"Weird Al" Yankovic - answering machine messages from 1985
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- Опубліковано 29 гру 2010
- This is a tape that my drummer Bermuda Schwartz dug up -- it's a string of nonsensical phone message that I left for him sometime in the '80s. The really sad/scary part is, I was not drunk or on any mind-altering substances at the time.
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I like to imagine Al in a dark room in a giant recliner watching TV and eating TV dinners then calling up his friends because he's bored. Also, you know Al's drummer probably bragged about getting a fancy answering machine that could record unlimited messages at some point and Al went, "OH, REALLY?"
I like to imagine him in a hotel room after the show, maybe lying on the bed schoolgirl-style, playing with an origami dog he folded out of hotel stationery while ranting about "I want a new dog".
Lol
He's not drunk he's Weird Al
And I wish there were more messages. XD "That's not Lassie, that's some bitch." - "I called you on the phooone but you were not hooome."
"Go home, bud. You're Wierd Al."
The coolest people are best at entertaining sober.
That's for true
Yep spot on mate
"weird al keeps calling me up at a respectable hour, and leaving sober messages on my machine!"
😂😂😂
Said no one ever 😂
@@FennixGamingYT well utterlymoot just said it
@@SomeUsernameSomeoneElseTookIt I stand corrected XD
The audacity...
I want a new dog. A dog that doesn't shed a lot. A dog that eats cheese.
Girls just wanna eat cheese
I want a new goat. One I don't have to kid.
name it grommit
A dog thats hot and iLl name it hotdog
I always find it fascinating to watch the creative process at work.
Al never needed drugs to be odd. And that was the inspiration for my own life.
DARE TO BE STUPID
Neither did Zappa
D.A.R.E to be stupid, might you say?
Ironmaiden Jr. ill give u a slow clap for that
+grumblekin His college roomate theorized that drugs would make him normal.
IT'S SO EASY. SO EASY TO DO.
"The really sad/scary part is, I was not drunk or on any mind-altering substances at the time."
If this were LITERALLY anyone but Weird Al, I wouldn't believe that.
Y'know, some of these wouldn't sound out of place in a horror game...
It's probably the timbre that machine adds to his voice.
Yeah, like an hour of MTV.
P.T.!
I want a new DOOOOG
I CALLED YOU ON THE PHONE. *beep beep beep beep beep*
I miss answering machines. We use to fill up my friend's machine all the time just to mess with him. He ended up cutting those messages together with our personally favorite songs and releasing the disc after college as gifts for all of us. Still have it to this day.
Wanna share? If you upload it to UA-cam I'll come listen.
Would love to see it uploaded. Classic media is always fun to see especially since I never got to grow up in that period.
Can we all just take a second to appreciate how good Al is at playing a phone like an instrument?
The answering machine scene from UHF is making so much sense right now.
.... And this Children- is how Weird Al Yankovic came up with half of his most famous Parodies- by prank calling his Drummer.
Also- the Dial tones are so fricking funny. XD
The fact he can PLAY a telephone should be impressive.
Why isn't this in the national archives?
Trolling before it was cool. Weird Al is the original hipster.
Mike Rauch how dare you
Lol what are you talking about
I CALLED YOU ON THE PHONE!
DO DOOT DO DO DOOT DOOT
BUT YOU ARE NOT AT HOME!
DO DOOT DO DO DOOT DOOT
4:01
thank you for the lyrics
Beginning sounds like maybe, maybe, the equivalent of 'scribbled napkin notes' for early draft on 'I Want a New Duck'.
Ronnie Lane and possibly his weird “girls just want to eat cheese” joke could have given him the idea of “girls just wanna have lunch”
ah, so this is what shit-posting was like in the 80s...
clearly you did not google what "shit posting" was before you commented. ^_^
CCCM89 If I was born in the 80's, I would've been shitposting all over my parents and friends answering machines.
Edgardo Gomez look up shitpost before you comment stuff
These are funny 30 years later.
And 35 years later.
@@Hellothere-vr9um 37…
I feel like short haired and mustached weird al and long haired weird al are 2 different people is that weird?
Nope
Not at all.
Well, he IS 'WEIRD' Al....
like a robot Chicken 80s Michael Jackson was actually abducted by aliens while 90s Michael Jackson was here all along and he was created by aliens
I can imagine sometime in the near future a UFO is going to crash and 80s Weird Al is going to come out of it and fight weird Al from now and tell everybody that Weird Al from now is an imposter who was sent by those aliens to fool everybody but was actually a spy and there's going to be an epic battle between accordions polka and this epic battle will take place in Albuquerque. And it's up to the Amish to determine Who wins and who loses.
"I want a new dog, one that likes to eat cheese. I want a new dog, one that doesn't have to many... Ticks." I love this line yet I hate it with a burning passion.
I read this comment JUST as he was saying that! What are the odds?
Was that the origin of "I want a new duck"?
@@ziggybowman6875 i have no idea
@@Mandalore06 1 in a billion ❤
I thought Al's parodies he eventually came up with were "I Want a New *Duck*" and "Girls Just Want to Have *Lunch*."
Serucipe They were. He's probably reading the early drafts.
yeah i thought the same thing.
Makes sense since this is 1985 the same year both those songs were came out in his album “Dare to be Stupid”
I wish he would of finished “Girls just want to eat cheeses.” But I guess we’ll never hear it.
Musicians in the 80’s: doing all kinds of drugs after shows
Weird Al: hanging out in his hotel room leaving ridiculous messages on people’s answering machines for his own amusement
Teri? Answer the phone! Answer the phone!!!...
+CompQuartz OH, I'M IN HELL! I'M IN HELL , TERI!
"That's not Lassie, that's some BITCH!" Oh my god, my sides!
+Satan That eats cheese...
Mr Schwartz, thank you for saving these gems for all those years!
I can just imagine Al in a recliner leaning all the way back and screaming into the telephone!
3:19..
Is this the first ever, documented proof that Al swears? Because he never swears on any albums, interviews, or in person...
I'm hearing "That's some bitch, NOT LASSY!"
ち匚丹尺ㄚ 爪口れち匕モ尺 a bitch is just a female dog, so not swearing.
Thanks for the 1 year reply.
He also swears at the very end of "Don't Download This Song" if you listen reeeeaaallly closely. It's the other b word
Actually he does swear in one of his songs. At the end of don't download this song when it's fading out, if it's loud enough you'll hear "illegally downloading music all day long (al in the background) ya cheap ba$#&rd!"
supernova gamer way to steal my comment! Naw I'm just playing
The Lassie bit killed me.
Stop delaying and make more music
gasp, ponyphonic watched the same obscure video I did? my life is complete now.
ponyphonic fuqin bronies
Isac Degmez serisly
Isac Degmez lol
It was the 80's, Al. This was perfectly normal then.
I remember when I could play Smoke on the Water, Jingle Bells, etc. on phone buttons. A lost art.
When he starts playing the keypad it's pretty dang brilliant.
See, this is what happens when a guy who spent his life studying and striving for perfection suddenly finds himself with far too much time on his hands.
All of us listening: “my God, this is the gold mine that would eventually be the genius of Weird Al.”
The Drummer listening : “This guy again...”
"I don't do drugs, I AM drugs."
- Salvador Dali
Should of been Weird al
dali was egotistical nut job and a plagiarist
*have
should have been
This is so adorable, it's like Al had just discovered this wonderful invention known as "A machine of answering", and was having a blast with it haha
It just hit me. Weird Al is Frank Zappa, or possibly Andy Kaufman.
This man's whole life is a work of performance art.
Dude, when he starts playing the keys... it gets impressive!
I like the picture of the answering machine. Makes me feel like I'm at home, and it's the 80s, and so I'm staring at my answering machine while I listen to all of this - to try and stay grounded.
The kind of scary/creepy thing about this is that I can totally identify with these. In fact, I sent a long email like this to a friend on the night of September 10, 2001. I was laughing about it the next morning until...
And that is why I don't watch the news.
Tragic day, that. Us Saudis lost our greatest heroes.
Cameron what the fuck
3:19 I FINALLY FOUND IT! WEIRD AL CUSSING!
Its funny cause it’s not even cursing!
It’s the actual word for female dog!
He could actually play music with phone buttons. This man's talent knows no boundaries. Honestly I totally understand Bermuda Schwarz for holding on to this tape for over two decades, I would cherish it too.
I cannot believe that he is not on drugs. If this is what he does sober I can't even begin to imagine what kind of message he'd leave high.
He talked about cheese a lot back then
Dude likes cheese
Al, will you give me a pointless voice message? That would make my life so amazing.
me too! me too!
Oh my gosh that would be soooo amazing if he did that!
I lost it when he played Another One Bites the Dust on the keypad.
Guys, the "Dog named bob" sounds like the initial stages of writing "I wanna new duck."
I'd save the tape if Weird Al was leaving messages on my answering machine. I'd feel honored as hell!
Smoke on the Water with dial tones (Deep Purple)! 4:36
this is great! why can't i get any messages like this?
"I Want a New Dog" Huey Lewis parody.
why are we all ignoring the fact that he was like 26 when he did this
this is what i love about weird al
so all i've gotten from this is that al is might want a pet. i am thinking... hm, cat maybe? it's hard to make out
one that likes to eat... yogurt?
This sounds like an 11 year who got bored and made a bunch of videos on a 3DS. In this case, it was a grown man who got bored and made a bunch of recordings on a phone.
In the midst of laughing my way through this, I totally flashed back to my middle school best friend and I playing "songs" using the phone. Haven't thought of that in years...now I really wanna do it again....AL RULES! WOO!
}:)
Wonderful insight into being a friend with a lovely goofball like Weird Al ! He's really fun & humorous & that's no surprise. I also really like that it's from way back then! So Vintage. I was 3 or 4 at that time!
Weird comment!
My life is now complete. Thank you.
Thank you Weird Al for keeping the weird going! This is epic!
I'm eating while watching this and when he started screaming eat I was like "al how did you know? It was the 80s wtf" "ITS SOME BITCH THATS NOT LASSIE" hahahahaha
I learned how to be weird from the best - - "Weird Al" himself!!! I guess that's what happens from listening to his songs for many years. Been a fan since I was 3 years old and proud of it!!
Al, thank you for an important demonstration of why the editing process is so important.
I had many friends like Al growing up. Some of my “normal” friends hated these funny people. Years later I would find out, these funny friends of mine had mild forms of Autism, ADD, ADHD.
Best people always have some kind of disorder
The machine isn't on... The Yankovic is coming from inside the house!!!
Yet another reason why I love you Al! Happy New Year!!
I love this! The creative process you must go through, what a great way to share!!
Ah, the 80's, how I miss the weird days with my high school friends!!
What device was Smoke on the Water being played on?
The phone number buttons.
But the phone buttons are dual tone. When he was playing Smoke, they were single tone.
@@SASunDog Many telephones at the time were purely analog devices. Touch-tone dialing works by playing two simultaneous tones when you push one button (one for the row, one for the column) - however when you pressed two adjacent buttons on one of these telephones, the circuitry would only play one tone. It wasn't unusual for kids of the era to play various songs and share the button combos with each other.
Even the crank calls Weird Al leaves are hilarious! Weird Al and his band are national treasures!
This remains one of my favorite videos on this site.
"I wonder..."
At that point, Al sounds a lot like Jeff Goldblum.
I was smiling the whole time, but lost it at Smoke on the Water
And the song "Another One Bites The Dust/Rides The Bus".
"Permanent archives". I have to wonder if Al figured it would be committed so. Also, is there another 60 minutes of this of just MTV? I'd listen to the whole thing.
I did that to my mom back when I was a kid, I used star so she wouldn't know it was me, and I did yoda voice and left her all these random voice messages, then as I got older I did Louis from family guy voice and I had a cell phone so I'd call the house phone and hide it while mom got up to go look. If mom didn't know the number then she wouldn't answer, and say if it's important enough they'll leave a message, my number didn't show up so she didn't answer and would stand there and listen to Louis griffin and yoda leave a message. And I could hear my mother yelling who keeps leaving these idiot moronic messages?! And i'd try to hold in my laughter. One time I got the idea from the movie dumb and dumber and recorded on a cassette tape the scene where loyd is like hey wanna hear the most annoying noise in the world? ahhhhhhhhhhh.... she didn't like that either, and left a message where I pretended to have diarrhea and made the sound affects and everything. XD But eventually she caught me and I was grounded, but to me it was worth it. Not that I made my mother upset just pulling off my pranks for so long, that was worth it :)
27 likes. Perfect.
Guess you weren't the favorite if she didn't even know your voice
4:00 my favorite part.
"The really sad/scary part is, I was not drunk or on any mind-altering substances at the time."
Up until the part with food... I was like, so? not that scary...
this made my DAY! i love this. Al, you are amazing!
this sounds like something a teenager would say to his friend on a voice message or prank call.
Sounds like something me and my friends would do.
When I was little I bought a cassette recorder and me and my friend recorded the most nonsensical crap you could ever imagine and we were like high but with no drugs. You could speed up and slow down the tape it was so frickin' hilarious.... I haven't seen him since i was like 12 and I don't know what happened to the tape or the recorder :(
"I want a new goat"
Me:Play goat simulator...
=/ No...
Ivafakename but that game sucks
Ivafakename but that game sucks
Trying to upstage Al with free laughs? You failed! :)
TFW you listen to Weird AL for 25+ years and this video is the only time you ever heard him swear. "it's some bitch!"
I see that Al spent alot of time trying to think of different animals for his parody of "I Want a New Drug".
Lol he's ranting about the parodies he didn't want to do on Dare to be Stupid but the publisher required it because they were topical
if this was from anyone other then Al I would be terrified
I miss the old answering machines. you can have this much fun with
man, al this is awesome! can't believe jon would keep this for 25 years, but hey, it's great! by the way, happy 2011 to you, your family, the band and crew, and may you continue to rock on the parodies...
Al, this scares me
If it wasn't weird al, people would be like: "This is so cringe and lolrandom"
God this takes me back to all the fun we had with silly answering machine messages when I was a kid, and playing songs with the phone buttons.
I LOVE YOU WEIRD AL!!! thank you for posting this beauty!!! :D
I think he wants a new cat
Too bad. He's getting a duck.
Al, are you sure you weren't drunk when you made these phone calls?
ziddyT9 he doesn't drink
Al - I've been a fan of yours for year & years. However, I can't deplete any more brain cells just to finish listening to this. Smooches!
Thank goodness that Bermuda Schwartz was not home, otherwise we would have missed out on this gold! 🥁
I want a new Dog is a demo of I want a new Duck
I thought the same! And Girls Just Want to Eat Cheese is a similar concept to Girls Just Want to Have Lunch.
Hahaha awesome. Loved the phone music.
Weird Al: "I wonder if this will record an hour of Mtv?"
Years later: "Welcome back to Al TV!"
This is the greatest video I have ever seen / heard on you tube. It makes me cry and laugh at the same time. "Bored Al" would not have been a good name but now I know the truth... thanks for posting this video!
Only Al can make music with a telephone. Fact of life.
"I want a new dog. One who likes to eat cheese" going to be a t-shirt
This is so funny!!! I can only hope to have friends like you to leave such great messages!!! LOLOLOLOL You are my hero!
I was dying from laughter, especially during the Lassie part! 🤣