What? I was nice! You didn't meet up with mama bear...
Frankly, I think "Hardware Store" is perhaps the most difficult song ever of Al's for me to properly sing along to. I do recognize the genius of the arrangement, but it's just too gosh-durn fast for me. Also, I feel like there should be one more "real" verse in there somewhere....it just doesn't quite end properly for me. Low joke content hurt it, too.
Ok. Using your criteria I would have placed it there too. Because I still can't sing with it either. Oh, I try, but it's just sad...
I figured I'd make an attempt to rank Al's songs, since there's nothing I enjoy more than finding bandwagons upon which I can jump. Odds are, though, that by the time someone reads this, I'll have a completely different ranking in mind.
"Weird Al" Yankovic
1. Buckingham Blues
2. Happy Birthday
3. Stop Draggin' My Car Around
4. Mr. Frump In The Iron Lung
5. My Bologna
6. Such A Groovy Guy
7. I'll Be Mellow When I'm Dead
8. Another One Rides The Bus
9. I Love Rocky Road
10. Gotta Boogie
11. Ricky
12. The Check's In The Mail
In 3-D
1. Midnight Star
2. The Brady Bunch
3. Polkas On 45
4. Theme From Rocky XIII
5. Mr. Popeil
6. King Of Suede
7. Eat It
8. Nature Trail To Hell
9. I Lost On Jeopardy
10. Buy Me A Condo
11. That Boy Could Dance
Dare To Be Stupid
1. Dare To Be Stupid
2. Cable TV
3. Yoda
4. Hooked On Polkas
5. One More Minute
6. Girls Just Want To Have Lunch
7. I Want A New Duck
8. Like A Surgeon
9. Slime Creatures From Outer Space
10. This Is The Life
11. George Of The Jungle
Polka Party!
1. Dog Eat Dog
2. Christmas At Ground Zero
3. Addicted To Spuds
4. One Of Those Days
5. Good Enough For Now
6. Here's Johnny
7. Living With A Hernia
8. Polka Party!
9. Don't Wear Those Shoes
10. Toothless People
Even Worse
1. (This Song's Just) Six Words Long
2. You Make Me
3. Lasagna
4. Good Old Days
5. Melanie
6. Twister
7. Fat
8. Twister
9. Alimony
10. I Think I'm A Clone Now
11. Stuck In A Closet With Vanna White
UHF: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack And Other Stuff
1. She Drives Like Crazy
2. Generic Blues
3. Isle Thing
4. The Hot Rocks Polka
5. Spam
6. The Biggest Ball Of Twine In Minnesota
7. Let Me Be Your Hog
8. UHF
9. Spatula City
10. Attack Of The Radioactive Hamsters From A Planet Near Mars
11. Gandhi II
12. Money For Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies
13. Fun Zone
Off The Deep End
1. Smells Like Nirvana
2. I Can't Watch This
3. The Plumbing Song
4. I Was Only Kidding
5. You Don't Love Me Anymore
6. Taco Grande
7. Trigger Happy
8. Airline Amy
9. Polka Your Eyes Out
10. When I Was Your Age
11. Bite Me
12. The White Stuff
Alapalooza AND "Headline News"
1. Headline News (I figured I should put this somewhere)
2. Bedrock Anthem
3. Frank's 2000" TV
4. Bohemian Polka
5. Young, Dumb & Ugly
6. Talk Soup
7. Jurassic Park
8. Harvey The Wonder Hamster
9. Livin' In The Fridge
10. Achy Breaky Song
11. She Never Told Me She Was A Mime
12. Waffle King
13. Traffic Jam
Bad Hair Day
1. Amish Paradise
2. Gump
3. The Alternative Polka
4. Since You've Been Gone
5. Everything You Know Is Wrong
6. Cavity Search
7. The Night Santa Went Crazy
8. Phony Calls
9. I'm So Sick Of You
10. Syndicated Inc.
11. I Remember Larry
12. Callin' In Sick
Running With Scissors
1. Jerry Springer
2. Your Horoscope For Today
3. Polka Power!
4. Albuquerque
5. It's All About The Pentiums
6. Pretty Fly For A Rabbi
7. The Saga Begins
8. Truck Drivin' Song
9. The Weird Al Show Theme
10. Grapefruit Diet
11. Germs
12. My Baby's In Love With Eddie Vedder
Poodle Hat
1. Angry White Boy Polka
2. Couch Potato
3. Hardware Store
4. Trash Day
5. Wanna B Ur Lovr
6. Ode To A Superhero
7. Bob
8. Ebay
9. Why Does This Always Happen To Me?
10. Genius In France
11. A Complicated Song
12. Party At The Leper Colony
There. I think I need to lie down now, as making such difficult decisions has worn me out.
Frankly, I think "Hardware Store" is perhaps the most difficult song ever of Al's for me to properly sing along to. I do recognize the genius of the arrangement, but it's just too gosh-durn fast for me. Also, I feel like there should be one more "real" verse in there somewhere....it just doesn't quite end properly for me. Low joke content hurt it, too.
It is a very difficult song to sing. I'm not giving you heat, I love the song, but it's hard to sing. It's taken me a while to sing everything else besides that verse clearly. I'm doing pretty well on that one verse, but I'm still tripping over words every time.
Oh, when I said "heat" I didn't mean you guys were being mean about it. I just figured HS would be an unpopular choice for last place. But hey, a lot of people would probably rank GIF last on their list, and I think that's crazy! But when you get right down to it, everyone has their own tastes and opinions and at least we can all agree on one thing: AL ROCKS!
Besides, catch me a few months down the line and HS may be my #1 favorite on the album! Song faves change all the time, depending on mood, I guess.
