by weird user » Fri Aug 08, 2014 6:53 am
One thing I wonder about this song is why it's often "first" in certain compilations. It's the first track in Al's first Greatest Hits album, as opposed to Eat It, the song that's perhaps best associated with Al. Though I can understand Fat being the first track on that album, since it came out the same year and Al probably wanted to have his most recent lead single start his first Greatest Hits album. But then Fat also opened The Food Album.I feel that one should have started with Eat It, or maybe a different food song (like My Bologna or I Love Rocky Road), especially since Fat technically isn't really about food.
And then there's the fact that The Ultimate Video Collection starts with Fat. So the order is random on that one, but starts with a number of his biggest hits, many of the first few on there being hits from the 1990s (so Fat, the first song on there, is from 1988). So I don't think we know why or how the order for that collection was chosen, but I am a little surprised that that release didn't begin with Amish Paradise or The Saga Begins (I don't think Bob, his most recent music video at the time, would have really been a good choice to start it... But then again, order shouldn't really matter, as I tend to watch the videos I feel like watching individually as opposed to hitting "play all").