by Elvis » Mon Aug 18, 2008 3:00 am
Oh my, how embarrassing!

It turns out that "Crazy Cow Therapist" is actually a one-hit wonder by an obscure artist who calls himself Bobo McNipples and lives his life as a hermit in the foothills of the Andes Mountains. Go figure. In light of this startling revelation, the only proper thing to do is disqualify all votes for "Crazy Cow Therapist" and award the #1 spot to a different song. So I now have the honor to present to you... again... The Greatest "Weird Al" Yankovic Song Of All Time!
#1

"SMELLS LIKE NIRVANA"
Points: 292
Highest ranking: #1
Album: Off The Deep End
Track number: 1
Single B-side: "Waffle King"
Highest Billboard chart position: 35 (US Hot 100), 12 (Hot Singles Sales)
Highest ARIA chart position: 24
Highest UK Singles Chart position: 58
Style: Parody of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana
When released in 1992, "Smells Like Nirvana" helped to re-energize Al's career. Al was torn between doing another Michael Jackson parody ("Snack All Night") and risk pigeonholing himself as that guy who makes fun of Michael Jackson all the time, or holding out for the next big thing in music to hit. Alternative music entered the mainstream when "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was released. It almost immediately became the anthem of Generation X'ers, and Al's next target. Al called his friend, Victoria Jackson, on the set of Saturday Night Live and arranged a conversation with Kurt Cobain. Al asked Kurt for permission to parody the song, Kurt agreed, and almost as an afterthought, asked Al if it would be about food. Al responded that it would be about how no one could understand the lyrics. Al's song peaked as high as #35 on the Billboard Hot 100, and helped the album Off The Deep End become NARM's Best Selling Comedy Recording 1992, get nominated for Best Comedy Album at the 1992 Grammy Awards, and reach Platinum certification in both the U.S. and Canada. The music video contained cameos from Dick Van Patten and Rudy Larosa, who played the janitor in the "Smells Like Teen Spirit" video. MTV put Al's video into heavy rotation and it was Rolling Stone's #68 Video on their list of the Top 100 Videos of All Time, Spy Magazine's Video Of The Year in 1993, and got a nomination for Best Male Performance, at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards. Perhaps the biggest praise came from Nirvana themselves. Nirvana said that they knew they had finally made it as a band when Al parodied them. On the music video, Kurt commented "Oh, I laughed my ass off. I thought it was one of the funniest things I ever saw." In his private journals, Kurt described Al as "a musical genius." Agreed! 
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