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Bad Hair Day by "Weird Al" Yankovic

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    Track     Duration Listeners
1 Amish Paradise (Parody of "Gangsta's Paradise" by Coolio) 3:19 10,875
1 Amish Paradise 3:19 90,203
2 Everything You Know Is Wrong 3:47 27,378
3 Cavity Search 4:22 15,745
3 Cavity Search (Paody of "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" by U2) 4:19 1,458
4 Callin' In Sick 3:40 17,365
5 The Alternative Polka 4:50 31,525
6 Since You've Been Gone 1:22 27,862
7 Gump (Parody of "Lump" by The Presidents Of The United States) 2:10 3,926
7 Gump 0:00 24,280
8 I'm So Sick Of You 3:26 17,558
9 Syndicated Inc. (Parody of "Misery" by Soul Asylum) 3:54 1,231
9 Syndicated Inc. 3:54 13,921
10 I Remember Larry 3:55 17,601
11 Phony Calls (Parody of "Waterfalls" by TLC) 3:22 1,578
11 Phony Calls 3:25 15,242
12 The Night Santa Went Crazy 4:03 39,402
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About this album

Volcano (1996) Released: 12 Mar 1996 17 tracks (57:07)
Bad Hair Day is the ninth album by “Weird Al” Yankovic, released in 1996. It includes the hit “Amish Paradise”, a parody of Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise”.

Yankovic had three main parody ideas that were refused. They include:
* A parody of The Offspring’s hit “Come Out and Play” entitled “Laundry Day”. Yankovic approached The Offspring about recording a parody of their first big hit. They, however, were unimpressed by the song, stating that it was “silly” (The Offspring later allowed Yankovic to record a parody of “Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)”, interestingly enough, on his next album).

* A parody of The Beatles’s hit “Free as a Bird” entitled “Gee I’m a Nerd”. Yankovic asked Paul McCartney, a supporter of Yankovic’s work, if he could have permission to write and record a parody of “Free as a Bird”. McCartney was all for the idea, but because “Free as a Bird” was written by John Lennon, McCartney turned the decision over to Yoko Ono, who denied permission, because it was “too early”.

* A parody of The Rembrandts’s song “I’ll Be There for You” entitled “I’ll Repair for You”. Yankovic reportedly got permission from The Rembrandts to record the song, but permission was denied by the Friends producers because they didn’t want their song “overexposed.” [2] Yankovic performed the song in concert in 1996 and 1997, under the conceit that he had written it as the theme song for Home Improvement, but they turned it down because “apparently it sounded too much like some other TV show theme song.”
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  • ponder_muahaha

    All you need to understand is: EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRO(OO! OO! OO!)NG!

    last month

  • dermitrind

    Amish paradise is da best. [2]

    January 2012

  • CoconutWarrior

    CLASSIC

    February 2009

  • DryvBy

    Still his best stuff. Every song was great.

    August 2008

  • stfuthomasx

    Best album imo

    February 2008

  • Balvenietis

    Amish paradise is da best :P

    April 2007

  • bawitback

    favorite album by AL

    February 2007
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