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.
“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.
Craigslist is a good one. It’s a Doors style parody.
I really like ‘Albuquerque’ I don’t believe it’s directly parodying a song, and if it is lmao
Not directly, but as the page says, it parodies Dick’s Automotive by The Rugburns. Which is weird, because it’s already a funny song.
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.
The only way Everything You Know Is Wrong could get any better is if TMBG did a cover of it.
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?
I thought that was making fun of R. Kellys Trapped In The Closet
It is, that one’s a straight-up parody, not a pastiche like the songs in the link.
Oh I didn’t know that! I will have to check out the original.
Thanks, I’ll peruse this. Dare To Be Stupid is my favorite song by both him and one of top Devo songs.
I believe Mark Mothersbaugh called it “more Devo than Devo.”
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.
Don McLean has definitely substituted the chorus from The Saga Begins when he’s doing live shows
That song is so good that it makes me want to watch that movie again, which is quite the feat.
