World of Weird Al Yankovic

Words can not express how much I love this idea.

And because I don't feel like being a jerk right now, and that's all I have to say about that

"hate it".

i'd rather wait.
i much prefer my music in physical form. something i can hold.
and i know that it will be eventually available on disc, but it won't be the same.

freshness does improve a parody. So I'm fine with Al releasing several of the parodies as they're ready, but i hope he'll save all the originals and maybe one last parody and a polka for a CD. After all, originals "keep" better.

Orthography Enthusiast @ Sep 6 2008, 09:05 PM wrote: freshness does improve a parody. So I'm fine with Al releasing several of the parodies as they're ready, but i hope he'll save all the originals and maybe one last parody and a polka for a CD. After all, originals "keep" better.

Actually, that strategy makes a lot of sense. If he releases four parodies as they're recorded over a period of time leading up to the album release, they would each be potentially as successful as "White & Nerdy" and would make a lot of sales on their own. Then, he could release the album with ONE final parody as the lead single and all the originals and the polka as completely new. If he were to do it that way, it wouldn't be as bad because at least the majority of the album would be fresh on release day.

I could see Al doing this, since the originals likely wouldn't sell all that well if released by themselves anyway. Another advantage to doing it this way is that while he's waiting for each big parody to come along, he can be working on perfecting the originals and producing videos for them.

I'm starting to feel a little more comfortable with this whole thing, but I just hope he does it this way as opposed to releasing the whole damn album before release day.

I'm all for it. The more Al we can get sooner, the better!! I'll still buy the albums of course. We might even get more than we normally would this way. Stuff that might not make the album for whatever reason can still go out on iTunes.

Boo! I do NOT like this idea at all.


However, if Al records only...say...three/four songs exclusive for iTunes, and maybe if they were split up like a ratio of 1/2 originals, 1/4 parody, and 1/4 polka -then, I guess I wouldn't be too angry.

maybe Al could start a thing where u pay like $45 a year and u get letters and stuff in the mail, and every time a new song was recorded, they send u it in a Paper CD Case, but this sounds like the CPFOA.

Love it. It sounds like the RiffTrax model. Wouldn't it be great to know that every month we can get a new Weird Al song? It'll always give us something to look forward to.

Yes! That would be fantastic!
Kind of like Jonathan Coulton's "Song of the Week", except... Song of the Month.

I like it.

I don't hate it. but I don't love it either. I guess I'll just have to wait and see how it goes. But I do know I will like it a lot more as I'm listening to the songs as he releases them.

I haven't regularly listened to music on the radio for many years now, so I have no idea how long a song's been out. It makes no difference to me if he pariodies a song that's 3 weeks old or one that's 3 years old, because I probably won't know it. All I want to know is what song he's parodying ahead of time -- and I expect the spoiler hunters will track that info down -- so I can listen to it before I hear Al's parody. Usually Al's pretty good at picking targets that get stuck in your head after a few listens, so it shouldn't take long to get the idea.

Dave