The Essential "Weird Al" Yankovic

Post by **Big Spoon** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 1:01 am

Any ideas on what all this could be? My guess would be that it's probably going to be like Permanent Record was, mostly containing hits, but also including a few rarer tracks, and hopefully it'll have some instrumentals of originals on it, too.

Post by **JEDM** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 1:07 am

I'm hoping that it's one of these types of releases. It probably is. My guess is that it'll be made up of mostly the singles/tracks that had music videos.

Monkeytender · Post by **Monkeytender** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 1:11 am

Two CDs would be about 25 songs, right? That means there could be about two songs from each album if he wanted to, especially if he isn't including Album 13.

It'd be nice to see "You're Pitiful".

Post by **Kristine** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 1:12 am

Monkeytender @ July 20, 2009 03:11 pm wrote: It'd be nice to see "You're Pitiful".

If Atlantic wouldn't let him publish it before, I doubt they'll let him now. Sorry, but I wouldn't hold your breath.

Post by **Big Spoon** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 1:19 am

I'm hoping this also has some high-quality live performances.

Post by **JEDM** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 1:21 am

I'm gonna post one of my tweets here:

@joshuajedm wrote: ...and perhaps since you already have released a version of it, a newly recorded studio version of Like a Surgeon Truth or Dare? Maybe...

weirdalfan1000000 · Post by **weirdalfan1000000** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 1:25 am

Where did you hear about this?

I really hope they will release some official live recordings, but they will probably just have the 2 most popular songs from each album and nothing else.

Post by **Big Spoon** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 1:25 am

weirdalfan1000000 @ July 20, 2009 04:25 pm wrote: Where did you hear about this?

Twitter.

weirdalfan1000000 · Post by **weirdalfan1000000** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 1:27 am

Oh, just noticed that.

Post by **weird_el** » Tue Jul 21, 2009 1:44 am

Essential Weird Al = 27 songs.

None of the new ones though -- they're for album 13.