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Weird Al takes on Craigslist (and The Doors) in new video

It's about time for a new Weird Al song, and he doesn't disappoint. Already available at various online outlets like  iTunes and Rhapsody, but I favor Amazon since there's no DRM on it. You can also buy the video you just saw.

This drove me nuts trying to identify the specific Doors song he's doing, but it's actually one of the style parodies he does sometimes, aided by original Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek. Nicely done, sir. Just how much hootch did you have to suck down to get the mannerisms right?

3 Responses to “Weird Al takes on Craigslist (and The Doors) in new video”

  • Eric Moritz says:

    I think it's in the style of the Doors, not any song in particular. It sounds like a mixture of "Light My Fire" and "Riders on the Storm"

  • Palette says:

    OK, I'm too young to remember the Doors so I have to ask, what's the deal with the scenes of the Southwest and the Indians? Random surreality or a missed in-joke?

  • Shmuel says:

    Based on this article about the video, it's sort of both:

    "We had a miniscule budget but we thought we could do it like those cheesy '80s videos the Doors put out with a lot of random stock footage and art house effects," Yankovic says.

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