His writing process rivals the best composers of history. It can take him up to six MONTHS to write a single song, he tries hundreds of variations, switches verses around... it's crazy. There was a whole video about it, him and his band talking about it... maybe on the "Straight out of Lynnwood" DVD commentary? I don't remember. I'm glad that you recognize the greatness of the King. All hail The Weird. All hail the Al.
"I'm glad that you recognize the greatness of the King. All hail The Weird. All hail the Al." Why can I not get "Hail to the King, baby" out of my head now? "Shop Smart. Shop S-Mart."
Weird Al graduated as the Valedictorion and went to college when he was only 16 and got his degree in architecture. Al's had the same band since 1983 but his drummer, Jon Bermuda Schwartz has been with him since 1980. Steve Jay on bass and grammy winner Jim Kimo West on guitar. They stick with Al for a good reason, he's the nicest and smartest guy in the biz.
You are killing me. I can hardly wait for you to react to Smells like nirvana. I grew up in the 80s and 90s, in the Seattle area. Yes, during the flannel and grunge era. I've also been by Bill gates's house on lake Washington. Oh, the stories I've heard. More Weird Al, please. You've barely scratched the surface. And, yes, he's brilliant. The music world knows that if he does a parody of your song, you have made it.
How does he do it? He is an underrated genius in music because you can't do what he does without knowing what you are doing and them some. Al has done so much for music and comedy at the same time.
Emo and Al go way back and they even still work together today. He was in Al's movie, UHF, and he opened for him when I went to see Al on tour last year.
I worked at Intel when they shot this video at the main office location in California...I sat in a cubicle exactly like those....ah, the good ole days. Weird Al is a freakin genius.
@@baskervillebee6097 Many of those millions would, IF they made an honest effort. I have watched some genuinely brain dead UA-cam reactors (finally) put it together.
showing my age my first PC had a 6502 CPU. in my first IT job (in the EDP department) we had Wyse 50P terminals for those who need computer access and a singular IBM XTPC.
The real deal IT guys in the 80s were still on their way to the mainframe room with sandals and Hawaii shirts like in the 70s, right? Godmode admins... The air became a little more thin for admins in the early 2000s - so they needed to change. But Software Developers never grew out of that time...
Yeah, Jon Schwartz was playing with Al before anyone else was. Back then, instead of playing a drumkit, Jim would sit and bang on Al’s accordion case with… I think it was rubber mallets and make all kinds of noises with whistles, bike horns, duck calls and things like that while Al played accordion. You can witness this in action if you watch the clip of them performing “Another One Bites The Dust” on The Tomorrow Show With Tom Snyder back in 1981. He didn’t play with a full band and have Jon switch to a drumkit until he made his first album in 1983.
The only complaint that I have about your reaction is you didn't say anything about the "Welcome to COMDEX" banner behind the stage. I went to COMDEX (RIP 2003) twice. I still have the CompuServe Wow! t-shirt (1996, I think) and the Micron BEDO t-shirt (1997, I think).
Initially tech guys worked for corporations, which had a dress code. Later, the most talented of the tech wizards were able to call their own shots, which meant they set their own clothing preferences (which were ALWAYS considerably relaxed), their own hours, their own preferred work environment (including being mostly at home), benefits (which were ALWAYS very generous), and pay scale (also obscenely generous). Tech wizards were harder to find back then, and very valuable personnel, so they pretty much wrote their own ticket (and often had the best recreational drugs). Back in the day, I knew a couple of them. Big business treated them like royalty, almost like they were superstitious about making any demands, because they were afraid they would lose these guys (it was almost always guys). They tended to stay where they were comfortable and, if the situation got uncomfortable, it wasn't hard to walk off one job and get another in the same day.
Even today in 2023, while 100 GB of RAM in a home computer would be achievable, it would still be very impressive. Most are likely in the 8-32 GB range.
They may be the best known and most widely circulated, but Al's been at this for over 40 years and still going. Check out "Living With a Hernia" (parody of James Brown's "Living in America".) JB helped Al re-create the whole original video: clothes, same backup dancers and band AND taught him dance moves. It's a blast. Also "Like a Surgeon" / "Smells Like Nirvana" / "The Saga Begins" / "Eat It" / "Perform This Way" ----or as @Phil said, "Naa they are all great."
If you are going to do more Weird Al, and decide to include "Eat It" and "Fat" - Please use the side-by-side comparison videos, so you can see just how closely he parodied the videos as well as the songs. He matches MJ move for move, but makes it funny!
He deserves to be enshrined in Cleveland, in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
No brainer.
Man should get a Life-Achievement and Music Comedy Award.
His writing process rivals the best composers of history. It can take him up to six MONTHS to write a single song, he tries hundreds of variations, switches verses around... it's crazy. There was a whole video about it, him and his band talking about it... maybe on the "Straight out of Lynnwood" DVD commentary? I don't remember.
I'm glad that you recognize the greatness of the King. All hail The Weird. All hail the Al.
"I'm glad that you recognize the greatness of the King. All hail The Weird. All hail the Al."
Why can I not get "Hail to the King, baby" out of my head now? "Shop Smart. Shop S-Mart."
Weird Al graduated as the Valedictorion and went to college when he was only 16 and got his degree in architecture.
Al's had the same band since 1983 but his drummer, Jon Bermuda Schwartz has been with him since 1980.
Steve Jay on bass and grammy winner Jim Kimo West on guitar.
They stick with Al for a good reason, he's the nicest and smartest guy in the biz.
This is my favorite out of all Weird Al’s parodies, so far, and I’m not into rap music
You are killing me. I can hardly wait for you to react to Smells like nirvana. I grew up in the 80s and 90s, in the Seattle area. Yes, during the flannel and grunge era. I've also been by Bill gates's house on lake Washington. Oh, the stories I've heard.
More Weird Al, please. You've barely scratched the surface. And, yes, he's brilliant. The music world knows that if he does a parody of your song, you have made it.
I loved your point about his knowledge. I'm equally amazed at how tapped in he is on the songs he writes!
The absolute definition of The G.O.A.T.
How does he do it? He is an underrated genius in music because you can't do what he does without knowing what you are doing and them some. Al has done so much for music and comedy at the same time.
Emo and Al go way back and they even still work together today. He was in Al's movie, UHF, and he opened for him when I went to see Al on tour last year.
No, Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968) was an American author, disability rights advocate for the blind.
Helen Keller was also blind so jpeg would be useless to her
I worked at Intel when they shot this video at the main office location in California...I sat in a cubicle exactly like those....ah, the good ole days. Weird Al is a freakin genius.
Please check out The Saga Begins- Weird Al.. what a treat!
"Bob" a song completely made from palindromes in the style of Bob Dylan.
NO!!!
You weren’t supposed to tell him about the palindromes! The whole fun is seeing how long it takes them to figure it out!!
@@robbob5302
You do know that millions of people out there would NEVER get it. 😕
@@baskervillebee6097
Many of those millions would, IF they made an honest effort. I have watched some genuinely brain dead UA-cam reactors (finally) put it together.
@@robbob5302
More faith in my fellow man than me.
Yoda,Brady Bunch,Christmas at ground zero and the night Santa went crazzy.
The only song he said he really did not have to research was White and Nerdy, because he was already an expert on that.
She was blind so she couldn’t see the pics
It's fun to watch a tech-guy old enough to catch all these references. Young reactors have no idea what he's talking about in this, lol.
My favorite was, "Today, an intern came in, saw a floppy disk on my desk, and said, 'cool, you 3-d printed the save icon!'"
Al is a genus in more ways than one.
showing my age my first PC had a 6502 CPU. in my first IT job (in the EDP department) we had Wyse 50P terminals for those who need computer access and a singular IBM XTPC.
I’ve had that sign in my office for about 50 years, lol! You Want it When?
He's that smart
The real deal IT guys in the 80s were still on their way to the mainframe room with sandals and Hawaii shirts like in the 70s, right? Godmode admins... The air became a little more thin for admins in the early 2000s - so they needed to change. But Software Developers never grew out of that time...
a couple decades ago i asked a salesman if i would need more than gig and he kinda laughed and said no. Like it was impossible! Jus' sayin' is all!
Weird Al is a genius
Yep Steve Jay and Jon Schwartz have been in his band since the 80s along with Jim West.
Yeah, Jon Schwartz was playing with Al before anyone else was. Back then, instead of playing a drumkit, Jim would sit and bang on Al’s accordion case with… I think it was rubber mallets and make all kinds of noises with whistles, bike horns, duck calls and things like that while Al played accordion. You can witness this in action if you watch the clip of them performing “Another One Bites The Dust” on The Tomorrow Show With Tom Snyder back in 1981. He didn’t play with a full band and have Jon switch to a drumkit until he made his first album in 1983.
So many great hits, you need to do White and Nerdy!
The only complaint that I have about your reaction is you didn't say anything about the "Welcome to COMDEX" banner behind the stage. I went to COMDEX (RIP 2003) twice. I still have the CompuServe Wow! t-shirt (1996, I think) and the Micron BEDO t-shirt (1997, I think).
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You need to see "Tacky"
Initially tech guys worked for corporations, which had a dress code.
Later, the most talented of the tech wizards were able to call their own shots, which meant they set their own clothing preferences (which were ALWAYS considerably relaxed), their own hours, their own preferred work environment (including being mostly at home), benefits (which were ALWAYS very generous), and pay scale (also obscenely generous). Tech wizards were harder to find back then, and very valuable personnel, so they pretty much wrote their own ticket (and often had the best recreational drugs).
Back in the day, I knew a couple of them. Big business treated them like royalty, almost like they were superstitious about making any demands, because they were afraid they would lose these guys (it was almost always guys). They tended to stay where they were comfortable and, if the situation got uncomfortable, it wasn't hard to walk off one job and get another in the same day.
and now they want you to have a degree and 3 pages of "be very proficient in" and then at the bottom - starting at 25 / 30 hr lmao...its a joke
it is Emo!
hellen keller was the famous blind woman. but that he could rhyme that out with printing out pictures of sarah michelle gellar
Even today in 2023, while 100 GB of RAM in a home computer would be achievable, it would still be very impressive. Most are likely in the 8-32 GB range.
He just fits it all in. And the videos are all like direct style wise copy....
"Virus alert", to keep the theme going.
So from the Views I guess its quite obvious that his two best videos were white and nerdy and amish paradise?
Pretty much. I think the other big one is Fat. All of these are still quite good! This is very appreciated.
I loved this one though.
Naa they are all great
They may be the best known and most widely circulated, but Al's been at this for over 40 years and still going. Check out "Living With a Hernia" (parody of James Brown's "Living in America".) JB helped Al re-create the whole original video: clothes, same backup dancers and band AND taught him dance moves. It's a blast. Also "Like a Surgeon" / "Smells Like Nirvana" / "The Saga Begins" / "Eat It" / "Perform This Way" ----or as @Phil said, "Naa they are all great."
Those two are the ones most likely for reactors to react to, but there are plenty more good videos and songs without videos that are just as good.
If I ever meet you, I’ll control-alt-delete you is just brutal
If you are going to do more Weird Al, and decide to include "Eat It" and "Fat" - Please use the side-by-side comparison videos, so you can see just how closely he parodied the videos as well as the songs. He matches MJ move for move, but makes it funny!
If I like the parody, it stands to reason I will like the original too. Right?
(Boy. Was I wrong!!)
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25 years long time ago
Sadly, most of Gen Z would have no idea what he is talking about. 😄
😂
Hey no harsh talk on C64's!
lol
If you would rake in as much profit & fame (=free advertising of it) as him, I'm pretty sure you'd find a way...
I know I'd sure as hell try. 🙂
Stop Master Flex