I think because he's trying to parody Dylan's lyrical style, which can sometimes seem random and rambling. SHB is one of the prototypical Dylan tracks, so I actually think it's pretty clever.
Each to their own. Parody songs annoy me generally so the song wasn't aimed at the likes of me anyway, but I'd just prefer Weird Al left alone songs that I like in order so that I can easier ignore him tbh.
as i child, weird al was tops for me through out, occasionally bumped for an MC Hammer stint. As I grew and started connecting the dots to what makes music so great, I eventually got into psychedelic drugs. as I was tripping testes one night I thought I'd test my comfort zone and play some weird al, specifically Weird Al's 'UHF' which I have probably heard into the several hundred times throughout my awkward childhood. Well, at that point weird al had trumped any drug laced, music induced fear NIN's had previously instilled in me. I played "Hamsters From the Planet Near Mars" and it was like a window I was finally tall enough to look at. The view I bared witness to was an America, championing mediocrity, blissfully ignorantly cackling at Bob Saget as he talks over a video of someone getting hit in the balls in his best (worst?) cartoon voice. (I wonder if this is in some way of nature trying to sterilize the drooling masses). I guess my point here is that LSD is a good thing, inasmuch I have came to a self realization, weird al and bob saget both have seemingly used the drug since (in my mind) and have become something much better than in their previous manifestations.
"Weird Al" Yankovic - I'll Be Mellow When I'm Dead
("I don't need a course in self awareness to find out who I am,
and I'd rather have a Big Mac or a Jumbo Jack than all the bean sprouts in Japan")
In 3-D - Midnight Star
("You can use your ESP to learn to play guitar!")
Dare To Be Stupid - Yoda
("I know Darth Vader's really got you annoyed
But remember if you kill him then you'll be unemployed.")
Polka Party - Dog Eat Dog
("Sometimes I tell myself, this is not my beautiful stapler!
Sometimes I tell myself, this is not my beautiful chair!")
Even Worse - Alimony
("Lawyers calling me on the telphoney,
Trying to raise the blood from a stoney stoney")
UHF - Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota
("...all the places where we've already been.
Like Elvisorama, the Tupperware Museum, the Boll Weevil Monument, and Cranberry World
the Shuffleboard Hall of Fame, Poodle Dog Rock, and the Mecca of Albino Squirrells.
We've been to ghost towns, theme parks, wax museums,
and the place where you can drive through the middle of a tree
We've been to alligator farms and tarantula ranches,
But there's still one place we gotta see")
Off the Deep End - You Don't Love Me Anymore
("If you don't mind me asking, what's this poisonous cobra doing in my underwear drawer?
Got a funny feeling you don't love me anymore.")
Alapalooza - Bohemian Polka
(Bohemian Rhapsody, in polka form)
Bad Haird Day - Calling in Sick
("I think I'll call my boss then I'm gonna hack and cough and wheeze
Swear I've got some strange disease
What's that little twerp gonna say?
I'm calling in sick today!")
Running With Scissors - Germs
("They're all over me! They're inside of me! Can't get 'em off of me! I'm covered with
microscopic bacteria")
Poodle Dog Hat - Party at the Leper Colony
("There's a guy in the hot tub I don't know who
Wait a minute it looks like Stu")
Straight Outta Lynwood - Pancreas
("My pancreas attracts all other pancreases in the universe with a force that is proportional to their masses and inversely proportional to the distance between them")
Alpocalpyse - CNR
("Charles Nelson Reilly figured out cold fusion and he never even told a soul
I've seen him unhinge his jaw and swallow a Volkswagen whole.")
Each to their own. Parody songs annoy me generally so the song wasn't aimed at the likes of me anyway, but I'd just prefer Weird Al left alone songs that I like in order so that I can easier ignore him tbh.
I can understand that. Novelty/parody music annoys me sometimes too, but only in large doses. Weird Al doubles as nostalgia for me as well, since he was pretty big among grade school kids back in the early 90s.
The concept of being a "fan" of music like this makes no sense to me, though. It's not meant to be listened to, it's meant to provide a laugh and an existential counterpoint to avid "fandom." I hear stories about sick people who approached the Beatles or Elvis and asked them to touch them in the hopes that their illness might be cured. When musician worship reaches that level of absurdity, people like Weird Al make a lot of sense to me.
Oh, and I really wish people would leave the politics out of the music threads. It's all I can do to hold my tongue on some crap people say, but I do it because I don't want more undeserved bad ratings in my chart. [-X
Really? I was making a joke to Lethalnezzle. Nobody was starting a political debate here. Lighten up. _________________ Finnegan was super bad-ass.
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