Posts Tagged ‘weird al’

Anyone who digs through my CD collection will quickly discover two things. First, that I'm a slob who hasn't quite gotten the hang of that whole alphabet thing yet. And second, that my musical tastes tend to bounce all over the place like a drunken Superball. Skill and melody and evocative lyrics attract me no matter what style they're in, and rare indeed is the genre that doesn't have at least one song I like. If I tried to collect every kind of music I like, I'd go broke.

So I buy Weird Al CDs instead.

Makes sense. His tastes are even more wide-ranging than mine and his versions are usually better than the originals anyway. Why listen to songs about violence, angst, and sappy romance when you can enjoy songs about food, TV shows, roomfuls of garbage and the biggest ball of twine in Minnesota? I know which direction my toes tap, and that's why I'm glad that his latest album, "Poodle Hat," just hit the shelves.

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