Weird Al To Release Songs As He Records Them 333
slapout writes "Weird Al has announced that with the Internet he can now release his songs for sale as he records each one rather than waiting for a whole album to be produced."
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Just because he can... (Score:5, Funny)
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Yes it does mean he should. Through his actions he can demonstrate that an artist doesn't need the corporate engine in order to succeed. He can use the internet to eliminate the waste of the middle man.
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TRIVIA - In both 1988 and 2008 it took 1 hour to download a game. Internet speeds have kept pace with growing demand.
94% of all internet facts are made up on the spot.
Re:Just because he can... (Score:5, Informative)
>>>94% of all internet facts are made up on the spot.
Except this one is verifiable:
1988 - download of 880k floppy game over then-typical 2400 baud modem =~ 1 hour (from my own personal experience)
2008 - download of 4000 megabyte game over typical 10 Mbit/s cable =~ 1 hour (math)
Naturally the actual time will vary if your 1988 computer had a double-sized floppy (takes 2 hours) or if you are downloading a dual-sided DVD (also 2 hours). But Slashdot's signature length limit precludes me from including all that detail. The important point to note is that speeds have escalated to match demand. We have never experienced the so-called "speed limit" that certain Chicken Littles keep claiming we're going to hit. They are just blowing a lot of hot air, and have been doing so for almost 15 years now. Their claims have no merit.
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I guess my bigger issue is your definition of game size. I know that sizes vary wildly. In the 80's, I had some games that fit on one floppy, and others that spanned at least 4, and you had to swap as you made it to other parts of the game. The same is true today.
However, if you argument is that we don't have an imminent bandwidth crisis, I will agree. However, we do need to invest in more infrastructure. With a soon-to-be $11 Trillion dollar debt in the U.S., I sincerely worry that our infrastructure will
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I guess my bigger issue is your definition of game size.
Exactly what I was thinking. It's pretty easy to "prove" his point if he just picks two sizes that work out mathematically and declare those the standard sizes for games.
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>>>if he just picks two sizes that work out mathematically
We're talking about a *general* concept, not precision. Even if we assume somebody's downloading the 4-floppy Space Ace game to their Commodore Amiga PC, which would require 4 hours at then-common 2400 baud rates, it's still close to how long a game download takes today. It's within an order of magnitude.
This is in direct opposition to what many experts were saying in 1995. They claimed the internet had reached a natural speed-limit of 33
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>>>However, we do need to invest in more infrastructure.
I have faith that private companies will, for the sake of profit, provide faster cabling..... just as they always have. I started with a 1.2k modem and without any government assistance, but merely through the profit directive, I was able to jump to 9.6k, then 56k, next 700k, and now 10,000k.
If government starts interfering, I'm afraid it will have the opposite effect of slowing things down. The last time government was involved, they grante
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>>>94% of all internet facts are made up on the spot.
Except this one is verifiable:
1988 - download of 880k floppy game over then-typical 2400 baud modem =~ 1 hour (from my own personal experience)
2008 - download of 4000 megabyte game over typical 10 Mbit/s cable =~ 1 hour (math)
Naturally the actual time will vary if your 1988 computer had a double-sized floppy (takes 2 hours) or if you are downloading a dual-sided DVD (also 2 hours). But Slashdot's signature length limit precludes me from including all that detail. The important point to note is that speeds have escalated to match demand. We have never experienced the so-called "speed limit" that certain Chicken Littles keep claiming we're going to hit. They are just blowing a lot of hot air, and have been doing so for almost 15 years now. Their claims have no merit.
So are you saying that our system/network resource consumption will increase to match availability, or that we will never reach technical limitations and that all of the moore's law type observations will continue to infinity? I can agree with the first one, but not the second.
Yo! Listen up! (Score:2)
>>>>1988 - download of 880k floppy game over then-typical 2400 baud modem =~ 1 hour (from my own personal experience)
Simple solution my brother...
Don't Copy That Floppy!
\Word!
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Actually you can get up to 20Mb on.
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Especially since most "real numbers" are derived from studies with biased researchers trying to get a result that favors their political view.
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%100 of people know the discussion is redundant.
Re:Just because he can... (Score:5, Insightful)
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I think this form of distribution benefits Weird Al far more most other artists. While many nerds here believe he has created music for the ages, his songs work best when they're topical. Amish Paradise is funniest when it is held in comparison to Gangsta's Paradise. Same goes for Eat It and all of his parodies. To appreciate a parody you need to know the original.
This way of distributing his songs allows him to seize on any momentary pop culture phenomenon and have the general public, those who don't read
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There was a big piece on him in the last issue of Wired, and this is spot on. He said that one of the troubles with parodying today's music market is you no longer have the icons like Michael Jackson or Madonna with hits that stay on the charts for months at a time. Instead, you have one the one hand people like Kevin Federline and Jessica Simpson, who are already kind of self-parodies, and on the other hand the biggest top forty hits only stay on the charts for a handful of weeks. This makes releasing a
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Fugazi (& they were doing it 15 years ago), MC Chris, Silversun Pickups, Death Cab for Cutie (until recently), The Decemberists, The Shins, NIRVANA, The Postal Service, Rehab (again until recently), Arcade Fire...
There are quite a few acts that have pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps. Just because you haven't heard of them or you don't like the genre, doesn't mean they don't exist.
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Much like Trent Reznor and Radiohead, he's got tons of cash to play around with and experiment - cash made while riding the corporate engine. I'll subscribe to your theory when I see a brand new artist do the same thing and make a profit from it.
If he ever does release another full album, I have a title for it.
"Wierd Al: Much like Trent Reznor and Radiohead".
Thank you Mordaximus!
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You mean, like Jonathan Coulton? [http]
Who?
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The guy with the incredibly malformed <a href> link.
No, that's not right. Jonathan Coulton [jonathancoulton.com] has an awesome http, the best on teh tubes. I am JAFI [slashdot.org] has teh fail http. But meant well.
Seriously (SRSLY), Jonathon Coulton rose to geek prominence with this distribution model. Weird Al doesn't need more prominence, but at least credit him with seeing the wisdom of Coulton's* model.
*Yeah, Coulton didn't invent or pioneer this. He just made it visible, at least within the 'net community. Most "music consumers" h
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After succeeding and making a butt-load of money using that engine.
A better test would be to follow a new artist doing the same thing and see if they become as successful.
Probably will be great for him (Score:5, Insightful)
I guess now by doing this he can have a parody in the hands of his fans while the original version of the song is still popular. If you're trying to lampoon popular culture, releasing an album at a time means that you will always be a good deal behind the times.
Re:Probably will be great for him (Score:5, Insightful)
I guess now by doing this he can have a parody in the hands of his fans while the original version of the song is still popular. If you're trying to lampoon popular culture, releasing an album at a time means that you will always be a good deal behind the times.
That's not as good an idea as you might imagine. I do the same thing -- parody songs. Popular != well known. Older means more people have become familiar with it, particularly those who don't keep current on the genre the song is from. If fewer people recognize it, the act falls flat. I'll bet Weird Al is aware of this since he typically runs years behind a "hit" despite producing things in the interim. Plus, if he seeks permission (he used to sometimes) it'd be easier to get when something's no longer hot. Very new, and they won't want it made fun of. Older, and the parody can bring the original back up the chart.
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Plus, if he seeks permission (he used to sometimes) it'd be easier to get when something's no longer hot. Very new, and they won't want it made fun of. Older, and the parody can bring the original back up the chart.
That's an interesting point, but he isn't going to run out of available material to parody any time soon. And as far as I'm aware, he always asks permission from the artist before doing a parody of their song, even though legally he doesn't have to. I've always respected that about his work.
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I guess now by doing this he can have a parody in the hands of his fans while the original version of the song is still popular. If you're trying to lampoon popular culture, releasing an album at a time means that you will always be a good deal behind the times.
That's not as good an idea as you might imagine. I do the same thing -- parody songs. Popular != well known. Older means more people have become familiar with it, particularly those who don't keep current on the genre the song is from. If fewer people recognize it, the act falls flat. I'll bet Weird Al is aware of this since he typically runs years behind a "hit" despite producing things in the interim. Plus, if he seeks permission (he used to sometimes) it'd be easier to get when something's no longer hot. Very new, and they won't want it made fun of. Older, and the parody can bring the original back up the chart.
And, obviously, this is why DynaSoar is now a household name. :p
In all seriousness though, look at South Park. Sometimes they parody pop culture and the news the week after something becomes huge/mainstreamed. Part of its current success is that people can watch a new episode and see what's currently going on in popular society lampooned.
Of course, certain things need longer to sink in than others, but, lets take MIA's song Airplanes for example. It's still relevant and it's been around long enough for m
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I guess now by doing this he can have a parody in the hands of his fans while the original version of the song is still popular. If you're trying to lampoon popular culture, releasing an album at a time means that you will always be a good deal behind the times.
That's not as good an idea as you might imagine. I do the same thing -- parody songs. Popular != well known. Older means more people have become familiar with it, particularly those who don't keep current on the genre the song is from. If fewer people recognize it, the act falls flat. I'll bet Weird Al is aware of this since he typically runs years behind a "hit" despite producing things in the interim. Plus, if he seeks permission (he used to sometimes) it'd be easier to get when something's no longer hot. Very new, and they won't want it made fun of. Older, and the parody can bring the original back up the chart.
And are people more receptive to parody once they have started to get bored of the original? (When they are in that area where they aren't sick of it, but don't really care either).
Al vs Eminem (Score:2)
Last I heard he gets permission for every single song. He recently wanted to parody an Eminem "song" but Eminem turned him down, so he didn't do the parody. Shows you how classy Al is, and how big of a D-bag Eminem is.
Actually what happened was he got permission to parody "Lose Yourself," and made the song "Couch Potato." It was planned to make that the big single from his album, but when he started to work on a music video for it, Eminem (or his people) turned around and told Al he couldn't do the video. Al was stuck without the opportunity to promote his leading single, and therefore the album.
Bringing things back on-topic a bit, I imagine that incident was at least pert of the reason for Al's current move away from
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Strangely enough. I still enjoy his parodies long after the original song has dropped out of sight. Let's remember too that only about half of his work is parody. The other half is 100% his own work.
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Weird Al parodies of Michael Jackson music: funny and still relatively popular
Michael Jackson music: largely a joke now.
Weird Al also (as others have pointed out) has been known to parody stuff from a decade or 2 earlier: e.g. Grapefruit Diet (Zoot Suit Riot) or The Saga Begins (American Pie).
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Imagine if you tried to predict that 20 or so years ago.
Oh Good (Score:3, Funny)
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I detect a touch of cynicism in your post.
Do you not realise that this means that fans of food-based "parody" songs can get their hands on Weird Al's output while it's still lame, rather than waiting until it's lame and outdated? This could revolutionise Western culture as we know it.
Only one question remains; how the hell is this news?
Re:Oh what a relief ... (Score:2)
(To Four Seasons December 1963)
Oh what a relief!
Three Burritos with extra beans
Washed them down with a fizzy drink.
Now the chemistry's workin' me -
Oh my wordy, what a relief!
Two new gasses, from opposite ends,
Like an 'Al song for all his friends!
"physical media" on the way out? (Score:5, Interesting)
It might not be too long before the physical album is like the TV series collectors sets - you only get them if you want the nice boxes and "official" stamp.
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Re: "physical media" on the way out? (Score:5, Interesting)
I think my kids (2 and 4 now) will find the whole notion of physical media for consumable media ridiculous.
Once (hopeful here) this silly DRM thing is over and prices are low enough for piracy to be less attractive physical media will simply become impractical.
Sure, there will always be the collectors who keep stuff for whatever reason, but most people are only after the music/video/whatever...
Re: "physical media" on the way out? (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm afraid you are completely missing what is happening to the music industry.
DRM was never about catching piracy, it was about extracting more money from those who legally pay for their media. Fortunately, DRM appears to be dying a death but the media companies still want to make more profits from those people who do pay for the stuff.
The fact is that downloadable music, legal or illegal, is turning music into a disposable commodity - i.e. once your iPod fills up, wipe it and start again. And because of that, there will no longer be the *need* to make albums that people are likely to listen to for their entire lives.
Look at modern pop music and you will see endless clone artists, no matter what the genre, that are thrown into the limelight for eighteen months or so just to churn out cheap-to-make music - as soon as these same artists get beligerent and demand more money, they disappear, with a new cheaper "clone" put in place.
For the record labels its great - no arrogant mega-stars to deal with, just churn out plastic dross that's cheap to make but makes loads of profits. This is why a lot of youngsters these days have a perception that albums only have one or two good tracks on them - because that is actually the case for the trash that's forced on them by advertising.
So I actually feel sorry for your kids - because when they get to an age where they can start to appreciate music, there will be no "classic" albums that will come out of their generation, just "pick 'n' mix" music.
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And because of that, there will no longer be the *need* to make albums that people are likely to listen to for their entire lives.
I sincerely hope you're wrong. Some of my favorite music is stuff I hated as a kid (John Lee Hooker, Little Walter, old jazz from the '30s and '40s), some of the stuff I hated as a kid I hate even more (the Archies, most of the Beach Boys), and most of the stuff I loved as an older teen and young adult I still love (Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Beatles, Van Halen, Ted Nugent).
I fear
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In fact, they can create longer and more varies works using the digital medium then they ever could with an album.
Well, not really, but with CDs you don't have to turn it over and change albums. The Wall will fit on one CD, for instance, instead of two 2 sided albums. You don't have to turn Thick As A Brick over.
That's just a sign that you are old.
It's a sign that the young are clueless. Where are your John Lee Hookers? Your Chuck Berrys? Your Led Zeppelins? Your Pink Floyds? Your Matallicas and Megadeaths
Yay! (Score:5, Funny)
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Let's party like it's 2099!
Uppercase name? (Score:5, Funny)
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Windows gets it right (Score:2)
I'd like to see more move to this trend (Score:2, Insightful)
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Well, yeah, but the trick is, do bands truly know the filler/crap on their albums from the good stuff? Some do - but they are the ones most likely to toss garbage instead of publish it. A struggling band that happens on a hit might not be so good at editing. Think about it - Band X puts out a single. It sucks. Repeat (cause distribution costs are so low on the net). Second song sucks. Repeat. If the 'hit' follows a bunch of garbage, who is paying attention any more? One of the few things record companies (S
The rise of the "channel" (Score:5, Interesting)
This isn't really a surprise and its something that matches well with the podcast & channel concepts that are a major way that people track stuff they are interested in. For "traditional" bands who want a full album around a concept then it doesn't make any sense but for pop bands and satire/comedy it fits perfectly with the sort of instant response and dispose way that people consume the music today. Something like the "Multi-pass" concept on iTunes makes perfect sense for areas where people are interested in a given area and its responsive to current events (The Daily Show for instance).
Its not the death of the album for long term bands but it is the sort of direction that singles chart targeted artists and media companies will want to go after. You can easily see a music company creating a channel around their latest factory bands and having snippets in there to get people to go and buy a single track and keep updating it with the latest "hot" genetically engineered concept band every week, or day.
For someone like Wierd Al who works on parody its ideal to have the parody available while the original is still popular, especially if it could be seen as a counter culture to the manufactured band. Lets face it if there was a piece of crap at the top of the Billboard wouldn't it be funny to see a parody of the piece of crap at number one the following week? Its the sort of thing that short term internet crazes are made of.
Smart move and not at all weird. Now if he'd said he was only going to release his next album on vinyl then THAT would have been genuinely weird.
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Not really. Vinyl players are still available and we still have people saying that vinyl sounds a lot better than CDs.
Weird Al, release your next songs on 8-track tapes. Now THAT would be weird.
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True enough, I believe my parents still have their old stereo with an 8-track player. It's no longer used, but I do have access to it.
Okay then. Make a special "wax cylinder" edition...
Somebody gets it (Score:2)
Interesting... (Score:5, Interesting)
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Agreed. Interesting, though, how the artists who complain about 'the album experience' going away aren't really making album-style works. I think of 'Dark Side of the Moon' by Pink Floyd - that is an album experience. There aren't too many totally 'integrated' albums coming out that I've seen. Even Radioheads' stuff is more 'song oriented', though not as much as other bands. I'm curious how much of the trend away from albums is format changes and how much is artist-driven. Then again, Pink Floyd put out DSO
Wierd AI (Score:4, Funny)
I it just me that thought that a wierd Artificial Intelligence was recording and releasing songs?
At last... (Score:2)
A valid use for DRM.
This isn't really a progressive move as you think. (Score:5, Interesting)
So it sounds like a great idea. As soon as a track is mastered zip, out onto the Internet it goes, to an online store like iTunes most likely.
Why is that a problem? Well, for one, when you buy an album (assuming it isn't DRMed to hell), you get a perfect digital copy of the recording. Off iTunes or any of the like you're just not getting the same audio quality.
More importantly, however, the real reason behind this move is obvious -- BitTorrent. BitTorrent works best for large packages of files -- say, full albums in MP3 or FLAC form for the audiophiles :P If he's releasing one song at a time and someone wants to throw it up on The Pirate Bay as they're wont to do, they'll have to create a separate torrent for each single release...typically more people are going to be seeding than leeching, and since it's a small file, it'll very quickly become slower and slower to -get- that small file simply due to the fact that people are closing their clients as soon as they've got it.
It's a nice gesture on his part, but I don't think that people should take it without a grain of salt. If you look carefully enough there's potential financial motivations for making this decision as well, and it may actually -limit- your options as a consumer.
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2) God forbid peop
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Well, for one, when you buy an album (assuming it isn't DRMed to hell), you get a perfect digital copy of the recording.
No, you are not, and for two reasons.
The first is that the CD-audio standard does not give you a perfect digital copy of anything.
It lacks sufficient error-correcting codes.
The second is that digital downloads can give you master-quality, or high definition audio, which are identical or extremely close to the original tune as designed by the artist .WAV format.
See Trent Reznor and his latest album release in 96kHz/24bits
Nightly builds? (Score:3, Funny)
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Didn't Nine Inch nails do that already?
White 'N Nerdy (Score:5, Funny)
First in my class here at MIT
Got skills, I'm a champion at D&D
MC Escher - that's my favorite MC
Keep your 40, I'll just have an Earl Grey tea
My rims never spin, to the contrary
You'll find that they're quite stationary
All of my action figures are cherry
Steven Hawking's in my library!
JoCo For the Win (Score:3, Insightful)
Mainstream recording artists: once again treading a path previously taken by Jonathan Coulton.
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Dude, he's mainstream enough to appear on the Simpsons as himself, have his own TV show (terrible one, but, still,) his own movie, hit the top ten with his last album ... the man may not be Tom Cruise-level famous, but I guarantee you that more people know who he is than know who the Vice President is.
Wierd Al (Score:2)
The only remotely "main stream" artist that I listen to, not counting records from dead guys.
What really... (Score:3, Insightful)
... fucks me off about the way the industry sometimes operates is that they will release a song to be played on the radio, but not allow people to buy the fucking thing for up to 6 weeks later.
Huh?! I cannot count the times that I've heard a song on a radio and thought, hey, I like that, I'll head over to my favourite online story and buy a copy, only to discover I won't be able to until over a month later.
Spontaneous purchases, that's what is going to sell more of Al's records...
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You hear songs on the radio and like them? Really?
It's like movie trailers (Score:2)
1955 called... (Score:2)
... it wants its recorded music release strategy back.
This is really a simple response to the implementation details of current technology, just as it always has been.
More cost effective to release music on media that holds multiple tracks: => albums.
Not more cost effective to release music on media that holds multiple tracks: => singles.
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More profitable (Score:2)
Brilliant! (Score:2)
...he can now release his songs for sale as he records each one rather than waiting for a whole album
Wow. Talk about your damn revelations. Good to have you here with us in 21st century, Al...
I actually recently bought on of his MP3's (Score:3, Funny)
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White & Nerdy? (Score:3, Funny)
Such A Groovy Guy, It's All About The Pentiums. Headline News. Everything You Know Is Wrong!
Living With A Hernia, Doctor? Like A Surgeon, Dare To Be Stupid! Don't Wear Shoes. Smells Like Nirvana.
School Cafeteria: My Bologna, Eat It. Girls Just Want To Have Lunch. Fat, Fatter, Livin' In The Fridge.
Jerry Springer, Confessions Part III, Trash Day, Weasel Stomping Day, Toothless People, Addicted To Spuds.
The Checks In The Mail, Slime Creatures From Outer Space, Stop Draggin' My Car Around.
I Can't Watch This, I
Weird Al info (Score:3, Informative)
Here's Weird Al's official youtube channel [youtube.com].
Weird Al's speciality has been rewriting pop songs with completely unrelated topics (parody). Among his works are "eat it" [youtube.com] ("Beat it" by Michael Jackson), "I think I'm a clone now" (I think we're alone now - sang by Tiffany), "Like a Surgeon" [youtube.com] ("Like a Virgin" by Madonna), "Fat" [youtube.com] ("Bad" by Michael Jackson), and most recently "White and Nerdy" [youtube.com] (parody of "Ridin'" by Chamillionaire), and others.
White and Nerdy was one of Weird Al's most popular songs - it was rated pla
Errata (Score:2)
Oops, the "complicated song" was ANOTHER parody by Weird Al. The one featured in the Naruto AMV was "constipated".
Oops again. (Score:2)
The song was the same, the title was what I got wrong. "Constipated" is the actual title.
Ugh. *buries head in the sand*
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Wait a sec...
Weird Al did not produce a song called "Constipated".
You were right the first time (Score:2)
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What the hell is someone who hasn't heard of Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] doing on slashdot?
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I guess slashdotters have been able to post first posts as soon as they type them for some time now.
Anyhow, WHY isn't this under Idle???? (Says me, who was interested in 3 stories earlier today and all of them where under Idle.)
Re:first post (Score:5, Informative)
Dude
1st: This is about Weird Al. This clearly qualifies as nerd news.
2nd: This is about freeing us from the tyranny of packaged deals. Clearly this ranks higher than even the $700 Billion dollar bail out news.
3rd: This is about Weird Al. He is like the king of nerdiness.
And lastly, it is Weird Al.
Any questions?
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Yeah, you said it was about Weird Al, is this correct?
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I may have left off this important detail. Thank you for bringing it to my attention. Clearly the most important aspect of all this is the Weird Al angle.
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Don't forget the Wierd Al, geeze!
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Any questions?
Is that you, Al?
Re:first post (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah. What's this all about?
It's all about the Pentiums, baby.
Re:first post (Score:4, Interesting)
I got introduced to Weird Al's music in Math camp when I was wee lad nearly 30 years ago. I very much associated him with nerdiness.
And now, I get to introduce it to my kids. Right now, Amish Paradise is their favorite, although my 3-year-old can already sing certain parts of 'Pentiums'.
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A bit over a year back, my wife and I went to Albany, NY to see Weird Al live, and we took our 21 yo son and a friend of his.
He puts on a heck of a show, and has multiple screens going to keep you busy during his (many) costume changes. Besides, "Weasel Stomping Day" is just plain better animated.
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I've never watched that video, still haven't, maybe one of these days.
I've seen the green-screen version with Donny Osmond as a guest. Made me have a new level of respect for the guy, that he can laugh at himself and have fun doing it.
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(but isn't he just weird, and not really technical?)
Dude, he's fluent in Javascript AND Klingon.
Re:Carlos + Yankovic. (Score:4, Insightful)
I think you mean with Walter Carlos, unless you give into that "but I'm really a woman inside!" nonsense.
Well, plenty of studies have shown that transexuals have brain structures more akin to those of the opposite (physical) sex, so in the sense that "inside" means (I assume) who they are psychologically or as a person, it seems perfectly plausible.
But that aside, who gives a toss what Carlos wants to call him/herself? She must have been called Wendy at the time she first worked with Yankovic, so it's not changed since then, and if you're going to whine that she's not using her birth name then I expect to see you complaining the same way about Ringo Starr, Freddie Mercury, Cher, Ne-Yo, whatever... Carlos at least has a "valid" reason for changing her name, so your picking up the guy about using it just sounds like an excuse to whine about transexuals.
Re:Carlos + Yankovic. (Score:4, Informative)
You probably didn't know that Wendy was also a gifted solar eclipse astrophotographer, did you?
Now that's a woman of note. Cool musician, cool geek.
http://www.wendycarlos.com/eclipse.html [wendycarlos.com]
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Or maybe his contracts with major labels just expired, so now he announces his new method of distribution while at the same time saying to the world (and other artists) "see, we don't need the labels anymore".
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The titles may be crappy but the songs are great!