Hanging 27: Taco Surfing

CatraDhtem · Post by **CatraDhtem** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 8:07 am

Kevbo1987 @ Jun 29 2005, 08:34 PM wrote: I guess having an album debut at #17 and winning a Grammy isn't good enough for that writer.

You should know by now that if Al doesn't personally bludgeon every single writer and critic over the head with an oar each time he releases a new album, he's supposedly a has-been.

taralyn919 · Post by **taralyn919** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 6:02 pm

Mildly OT, but who doesn't want to perform experiments with Twinkies!

It's OK, it's for science.

Tara Lyn

Post by **Driew_La_27** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 7:29 pm

Here's an interesting article about MJ with a little piece about Al.

From article wrote: Launching Weird Al Yankovic's Career
Much like Grandpa asking you to pull his finger, Weird Al Yankovic was amusing for about a minute -- 15 years ago. Granted, we can't deny the artistry of a song like "Eat It" -- "Have some more yogurt/Have some more Spam/It doesn't matter if it's fresh or canned." And "Fat," Yankovic's parody of Jackson's "Bad," was at least as funny as Meatballs 2.

But the ability to elicit a few chuckles in the '80s doesn't warrant a decades-long career that's bottomed out in recent years with dreck like "Pretty Fly for a Rabbi" and "Party at the Leper Colony." Inadvertently self-parodying acts like the Offspring and Coolio are far better at making themselves look like dumbasses than Yankovic ever was.

Post by **Kevbo1987** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 7:30 pm

CatraDhtem @ Jun 30 2005, 02:07 AM wrote: You should know by now that if Al doesn't personally bludgeon every single writer and critic over the head with an oar each time he releases a new album, he's supposedly a has-been.

Silly me. How could I have forgotten?

Post by **weird_el** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 7:39 pm

I wouldn't mind if someone bludgeoned that above (driew's post) writer over the head with an oar.

Post by **algonacchick** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 9:58 pm

Dreck? I love PFFAR! And PATLC. Al's career has hardly bottomed out. I would love to be the one to bludgeon that writer over the head with an oar! Please?

Post by **weird_el** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 11:13 pm

We have a volunteer

Post by **anthontherun** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 11:39 pm

I agree with the writer on PATLC, but I love PFFAR.

minnick27 · Post by **minnick27** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 12:15 am

Inadvertently self-parodying acts like the Offspring and Coolio are far better at making themselves look like dumbasses than Yankovic ever was.

Is he insulting Al or praising him? I can't tell, he totally reversed his opinion in the last line

Post by **Kevbo1987** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 2:13 am

minnick27 @ Jun 30 2005, 06:15 PM wrote:
Is he insulting Al or praising him? I can't tell, he totally reversed his opinion in the last line

Seems to me like he's insulting him. He was saying that he feels that The Offspring and Coolio don't need to be parodied. They're self-parodying, and they're better at it than Al ever was, according to this writer.