Running With Scissors

Artist: "Weird Al" Yankovic
Label: Volcano
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 614223211824
EAN: 0614223211824
ASIN: B00000JH89

Release Date: 1999-06-29

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Tracks:

The Saga Begins
My Baby's In Love With Eddie Vedder
Pretty Fly For A Rabbi
The Weird Al Show Theme
Jerry Springer
Germs
Polka Power
Your Horoscope For Today
It's All About The Pentiums
Truck Drivin' Song
Grapefruit Diet
Albuquerque

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Customer Reviews:

Weird Al, still kickin.......2007-01-09

I grew up with weird al and my kids still enjoy his humor as much as I did. Like all his other CDs, it's worth the purchase.

Not just a novelty, this one has genuinely good music too..........2006-09-12

Running with Scissors is without a doubt WierdAl's best work to date. From the brilliant opening track "The Saga Begins" (which puts the story of Star Wars Episode 1 to "American Pie"), to the witty "Pretty Fly for a Rabbi" (Do I really have to say what it parodies?), and some of Al's best original compositions ever. "Germs" is a humorously paranoid song about... well, germs, and "Your Horroscope fot Today" puts astrology in it's place with Ska. "Albuquerque" is more or less story telling, with the music taking a definite second fiddle. As my Mum put it, "It's 11 minutes of crap!", and she's right, but what crap! "Truck Drivin' Song" is a one-joke-song which suprisingly survives multiple listenings. "Polka Power" is, in my opinion, Al's best polka yet. Hey, anything that combines Hamson, The Spice Girls and Marilyn Manson to polka music has to be good. Trust me.

What the...?.......2006-08-24

I've been a big weird al fan since off the deep end, so it's a granted that I'll pretty much love anything he does. Something does bug me though, and it's not this album. One reviewer made a correction that the song "germs" is not a parody of NIN's "Closer". This is correct, it is a parody of NIN's "Terrible Lie". He ALSO said "Terrible Lie" and "Closer" are on the same album. NO, they are not. OMG!!! Like. Correct Right. "Terrible Lie" appears on the 1989 NIN release entitled "Pretty Hate Machine" and "Closer" appears on the 1994 NIN release "The Downward Spiral". Also, it should be known that although the song "Germs" sounds like "Terrible Lie", it is not credited in the booklet. Trent Reznor and Weird Al should hook up on a record. Anyway, I'm OCD apparently and I really need sleep. Goodbye!

Not so much a review, more of a correction!.......2006-01-24

I'd just like to correct all of the people who say that Germs is a parody of Closer, it isn't , it's a parody of Terrible Lie, which is also by Nine Inch Nails and appears on the same album as closer. Germs does NOT sound like closer, it doesn't do the Closer chorus!

Anyway, rant over, Weird Al is a comic genius!

Wonderful Song Parodies.......2005-08-04

I love song parodies and here are some of Weird Al's best. "The Saga Begins" is especially memorable. He tells the story of Star Wars, Episode I to the tune of "American Pie".... My, my this here Anakin guy... maybe Vader someday later now he's just a small fry.... Another winner is "Pretty Fly for a Rabbi".
Nothing is too sacred for Weird Al. I recommend this to all fans of song parodies and slightly skewed humor.

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