World of Weird Al Yankovic

Bobio, great work as always. Just became a fan on Facebook so I can check out new songs and find out about your album.

Bobio wrote:lastly, I'm embarrassed to admit, I have no idea how to release a cd, major research and google mode is about to commence.

If you want some quick advice, I'd suggest getting your CD's made on http://www.discmakers.com. I made a Harry Potter-related parody album in the latter part of last year and got it made via discmakers and the albums were beautiful looking!

Way_Moby wrote:

Bobio wrote:lastly, I'm embarrassed to admit, I have no idea how to release a cd, major research and google mode is about to commence.

If you want some quick advice, I'd suggest getting your CD's made on http://www.discmakers.com. I made a Harry Potter-related pardoy album in the latter part of last year and got it made via discmakers and the album were beautiful looking!

Thank you Moby, I will look into that.

I'm really excited... Just watched "Party Like a Mormon" again the other day.
Good stuff. Your rapping is very good!

Way_Moby wrote:I'm really excited... Just watched "Party Like a Mormon" again the other day.
Good stuff. Your rapping is very good!

Thanks for the kind words; I really appreciate the receptive response that I've gotten here, just reflects the fact that we're all WAY fans, and he's a really nice, humble guy. Regarding the rapping, a poster on my facebook fan page, said that my rap skills in "Cold" were outstanding, and my wife laughs, because she says for a white guy from the 'burbs, I'm a pretty good rapper. lol

On another note, does anyone know of a way to increase your youtube hits? I saw a parody the other day, and it was quite good, but the dude had over 200k hits in 3 months, and I was like, "how does that happen?" I heard there's a secret or software, but not sure, if anyone knows, please fill me in. Thanks again

People... watch it. There are ways to increase view count yourself, but that's generally seen as super-not-cool and it's better to get views just by promoting its head off.

Bobio wrote:On another note, does anyone know of a way to increase your youtube hits? I saw a parody the other day, and it was quite good, but the dude had over 200k hits in 3 months, and I was like, "how does that happen?" I heard there's a secret or software, but not sure, if anyone knows, please fill me in. Thanks again

In all honesty, I think your hit count is rather impressive already! I mean, a couple songs have already broke the 'thousand' mark, and "Hard Out Here for a Wimp" is very near 10,000!

A quick question: does anyone know what's the pros/cons of ascap vs bmi, or should one join both? Thanks

There's really not much of a difference. Some days of the year you have a higher chance of making more from ASCAP, other days BMI. Most people I know go for ASCAP.

A quick scan of Wikipedia shows ASCAP having some criticism, whereas BMI's clients include Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera, and John Williams.