More Ballads! More Ballads! More Ballads!

Scarlatti · Post by **Scarlatti** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:50 pm

I always thought the ballads were written when he was single (or in the case of OMM, just after being dumped), so he probably hasn't written any real recent ballads because hes happilly married and would rather do jumpy, chirpy songs.

Or maybe Im over-analysing and he just DIDN'T WANNA!

HappyGilmore · Post by **HappyGilmore** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 3:01 am

Scarlatti @ Jan 21 2008, 10:50 PM wrote: I always thought the ballads were written when he was single (or in the case of OMM, just after being dumped), so he probably hasn't written any real recent ballads because hes happilly married and would rather do jumpy, chirpy songs.

Or maybe Im over-analysing and he just DIDN'T WANNA!

I was thinking the same thing, myself. Unless he wants to do a twisted marriage ballad. Then it'd be fine.

Tue Jan 22, 2008 4:57 am

HappyGilmore @ Jan 22 2008, 01:01 AM wrote: I was thinking the same thing, myself. Unless he wants to do a twisted marriage ballad. Then it'd be fine.

Actually there's been a little trickle of un-twisted but still funny marriage-related material creeping into his songs. TITDT, certainly, where he takes the mickey out of the infidelity opera by applying the same over-emoting to the subject of hamburgers, but also "Trash Day" with its little bicker over who's gonna be the chief mop wrangler in the household. But I think SOL proved that Al doesn't have to be currently living the material to be able to produce some extremely twisted love songs. I don't see those drying up.

HappyGilmore · Post by **HappyGilmore** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 2:34 pm

Orthography Enthusiast @ Jan 22 2008, 03:57 AM wrote: Actually there's been a little trickle of un-twisted but still funny marriage-related material creeping into his songs. TITDT, certainly, where he takes the mickey out of the infidelity opera by applying the same over-emoting to the subject of hamburgers, but also "Trash Day" with its little bicker over who's gonna be the chief mop wrangler in the household. But I think SOL proved that Al doesn't have to be currently living the material to be able to produce some extremely twisted love songs. I don't see those drying up.

True. I love TITDT though, so that's always fun.

Yankovic-Gretzky · Post by **Yankovic-Gretzky** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 10:27 pm

The Ballads of "Weird Al" Yankovic (1985-1992)

01. One More Minute
02. This Is The Life
03. Good Enough For Now
04. Christmas At Ground Zero
05. Melanie
06. Good Old Days
07. The Biggest Ball Of Twine In Minnesota
08. You Don't Love Me Anymore

sataneatscheezwhiz · Post by **sataneatscheezwhiz** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 11:32 pm

Christmas at Ground Zero? Never really thought of that one as a 'ballad'....

TheLazenby · Post by **TheLazenby** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 12:04 am

Hey, "Do I Creep You Out" could fit in that list. "Christmas At Ground Zero" makes no sense on there...

Post by **JEDM** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 1:36 am

Could "Don't Download This Song" be considered a ballad?

Post by **JEDM** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 1:37 am

Post by **TMBJon** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 1:37 am

It is the very definition of a ballad.