New Weird Al song - free MP3
06-07-06, 10:00 PM
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New Weird Al song - free MP3
Go to www.weirdal.com and there's a link to a free download of a song from his upcoming album.
06-08-06, 08:43 AM
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Faaaaaaaantastic.
06-08-06, 10:54 AM
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I think someone's replaced my ethernet card with a 9600 baud modem!
EDIT: Finally got it down an hour later. Well worth it, can't wait for the full album
EDIT: Finally got it down an hour later. Well worth it, can't wait for the full album
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06-08-06, 01:49 PM
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I was hoping he would cover James Blunt 
06-08-06, 04:35 PM
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06-10-06, 01:09 AM
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Eh, I gave in and listened. It's alright, but not as good as some of his stuff. He writes a lot of songs that never get on the actual albums, maybe this won't be on there either....
Trying to think of other stuff he might parody this time around (if he gets permission that is)
Green Day, Kelly Clarkson, Fall Out Boy... and for some reason when I heard "Bad Day" earlier, I thought that might make a good one to skewer, but he's already had a couple of songs about people having bad days.
Trying to think of other stuff he might parody this time around (if he gets permission that is)
Green Day, Kelly Clarkson, Fall Out Boy... and for some reason when I heard "Bad Day" earlier, I thought that might make a good one to skewer, but he's already had a couple of songs about people having bad days.
06-10-06, 01:23 AM
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Originally Posted by JP5683
for some reason when I heard "Bad Day" earlier, I thought that might make a good one to skewer, but he's already had a couple of songs about people having bad days.
"'Cause you had a parfait!"
06-24-06, 05:22 PM
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Originally Posted by jarofclay73
Loved the song but what is it a parody of (sorry for the ignorance)?
Turn on a Top 40 station and wait 20 mins and you'll hear it.
06-25-06, 05:57 PM
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I got this song about a week ago. It's great. I've been playing it constantly.
The song's not going to be on the album though. The orginal's record company won't allow it. So we get it for free.
The song's not going to be on the album though. The orginal's record company won't allow it. So we get it for free.
06-25-06, 06:05 PM
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Originally Posted by orderandlaw
I got this song about a week ago. It's great. I've been playing it constantly.
The song's not going to be on the album though. The orginal's record company won't allow it. So we get it for free.
The song's not going to be on the album though. The orginal's record company won't allow it. So we get it for free.
07-04-06, 08:50 AM
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Here's an article detailing why it probably won't be on the CD. Just as an FYI, I heard it on the U-POP station on XM radio yesterday.
June 13, 2006 · "Weird Al" Yankovic, the king of pop parody, has a brand-new song out, available for free on his Web site. Music Producer and Song of the Day Editor Stephen Thompson gives us the scoop:
In a career spanning more than 25 years, pop-music parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic hasn't exactly ranked among the music business' fiercest iconoclasts: He doesn't release his song parodies without the consent of the artists being parodied, and he's rarely used the Internet as more than a tool to promote his projects and connect with his fans. But a music label's efforts to block a (relatively tame) parody of James Blunt's ubiquitous hit "You're Beautiful" has Yankovic fighting back publicly, and using his Web site as a tool to do so.
According to Yankovic, Blunt himself gave his blessing to a song called "You're Pitiful" (audio), which was to appear on Yankovic's now-finished but as-yet-unreleased new album. But after Yankovic finished recording the parody, Atlantic Records, Blunt's label, told Yankovic that he couldn't release "You're Pitiful." Though Yankovic has encountered resistance from artists before -- after a miscommunication involving permissions, Coolio publicly objected to a released parody of "Gangsta's Paradise," while Prince has always turned down Yankovic's requests to parody his hits -- he says this is the first time a label has stepped in to squash the release of one of his parodies. (Quoth an Atlantic representative: "We have no comment on this matter.")
So how, exactly, does a music label have a say in whether one of its artists can be parodied?
"The legality in this case is somewhat moot," Yankovic writes when contacted via e-mail. "James Blunt could still let me put it on my album if he really wanted to, but he obviously doesn't want to alienate his own record company... and my label could release the parody without Atlantic's blessing, but they don't really want to go to war with another label over this. So really, it's more of a political matter than a legal matter."
Of course, it's not hard to circulate a song these days, and Yankovic has helped that process along by making an MP3 of the track available for free download on his Web site. It may not appear on Yankovic's new album, but "You're Pitiful" will still swirl around in cyberspace long after Blunt's original recedes from memory.
"I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes," Yankovic writes. "So if James Blunt himself were objecting, I wouldn't even offer my parody for free on my Web site. But since it's a bunch of suits -- who are actually going against their own artist's wishes -- I have absolutely no problem with it."
June 13, 2006 · "Weird Al" Yankovic, the king of pop parody, has a brand-new song out, available for free on his Web site. Music Producer and Song of the Day Editor Stephen Thompson gives us the scoop:
In a career spanning more than 25 years, pop-music parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic hasn't exactly ranked among the music business' fiercest iconoclasts: He doesn't release his song parodies without the consent of the artists being parodied, and he's rarely used the Internet as more than a tool to promote his projects and connect with his fans. But a music label's efforts to block a (relatively tame) parody of James Blunt's ubiquitous hit "You're Beautiful" has Yankovic fighting back publicly, and using his Web site as a tool to do so.
According to Yankovic, Blunt himself gave his blessing to a song called "You're Pitiful" (audio), which was to appear on Yankovic's now-finished but as-yet-unreleased new album. But after Yankovic finished recording the parody, Atlantic Records, Blunt's label, told Yankovic that he couldn't release "You're Pitiful." Though Yankovic has encountered resistance from artists before -- after a miscommunication involving permissions, Coolio publicly objected to a released parody of "Gangsta's Paradise," while Prince has always turned down Yankovic's requests to parody his hits -- he says this is the first time a label has stepped in to squash the release of one of his parodies. (Quoth an Atlantic representative: "We have no comment on this matter.")
So how, exactly, does a music label have a say in whether one of its artists can be parodied?
"The legality in this case is somewhat moot," Yankovic writes when contacted via e-mail. "James Blunt could still let me put it on my album if he really wanted to, but he obviously doesn't want to alienate his own record company... and my label could release the parody without Atlantic's blessing, but they don't really want to go to war with another label over this. So really, it's more of a political matter than a legal matter."
Of course, it's not hard to circulate a song these days, and Yankovic has helped that process along by making an MP3 of the track available for free download on his Web site. It may not appear on Yankovic's new album, but "You're Pitiful" will still swirl around in cyberspace long after Blunt's original recedes from memory.
"I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes," Yankovic writes. "So if James Blunt himself were objecting, I wouldn't even offer my parody for free on my Web site. But since it's a bunch of suits -- who are actually going against their own artist's wishes -- I have absolutely no problem with it."
