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Weird Al Says 'Don't Download This Song'
Kazzahdrane writes "Known geek and comedy singer/songwriter Weird Al Yankovic has released the first song from his new album 'Straight Outta Lynwood' for free on his MySpace page. The track is entitled 'Don't Download This Song' and tells of the dangers of illegally downloading music from filesharing sites." His MySpace page is most excellent. "Hi. Al here. No, really, it's Al. Seriously. What, you don't believe me? Go ahead, check weirdal.com. Hit the MySpace link. See if it brings you right back to this page. Go ahead. I'll wait. See? It's really me. I should point out... this means that conversely, all those other people on MySpace who are claiming to be me or implying that they are me... are definitely NOT me. I'm sure they're very nice people... they're just not 'Weird Al' Yankovic. I assure you."
I look forward to the music video that is supposed to air on Yahoo music at 10:00 PM Pacific Time tonight (August 22nd).
Enjoy one of the last artists that is still concerned about his fans and music no matter how hilarious and campy it may be. He has the sense to realize that he's very well off compared to his fans and jokes about solid gold humvees and diamond studded pools.
My work here is dung.
I was still in High School, I had a big cock and was horny all the time, jerked off at least 3 times a day. My body is small and slim with very little hair, 5"4",125lbs. My fat cut 7" cock looked huge on me. I had been jerking off thinking about gay sex lately, I was very turned on by the fantasy of having sex with an older man, and having a cock in my ass.
I got a job working after school and weekends at a antique shop, it was ran by 2 older gay gentleman, very nice gentleman who were always flirting and teasing me. An older very distinguished looking handsome customer came in the store, he was a silver haired fox who looked like he had money.
The owners knew him well, he bought a small end table and asked the owners if I could help him unload it at his house, I thought this was kind of suspicous since it didn't weigh much but my horniness and curiousity made me jump at the chance. We rode in his SUV to a big house in a ritzy neighborhood and I carried the end table into his house. He gave me a tour, it was huge and very nice, there was an indoor hot tub and he asked me if I wanted to soak for a while, I told him I didn't have a swim suit and he laughed and told me I could go without, he always did.
I was getting turned on so I started to undress, my tank top came off first and my back was turned to him and I pulled down my cutoffs, no underwear and bent over to finish removing my cutoffs, it was a turn on to expose my ass to him, he watched me climb into the hot tub, my cock was rock hard. I watched him take off his shirt, he had a sexy chest covered with silver hair, he pulled down his pants and underwear in one motion exposing a beautiful 8" cut cock, very fat. We sat in the tub for five minutes talking, he asked me if I wanted a massage, I moved over close to him with my back to him and sort of sat on his lap, I could feel that big cock, I started moving my ass around until it was between my cheeks, I moved up and down, it felt so hot, made my asshole spasm. He was rubbing my shoulders and back, he reached around and started massaging my inner thighs making my cock twitch, finally he started stroking my cock, I was so turned on it was all I could do not to cum. He had me stand up and started tonguing my ass while stroking my cock, I was in pleasure overload and exploded cum after about two minutes of this.
We went into his bedroom, still naked and dried off, he put his hands on my shoulders and gently pushed me to my knees, grabbed the back of my head and guided me to his cock. I sucked on it hungrily feeling it get harder in my mouth, when he was rock hard he guided me to the bed and had me lay on my stomach. He ate my ass again this time harder, getting his tongue up inside me, this made my cock hard again, I relaxed and felt my boypussie open up. Next he slowly inserted one of his fingers , it kind of hurt at first but then I started to love the feeling. Two fingers was next with some lube, he two finger fucked me for along time, I loved how it felt, like I was getting stretched. I was moaning and moving my ass up and down.
He stopped and put his big cock back in my mouth, I sucked him for maybe a minute and he pulled out and rolled on a condom, had me get down doggie style got behind me and pushed that big cock head against my tight hole. He slowly pushed, I thought it was to big and would never fit, all of a sudden it popped in, the sensation took my breath away, it felt so huge and it hurt a little, but I was starting to relax and it was feeling better by the second.
He slowly pushed in until he was deep inside me and moved in and out very slowly to start with, it still burned but the thought of getting fucked, having a big cock inside me was such a turn on.
He fucked me for a long time, after I got used to it and fully relaxed the feeling was pure pleasure. My cock was rock hard.
The pace got faster and harder, finally I came again, without even touching my cock, such intense pleasure. He came and stayed inside me, I layed flat on my stomch with him still inside me, he slowly went limp, slipped out of me and rolled off me.
...sailing the sausage seas!
p1st fr0st p1st fr0st
I wonder if SCO has licensed his "Dare To Be Stupid" song yet?
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
Interesting how he assumes that most people would want to download his music.
"Thanks for all the money you paid to us. We've used it to buy off ISO among other things" -Microsoft
WTF man....? i mean seriously...
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EVERYDAY IS CATURDAY
Chocked full of DRM-won't-play-on-anything bullshit. I personally blame the label, but Al was noted as being "anti-download" for a long time now. This is just him trying to win back the thousands of fans who couldn't play his last CD in anything except a computer. / For shame
Downloaded it.
The RIAA begins researching ways to silence this insolent artist who seems hellbent on allowing people to access music (even if it IS his music) for free. They've been cheated out of their share. The following were just decided on by the super secret RIAA meeting on financial vengeance. Step 1. Get Angry Step 2. Talk about how you're cheated. Step 3. Sue Wierd Al and anyone who downloads the song (it says explicitly do NOT download the song,. it's in the title!) Step 4. ???? Step 5. Profit!
The words 'kettle', 'pot', 'black' and 'calling' come to mind but not necessarily in that order.
Weird Al and MC Lars should have a rap battle about music piracy. They'd sell millions of records. Or have millions of downloads. Or soemthing.
His MySpace page is most excellent.
Was this summary written by Keanu Reeves?
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
I'm serious. Where? I see the text from the blurb on the page, but no link in sight. I bring up a list of all links on the page, and none features an mp3 extension. This is not the first time this happens with me on a "MySpace" page. They all seem so busy and totally unreadable with weird disposition and imprecise language.
Looks like his actual site server is getting trashed, but the last time I was there you could download another song, "You're Pitiful".
:o
It's pretty app when thinking about the steretypical Slashdot person.
From what I can remember, he put it online because some copyright/trademark thing kept him from using it on the next album. Not sure what it was, though. It looks like you can at least listen to it on his MySpace page.
One thing I love about Weird Al's songs is that he does his research. In the song from this "article", he mentions such things as Kazaa. In "All about the Pentiums", he throws out a lot of technical terms.
Weird Al is one of my favorite people ever. He's pretty good to his fans, he fights the true fight, and is hilarious to boot. I can't wait for this next album.
Weird Al doesn't tag his MP3s when he rips them. For shame.
Somebody please tell me that got Slashdotted...
Does anyone think he is a sellout now?
Dance Dance Revolution.
Hmm, maybe it is a fake.
-- Tigger warning: This post may contain tiggers! --
I'm reminded of MC Frontalot's Charity Case, where he's "begging ya'll to believe his CD isn't free!"
[o]_O
I think MC Lars had it better:
Download this song
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/15/ 0030209
Tried that, but http://www.dontdownloadthissong.com/DDTSecard.html leads to a totally black screen.
Next time you try to release something on the internet, Al, just post a direct link to the fucking file.
Here's what you can do so it won't bother you anymore.
Go find a cliff or a bridge somewhere, then take your entire fucktarded family.
Once there, have all of them jump off to their deaths, and after that jump to your's.
Then it won't bother you anymore and we won't have to put up with your bitching.
Back in 2000, Spinal Tap (sorry, I don't have a n-umlaut key on my keyboard) borrowed the domain tapster.com from some sort of brewery interest web site to put up a parody of Napster. Contrary to Nigel's
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Step 4. Settle out of court with Gradma.
You didn't even read the summary, did you?
Oh, you mean that singer guy...
for a second there I thought someone wrote an A.I. program to download songs for you.
LISP is dead. Long Live LISP!
It's All About The Pentiums. By Al Yankovic
"some are not, but Amish Paradise, Fat, and the Saga begins are fantastic, not to mention the music videos."
...lacks.
I'm sure he must have asked for permission to turn the "Saga" video into an over the top visual Star Wars spoof extravaganza like he did with "Jurassic Park", but a stinge at Lucasfilm said no. The video...
Where were you when the voynix came?
I did more than that, I listened to his fucking song. It is no different than those bitches Madonna and metallica. A lot of other artists are the same fucking way. Personall, all artists that bitch about someone 'stealing' their music should do as I suggested to Fucktard Al-AKA 'Weird' Al.
Since we're already spending so much time here and acting like junior high kids, I want myspace style slashdot profiles. Imagine what this would do to the community. When you read a post and think to yourself "Overweight, Undersexed Wow junkie" you can click the link and see their photos to confirm your suspicions. Plus, think of the fun we'd all have writing the CSS code to design our pages. Instead of harping on people for their grammar, we could point out how their profile page isn't XHTML compliant.
Taco would be everybody's friend by default, but if you're friends with the real CowboyNeal (or a girl) you would totally put that in your top eight.
Our mail system would be IMAP though
Lynwood CALIFORNIA, not Lynnwood Washington
Because I sure had no problem ripping that with Exact Audio Copy, maybe you should get a better ripper/CD-Rom drive!
Thought a new album was due from him soon... I am going to be buying this since I prefer to have a CD copy and to rip/encode/tag/etc the stuff myself.
has the slashdot effect failed? or not kicked in yet? seriously, weirdal.com is toast, but myspace is still chugging along.
will nothing slay this horrid beast?
He is wrong, this type of fear mongoring hiding as a humor is just pathetic. His comparision in the song is ridiclus, it also smells like he don't know anything about computer and how they can help him to become more faimus. Also, according to myspace TOS, myspace is now free to do whatever it wants with his song. He got owned hard.
Maybe he chose to give it away for free rather than let the RIAA screw him and us by snagging an extra 85% of the money we throw down.
For those without flash: http://www.dontdownloadthissong.com/tracks/DDTS.mp 3
AL YOU DA BEST! :)
:)
world better place because of you!
Thank you for bringing smile to my face since I was a kid!
Stupid safari wouldn't let me save the mp3... I wonder what I'm doing wrong?
Oh well.
As the subject line suggests....
Thank you. Would it have been so hard for him to just link to that file to begin with? Sheesh.
Though now that I've listened to it, I find that this enterprise was pretty much a waste of time. That wasn't very good, was it?
For the record, I don't have a flash blocker.
(I also don't have flash installed)
"... "Art Must Be Free" is the decree. The finale
..."
g /MC_Frontalot_-_Nerdcore_Rising_01_Charity_Case.mp 3
is my lecture on the evils of the R-I-double-A,
how they gonna sue you every single time you hit play.
they're lame! must revolt! what's that you say?
kids are pirating the frontalot? oh no, I got betrayed!
it's true
frontalot's destitute
I need you
to buy my CD so I could buy food
http://frontalot.untimelydeath.com/nerdcore_risin
Weird Al is distributed under a faux independent label, Volcano Records, which is owned by Sony BMG, who brought us intrusive DRM and is a proud part of the RIAA intellectual "property" lawsuit cartel. Now I have to get a new goddamned movement for my irony meter!
I too have felt the cold finger of injustice.
this is the kind of stuff needed to counter the IFPI/RIAA and what you not BS PR spin about "stealing music". We have to keep making the point that it is the big digital wrongs management companies who are actually the biggest theives - they rob us of our culture, kill the public domain, subvert copyright laws to perpetuate monopoly, which was granted with the opposite goal in mind, and, last but not least, ruin the future by getting force-feeding junk-food quality music. :)
Don't download this song.mp3
The (semi-ironic) twist here?
The album, according to Amazon, is being released as a DualDisc, and that means that some computers and players won't be able to handle the album. Of three computers in my dorm room last year, none of them could play the newest Springsteen album.
Because of the format choice, there might be some people that don't have any choice but to download the song, either legally (assuming iTunes sells it like they do some of his other albums) or through other means.
Goo goo g'joob.
Will someone just post the lyrics and the guitar tab already?!
I'm sure this song is funny, but the music is absolutely unbearable. I suppose that's the point, but I still couldn't listen to it.
--- What?
I like this song a lot. So much, in fact, that I am going to be purchasing Weird Al's CD. Oh, the irony.
There is no right to feel safe thru security vaudeville at the expense of everyone's freedom, privacy and tax money.
Our story begins with a skim over the day's Slashdot headlines. The regulars are all present: Government X adopts OSS/ODF, Mr. Nobody gives a loose overview of security problem Y, and SCO does transparently underhanded deed Z. Yet one topic in particular grabs my attention...
Being a Weird Al fan, and well-aware of the problems he has collecting from his label, my mind registers the topic both as a must-Read-More and as another chapter to take note of in the long saga of digital music rights. With significant anticipation, I add it to my other fifteen or so open tabs and proceed to work my way through my article reading queue.
I (grudgingly) visit myspace, but something's amiss. There is no download link! Nothing in the navigation menu, the news posts, or the comments make mention of where I can obtain the song, yet visitors proceed to comment on how much they enjoyed it. Looking for an alternate link, I return to Slashdot, only to find more reactions without mention of any download difficulties. And so I begin to worry irrationally: "I'm the only one in the world who can't listen to Weird Al!" I've had usability issues with myspace before, but normally after a minute or so of misguided clicking I'm able to stumble upon something that hints at actual content. I try two other domains, weirdal.com and dontdownloadthissong.com, only to find the former hopelessly slashdotted and the latter unusable. My frustration continues to build.
I reflect that perhaps it is a browser compatability issue - I am using Konqueror after all - and try my luck with firefox. After configuring it to *not* attempt DNS queries over IPv6, that I might reach the content I so desperately seek this century, I find that myspace persists to mock me. It is as if some divine administrative force knows my IP address and has modified the web server specifically to torment me.
I search for torrent files - first through links from kind slashdotters looking to boost their karma, and when that fails, via KTorrent's integrated search plugin. Bittorrent.com? No matches. Isohunt.com? Nada. Mininova? Bytenova? Torrentspy?! My heart races as I continue to exhaust the list of built-in known search engines, until... Aha! The Pirate Bay has found one match, uploaded a mere twenty-two minutes ago.
But to use a torrent from the most infamous peer-to-peer site in existence, what would that make me? Is the torrent legal? Just because Weird Al chooses to distribute it on his webpage doesn't mean he releases that right to others. I'm sure under these circumstances he couldn't possibly mind, but not having heard of the song's existence prior to reading Slashdot, I simply do not know the record label's stance on the matter, or whether they even have partial rights over this particular mp3. But it does not matter - I must have the song!
The irony - that I am bittorrenting a free-as-in-beer song that possesses a satirical name mocking filesharing litigation, and am potentially committing a copyright violation in the process - is not lost on me. My idealistic side taunts the RIAA, "I just DARE you to try to sue me over this, my only infringement!" My pessimistically pragmatic side notes that the unusual circumstances would make no difference, as I would be forced to settle, and never see my day in court anyway.
I emerge from my digression to the present.
No peers or seeders. For the moment, the music industry and other enemies of Peer-to-Peer breathe a sigh of relief.
Then it occurs to me that the song might be unreachable to those who have not installed the dreaded Flash Plugin. But why? A slashdot commenter mentions that the song is indeed in the mp3 format, so it is not as if my lack of such a player could possibly prevent me from obtaining this song. For what kind of sick madman would consign a publically-downloadable mp3 to the clutches of a proprietary system and that system alone?
As a rule, I have abstained from using Flash on my desktop's Gentoo installation. This self-denial is due to a combination of fac
Evidently, the key to understanding recursion is to begin by understanding recursion. The rest is easy.
There is some fine irony in that statement.
* I found out about Weird Al in 8th grade or thereabouts, when a friend of mine made me a copy of his cassette of Bad Hair Day, Al's most recent album at the time. Not long after, Napster became big, and I downloaded every Weird Al song I could find (despite not having dsl yet; I was working off a 56k connection). Then I went out and bought a bunch of cds. * I wasn't sure whether I was going to bother preordering it, or wait to hear the opinions of others' before buying it (not that I should really have any doubt in Weird Al's talent, but it's always nice to be sure). But, after downloading this song, and loving it, I immediately went and preordered the cd. * The other factor leading me to really want this cd: I read that it contains instrumental tracks of all of its songs. I enjoy messing around with song sampling, and I've wanted to mix a Weird Al song for *ages*. One would assume he'd have problem with that, but his label might... * On that note... the track is hosted on a server owned by Volcano Records, which is owned by Zomba Music Group, which is owned by BMG.
I don't know... some stuff could be considered art, in a way... For example, book covers, in a way they are a cocoon for an author's coveted masterpiece... and they help a lot when it comes to catching the glimpse of a potential customer.
Art, on the other hand, sometimes could use more gum.
However,... comedy IMO is art. When design meets art... stuffed animal toys copulate.
Liability and contract don't end when a firm is bought by another one. So by refusing to honor a previously signed up contract with scrotti brother that they bought on, sony would not only open themselves to liability, but likely void the contract freeing to sell the CDs.
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Weird Al has lost it. He should've stopped after Amish Paradise. That song is beyond awful. I actually couldn't listen to the whole thing.
In between the lawsuits against dead war veterans, flooding the USENET alt.binaries groups with Russian child porn (DIAF, you sick commie bastards!), and making Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline CDs--which will make great clay pidegons when it reaches to dollar store next month--RIAA's taste in music is about as bad as the food in an unplugged fridge in Phoenix.
This song was not long enough.
On the other hand, Al points out the fallacies that have been used to discourage downloading such as a slippery slope, threats of damnation, and treatment worse than violent criminals. Al would win a Grammy for this song if the people at RIAA weren't evil.
The Rapture is NOT an exit strategy.
I see a trend here...
Wierd Al
MC Lars
Cruisbox http://audiopium.typepad.com/thatpodcastsong/
Can anyone else out there imagine a Live Aid style gig to raise funds to pay lawyers to go up against the RIAA...
"If it's lost, it'll turn up. Things always do" "I love it when a plan comes together"
As a rule, I have abstained from using Flash on my desktop's Gentoo installation. This self-denial is due to a combination of factors: Flash's outdated linux versions, its tendency to make my browser unstable,
Get flashblock, a firefox extension. Won't load the flash unless you specifically ask it.
Only browser troubls I have are with very comments on popular slashdot stories with the new interface
Can you imagine the irony, if this was released as a single and it went to Number 1 ...then again, everyone would download it anyway, so it would never get anywhere. But, just for a moment imagine that...
"If it's lost, it'll turn up. Things always do" "I love it when a plan comes together"
I feel compelled to reply.
/., myspace, yahoo, and bam, media player extension isnt installed right. Fine fine. I start iexplore (I hate this more than myspace... this is the only thing I hate more than myspace), /., myspace, yahoo, media player.... BAM, sorry, pop up blocker is blocking this page. Simple to click off, no problem, try again, bam. same thing. wtf? Sorry weird al, guess you really didn't want me downloading that song. But guess what, I'm not gonna buy it either.
First, I read this on my mac... I click onto his myspace page, finally find the real link to yahoo, and use that. Then guess what... No macs allowed. Fine, restart, boot into windows. Start up firefox, back to
end rant
Now back to Mrs. Crazy's math homework (ok, now end rant)
I swear on my life that I won't download this song.
So that no one has to suffer again link.
Yeah, it's not too great. But at least it carries a message, for those who understand irony.
But the lyrics are not very hard hitting either. I get the feeling that his heart's not really set on bucking his paymasters.
Weird Al, How could you? An MP3 encoded at 96 kbs at 22.05 kHz...
Today a piece of my inner audiophile died.
Nothing sucks like a Vax, nothing blows like a PowerMac G4
You gotta love the guy, no matter what is happening in the world, he stays on the bright side and takes the piss. Great song, great album, great guy.
You've gotta see some of his Celeb interview spoofs, the Eminem one is hilarious.
P.S Today my captcha is "emolish", is this some kind of gruel like food, resembling goulash, but made from emos? Cos i'm sold!
You feel sleepy. Close your eyes. The opinions stated above are yours. You cannot imagine why you ever felt otherwise.
Baaaaaaaaaaa!
No, irony would be a piece of Weird Al's good advice that you just didn't take. Don't you think?
Weird Al is probably one of the best artists out there currently. He is at least knowledgeable and caring about the industry. This is why the only CDs I have bought in the last decade are his.
I realize that many people have already posted direct MP3 links to higher versions downloadable elsewhere. However like you I got to MySpace and was annoyed that there was no download link on the page. One thing that pisses the hell out of me are the asshats who dislike the facts of technology and reality, and who insist in living in a delusional fantasy land with the insane notion that if they just BELEIVE something hard enough and if they fight against reality long enough, that eventually what they would LIKE to be true will magically become true. In particular the crazy notion that they can magically transmit a "stream" rather than transmitting a "download", in order to prevent people from getting a "copy" of something. The brain damaged people who simply do not WANT to accept the facts of reality that it is physically and technologically impossible for there to be any difference between sending a "stream" and sending a "download". The only difference between them is what the receiver chooses to do after receiving the transmission. They simply want to insist that they they can somehow transmit a "stream" that is not and cannot be be a "download". It is a simply fact of reality that it is physically impossible for any sender to do that. People who simply refuse to accept the fact of reality that the choice of "stream" vs "download" physicaly lies in the hands of the person they send the file to.
And of course MySpace attempts to only use a "streaming" Flash media player to request the download-that-shall-not-be-a-download. So I went and downloaded some advanced Geek level software and used it to capture the download address that the "streaming" Flash player calls. Just on principal.
So for anyone else who is on principal irritated by that kind of "streaming-only" website nonsense, here is the direct MySpace MP3 link. The direct link to the MySpace download-that-shall-not-be-a-download.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
Does anyone know some email addresses for the RIAA lawyers? I'd love to send it to them.
Notice the tag 'weird'. I think Slashdot should strip spaces instead of just cutting off the tag from the space on. I'm assuming a lot of people tried putting in 'weird al'. -1 Offtopic...
nothing
Once in a while maybe you will feel the urge
To break international copyright law
By downloading mp3s from file-sharing sites
Like Morpheus or Grokster or Limewire or KaZaA
But deep in your heart you know the guilt would drive you mad
And the shame would leave a permanent scar
'Cause you start out stealing songs, and then you're robbing liquor stores
And selling crack and running over school kids with your car
So don't download this song
The record store's where you belong
Go and buy the CD like you know that you should
Oh, don't download this song
Oh, you don't wanna mess with the RIAA
They'll sue you if you burn that CD-R
It doesn't matter if you're a grandma or a 7-year-old girl
They'll treat you like the evil, hard-bitten criminal scum you are
So don't download this song
Don't go pirating music all day long
Go and buy the CD like you know that you should
Oh, don't download this song
Don't take away money from artists just like me
How else can I afford another solid gold Humvee?
And diamond-studded swimming pools, these things don't grow on trees
So all I ask is, everybody, please...
Don't download this song
Even Lars Ulrich knows it's wrong
Go and buy the CD like you know that you should
Oh, don't download this song...
Don't download this song
Or you might wind up in jail like Tommy Chong
Go and buy the CD like you know that you should
Oh, don't download this song...
Don't download this song
Or you'll burn in Hell before too long
Go and buy the CD like you know that you should
Oh, don't download this song
Brian: I should ask you the same question. Lois, you're in an auto parts store stealing mufflers. This is worse then that Winona Ryder thing.
Lois: Whaa, are you saying I'm a klepto?
Brian: Uh, actually I was talking about The Age of Innocence.
(The Age of Innocence)
Newland: It is settled, May. Our parents have consented and you and I shall be married on the first warm sunny day of Spring.
May: (stiffly and in an obnoxious voice) That would be most good, Newland, most good.
Newland: (sighs) I'm sorry, but she is just awful, is there any way we could have like a topless scene or something?
Camera Guy: Uh... yeah.
Newland: Really?
Camera Guy: Yeah.
Newland: Oh, great, all right, we got a movie.
A community-oriented lyrics site
"Please Play This Song On The Radio" - NOFX
We wrote this song, it's not too short, not too long
It's got back-up vocals in just the right places (in just the right places)
It's got a few oohs and ahhs (oooh aaah)
And it takes a little pause
Just before I sing the F word
Please play this song on the radio
Almost every line is sung on time
Almost every verse ends in a rhyme
The only problem we had was writing enough words
(oooh aaah)
But that's okay, because the chorus is
Coming up again now
Please play this song on the radio
Please play this song on the radio
Please play this song on the radio
Please play this song on the radio
Please play this song on the radio
Please play this song on the radio
Please play this song on the radio (please play this song)
Please play this song on the radio (please play this song)
Right about this time
Some shit head will be drawin a fat fuckin' line
Over the title on the back sleave
What an asshole!
So Mr. DJ I hope you've already made your segue
Or the FCC is gonna take a shit right on your head
Can't play this song on the radio (can't play this song)
Can't play this song on the radio (can't play this song)
Weird Al has to be the most creative and talented musician on the face of the planet! At times, he will take a song that just plain sucks and turn it into a parody or joke that makes it ROCK! From the the time he started his career to now, Weird Al has been embellishing the music industry. Al, yet another hit! I want that album now...
"To err is human, doing it again is downright stupidity!"
I know the comment was made as a joke, but in all seriousness Weird Al is a decent musician.
Saw him play live on his Running With Scissors tour. The man can play an accordian and sing and dance doing high kicks all at the same time and not miss a beat. Kinda reminded me of Steve Martin, back when he used to do his bit with the banjo. It was honestly a hell of a show.
BTW, the concert t-shirt I got from that show gets more comments than any other piece of clothing I own. "Hey, is that a Weird Al t-shirt you're wearing?"
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
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Pi Ran Out
If Weird Al were Luke Skywalker, then the RIAA would be the Empire and Sony would be the Emperor. Yes, the analogy's riddled with flaws, but you get the jist of it, right?
Before the DRM wars, Weird Al was one of about 4 artists whose every album I would purchase. The Sony relationship really pisses me off; it's getting harder and harder to avoid funding them these days. Someone else mentioned downloading songs & sending money directly to the artists -- an odd option, but perhaps worth considering. I like my MP3s at 320kbps though, so more likely I'll wait 'til I can find the album used, but still send Al at least the price of the CD.
Weird Al is an incredibly talented artist, and his attention to detail has gotten keener and keener over the years. Parodies and impressions get so much more punch when the artist catches some subtle detail of the original that you missed, then amplifies or caricatures it as a way of pointing it out to you. Yankovic is a master at this, so Poodle Hats off to him for his lifetime accomplishements in general, and for his spirit with stuff like DDTS in particular.
Pi Ran Out
You didn't happen to notice the "Download" link in the Flash streamer thing did you? You know, that link, with the word "Download" on it, that links to the MP3 so you can download it? I guess not.
By summer it was all gone...now shesmovedon. --
Chuckle, nope. I searched all over the normal page, but I guess I didn't search inside the Flash box closely enough. I'm so sick of having to fight for real links from YouTube and every single other Flash-based player that I just got annoyed and didn't expect it to be there.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwxutLMCnls For those without IE.
When modding "Informative", please make sure it both has a source and IS actually informative.
Is that a song about golf?
My company doesn't speak for me, nor do I speak for my company.
And how did you discover that URL? Because there's only one link on the home page: "http://dontdownloadthissong.com/DDTSecard.html", and that takes me to either a blank page (konqueror) or a flash-plugin dependent page (firefox). So you can see how skimming that site for clues, especially as it was being slashdotted, didn't really help me.
Although that's no excuse for my totally missing the AC who posted that direct link originally. Unless he wasn't modded up by the time I was looking for it.
Evidently, the key to understanding recursion is to begin by understanding recursion. The rest is easy.
Graph from Alexa.com showing myspace traffic vs slashdot traffic over 6 months. I don't think they need to worry about us.
Warning: Apple/Nintendo fangirl. Likes her electronics cute & cuddly. May be rabid.
No weird al fans here apparantly.
Can you be Even More Awesome?!
Slashdot complains that tabs are redundant and have too much whitespace, even if you say they're code.