World of Weird Al Yankovic

Posted: **Tue Jun 29, 2004 5:00 am**

Good song, I don't listen to it alot makes me wnat to listen to Gangsta's Paradise.

"But if I finish all of my chores and you finish thine. Then tonight we're gonna party like it's 1699"

Posted: **Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:39 am**

This song's , in my opinoin, one of Al's best songs......i don't see why Coolio had to not give him permissin in the first place (if the undersatnding part came, then this song would not exist. I found it cool how Al went through the backwards part fine. Its also awesome to see Amishes rap.

Posted: **Wed Jun 22, 2005 8:08 pm**

love amish paradise! and the video's really similar to gangsta paradise but SO much better. mainly cos it's funnier!

Posted: **Wed Jun 22, 2005 8:23 pm**

weirdalfan95 @ Jun 22 2005, 01:39 AM wrote: This song's , in my opinoin, one of Al's best songs......i don't see why Coolio had to not give him permissin in the first place (if the undersatnding part came, then this song would not exist. I found it cool how Al went through the backwards part fine. Its also awesome to see Amishes rap.

Coolio did give Al permission. He just said he didn't.

Posted: **Wed Jun 22, 2005 9:28 pm**

oh, let's not get into this one again! I think it was a my-people-call-your-people thing.

My fave gags in the video are the milking cow in cereal bowl and feeding chickens pizza.... I didn't even notice that the first few viewings!

Posted: **Thu Jun 23, 2005 8:51 pm**

this is a great song no doubt...

does anyone know where i can get an instrumental of it for my talent show

Posted: **Sun Jun 26, 2005 3:30 am**

I just watched Steamboat Bill Jr on TCM. It's relevant here because it's the origin of the wall falling gag. It's a wonderful movie and it's on again tomorrow.

The scene is toward the end of the movie during a cyclone sequence.

Buster Keaton rocks

Posted: **Sun Jun 26, 2005 7:56 am**

Al recycled a Buster Keaton joke?

He's a scholar of the comedic arts.

Posted: **Sun Sep 18, 2005 10:44 pm**

You know, I was just listening through Gangsta's Paradise and, you know, Amish Paradise actually does a better job at the idea than Gangsta's Paradise. Al's lyrics are more strategicly placed and fit the flow of the song better than Coolio's and Al's instrumental even sounds better. Maybe this is why Coolio got so mad.

On the topic, do you think that it was good or bad that Al didn't parody the lines in order -- he changed around the order of some of the lines.

Posted: **Sun Sep 18, 2005 11:39 pm**

I really don't think it would have made that much a difference one way or the other. Except that Al usually saves his strongest verse for last and second strongest for first. So, that's probably the reason why he moved the lines around. The lines had to be adjusted for how funny they were in the scheme of the song.