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He who's tired of Weird Al is tired of life.

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What's A&R stand for?

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SmileyGirl87 @ Oct 12 2006, 09:11 PM wrote: What's A&R stand for?

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Not sure how this happened, but I just checked this thread and the first half of what I had posted disappeared. I just tried to replace it and I think I have all of it back. Remind me if I am missing anything (and of course, if you have any new info.....)
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There was a quote from Taylor Hicks in this post.

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For those interested, I found two quotes in alt.music.weird-al archives about They Might Be Giants' opinion of Al in general as well as EYKIW. One of which was actually reposted by Stan. Go figure!
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Um... can you post them?
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Everything is being compiled in the first post. Check there.
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Weren't into it at the time...:rolleyes:

I think it's admirable that Al still supports a group who makes it look like they don't want to be associated with him...odd, but admirable. I know he enjoys their music, and I think it's nice he can still be a fan without letting their creative bias bother him.

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If you go to the "You're Pitiful Media Mentions" post it says that Blunt found it to be "a huge compliment in itself".
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New quote from Green Day...

http://yankovic.org/blog/2006/10/17/green-day-speaks/

They obviously said this before they heard Canadian Idiot (because of the comment "it's probably gonna be about food or something"), but:

"I think it's cool. I think Weird Al is a funny guy and sometimes he does better than the original."
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