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Weird Al Yankovic - Even Worse Audio CD

A fair review of the Weird Al Yankovic "Even Worse" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Weird Al Yankovic reviews here, or go back to the Weird Al Yankovic tabs.

Weird Al Yankovic Band: Weird Al Yankovic
Title: Even Worse
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Release Date: 1991-03-12
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Fat 2: Stuck in a Closet With Vanna White 3: (This Song's Just) Six Words Long 4: You Make Me 5: I Think I'm a Clone Now 6: Lasagna 7: Melanie 8: Alimony 9: Velvet Elvis 10: Twister 11: Good Old Days

"YOU AINT FAT!... YOU AIN'T NOTHIN!!!"
After all, to me, Michael Jackson really was nothing more than a spring board for a good Weird Al parody anyway, so instead of forcing myself to listen to all sorts of MJ drivel, I'm gonna rock out to some of Weird Als most brilliant eighties material. In honor of Michael Jacksons last days I have decided to have a Weird Al parody party. Starting of course with his answer to Michael Jacksons '87 Bad album, entitled fittingly "Even Worse. "

The FAT video was pure brilliance, and I think spawned into Als movie deal a year or so down the road. While this may not have been out and out Weird Als best album,the single alone certainly was enough to encourage me and other kids in my town to stuff pillows in our shirts, and jump around our living rooms screaming "Who's Fat!?" and constantly see who could out do each others fatness.

Other parodies on the album seem to point to the fact that there wasn't much else happening in the pop world, forcing Al to parody songs that were twenty years past their prime, like the La Bamba parody Lasagna. However he does get at George Harrison, with THIS SONG IS JUST SIX WORDS LONG, (it's gonna take words. . . a whole lot of rhymin'words, to do it right) a fine example of some of ALs best on the spot cleverness. This bit has some interesting originals on it too, but he wsn't quite as hot as he was on IN 3-D or where he would be by the time he reached his climax with his string of nineties smashes. . . still funny though. .


In honor of the late Michael Jackson, a word on "Fat"
This reviewer should probably be writing up the whole MJ catalogue--but until I do. .
"Fat" may be the most brilliant parody I've ever heard--and this is from someone who's a big fan of the original Bad. Dig the killer visual punch of the cover (and the video, if you've got it). Food is one of Weird Al's great obsessions (My Bologna, Lasagna, and so forth), and one might now argue that it was one of the late MJ's also. Al doesn't miss a trick with this song because he just loves it: he makes clever substitutions (huge for smooth, feed my face instead of slap my face, and of course, ham on), he punctuates the entire song with Michael's *gasp* trademark, literally every four beats so he's sampling like a rap dj, and he uses the tension and drama of the tune and its arrangement to up the humor quotient:

Well, I've never used a phone booth,
And I've never seen my toes,
When I'm goin' to the movies,
I TAKE UP SEVEN ROWS BECAUSE
I'M FAT! I'M FAT! (really really fat)

This work of derangement and love is worth the price of admission. Four-star album, ten-star song.



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Even Funnier stuff
He pushes the limits with the parodies and his outfit for the cover. Even worse is some funny stuff. I personality will own his whole collection sooner or later. For those who love a good spin off of songs, buy his albums and be prepared to laugh so hard bust a gut at times. Thanks and enjoy his music.


laugh
. Great CD haa I have always loved Weird Al and this is the best place to buy new CD's and DVD's because it's cheaper than having a middle man to buy through.


The magic returns.
That's not a description of the album's quality, the title (and album cover) is a parody of Michael Jackson's Bad album. "Weird Al" Yankovic's fifth album was "Even Worse". If Michael is "Bad", Al is "Even Worse", get it? This was one of Al's best selling albums, mostly due to the popularity of "Fat", a parody of Michael Jackson's hit "Bad". The album features five song parodies, five original songs and a rap version of the "Twister" commercial jingle (spin the spinner, call the shot, Twister ties you up in a knot). There is no polka medley of recent hit songs, which have been most of Al's albums. Most of the songs are very funny. If you like Al, you'll like this.


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