I can't hate the guy, but I never thought his stuff was that great. He was the first person with a decent singing voice and access to a recording studio who figured out how to replace popular song lyrics with names of food? Musical parody was still new I guess? People loved crap like Dickie Goodman and MAD's "Making Out" single.
Is there really anything in UHF that would be out of place in a Family Guy gag?
"See, it's Conan the LIbrarian, which sounds similar to 'barbarian' but are in fact two very contrasting things!"
I always loved Al, and his records have some very strong non-parody songs. His last tour was all non-parodies. Maybe his record company thought that only the parodies had commercial potential so that’s all you heard & saw on TV & radio. I don’t really know. He had an insane contract that was like 30 years long and only just completed it.
The title puns are nothing special in themselves, they're dumb and obvious, but they set up absurd ideas and situations, and when Weird Al writes punchy lyrics about those concepts, that's where he shines,
LIKE A SURGEON
CUTTING FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME
LIKE A SURGEON
HERE'S A WAIVER FOR YOU TO SIGN
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