🎶Indeed... After listening to the Original Album all these years, it is just one of those songs that just "Feels" right with the next song on the Album following immediately after... Like Van Halen's "Eruption-You Really Got Me" and Queen's "Death On Two Legs-Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon" .. Really a LOT of Themed Albums.. Just Feel right👍
@@laurin4405 I completely forgot about this video. Thanks for the reminder! And, yeah, some songs shouldn't be split. And I feel the same way about some albums. I feel a terrible itch if I only hear one song off of Dark Side of the Moon.
This is interesting for diehard fans. Thinking about adolescent AL learning about chord structure, transitions, segues between different tempos, musical elements that would serve him well for his polka medley arrangements and some of his ambitious multi-passage songs like Jackson Park Express or Nature Trail To Hell.
While it's not technically an "album", @Trailblazer took all the legitimate cover songs from the Vanity Tour (which were all recorded on stage for a Spotify promotion): ua-cam.com/video/S2B1xztGDoY/v-deo.html It's 4+ hours of legitimate Weird Al covers, and it's AMAZING.
He said he taught himself to play rock accordion with the album. Now I want a Weird Al Elton cover album! By the way what you are hearing at the end is the beginning of Love Lies Bleeding. 6:11-6:35
@@frankohashiguchi swamp* Yoda starts 6:36. I don't remember why I didn't mention it. My post was 4 years ago... my pet peeve is that so many people, including Al I guess, think Funeral ends where the lyrics start for Love Lies Bleeding start. Not correct... one ends and the other one starts on the same note at 6:11.
When I was eight years old (1979) I choreographed a routine where I was Darth Vader, but instead of it being a funeral, it was an awakening. I ended up blocking lasers with my hands and so on... Good memories.
To be fair, I shot this on my cell phone, so I think the auto-focus went crazy and resulted in "glowing orb Al". As far as I remember, the lighting was suitably accurate.
I love how Al looks like a being made purely of light!
For copyright reasons, Al's image in this video was digitally replaced by stock-footage of the surface of the sun.
The camera captured his true essence here
Yes. Looks like.
The magic of cell-phone footage and auto-focus....
@@PersonOfDistraction no it does this on film cameras too
I sure would love to hear him finish that with Love Lies Bleeding.
🎶Indeed... After listening to the Original Album all these years, it is just one of those songs that just "Feels" right with the next song on the Album following immediately after... Like Van Halen's "Eruption-You Really Got Me" and Queen's "Death On Two Legs-Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon" .. Really a LOT of Themed Albums.. Just Feel right👍
@@laurin4405 I completely forgot about this video. Thanks for the reminder! And, yeah, some songs shouldn't be split. And I feel the same way about some albums. I feel a terrible itch if I only hear one song off of Dark Side of the Moon.
This is interesting for diehard fans. Thinking about adolescent AL learning about chord structure, transitions, segues between different tempos, musical elements that would serve him well for his polka medley arrangements and some of his ambitious multi-passage songs like Jackson Park Express or Nature Trail To Hell.
This is one of my favorite Elton songs, I cannot believe Weird Al did this!! I was also obsessed, I had pet rabbits named Elton, Levon, and Nikita!!
The accordion actually suits the song quite well!
Absolute perfection! I hummed right along with it, and he got it all correct. Wish he had've ended with Love Lies Bleeding.
Glad the humming certification expert was able to give their official verification stamp.
@@ATalkingBadger Are we being a tad sarcastic here for no reason?
My favourite playing my favourite!
My son and I attended, great concert!
A literal lifetime ago for Al. What an amazing journey SO FAR!
That was quite the accordion friendly song
I want an album of covers by Al.
While it's not technically an "album", @Trailblazer took all the legitimate cover songs from the Vanity Tour (which were all recorded on stage for a Spotify promotion):
ua-cam.com/video/S2B1xztGDoY/v-deo.html
It's 4+ hours of legitimate Weird Al covers, and it's AMAZING.
In front of the best band in world is RIGHT!
He said he taught himself to play rock accordion with the album. Now I want a Weird Al Elton cover album! By the way what you are hearing at the end is the beginning of Love Lies Bleeding. 6:11-6:35
I didn't know how badly I needed a Weird Al Elton cover album until this moment. Please, let this happen. Somehow. Anyhow. This must be.
@@MrSprigg same
"I met him in a bar down in Dagobah" -
I wish he went fully ill-advised and did Love Lies Bleeding as well!
@@frankohashiguchi swamp* Yoda starts 6:36. I don't remember why I didn't mention it. My post was 4 years ago... my pet peeve is that so many people, including Al I guess, think Funeral ends where the lyrics start for Love Lies Bleeding start. Not correct... one ends and the other one starts on the same note at 6:11.
Thanks for sharing.
That was excellent. Thanks for posting
LOL he is just a glowing orb
I love the way they had this flow into Yoda
When I was eight years old (1979) I choreographed a routine where I was Darth Vader, but instead of it being a funeral, it was an awakening. I ended up blocking lasers with my hands and so on... Good memories.
truly Weird
"Funeral for a Friend" without "Love Lies Bleeding" is like "We Will Rock You" without "We are the Champions."
Or "Feeling That Way" without "Anytime".
I agree - though I do remember when radio stations used to play one without the other...
dammit i was hoping he’d just continue playing the rest of the goodbye yellow brick road album
I wish people would quit shouting
Weird Al is approximately 10 million lumens
would have loved to see him play this but whoever was in charge of lighting must have been on acid!
To be fair, I shot this on my cell phone, so I think the auto-focus went crazy and resulted in "glowing orb Al". As far as I remember, the lighting was suitably accurate.