It doesn’t include “First World Problems,” which was very much a sort of song The Pixies would have written in terms of the music style.

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    Thanks, I’ll peruse this. Dare To Be Stupid is my favorite song by both him and one of top Devo songs.

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        He’s so good at that. I know Presidents started replacing the final line of Lump with that of Gump, I wouldn’t be surprised if other bands do similar things. Of course that’s a parody, not a pastiche, but still.

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          Don McLean has definitely substituted the chorus from The Saga Begins when he’s doing live shows

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          Mark Knopfler only allowed him to parody Money for Nothing if Knopfler himself played the guitar solo on the recording. So it’s a very odd case of a parody song with the guy who wrote and performed the original song playing on the track.

          Also, Greg Kihn is in the I Lost on Jeopardy video.

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    Last time I was on a road trip, the 10-minute-long “Stuck In The Drive-Thru” came up on my stream and about halfway through, my daughter in the back seat goes “Who is this?!? It’s epic!” I think she’s been hooked on Weird Al ever since?

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    That’s because a lot of these are “style parodies” where he parodies the style of a certain band.

    Everything You Know Is Wrong is famously a style parody of They Might Be Giants.

    Once you hear the style you can’t unhear it. He nails TMBG uncannily.

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        A fair number of the original artists have been outlasted by Al, but I deeply wish we could get an album of them covering Weird Al’s style covers. I think TMBG would be up for it, and I suspect you could get Trent Reznor to cover “Germs.”

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    I really like ‘Albuquerque’ I don’t believe it’s directly parodying a song, and if it is lmao

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    “Mission Statement” off of Mandatory Fun is totally a style parody of Crosby, Stills, and Nash. Pretty funny too, because it takes the sound of a free love hippie group from the 60’s and uses it to ramble off a bunch of corporate buzz words.

    I could see it being a straight parody of their song “Carry On”, but Al usually sticks a lot closer to the original arrangement when doing song parodies.