World of Weird Al Yankovic

Posted: **Thu Jan 08, 2004 6:46 am**

i've never performed any weird al songs at a talent show - i don't sing well enough to do that - but i have performed parodies i've written at a couple of talent shows recently and i got 3rd place in a campus-wide contest for singing parodies there despite blanking out in the middle of a song in the final round

Posted: **Fri Jan 09, 2004 7:26 am**

I'm planning on doing a Weird Al medley this year for my talent show. It goes like this: I'd do an intro dedicating it to a man who "walks the thin line of comedy and controversy" and play it up to sound like Eminem (although all of the things I say also have to partain to Al) and start off with Couch Potato (in costume and everything which'll help my Eminemish intro), then I go to A Complicated Song using the cell phone intro Al used in the Poodle Hat Tour, then I'd go to Free Delivery (if my voice doesn't deepen a lot by then...

), Bob, Trash Day, and finish with either Hardware Store or Your Horoscope for Today. I'd have easy to do but very representative as well-thought out 5 second costume changes and props and they wouldn't interupt the song. What do you think?

(Take a breath)

Posted: **Fri Jan 09, 2004 8:36 pm**

EccentricEthan @ Jan 8 2004, 04:46 AM wrote: i got 3rd place in a campus-wide contest for singing parodies there despite blanking out in the middle of a song in the final round

Oh man I hate it when that happens! I have been singing with a samll band for 6 years and 2 weekends ago we went into Patsy Cline's - "She's Got You" and I totally blanked the first verse. Doh!
Cid

Posted: **Fri Jan 09, 2004 8:37 pm**

iisryan27 @ Jan 9 2004, 05:26 AM wrote: I'm planning on doing a Weird Al medley this year for my talent show. It goes like this: I'd do an intro dedicating it to a man who "walks the thin line of comedy and controversy" and play it up to sound like Eminem (although all of the things I say also have to partain to Al) and start off with Couch Potato (in costume and everything which'll help my Eminemish intro), then I go to A Complicated Song using the cell phone intro Al used in the Poodle Hat Tour, then I'd go to Free Delivery (if my voice doesn't deepen a lot by then... ), Bob, Trash Day, and finish with either Hardware Store or Your Horoscope for Today. I'd have easy to do but very representative as well-thought out 5 second costume changes and props and they wouldn't interupt the song. What do you think?

(Take a breath)

Will this be performed accapella?
Cid

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2004 12:58 am**

kidcid @ Jan 9 2004, 07:37 PM wrote:
iisryan27 @ Jan 9 2004, 05:26 AM wrote: I'm planning on doing a Weird Al medley this year for my talent show. It goes like this: I'd do an intro dedicating it to a man who "walks the thin line of comedy and controversy" and play it up to sound like Eminem (although all of the things I say also have to partain to Al) and start off with Couch Potato (in costume and everything which'll help my Eminemish intro), then I go to A Complicated Song using the cell phone intro Al used in the Poodle Hat Tour, then I'd go to Free Delivery (if my voice doesn't deepen a lot by then... ), Bob, Trash Day, and finish with either Hardware Store or Your Horoscope for Today. I'd have easy to do but very representative as well-thought out 5 second costume changes and props and they wouldn't interupt the song. What do you think?

(Take a breath)
Will this be performed accapella?
Cid

No actually I've...somehow obtained...the instrumental pieces to these songs.

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2004 2:10 am**

Do Horoscope for the finale.

So...had my OMM performance planned out for Alcon 4... it's waiting.

Should I start a "Rent-an-OMM" business? Geez!

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2004 2:24 am**

iisryan27 @ Jan 9 2004, 12:26 AM wrote: I'm planning on doing a Weird Al medley this year for my talent show. It goes like this: I'd do an intro dedicating it to a man who "walks the thin line of comedy and controversy" and play it up to sound like Eminem (although all of the things I say also have to partain to Al) and start off with Couch Potato (in costume and everything which'll help my Eminemish intro), then I go to A Complicated Song using the cell phone intro Al used in the Poodle Hat Tour, then I'd go to Free Delivery (if my voice doesn't deepen a lot by then... ), Bob, Trash Day, and finish with either Hardware Store or Your Horoscope for Today. I'd have easy to do but very representative as well-thought out 5 second costume changes and props and they wouldn't interupt the song. What do you think?

(Take a breath)

Perform Hardware Store live?? That's ambitious.

I like the ideas, though. Hopefully, people will be willing to let you do the whole act before passing judgement (as Al said, "Some people just can't take a joke, ya know?").

Bob is the one I question most, since people who don't understand why that song is so special (and don't know who Bob Dylan is) may not get it. But it's up to you, and I think they'll enjoy it either way.

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2004 2:29 am**

iisryan27 @ Jan 11 2004, 05:58 PM wrote: No actually I've...somehow obtained...the instrumental pieces to these songs.

I understand how you got instrumentals for the originals on PH (and the parodies, since you can get the original's instrumental), but how did you find instrumentals for Horoscope For Today?

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2004 2:32 am**

There's a shortened Horoscope instrumental on the Live DVD... it's not the whole song though.

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2004 2:39 am**

yo @ Jan 11 2004, 07:32 PM wrote: There's a shortened Horoscope instrumental on the Live DVD... it's not the whole song though.

Yeah, and you would have to have a TV and DVD player to play the instrumental.

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