Pretty much all of his original works fall under this. It premiered on august 7, 1985, on the showtime network. It also includes the title sequence he did for the movie spy hard, without, for some odd legal reason, the actual titles. In this video, the original song is used in the back so as to prove its. With weird al yankovic, wally burns, billy selby, jane campbell. Alapalooza is the eighth studio album by weird al yankovic, released in 1993. Few would have guessed that weird al yankovic who as a shy, accordionplaying teenager got his. Weird al yankovic, as a parody of rambo in his 1989 film uhf. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or instore pickup. He is known in particular for humorous songs which make fun of popular culture or parody specific songs by contemporary musical acts, or both. Next up sony legacy will be releasing the essential weird al yankovic on october 27. By the completion of his previous album, off the deep end, yankovic had already written all of the original songs that he planned to use on his next release. It helps that he always asks permission from the source artist to do a parody of one of hishertheir songs even though legally hes not required to do so. A second concert film, weird al yankovic live the alpocalypse tour, aired on comedy central on october 1, 2011, and was released on bluray and dvd three days later.
The complete works of weird al yankovic on discogs. So when i saw this on ebay, i knew i had to get it. Alfred matthew weird al yankovic is an american musical comedian whose humorous songs make light of popular culture and often parody specific songs by cont. The videos is a dvd and laserdisc release of every weird al yankovic music video to the date of release. Weiss, who had previously produced kentucky fried movie and the blues brothers. Jurassic park is a parody of richard harriss version of jimmy webbs song macarthur park, written and performed by weird al yankovic.
A new collection of weird al yankovic s parody and original music videos. Up next weird al yankovic fat official music video duration. The weird al show the complete series includes all episodes, as well as commentaries with al and other cool bonus features. Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available. Weird al yankovic concert setlist at paso robles event. The compleat al is the amazing, hilarious, and notentirelytrue story of weird al yankovic, the grammy awardwinning master of musical parody and rock and roll comedy. Unfortunately, in january 1998 the management at cbs decided to cancel their entire saturday morning lineup.
Pokemon the movie 2000 polkamon weird al yankovic synthesia. Directed by jay levey, weird al yankovic, francis delia. Uhf feature film weird al yankovic the ultimate video collection video compilation weird al yankovic live. Dvds and blurays product categories weird al yankovic. This is a collection of weird al yankovic s music videos from 1983 to 1996. The complete works of weird al yankovic weird al yankovic on allmusic 2017. The mockumentary takes you behind the scenes, beginning with his childhood years, his high school and college days, up through his earlycareer rise to stardom. Greatest hits volume ii is a compilation album of songs by weird al yankovic, featuring his best known songs that did not appear on weird al yankovic s greatest hits, plus the new single headline news which had first appeared on the boxed set permanent record. This new album, which would eventually be titled alapalooza in reference to the music festival lollapalooza, consisted of seven original songs and five parodies. Although, i was a bit hesitant at first because i also own his ultimate video collection dvd and i wasnt sure if it would be worth it to have another dvd that had the same songs on it. His works have earned him three gold and five platinum records in the u. The dvd contains 21 music videos, which all previously appeared on the vhs tapes the weird al yankovic video library, alapalooza.
The complete works of weird al yankovic is a 15album box set by american comedy musician weird al yankovic, released on november 24, 2017. The videos, with the exception of the most recent video, spy hard. Weird al yankovic is a grammy award winning american musician, satirist, parodist, accordionist, and television producer. A complicated song weird al music video by james bland entertainment. Smells like nirvana is a parody of nirvanas song smells like teen spirit, written and performed by weird al yankovic.
This video features snippets of every cover song we performed on our 2018 tour. The weird al yankovic anthology is a songbook featuring complete lyrics and sheet music for piano, vocal and guitar on early weird al favorites harvey the wonder hamster, jurassic park, you dont love me anymore, franks 2000. Weird al yankovic is a multigrammy awardwinning american musician, satirist, parodist. In addition to his 1989 culthit feature film uhf, his late 1990s cbs saturday morning series the weird al show and numerous al tv specials he has made for mtv and vh1 over the years, yankovic has remained a staple of film and television, from appearances on the simpsons and 30 rock to performing on the 2014 primetime emmy awards. Al even films on the same stage as the original video from rocky iv. Theres nobody whos made a career out of novelty hits like weird al yankovic, and thus theres nobody whos endured, evolved and improved in that craft so much that his original songs are often more entertaining than his spoofs. Yankovics success comes in part from his effective use of music video to further. Alfred matthew weird al yankovic is an american musical comedian known for his humorous. In retelling his life story, the film includes several of his music videos, including ricky and eat it. Autoplay when autoplay is enabled, a suggested video will automatically play next. The concert was filmed at massey hall in toronto, ontario, canada, during yankovics tour supporting the album alpocalypse. The film came about when cbs home video approached yankovic to make a long form music video.
In addition to recording his albums, yankovic wrote and starred in the film uhf 1989 and the television series the weird al show 1997. Spy hard is a song by weird al yankovic used as the theme song to the film of the same name. Huge thanks to the greatest band in the world jim kimo west on guitar, steve jay on bass, ruben valtierra on keyboards, jon bermuda schwartz on drums and our frontofhouse engineermixer denny jagard. Weird al yankovic polkamon pokemon 2000 soundtrack youtube. Listening to the complete recorded works of weird al yankovic which is now easy to do, thanks to the release of the 15disc squeeze box, which contains all 14 of his studio albums along. The weird al show ran from september, 1997 to september 26, 1998. Weird al yankovic has grown a unique act into a multigrammy award winning comedic music career spanning nearly 40 years and still going strong. Get the weird al yankovic setlist of the concert at paso robles event center, paso robles, ca, usa on july 31, 2000 from the touring with scissors tour and other weird al yankovic setlists for free on. The weird al show the complete series includes all episodes, as well as commentaries with al.
Here at last is a compilation of al s videos from ricky to gump. It was produced by yankovics manager jay levey, leveys friend hamilton cloud, and robert k. Original song, lead single on the soundtrack for weird al s feature film uhf. I saw weird al yankovic live in concert in my area in 1998 and again in 1999. The song was originally released as a bside on the gump single, and was later rereleased as its own single. Orion pictures weird al won a grammy for best concept music video in 1989 for fat, a parody of michael jacksons bad. Tv, since youve been gone, one more minute, good old days, headline news, the biggest ball of twine.
I was recently talking to my fiance about how he was live since we are both weird al fans. Please enable javascript to take full advantage of our site features. For nearly three decades weird al yankovic has been the. Spatula city weird al yankovic by swbattlefrontguru. This 100minute mockumentary includes als first 8 videos. October 2005 he wrote yoda a parody of the kinks song lola as far back as 1980, but could not release it until 1985 with his third album, dare to be stupid, because ray davies considered the song too personal for parody. Livin in the fridge weid al yankovic video parody of the song livin in the fridge this video is weird als parody of aerosmiths livin on the edge unfortunatel. List of songs recorded by weird al yankovic wikipedia. It has never appeared on one of yankovic s studio albums, but was included as a track on the medium rarities disc of his squeeze box boxed set.
Telling him how i just loved the costumes for the songs. Click here to visit our frequently asked questions about html5. The title of the film is a parody from the 1982 documentary the compleat beatles. First of all, big thanks to everybody that bought or still intends to buy internet leaks ive had a terrific time reading everybodys reactions to the new songs and videos. Weird al yankovic performs in the music video you dont love me anymore from the album off the deep end recorded for scotti brothers records. With weird al yankovic, jon schwartz, steve jay, jim west. Weird al yankovic the videos dvd, 1998 for sale online.
It was partially written by yankovic and directed by jay levey. The enduring icon of pop music parody, and the lovable goofball who makes polka medleys. It also includes the title sequence he did for the movie spy hard, without, for some. Alfred matthew weird al yankovic downey, 23 oktober 1959 is een amerikaans. This is a collection of weird al yankovics music videos from 1983 to 1996. Licensed to youtube by sme on behalf of rca records label. Weird al yankovic live dvd, 2000 for sale online ebay. Fact and fiction are mingled in this mockumentary about the career of music parodist weird al yankovic. The compleat al is a mockumentary about the life of weird al yankovic, from his birth in 1959, to 1985. Remembering how much fun it was, made me really want to experience it again. Fat video short 1988 weird al yankovic amazing stories.