"Weird Al" Yankovic - Poodle Hat

Is it just me or....

Does Wanna B UR lover remind you of the Flight of the Conchords? Whenever I hear this song I have this weird image of the Conchords performing it. September 9, 2008

This guy just gets better and better

First, my opinion of Weird Al in general: this guy is a classic and a class act. He uses gross-out humor sometimes, but always keeps it clean--no foul language, no sexual references. And, this album proves, he only gets better with age. Yankovic won his first Grammy with Poodle Hat--can you believe he never won one before???--and I think that it should be the first of many. February 22, 2008

A decent Weird Al Yankovic album

Poodle Hat contains the parodies and humor you'd expect from a "Weird Al" Yankovic album. On this outing, Al parodies Eminem's "Lose Yourself" ("Couch Potato"), Nelly's "Hot In Herre" ("Trash Day"), Avril Lavigne's "Complicated" ("A Complicated Song"), Billy Joel's "Piano Man" ("Ode To A Superhero"), and Backstreet Boys' "I Want It That Way" ("Ebay"). The strongest parody on the album is "Ebay"; hearing the ridiculous things being bid on and won by the character in the song keeps you laughing. The weakest parody is "A Complicated Song"; overall, I find it more disgusting than humorous.

"Weird Al" Yankovic also delivers some "style parodies" -- songs that don't parody a particular song, but instead parody a particular musical sound. Poodle Hat has style parodies of Bo Diddley ("Party At The Leper Colony"), Prince ("Wanna B Ur Lovr"), and Bob Dyan ("Bob"). While the style parodies on the album aren't necessarily bad, they don't exactly stand out to me, either. Al also serves up the "Angry White Boy Polka," a polka medley including songs by Papa Roach, System Of A Down, The Vines, The Hives, The White Stripes, The Strokes, Disturbed, Rage Against The Machine, Limp Bizkit, Staind, Kid Rock, P.O.D., and Eminem. For me, this wasn't one of his better medleys; but, then again, this may be due to the fact that I'm not as familiar with most of the songs included.

"Weird Al" also delivers some original songs on the album, and the best one is "Hardware Store." The vocal delivery on it is incredible; he tries to cram as many words as he can into a short amount of time, and succeeds without getting completely tongue-tied.

This is an enhanced disc with home movies, a photo gallery, bonus mixes, and song lyrics. The home movies are hilarious, and the remixes are basically instrumentals or slightly alternate versions of songs on the album.

Overall, Poodle Hat isn't a bad album. However, it's not as strong as Dare to be Stupid or Bad Hair Day. November 14, 2007

Same Tired Formula

Weird Al sticks to the same tired formula he's been doing for 3 or 4 decades in a row now and got the two big ones here- Backstreet Boys and Emenem. Don't forget Disturbed. These sell outs deserved to be parodied because once you lose your sense of humor about something, more people will laugh AT it, but Weird Al just seems tired. And of course Ebay. What he does is he dates subjects parodied really bad the year it was made. October 4, 2007

Just thought I'd point out . . .

that "Party at the Leper Colony" seems to be a parody (to different music, but very much in the same musical style) of Steve Taylor's "Meltdown at Madame Tussaud's." June 2, 2007

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