic's commercially released albums

Yankovic has written hundreds of songs over his entire career; however, listed below are the tracks that have appeared on his commercially released albums. These include his fourteen studio albums and seven compilation albums.

Studio albums

Compilation albums

Songs

Each song's listing states the album or albums on which it appears, and whether the song is an original or a parody. Some songs are "style parodies", in which Yankovic emulates the general sound of a group without directly parodying one of their songs. These are listed as "Original, in the style of . ... "

More information Song, Album(s) ...

Other commercially available songs

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Songs from The Weird Al Show

Some episodes of The Weird Al Show contained songs that were not released on studio albums.

  • The Al's Mailbag Theme Song
  • Cheese
  • Gonna Open The Door
  • Why Don't We Show a Clip Now
  • I Quit
  • What's With the Singing
  • I Made You into A Freak
  • The Kitty Song By Fred Huggins
  • Water Is Wet By Fred Huggins
  • I like you By Fred Huggins
  • It's Nice to be Nice by Fred Huggins

Songs not commercially released

This is a list of songs Yankovic has written and/or performed, but have not been commercially released.

Misattribution and imitators

Yankovic's official website has the following note:[35][36]

Unfortunately, there are a lot of song parodies floating around the Internet being attributed to Al which are in fact done by somebody else. "Star Wars Cantina," "Windows 95 Sucks," "Living La Vida Yoda," "Combo No. 5," "What If God Smoked Cannabis," "He Got The Wrong Foot Amputated" (the list goes on and on ... some of the titles are unprintable in a family-friendly web site) – these songs are NOT by Al. If you want to verify whether or not a song is actually by Al, check the Catalogue page.

Because Yankovic is arguably the most successful parody artist, songs posted to file sharing networks are often misattributed to him due to their humorous subject matter. Much to the disdain of Yankovic, this includes songs that are racist, sexually explicit, or otherwise offensive. A young listener who had heard several of these offensive tracks by way of a file sharing service confronted Yankovic online, threatening a boycott due to his supposedly explicit lyrics.[37]

Yankovic cites these misattributions as "his real beef with P2P sites":

If you do a search for my name on any one of those sites, I guarantee you that about half of the songs that come up will be songs I had absolutely nothing to do with. That particularly bothers me, because I really try to do quality work, and I also try to maintain a more-or-less family-friendly image – and some of these songs that are supposedly by me are just ... well, vulgar and awful. I truly think my reputation has suffered in a lot of people's minds because of all those fake Weird Al songs floating around the Internet.[3]

A list of songs not by Yankovic can be found at The Not Al List. Alternatively, a list of all commercially released songs recorded by Yankovic can be found on his website.

See also


References

The style parody artists for Straight Outta Lynwood are thanked in the "Special thanks to ..." page of the album's booklet.

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  2. Martens, China (September 16, 2006). "Don't not download this song". Computer World. IDG Communications, Inc. Archived from the original on February 18, 2017.
  3. ""Ask Al" Q&As for July/August 1996". Archived from the original on March 29, 2007. Retrieved February 4, 2007.
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  11. "The Dr. Demento Show #85-46 – November 17, 1985". Archived from the original on June 8, 2011. Retrieved November 7, 2006.
  12. "Permanent Record: Al In The Box". Archived from the original on June 8, 2011. Retrieved October 7, 2006.
  13. "The Dr. Demento Show #79-48 – December 2, 1979". Archived from the original on June 8, 2011. Retrieved November 7, 2006.
  14. "Weird Al Performance at Wollongong, 14-03-07". YouTube. Archived from the original on October 25, 2013. Retrieved March 27, 2007.
  15. "The Dr. Demento Show #78-4 – March 19, 1978". Archived from the original on June 8, 2011. Retrieved November 7, 2006.
  16. "Sound Bytes". Al-oholics Anonymous. Retrieved May 24, 2014.
  17. ""Ask Al" Q&As for December 1999". Archived from the original on November 6, 2006. Retrieved November 7, 2006.
  18. "The Looney Bin". Dqydj.com. May 24, 2009. Retrieved May 24, 2014.
  19. "The Dr. Demento Show #97-36 – September 7, 1997". Archived from the original on June 8, 2011. Retrieved November 7, 2006.
  20. Klamm, Jason (November 7, 2015). Post-Modem: The Interwebs Explained. Lulu.com. pp. 94–. ISBN 978-1-329-03746-5.
  21. "Frequently Asked Questions". "Weird Al" Yankovic. Archived from the original on August 10, 2017.
  22. ""Ask Al" Q&As for October 2, 2005". "Weird Al" Yankovic. Archived from the original on March 29, 2007.



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