Adam Tyner

Well, I'm excited. No word on a title or tracklisting yet.

nightwing82

Any idea when they will release the track listing?

This is GREAT!

Scot1458

Great! Running with Siccors was his BEST album yet. Man, new Robbie Williams, new Weird Al, I might actually walk into a music store again!

BT

Been waitin' a long time for a new Weird Al album to drop. Looking forward to it.

-BT

the narrator

about time..i was beginning to wonder when a new one would come out

Smidget

w00t! One of the best concerts I saw

Buttmunker

I think his "Polka" songs are the best! I hate it when he puts out an album that doesn't include a Polka (luckily most do).

I'd love to find out the track listings, too. Since it's been quite a long time since his last album ("Running With Sissors" in the late '90's), the new one should include at least one Eminem parody or a J.Lo mix (The J.Lo Polka, Perhaps)?

Scott27

Apparently, the album is going to be called "Poodle Hat," and the tour the "Poodle Hat Tour."

Click here, and scroll down to the September 5 listing for the tour name
Click here and go to the bottom of the list for the album title

grunter

Great. Just what we need. Yet another parody of "Hot in Herre."

Scott27

The full cover art has now been posted at weirdal.com.

http://www.weirdal.com/images/phcdart2.jpg

The Antipodean

I just can't get used to the man without glasses and mustache.

Bust

Hm...

I wonder if the NYC Subway cover theme has anything to do with the content on the disc.

Adam Tyner

From http://www.rollingstone.com/news/new...18013&afl=mnew :



1. "Couch Potato," parody of Eminem's "Lose Yourself"
2. "Hardware Store"
3. "Trash Day," parody of Nelly's "Hot in Herre"
4. Party at the Leper Colony
5. "Angry White Boy Polka," parody of Papa Roach's "Last Resort," System of a Down's "Chop Suey," the Vine's "Get Free," the Hives' "Hate to Say I Told You So," the White Stripes' "Fell In Love With a Girl," the Strokes' "Last Nite," Disturbed's "Down With the Sickness," Rage Against the Machine's "Renegades of Funk," Limp Bizkit's "My Way," Staind's "Outside," Kid Rock's "Bawitdaba," P.O.D.'s "Youth of the Nation" and Eminem's "The Real Slim Shady"
6. "Wanna B Ur Lovr"
7. "A Complicated Song," parody of Avril Lavigne's "Complicated"
8. "Why Does This Always Happen to Me"
9. "Ode to a Superhero," parody of Billy Joel's "Piano Man"
10. "Bob"
11. "E-Bay," parody of the Backstreet Boys' "I Want It That Way"
12. "Genius in France"

Buttmunker

This looks good. I love the Polka songs the best, and this one looks loaded. Although I'm unfamiliar with a lot of the songs he selected for the polka, I'm sure it will entice me to actually buy the real songs.

On Running With Scissors, his polka included The Dope Show by Marilyn Manson, and while I didn't care for the song (or give it a chance) in the past, I'm interested enough now to actually pick up the Manson album that contains the song - with a fresh, open perspective.

Thank you, Al.

Buttmunker

I really like Eminem, and while his hit Lose Yourself was the biggest song of his career, it ranks the lowest on my list of favorites due to all the *bleeps* you hear on the radio. It's also too much like a run-on rap as opposed to the melody contained on his other hits. I'd have preferred if he had parodied Superman or Cleanin' Out My Closet.

das Monkey

Multiple albums that I genuinely care about enough to approach a store being release on the same day? I can't recall the last time that happened.

das

Scot1458

woah! the only song I know is Piano Man!

Buttmunker

You gotta keep it real because Al's keeping it real.

Numanoid

I feel your pain, same here. Sadly, this is seriously going to hurt my enjoyment factor of this album.

God, I'm old.

Buttmunker

I'm surprised at all of you. How did you enjoy Running With Scissors, the last album? On it he had contemporary parodies as well. Actually, he did use American Pie for one, but that's the exception. The rest were from The Offspring and Puff Daddy.

Michael T Hudson

I just read that the couch song will not have a video because eminem said no. That sucks. I would like to hear the song.

Buttmunker

Eminem said no to the video, but yes to a parody song?!

Buttmunker

From www.billboard.com

Weird Al Parodies Eminem, Avril On New Album




"Weird Al" Yankovic takes on hits by a whole new crop of pop stars on his latest album, "Poodle Hat," due May 20 via Way Moby/Volcano. On the 12-track set, the musical parody veteran reworks well-known songs by such artists as Eminem, Avril Lavigne, and Nelly.

The album's lead track is "Couch Potato," a commentary on America's obsession with media and celebrity, set to Eminem's "Lose Yourself." Because Yankovic is going along with Eminem's wishes, the song won't be supported by the type of video treatment that has become the hallmark of past "Weird Al" projects.

"Eminem gave his approval for me to use 'Couch Potato' (my 'Lose Yourself' parody) as a track on my new album, but he wouldn't allow me to do a video for it," Yankovic tells Billboard.com. "He somehow feels that a Weird Al video would detract from his legacy or make people take him less seriously. I have to respect his decision, but it's obviously very disappointing for me -- it would have been an absolutely amazing video."

Elsewhere on "Poodle Hat," Lavigne's "Complicated" becomes "A Complicated Song," while Nelly's "Hot in Herre" is morphed into "Trash Day." Yankovic also turns Billy Joel's "Piano Man" into a "Spiderman" parody as "Ode to a Superhero," and the Backstreet Boys' "I Want It That Way" into the send-up "eBay."

In keeping with tradition, the album also features one of the accordion-playing musician's trademark polka medleys. The "Angry White Boy Polka" finds him incorporating snippets of songs by Rage Against The Machine, Papa Roach, System Of A Down, and the White Stripes, among others.

"Poodle Hat" also boasts original songs such as "Hardware Store," "Party at the Leper Colony," "Wanna B Ur Lovr," and the Bob Dylan homage "Bob." Ben Folds guests on the track ""Why Does This Always Happen to Me," while Dweezil Zappa appears on an tribute to his father, Frank Zappa ("Genius in France").

Yankovic and his band -- guitarist Jim West, bassist Steve Jay, and drummer Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz -- will kick off an extensive North American tour June 19 in Del Mar, Calif. Promising a "high-energy, multimedia extravaganza complete with hilarious video montages and elaborate costume changes," the tour will wrap with a Sept. 7 finale in Santa Clara, Calif.

"Poodle Hat" is the follow-up to 1999's "Running With Scissors," which peaked at No. 16 on The Billboard 200. That set parodied songs by the Barenaked Ladies, the Offspring, Puff Daddy, and others.

Scot1458

I have to admit on Sicors, the only one I didn't know was the Puff Daddy song, which Al did a TERRIC job on. Also think Jerry Spriger is better than the original.

I know I'll love this one. Only al could make me like Snoop Doggy Dog!

Drexl

Oh sure, that's understandable, because it's not as if Eminem would parody anyone in his videos without permission.