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A list of Weird Al "Style Parody" songs- songs he's written that don't directly parody another song (www.weirdalstar.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by FlyingSquid to c/music

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It doesn't include "First World Problems," which was very much a sort of song The Pixies would have written in terms of the music style.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That's because a lot of these are "style parodies" where he parodies the style of a certain band.

Everything You Know Is Wrong is famously a style parody of They Might Be Giants.

Once you hear the style you can't unhear it. He nails TMBG uncannily.

[–] CetaceanNeeded 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The only way Everything You Know Is Wrong could get any better is if TMBG did a cover of it.

[–] GraniteM 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

A fair number of the original artists have been outlasted by Al, but I deeply wish we could get an album of them covering Weird Al's style covers. I think TMBG would be up for it, and I suspect you could get Trent Reznor to cover "Germs."