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Featuring the 14 12 tracks they did during 2012s February Album Writing Month (FAWM) plus more 26 tracks total Insane Ian.

But a lot of the album is good, and the Luke Ski Phase 2 stuff is also good, but different.

Basically all my internal organs have been removed and replaced by the Bards music.

He premieres the concept of his own band, basically well-trimmed types that looked good in music videos.

He is known for his humorous songs that make light of popular culture and often parody specific songs by contemporary musical acts, original songs that are style pastiches of the work of other acts, and polka medleys of several popular songs, featuring his favored instrument, the accordion.

His works have earned him four Grammy Awards and a further eleven nominations, four gold records, and six platinum records in the United States.

The foremost song parodist of the MTV era, Weird Al Yankovic carried the torch of musical humor more proudly and more successfully than any performer since Allan Sherman.

In the world of novelty records a genre noted for its extensive back catalog of flashes-in-the-pan and one-hit wonders Yankovic was king, scoring smash after smash over the course of an enduring career which found him topically mocking everything from new wave to gangsta rap.

Another One Rides the Bus is the earliest of his arena rock parodies, recorded in 1980 during an on-air appearance on the Dr.

Demento show and a classic piece of musical humor.

Already he had developed his knack of knocking the wind out of any pretentious, overblown rock anthem by slightly adjusting the lyrical content.

Once one of these songs was describing the boring, mundane activities of the non-rock star, it was if a new life were born within the song.

My Bologna demonstrated the concept as applied to the fine art of making the stupid much stupider.

Once parodied by Yankovic, a song can never be thought of in the same way again.

I Love Rocky Road brilliantly trivializes both rock roll and the idea of singing about loving it.

If one is going to sing about loving something, lets make it be something important like a horrible ice cream flavor.

Unfortunately, the album doesnt really get off on the right foot with Ricky.

Yankovic hadnt quite fine-tuned his skills of parody to the point where he could pull off connecting the new wave Toni Basil number with Lucille Balls situation comedy, and the results are contrived and not particularly funny.

This is also the best way to describe his original material, which was used in a smaller proportion in all his later albums than it is here.

His original songs may not seem like they were written in ten minutes, but the ideas behind them dont seem to involve that much contemplation.

As a result, they are like little bits of puff, produced so expertly they seem like some kind of ultimate filler, except that their impact on the flow of an album side is more like ballast.

The defense that Yankovics material is best understood by his main target audience, 11-year-old kids, washes no better than they do.

Kids this age really dont like his original material as much as his parodies, although a few years down the road he managed to come up with at least a few of his own songs that were acceptable to what has to be the fussiest audience imaginable.

Since the originals tend to dilute the excitement of any Yankovic album, the titles in his discography are rated based on how successful his originals that are featured are with 11 year olds.

It goes without saying that each of his albums contains at least a few brilliant parodies, so this songcraft is where one finds varied levels of consistency in his output.

At this stage, his relationship with his high-powered musical backup had yet to jell, either.

Since the unaccompanied piece off the radio is the best performance in this set, one could even come to the mistaken conclusion that he works best without a band behind him.

Tracklist: 01 - Ricky 02 - Gotta Boogie 03 - I Love Rocky Road 04 - Buckingham Blues 05 - Happy Birthday 06 - Stop Draggin My Car Around 07 - My Bologna 08 - The Checks In The Mail 09 - Another One Rides The Bus 10 - Ill Be Mellow When Im Dead 11 - Such a Groovy Guy 12 - Mr.

Frump In The Iron Lung.