World of Weird Al Yankovic

To date, there are 23 known music videos by "Weird Al" Yankovic. There are 93 studio songs released without music videos. If everyone of those 93 songs HAD a music video, what would be in it? What song(s) would you have with music videos, and how would they go?



I can think of 2 songs as of right now. (The songs can have modern technology and whatever in it. They don't have to be the date the SONG was made.) I would have You Make Me and I Think I'm A Clone Now as Music Videos.



You Make Me- It would start with a TV camera looking at the show, then you would go above the camera to see Al, his girlfreind, a few other guests, the host, and an audience. Al, his girlfreind, and the host would be yelling. The girlfreind would say "WHY DON'T LIKE ME?!?!?" The tune of "You Make Me" would start, and he would start singng the song as if he were telling her why. At the end of the video after the music stopped, she would say "Oh. Well all you had to do was tell me."



I Think I'm A Clone Now- It would be sort of Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Clones type style. It would show the cloning factory with a star trooper with his mask off. It would be Al! He would start singing the song as he was marching with THOUSANDS of other troopers (their faces not revealed yet though.) The drum beat would be matched with each time they put their foot down. Eventually about 1 minute from the end all the troopers would take off their masks and they would be shocked to realize that they were not only simialir from the toes up to the neck, but the heads were the same too.



What do ya think? Hope to hear all of your replies, comments, and ideas!

JD, interesting topic. I'll have to give it some thought. But I wanted to comment on your take on You Make Me.

The girlfreind would say "WHY DON'T LIKE ME?!?!?" The tune of "You Make Me" would start, and he would start singng the song as if he were telling her why. At the end of the video after the music stopped, she would say "Oh. Well all you had to do was tell me."

I am assuming that you mean that the song is a put down of "Al's" girlfriend, and I don't take the song that way at all. Neither does Al...

And for what it's worth, I've always thought "You Make Me" was pretty much a straight-forward love song.

It's a guy telling his girl how he feels about her. In typically Weird style, but still it's a love song.

Well I guess that I didn't hear about that, but it could be more like "WHAT DO YOU THNK OF ME?!?!?" Not as funny to me, but if it suits the people who read this.

I've said it before, but a good one for "Good Old Days" was if it showed Al singing in front of the camera as well as flash-backs to the good old days. At the end, it zooms out to reveal him to be in a jail cell.

Albuquerque, of course!



Let's see... It'd have to be Al as a Methodist preacher, telling a powerful sermon. On the board outside, it would say, "The Evil of Saurkraut". And it would keep on cutting to scenes of Al going through the story, but sort of choppy. Two thirds of the cutscenes would be the song played out, and the rest would have to be taken from a nature special on mongeese (gooses?). The frames would go like this: ALBUQUERQUE ALBUQUERQUE MONGOOSE. The pattern would be repeated over and over. You get a very faint idea that mongooses are in it.

Throughout the song, you would see alarmed members of the church, one lady calls somebody on the phone, and, as he starts saying "Albuquerque" over and over, the men in white coats take him away, put him in a straight jacket, and the doors close as he belches.

Finally, it would stop like a VHS recording, and go on to about a minute of somewhat modified footage from the mongeese special, ending with a narrator saying "And so, the majestic mongoose lives on, in peace and harmony." while we see a completely non-sequitar atomic explosion.

That would be hilarious!





Mike

I totally agree with the "Good Old Days" video.



One I can think of is perhaps "The Night Santa Went Crazy." It could feature Al as a story teller, beside a fire in a wooden cabin. He opens up a book of Christmas stories, and then we cut to a clay mation or animated version of the events in the story, always cutting back to Al singing, and beginning to trash the typically seasonal background around him.



Or perhaps Nature Trail to Hell, being a black and white video filmed in the style of the trailers of the sort of cheesy horror movie that the song is talking about



Or a video of Stuck in a Closet with Vanna White. We see Al on a Pshyciatrist's couch. The doctor tells Al to explain his dreams, and the song begins. During the verses, we cut to what Al desribes in the dreams.



Another one that could be done is Callin' in Sick. The video starts with a close up of an alarm clock going off, and a hand hitting the snooze button. We pan back to reveal Al, who begins singing. Most of the video shows him goofing off at home.



Maybe, Happy Birthday. It could be a kids Birthday party, with Al appearing in at as a Scary Clown singing the song, which leaves the kids crying.



Lastly, a video for "I was only kidding." It could be similar to what the person suggested for "You make me." A talk show, the topic being "I have something to tell my partner." The host says, "And now welcome Al, who has a special message for his wife."

We then cut to Al, who is holding his wife's hand and he sings the first verse. When the guitar kicks in, he breaks away from his wife and begins stomping around the studio, with his wife looking really hurt. Eventually, she pulls a gun out of her handbag and points it at him.



I know these probably sound bad.

I always thought a claymation video of TNSWC done in the style of "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer" would have been great!



Burl Ives (in theory) would make a special voice cameo as the narrator.



Hermey would be waiting in line with the other elves at the unemployment office, or post office, depending on the version.



Yukon Cornelius would be leading the expedition to the North Pole with National Guard and FBI in tow.



Abominable would arrive at the movie premier in a tux with a pretty lady on his arm and flash bulbs going off.



The misfit toys would be running around in hysteria with the other reindeer trying to avoid bullets or flying through the air as Santa's Workshop explodes.



Now that would have worth watching year after year!



:xmas:



Dave

I think we have a new Christmas classic on our hands! Get Rankin-Bass on the phone!





Mike

We then cut to Al, who is holding his wife's hand and he sings the first verse. When the guitar kicks in, he breaks away from his wife and begins stomping around the studio, with his wife looking really hurt. Eventually, she pulls a gun out of her handbag and points it at him.

I know these probably sound bad.

Nope, no marital gun-pointing. Nosirree, nohow. Not funny atall.



Unless Ruben plays the wife. Turnabout is fair play, and he's had lots of practice alreay wearing underpinnings unsuited to his masculine dignity. Which only makes it that much better. :biggrin: