‘Weird Al’ Yankovic- Essential Weird Al Yankovic

2009 two CD career-spanning collection of tracks hand-picked by Weird Al himself. Yankovic is a true artistic genius in the classic sense of the word. No other artist can parody a song or a music video without being directly compared to the maestro. Throughout his career, Al has offered up an alternate reality of sorts to the history of pop music, lovingly re-casting hits of all genres into bizarre and hilarious songs and videos that themselves have become hits. Al’s work became so synonymous with the hits they parodied that Michael Jackson gave Al access to the ‘Bad’ video set to make his classic ‘Fat’ video! This is to say nothing of Al’s original songs which are as witty and endearing as his parody work. 40 tracks.

Tracklist:

1. Another One Rides the Bus – (live)
2. Polkas on 45
3. Eat It
4. I Lost on Jeopardy
5. Yoda
6. One More Minute
7. Like a Surgeon
8. Dare to Be Stupid
9. Dog Eat Dog
10. Lasagna
11. Melanie
12. Fat
13. UHF [Single Version]
14. Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota, The
15. Trigger Happy
16. Smells Like Nirvana
17. You Don’t Love Me Anymore
18. Bedrock Anthem
19. Frank’s 2000″ TV
20. Jurassic Park
21. Since You’ve Been Gone
22. Amish Paradise
23. Gump
24. Everything You Know is Wrong
25. Night Santa Went Crazy [Extra Gory Version], The
26. Your Horoscope for Today
27. It’s All About the Pentiums
28. Saga Begins, The
29. Albuquerque
30. EBay
31. Bob
32. Hardware Store
33. I’ll Sue Ya
34. Canadian Idiot
35. Pancreas
36. Don’t Download This Song
37. White & Nerdy
38. Trapped in the Drive-Thru