Your BOTTOM 5 Albums!

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I too enjoyed your post. I love when people on here actually take some time to analyze Weird Al minutia. That's what this place needs more of. Well done, Jace.
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1. "UHF" - This was a crappy soundtrack to an OK movie. I love it just like every other release, but come on: one or two pretty good songs and a TON of filler is not cool.
2. Debut - I'll cut Al some slack, this WAS his first album, but even still, I don't really like the obnoxious voices and the accordion on every song is a little much. Plus, the songwriting is not top-notch.
3. "Poodle Hat" - Funny, but just not amazing in my book. Not a bad album, just perfectly average. I didn't like the Eminem lead parody, and the rest seemed a little silly. "eBay" is a classic, as are a few of the originals, but it's mostly skippable in my book.
4. "Internet Leaks" - I agree with FreakyGeeky, this kinda spoiled "Alpocalypse" for me. There was a huge rant about this earlier, so I won't go into it, but I like being surprised.
5. "Even Worse" - Kind of like "Poodle Hat" but better. I feel this album is perfectly average. The parodies range from pretty darn funny ("Fat," "Lasagna") to OK ("I Think I'm a Clone Now"). The originals are all pretty much OK. Nothing too horrible, but nothing super-great.
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1. "Weird Al" Yankovic - He's excused because it was his first, but it was pretty unremarkable in retrospect.

2. "Alapalooza" - The worst collection of originals he's ever released. "Young, Dumb, and Ugly" and "Frank's 2000" TV" are good, but that's it. The other four all sound like the same song.

3. "Dare to Be Stupid" - A few goods songs, the rest is boring.

4. "Polka Party!" - Worst album title ever. And some of the worst parody ideas of his entire career. A few great originals though.

5. "Bad Hair Day" - This has nothing to do with Syndicated Inc. Even without that song, the album is weak. The lead parody is brilliant, the ending song is one of his best, and the polka is the best he's ever done. But most of what's in between just doesn't work as a whole. The overuse of synthesized sound really bugs me in this one too. Oh, and Syndicated Inc is on this album.
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Bruce the Duck wrote:2. "Alapalooza" - The other four all sound like the same song.
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Yeah they totally don't. Traffic Jam and She Never Told Me She Was A Mime are both really awesome, and don't sound alike at all. The solos in those songs are really wicked, I could go without Talk Soup and Waffle King but besides those two I find everything else on the album truly awesome.
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I can see how Waffle King, Talk Soup and SNTMSWAM all sound alike, but Traffic Jam? No way, dude.

Not that they're all great songs, mind you, but... Nope.
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My bottom five:

1.) Polka Party- it really does feel rushed. The parodies are pretty bad. The polka isn't all that great either. I do like the couple of originals and they're the only reason I listen to the album.

2.) Alapalooza- It sort of alternates: a good song followed by a mediocre song. Basically everything Jace said. Seemed he took a couple songs from the OTDE sessions, and decided to do a Flintstones song and Jurassic Park song to cash in on the popularity of the movies that were coming out then.

3.) Poodle Hat- Couch Potato is pretty bad. Ode to a Superhero too.

4.) In 3-D. A few highlights on it (Eat It, Theme From Rocky XIII, Midnight Star and Polkas on 45), but some songs that are just so-so.

5.) Dare to Be Stupid- It starts off great with Like a Surgeon, Dare To Be Stupid, etc., but then it kinda goes downward with Girls Just Want to Have lunch, Cable Tv, the polka medley, etc.
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not sure about any others i would have in the other 4 spots but my #1 least favorite would be poodle hat. Never really liked Bob or OTAS.

UHF Soundtrack would probably be somewhere on the list
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Wow some interesting choices my least favourite 5 would be
WAY, Polka Party, UHF, Even Worse, Alapalooza not necessarily always in that order
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From my personal worst
1.) Alapalooza
2.) Polka Party
3.) UHF
4.) Weird Al Yankovic
5.) Even Worse
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