[.ca] Bad Hair Day

From Amazon.com:
This CD serves up a mix of parodies and a batch of Yankovic originals. Weird Al's setting of Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" in Amish country is inspired. What better way to send up the swaggering ways of hip-hop and contemporary R & B than to transpose them to this humble, traditionalist world? Yankovic turns U2's "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" into a song about an unpleasant visit to the dentist's office. Here drills, not deep feelings, cause screams. "The Alternative Polka," a medley of eleven mid-'90s alternative hits, drains the songs of any cool factor in five minutes flat. Listening to send-ups is like hearing two songs at once; the gap in tone cracks you up. It's fun to hear Weird Al deflate the cool attitudes, grandeur, and emotionalism of pop hits. Yankovic's generic originals, despite some funny ideas and lines, have limited appeal. --Fred Cisterna

Wierd Al's Best!:
Bad Hair Day is definetely "Wierd Al" Yankovic's best work to date. It has 12 more hilarious tracks that will kill you with laughter. I will rate them and give my comments. 1. Amish Paradise=***** A parody of Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise" about an old Amish family. Very funny video too. 2. Everything You Know Is Wrong= ***** A sidesplitting original tune about some pretty random subject matter. The best song on the album. 3. Cavity Search= ***** A parody of U2's "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" about one big dental problem. 4. Callin' In Sick= **** An original tune about a man who hates his boss and fakes sick so he can stay home from work. 5. The Alternative Polka= ****1/2 His third best polka medley, only beaten by "The Hot Rocks Polka" and "The Angry White Boy Polka." Features tunes by the Nine Inch Nails, the Smashing Pumpkins, and Beck (among others). 6. Since You've Been Gone= ***** A doo-wop ballad in the style of a barbershop quartet. Al sings lead and his band sings backup in three parts (tenor, baritone, and bass). 7. Gump=**** A parody of The Presidents Of The United States song "Lump" about Forrest Gump. 8. I'm So Sick Of You= ***** Definetely not to be sung to your girlfriend. 9. Syndicated Inc.= ****1/2 A parody of Soul Asylum's "Misery" about syndicated TV shows. 10. I Remember Larry= ***** An orignal about a neighborhood prankster. 11. Phony Calls= ***** A parody of TLC's "Waterfalls" about a little boy making prank phone calls. 12. "The Night Santa Went Crazy"= ***** A very funny original story about the title.

GREAT ALBUM!:
I love this album! Every song on it is great! worth twice the money. So far, evryone I know enjoyed this album. ecspecially everything you know is wrong, which is an homage to THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS!WOW! so, uh, get it

Bad Hair Day will give you a Good Funnybone Day:
The continuing second wind streak of Weird Al Yankovic continues with Bad Hair Day, and you'll have a good funny bone day listening to this album. "Amish Paradise" is a send-up of Coolio's "Gangsta Paradise" and the lyrics are on Amish life and attitudes of hard work, devotion to the Bible, pacifism, churning butter, and selling quilts to a humorous twist: "But if I finish all of my chores and you finish thine/then tonight we're gonna party like it's 1699." And on a boy who kicks him in the rear, he says "I just smiled at him and turned the other cheek/I really don't care, in fact I wish him well/'cause I'll be laughing my head off, when he's burning in hell." My head came off after that line. A great opener for the album. "Everything You Know Is Wrong" is a crazy nonsense tune on weird happenings and dreams, such as being abducted into another dimension by Jamie Farr-like aliens. "Black is white, up is down, and short is long/and everything you thought was just so important doesn't matter." Very Marx Brothers chaotic. No, "Cavity Song" is not about those airport searches by customs inspectors or cops. This parody of U2's "Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me". It's Al's observations at a dentists, with the outdated magazines, and dental treatment. However, the piercing sound of the dental drill is a bit disconcerting, send-up or not. And why not use "Numb me, drill me, floss me, bill me" for a title instead of "Cavity Search?" Oh well. "Callin' In Sick" is a Nirvana-type song, kind of like "Lithium", and on the different things we can do by calling in sick and having that needed day off. "I could sit all day in my underwear watching 'Ernest Goes To Camp'/I could sit and count my hair/I could burp my Tupperware" Yeah, really useful. "The Alternative Polka" shows that Al is still up on the music shift that took place in the mid-90's, when alternative became the new style. Song medley list: Beck's "Loser", Stone Temple Pilots' "Sex Type Thing", Sheryl Crow's "All I Wanna Do", Nine Inch Nails' "Closer", R.E.M.'s "Bang And Blame", Alanis Morrisette's "You Oughta Know", Smashing Pumpkins' "Bullet On Butterfly Wings", Red Hot Chili Peppers' "My Friends", Foo Fighter's "I'll Stick Around", Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun", and Green Day's "Basket Case." "Since You've Been Gone" is a doowop song describing how one feels when a loved one's gone, "It's like I've got a great big mouthful of cod liver oil" or "an ice cream headache that won't go away." And there is a punchline to this song. "Lump" by the Presidents of the United States of America is turned into "Gump", about that guy and his boxful of chocolates, you know that guy who "told JFK he had to p--" and who "went to the White House and showed LBJ his b-tt." "I'm So Sick Of You" is a list of irritating things that really get on one's nerves. The girl here is someone with no class, manners, hygiene, someone so low on the food chain. Someone who snores when they're wide awake, bites their toenails, and uses a guy's razor to shave their back hair? Al, quick, DUMP HER NOW! The TV junkie song "Syndicated Inc." based on Soul Asylum's "Misery" shows Al hasn't lost his TV songs touch. "I Remember Larry" is a song about the title character, someone who did all sorts of bad stuff to Al, like putting Ben Gay in his jockstrap, giving him Ex-lax brownies, dumped toxic waste on his lawn. Well, Al gets even with him in a cruel but well-deserved way-in fact that's what I'd do--if I was in a nice mood. "Don't go makin' phony calls/please stick to the seven-digit numbers you're used to" go the chorus of "Phony Calls", based on TLC's "Waterfalls" on a prank phone caller. He uses a clip from the Simpsons, where Bart asks for "Mike Rotch." and the bartender asks for... "Like a big fat drunk disgruntled Yuletide Rambo/And he smiled as he said with a twinkle in his eye, 'Merry Christmas to all..now you're all gonna die!" "The Night Santa Went Crazy" is a Soul Asylum-type ballad about Santa having snapped, going postal and taking it out on the reindeer: "And he ground up poor Rudolph into reindeer sausage/He got Dancer and Prancer with an old German Luger/and he slashed up Dasher just like Freddie Krueger." The funniest Christmas song since "Christmas At Ground Zero." Probably my third favourite Weird Al album, after Dare To Be Stupid and Off The Deep End.

Must Buy:
In Amish Paradise Al makes fun of an overplayed hit rap song Gangta's Paraside by Coolio (its about time someone did that). Cavity Search is a parody of U2s "Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill me", some of the jewish references at the end wil have you laughing your a&$ off. Phony Calls includes a hilarious voice cut from the Simpsons. If you like to laugh get this.

Bad Hair Day? Call In Sick!:
Okay, this was his...let's see...his tenth CD, made in March 1996. I know personally, I bought this for one song: Amish Paradise, which was the big cheese of the album, I believe. But truth be told, it is one of the best, but ultimately not the only attraction of the cd. The song after it, Everything is Wrong, is just as good, upbeat, and happy. And the very last song-The Night Santa Went Crazy, has a Christmasy sound, but good for year round listening. Overall: Five Stars, more if I could. Don't buy this and listen to only Amish Paradise, it rocks from the core to the crust. Unless, of course, you hate humor, then this is not your CD.

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