"Like a virgin..."

[thewayne]

I drove down to El Paso today (waste of a trip except for one good random encounter and spotting some good photography spots on the drive), The station that I was listening to had an all-request lunch hour. They started playing the aforementioned Madonna song, it is perhaps the first time that I’ve heard said song in its entirety, or maybe my memory purged it from my being.

ANYWAY, my brain started with “I finally made it through med school, somehow I made it through. I’m just an intern, I still make a mistake or two.”

Yes, WEIRD AL YANKOVIC RULES THE UNIVERSE! Not long after the Madonna song came out, he released “Like A Surgeon”.

Amusingly, less than an hour earlier, I’m hearing some unusual guitar chords starting a song and start thinking “Hmmm, that sounds like the opening chords of a Weird Al polka medley.” Sure enough, when they got to the chorus, there it was: “I’m a loser, baby, so why don’t you kill me?” No idea what the name of the song or band was, still, I was amused.

Comments

[apostate-96.livejournal.com]

I've run into a similar thing more than once. There are probably a dozen or two songs out there that I remember better by Weird Al's versions than the originals. The one that perhaps still stands out best is "Smells Like Nirvana," which I can generally tell apart from the original only in that I can understand the opening lyrics.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

One of my fav Weird Al songs is Bedrock Anthem. It freaked me when I found out it was actually two songs. I'm listening to the radio and they started playing the first song, and I'm sort of on the edge of my seat waiting for the hard rock to kick in, and it never did. :-)

[apostate-96.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Al is a god, plain 'n' simple. I've been lucky enough to see him in concert twice, and the man is just unreal. He does not stop at any point during the show, which is just amazing. One of my favorites still remains "One More Minute," just 'cause it helped me through a couple unpleasant breakups. That and "Grapefruit Diet," which had a friend of mine lose it on the dance floor when it got kicked into the dance mix after the first minute or so of the original song. He doesn't usually lose his cool, but that time he was just GONE!