"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.

[magic-rat.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you know the backstory to the "Like a Surgeon" parody, so here it is. Weird Al was contacted by Madonna who requested that he do a parody of one of her songs, preferably "Like a Virgin" which was just released and doing very well sales-wise. Al didn't have any plans to parody that song, but how could he turn down such a request? So he came up with "Like a Surgeon", not one of his best parodies but still quite funny.

My favorite Weird Al song is "It's All About the Pentiums". The combination of computer geek-speak and rap could have sounded really stupid, but Al makes it all work.

"i'm a loser baby."

[joecthulhu.livejournal.com]

IIRC the artist is Beck.