World of Weird Al Yankovic

Way_Moby wrote:Screw iPods. 8-Tracks are where it's at.

For portability, Walkman is the best. I'm just saying iPod because it's what all the kids are using these days. Even though I'm one of them...

I can honestly say that I have never owned or used a portable mp3 player of any brand.

childofthespiral wrote:I can honestly say that I have never owned or used a portable mp3 player of any brand.

Runner-up for Buzzkill of the Year.

I've broken two MP3 players by sleeping on them, both times, I fell asleep listening to Loveline with Dr. Drew.

Yes! Loveline! I used to always listen to that before I went to sleep! How funny. I think listening to Dr. Drew is worth the price of a new player everytime. I get a warm fuzzy feeling just reading that.

Epic topic. I like seeing this. My first intoduction to Al was on a bus on a field trip. It was the song trigger happy, and it was being played through a walkman. Thoes were the good ol days.

I almost wish I ride the bus now.

I think we should keep this topic up. Seriously. I am sure others have had their moments.

I had several moments of introduction to Al. When I was a kid, I saw the video for SLN and decided to try the water gargle trick. Got yelled at by my mother who said I'd choke myself (she was right. I still can't gargle using my voice or I choke) I didn't know it was Al at the time, I just liked the song. It was funny and I was already a Nirvana fan.
I vaguely remember hearing my mother and a friend she had talking about Al parodies when I was around that age, but I don't remember them saying "Weird Al' just song titles like Eat It, Fat, and Smells Like Nirvana.
When I was 14 I had to go into the hospital for an emergency appendectomy. We lived too far out of town to get cable, and while in the hospital in town I had cable, so of course I watched. I was flipping through channels around 1am when I caught the second half of TSB on VH1. I laughed and laughed, and loved it, but of course VH1 didn't put the song info at the end of the videos, so I didn't know who it was. I tried my best to catch the video again but wasn't lucky.
Then, the defining moment was Jan 2007 when the walmart I worked at installed 17 inch LCD monitors on every register to further inundate their customers with advertisements. They run on a 10 minute loop, and late that month a clip from the SLN video was on it. Third time was a charm, there was a name to go with the song, and I immediately bought SOL that evening. I started searching the internet for everything Al that I could. I was so excited when I saw the songs I recognized from years past!

There's a lot more to the story about Al's music in my life, but this post has gone on long enough.

Here is a touching story that I have about Al's work doing wonders in my life. It was 2005 and my cousin passes away in a tragic accident and I watched the movie UHF for two weeks straight just so I could get to sleep at night. I know it's kind of a non warm fuzzy feeling but It needed to come out.