If Weird Al did a Prog Polka...
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Topic: If Weird Al did a Prog Polka...
Posted By: MrBertstown
Subject: If Weird Al did a Prog Polka...
Date Posted: January 06 2008 at 20:23
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What songs should be featured?
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Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: January 06 2008 at 20:39
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Wow I love the topic idea. The problem is that those songs are all in pretty much the same key, not as common with prog. Anyway, I'll just take a stab in the dark and see something interesting. Of course, it would be of the more popular prog songs. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway Jethro Tull - Cross Eyed Mary Yes - Roundabout <jazzy breakdown> Gentle Giant - Knots Dream Theater - Octavarium (trapped inside this...part) Porcupine Tree - Blackest Eyes <short accordion interlude> Rush - 2112 (temples of syrinx) Sigur Ros - Gong Marillion - He Knows You Know Frank Zappa - Camarillo Brillo Radiohead - Paranoid Android (from riff before "rain down" to end) -------------  <font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR] |
Posted By: Dim
Date Posted: January 06 2008 at 20:42
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^Add a sigur ros part after the Rush, and you're spot on! ------------- 
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Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: January 06 2008 at 20:45
He might have already used Radiohead in his alternative polka. Otherwise, those are great choices, I can picture them working well. Too lazy to come up with my own list. Sigur Ros, lawl. |
moreitsythanyou wrote:Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: January 06 2008 at 21:01
Great idea. The whole thing sounds really cool in my head. ------------- <font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR] |
Posted By: sheeves
Date Posted: January 06 2008 at 21:54
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Well, there definitely needs to be a song where one line is repeated and He Knows YOu Know is a great choice
Here's my List Pictures of a City - King Crimson Close to the Edge the i get up/down part- Yes He Knows You Know - Marillion Pigs- Pink Floyd Cogs in Cogs - Gentle Giant Aqualung - Jethro Tull Killers - Van Der Graaf Closing Section of the Musical Box - Genesis |
Posted By: ClassicRocker
Date Posted: January 06 2008 at 22:01
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I'm too lazy to make my own full list as well, but somewhere in that polka, he should include Supertramp's "Bloody Well Right", and I'd like to see what Weird Al could do to "Willow Farm" from "Supper's Ready"! Alternatively, I could also imagine him taking his own material and "making it prog". "Albuquerque" could become the next "Prog Epic" with some retooling! ------------- 
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Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: January 06 2008 at 22:05
Psh, it already is. |
Posted By: ebag7125
Date Posted: January 06 2008 at 22:41
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don't forget "trapped in the drive-thru" ------------- 
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Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: January 06 2008 at 23:20
Two of my worst nightmares, Weird Al and Polka 
Just imaigining makes me sick.
 Iván ------------- 
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Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: January 07 2008 at 01:08
| ^^ Weird Al has done alot of Polkas with lyrics from different songs in them. That's why this idea was brought up. |
Posted By: sean
Date Posted: January 07 2008 at 01:39
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This is one of the funniest topics i've seen in a while. I'm surprised I've never asked myself that question before. I think I'd like to hear: 21st Century Schizoid Man, i think the mirrors section would sound great on accordion I think I'd also like to hear the accordion play the organ solo in Close to the Edge, as well as some of Emerson's work, maybe one of the already silly sounding ones such as Jeremy Bender. also VdGG's Sleepwalkers. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 07 2008 at 07:17
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for some reason can see Weird Al doing KC's 'Cat Food'
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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: January 07 2008 at 11:51
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Weird Al is the one that raps "White and nerdy"?
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 07 2008 at 13:57
no..that would be...   Weird Al is a bit of national treasure here... and a virtuoso accordian player http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_Al_Yankovic - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Weird_Al%22_Yankovic ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: January 07 2008 at 14:30
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KC - 21st Century Scizoid Man
Genesis - Watcher of the Skies
Gentle Giant - The House, The Street, the Room
Van Der Graaf Generator - Man-Erg
Dream Theater - The Glass Prison
Rush - 2112 (Temples of Syrinx)
And maybe some others... Would be awfully hilarious!
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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: January 07 2008 at 18:07
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jajaj just saw a bunch of his stuff in Youtube, the man is hilarious! ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?"
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: January 07 2008 at 22:16
hahah.. the man is a genius... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B81Srse-ayE - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B81Srse-ayE ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: ES335
Date Posted: January 07 2008 at 23:35
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My guesss is it would sound something like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CsB-T6kKsg - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CsB-T6kKsg
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Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: January 09 2008 at 01:40
| I'd like to hear Weird Al do a really proggy Genesis song.... Something along the lines of Watcher of the Pies. |
Posted By: MrBertstown
Date Posted: January 14 2008 at 12:02
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I would like to hear him do a Prog-style parody song such as "Supper's Ready" by Genesis or "In Held 'Twas In I" by Procol Harum. I can see that since for "In Held 'Twas In I" more since one part is 'Teatime at the circus' and 'Autumn of my Madness' has crazy sounds.
------------- Thank God for Kids who love Obscure Things. Lee Hazelwood (1929-2007) |
Posted By: AmericanKhatru
Date Posted: July 29 2008 at 17:11
| I could totally see him trying this. I think an interesting addition would be the third verse of Going For the One. "Now the verses I've sang don't add much weight to the story in my head so I think I should go and write a punchline." Sing it at double speed and it's sound comical. Jon Anderson's already kind of making fun of himself at this part anyway. |
Posted By: Harry Hood
Date Posted: July 30 2008 at 03:23
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Shine On You Crazy Diamond>Take The Veil Cerpin Taxt>Red>Apocolypse In 9/8>The Sky Moves Sideways>Siberian Khatru>Point Of Know Return>Chosen>Grendel
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