The Essential "Weird Al" Yankovic

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Album Info

Release Date: 2010-08

Labels: Legacy, Sony, Volcano, Way Moby

© 2009, 2010 RCA/JIVE Label Group, a unit of Sony Music Entertainment.
℗ 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2006, 2009, 2010 RCA/JIVE Label Group

Track 1-1 and 3-1: ℗ 1983 RCA/JIVE Label Group
Tracks 1-2 to 1-4 and 3-2: ℗ 1984 RCA/JIVE Label Group
Tracks 1-5 to 1-8: ℗ 1985 RCA/JIVE Label Group
Tracks 1-9 and 3-3: ℗ 1986 RCA/JIVE Label Group
Tracks 1-10 to 1-12 and 3-4: ℗ 1988 RCA/JIVE Label Group
Tracks 1-13 to 1-14: ℗ 1989 RCA/JIVE Label Group
Tracks 1-15 to 1-17: ℗ 1992 RCA/JIVE Label Group
Tracks 1-18 to 1-20: ℗ 1993 RCA/JIVE Label Group
Tracks 2-1 to 2-5: ℗ 1996 RCA/JIVE Label Group
Tracks 2-6 to 2-9: ℗ 1999 RCA/JIVE Label Group
Tracks 2-10 to 2-12 and 3-5 to 3-6: ℗ 2003 RCA/JIVE Label Group
Tracks 2-13 to 2-18: ℗ 2006 RCA/JIVE Label Group

Tracks 1-1 and 3-1 from the album "Weird Al" Yankovic
Tracks 1-2 to 1-4 and 3-2 from the album "Weird Al" Yankovic - In 3-D
Tracks 1-5 to 1-8 from the album Dare To Be Stupid
Tracks 1-9 and 3-3 from the album Polka Party!
Tracks 1-10 to 1-12 and 3-4 from the album Even Worse
Tracks 1-13 and 1-14 from the album UHF (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack And Other Stuff)
Tracks 1-15 to 1-17 from the album Off The Deep End
Tracks 1-18 to 1-20 from the album Alapalooza
Tracks 2-1 to 2-5 from the album Bad Hair Day
Tracks 2-6 to 2-9 from the album Running With Scissors
Tracks 2-10 to 2-12, 3-5 and 3-6 from the album Poodle Hat
Tracks 2-13 to 2-18 from the album Straight Outta Lynwood

Track 1-1 is a parody of "Another One Bites the Dust" by Queen (John Deacon)
Track 1-2 is a medley of Beer Barrel Polka (Lew Brown/Wladmir Timm/Jaromir Vejvoda/Vaclav Zeman); Jocko Homo [Devo] (Mark Mothersbaugh); Smoke on the Water [Deep Purple] (Richard Blackmore/Ian Gillan/Roger Glover/Jean Maillard/Ian Paice); Sex (I'm A...) [Berlin] (John Crawford/Davie Diamond/Terri Nunn); Hey Jude [The Beatles] (John Lennon/Paul McCartney); L.A. Woman [The Doors] (John Densmore/Robert Krieger/Raymond Manzarek/Jim Morrison); In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida [Iron Butterfly] (Douglas Ingle); Hey Joe [Jimi Hendrix] (Billy Roberts); Burning Down the House [Talking Heads] (David Byrne/Christopher Frantz/Jerry Harrison/Martina Weymouth); Hot Blooded [Foreigner] (Louis Grammatico/Michael Jones); Bubbles in the Wine (Bob Calame/Frank Loesser/Lawrence Welk); Every Breath You Take [The Police] (Sting); Should I Stay or Should I Go? [The Clash] (Nicholas Headon/Michael Jones/John Mellor/Paul Simonon); Jumpin' Jack Flash [The Rolling Stones] (Mick Jagger/Keith Richards); My Generation [The Who] (Pete Townshend); and Ear Booker Polka (Al Yankovic).
Track 1-3 is a parody of "Beat It" by Michael Jackson (Michael Jackson)
Track 1-4 is a parody of "Jeopardy" by Greg Kihn band (Greg Kihn/Joseph Wright)
Track 1-5 is a parody of "Lola" by The Kinks (Ray Davies)
Track 1-7 is a parody of "Like a Virgin" by Madonna (Thomas Kelly/William Steinberg)
Track 1-12 is a parody of "Bad" by Michael Jackson (Michael Jackson)
Track 1-16 is a parody of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana (Kurt Cobain/Nirvana)
Track 1-18 is a parody of "Under the Bridge" & "Give It Away" by Red Hot Chili Peppers (Anthony Kiedis/Flea/John Frusciante/Chad Smith)
Track 1-20 is a parody of "MacArthur Park" by Richard Harris (Jimmy Webb)
Track 2-2 is a parody of "Gangsta's Paradise" by Coolio (Artis Ivey, Jr./Larry Sanders/Doug Rasheed/Stevie Wonder)
Track 2-3 is a parody of "Lump" by The Presidents of the United States of America (Chris Ballew/The Presidents of the United States of America)
Track 2-7 is an adaptation of "It's All About the Benjamins" by Puff Daddy (Sean "Puffy" Combs/Notorious B.I.G./Sean Jacobs/Jason Phillips/David Styles/Kimberly Jones/Deric Angelettie/Linda Laurie/Terry Etlinger)
Track 2-7 contains an interpolation of "I Did It for Love"
Track 2-8 is a lyrical adaptation of "American Pie" (Don McLean)
Track 2-10 is a parody of "I Want It That Way" by the Backstreet Boys (Max Martin/Andreas Carlsson)
Track 2-14 is a parody of "American Idiot" by Green Day (Billy Joe Armstrong/Mike Pritchard/Frank Wright)
Track 2-17 is a parody of "Ridin'" by Chamillionaire featuring Krayzie Bone (Hakeem Seriki/Oscar Salinas/Juan Carlos Salinas/Anthony Henderson)
Track 2-18 is a parody of "Trapped in the Closet" by R. Kelly (Robert Kelly)
Track 2-18 contains a portion of the composition "Black Dog" by Led Zeppelin (James Patrick Page/John Baldwin/Robert Plant)
Track 3-1 is a parody of "Mickey" by Toni Basil (Mike Chapman/Nicky Chinn)
Track 3-3 is a parody of "Living in America" by James Brown (Dan Hartman/Charlie Midnight)

Track 1-1 recorded live on the Dr. Demento Radio Show, KMET Los Angeles (September 14, 1980)

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