Weird Al Yankovic: Straight Outta Lynwood A Review by Tommy Monger
If hilarious is the funniest word to describe some thing funny, they need to make up a new word for Weird Al’s new CD. Weird Al Yankovic has had several recognizable and memorable paradises and this CD has songs that rank right up with there with “Eat it” and “The Saga Begins”. “Trapped in the Drive-Thru” and “Confessions Part III” are hilarious from start to finish. In fact, in “Trapped in the Drive-Thru”, Weird Al takes all 12 seemingly endless chapters of R. Kelly’s “Trapped in the Closet” and puts an amazing spin to it and gives it a whole new life. He also made a parody of Green Days “American Idiot” and made “Canadian Idiot” which should be far from every Canadians #1 spot on there play-list but is #1 on mine.
As usual, Weird Al did pretty much every thing a person can do on a CD. Not only writing but also producing all of his songs. Yankovic went all out while recording this CD at Volcano Entertainment and made sure he covered every thing from multi double voice tracking on “Confessions Part III” to the drip in “Trapped in the Drive-Thru”. I played this CD for everyone from my friends and their friends to my own family and everyone agreed it’s hilarious. So go ahead, get out there, and get your girlfriend, friend, wife, kid, grandfather or any one else for any occasion this CD.
Seattle rock band Fall From Grace are the official winners of the first-ever Bodog Music Battle of the Bands. Their win aired live September on the series finale at the House of Blues in Los Angeles on the fuse network. Fans made the ultimate decision by voting via SMS text messaging, and the Seattle-based foursome Fall From Grace was awarded the $1 million dollar Bodog Music record contract. Battle finalists Blaxmyth and Fear Nuttin’ Band also performed at the packed venue.
If you’re a Mayday Parade fan in South Florida, you are unfortunately in for quite a drive. The show has been moved from the Hookah Hut in Boca Raton to the First Baptist Church in Stuart. We’re going to have to catch them the next time they are in South Florida. So sad……We love Mayday Parade.
The American Idols Live Tour, currently winding its way around the country and dropping its spaceship of Earthly karaoke delights tonight upon Worcester, MA, offers fans of Fox’s reality behemoth the opportunity to get within screaming distance of the previous season’s top 12 contestants. But as Sanjaya stands alone under a pink-gelled spotlight, pitchily singing to half-empty arenas about the “Man in the Mirror,” organizers are wondering what happened to the throngs of teenyboppers who dependably lined their wallets in past years. From USA Today:
· No sellouts were reported for the first 30 shows, and only one topped the 93% of capacity mark. (That was the show in Glendale, Ariz., Idol winner Jordin Sparks’ home turf.) Of the 2006 tour’s first 30 shows, 17 were sellouts and another 10 exceeded 93% of capacity.
· Nearly half (14) of the shows were below 60% of capacity. (Lowest was 38.9% in Birmingham, Ala., hometown of 2006 winner Taylor Hicks and 2003 champ Ruben Studdard.) In 2006, the lowest-capacity figure in the first 30 shows was 89.3%.
I witnessed the AI spectacle in person in 2006 and I can attest that the 19E people in charge could not have been less accommodating to the press and other media. There were no “comps” for the media and unless media folks had tickets, they were forced into a tiny room to wait until the encore where they were allowed to shoot the first and third songs only.Of the encore. All pictures had to be approved before publishing. We did it once but vowed not to return again, hence no more AI coverage. That’s karma for you.
