Polkarama!

PaulSimonLover · Post by **PaulSimonLover** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 9:15 pm

I'm more concerned with digging this 43-foot hole. Forty-three feet is DEEP.

Seriously, though, it should take about a week to get my music collection back.

Afterwards, I'm gonna get on it.

Post by **The Lilac Pilgrim** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 11:41 pm

Viruses suck. I had a Trojan on my computer that switched the names on my Al songs, caused the windows to move off the screen and made the time 6 am in the year 3243 0.0

Luckily I'm on a new computer with better anti-virus software.

Anyway, I founf Polkarama to be slightly disappointing. Funny but ever so slightly disappointing. Probably cos I'd made myself imagine how it would sound in my head and then it just kinda ended up falling into place in a weird psychic way...

ducttapeearth · Post by **ducttapeearth** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 11:52 pm

Did it translate your documents into Swahili, make your TV record Gigli, neuter your pets, and give your laundry static cling?

I'm sorry, it just had to be done!

MarsBar · Post by **MarsBar** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 11:59 pm

The Lilac Pilgrim @ Oct 4 2006, 05:41 PM wrote: Anyway, I founf Polkarama to be slightly disappointing. Funny but ever so slightly disappointing. Probably cos I'd made myself imagine how it would sound in my head and then it just kinda ended up falling into place in a weird psychic way...

Really?

Wow, I thought Polkarama was the 2nd best song on the album.

Although the fact that you pre-visualized the song may have something to do with it.

PapaSmurf_Y2K · Post by **PapaSmurf_Y2K** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 6:29 pm

My only concern with this albums Polka is the evident political correctness AL seems to be rutted in. During the polkification of Gold Digger he uses the word broke in succession when another word is used in the original. I do not expect the actual word to be used but I am put off by his decision to repeat the word broke. In "Angry white boy polka" Al used a comedic cover-up in his polkification of the NIN song rather than use the offensive word yet in his latest effort he chose to go soft and not even acknowledge the original lyric. Shame on him....

Post by **Kevbo1987** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 6:41 pm

I really don't see why that upsets you. He was simply using the Radio Edit, which is probably a good idea. Al tries his very best to be family-friendly, and using offensive words could rob him of that label.

SmileyGirl87 · Post by **SmileyGirl87** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 6:44 pm

I really don't think there's any "comedic" way to get around that word...I think if you'd never heard the original, you'd never know the difference..and the way Al put the pauses in between "broke, broke" made it even funnier to me..kinda like Kanye was stuttering..but that's just my interpretation.

~*Cat*~

PapaSmurf_Y2K · Post by **PapaSmurf_Y2K** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 6:48 pm

I would not want the offensive words to be audible in any case since I listen to the music with my 8 year old daughter, same age I was when I first became a fan of Al 23 years ago. There is another example of the bleeping technique in "Jerry Springer" and that is all that I would have liked to have heard in the latest polka effort. My point is that it seems to me that the political correctness that my favorite artist has demonstrated has let me down a bit. I am not angered but simply disappointed.

Post by **Kristine** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 7:51 pm

Kevbo1987 @ Oct 6 2006, 05:41 PM wrote: He was simply using the Radio Edit.

Exactly. He didn't change any words at all.

Post by **The Lilac Pilgrim** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 8:00 pm

MarsBar101 @ Oct 4 2006, 10:59 PM wrote: Although the fact that you pre-visualized the song may have something to do with it.

Yeah, I guess so! I was freaked when I heard it cos I knew it was going to sound the way it does... I guess that ruined it again...

ducttapeearth wrote: Did it translate your documents into Swahili, make your TV record Gigli, neuter your pets, and give your laundry static cling?

Yeah! Man, my dog hates me now!