Bad Hair Day

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

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 614223203027
EAN: 0614223203027
ASIN: B00000I02K

Release Date: 1996-03-12

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Tracks:

Amish Paradise
Everything You Know Is Wrong
Cavity Search
Callin' In Sick
The Alternative Polka
Since You've Been Gone
Gump
I'm Sick Of You
Syndicated Inc.
I Remember Larry
Phony Calls
The Night Santa Went Crazy

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Customer Reviews:

Typical Weird Al!.......2007-01-04

Very funny, typical for Weird Al! I recommend this one to all those who appreciate this type of comedy!

Not as good as Running With Scissors, Poodle Hat, or Straight Outta Lynwood.......2007-01-02

Amish Paradise: 5/5 The best parody on this album, besides Gump.
Everything You Know Is Wrong: 4/5 Very confusing and weird. (al)
Cavity Search: 4/5 A little off beat for him.
Callin'In Sick: 4/5 Kind of like an 80's song.
The Alternative Polka: 4/5 Not his best polka.
Since You've Been Gone: 4/5 Too short, but has funny background lyrics.
Gump: 5/5 Once again, too short, but it's the second best parody on here.
I'm So Sick Of You: 4/5 Very random and um... crazy?
Syndicated Inc.: 5/5 One of the best TV songs that he's done.
I Remember Larry: 5/5 Just about a kid who tortured Al.
Phony Calls: 5/5 Slow, but hilarious.
The Night Santa Went Crazy: 5/5 Almost the best Christmas song ever.

It's so close to really being a great album... but..........2006-04-22

..it's a parody album and so I guess that's where I'm not giving it 5 stars... maybe that's not fair.... but I don't think that Weird Al is having any problems financially these days!!....

It is creative and really really funny at times... great parodies... he's obviously an exceedingly talented man!!!

The End of an Icon.......Kinda.......2006-02-14

By icon, I mean the short-haired and glasses "Weird Al." The new him is almost better! Anyways, this has several must-hears, such as Amish Paradise and Gump. All the others are great too, so be sure to check this cd out, but also check out The Food Album, Poodle Hat, Running with Scissors and The Ultimate Video Collection!

Great!.......2005-12-15

One of, if not Weird Al's best album, 'Bad Hair Day' was in a way the culmination of the 'classic Al' period, that is the last album he made with moustache and spectacles. It's one of his best indeed, and nearly every track is a gem - the parodies are all hilarious and creative, and even some of the original tunes will make you crack a smile. On 'Bad Hair Day' Al's production values are as high as they've ever been, his band is tight and efficient, and be it rap (Coolio), rock (U2) or R&B (TLC) his arrangements and imitations are spot on every time. Al proves beyond a doubt that he's as well tapped into the contemporary changes in music as ever before, and he can goof up rap as well as he goofed up grunge five years before.

'Amish Paradise' is probably the album's biggest draw; not only is it a perfect parody of Coolio's style and a fantastic concept song with some hilarious lyrics ('Think you're really righteous?/Think you're pure at heart?/Well, I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art!'), it's also accompanied by one of Al's most brilliant and finely produced videos and also supplied inspiration for the fantastic cover photo. 'Cavity Search' is also a fantastic parody on U2's hard rocker 'Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me', and Al delivers his Bono imitation perfectly. Only slightly lower on the laugh-o-meter are 'Phony Calls', a parody of TLC's 'Waterfalls' (it's a shame a video wasn't made for this one because TLC's classic video just begs to be parodied) and 'Gump', a parody which blends Forrest Gump with 'Lump', a great little rocker by Presidents of the USA - which, unfortunately, didn't stand the test of time as well as the aforementioned film did, so neither song nor video are quite as funny as they might have been unless you remember that band. 'Syndicated Inc.', based on Soul Asylum's 'Misery' is probably the weakest track on the album, but it gets its share of laughs.

'Everything You Know is Wrong' (loosely based on the styling of They Might Be Giants), 'Callin' In Sick' (which sounds like any nonspecific grunge band), 'I Remember Larry' and 'I'm So Sick of You' are all as good as the best of Al's original songs. Worthy of special notice are 'Since You've Been Gone', a doo-wop song with a nifty punchline that is just short enough to be a great little song; and 'The Night Santa Went Crazy', probably a follow-up to the classic 'Christmas at Ground Zero', in which Al settles some scores with Chris Cringle and it really is laugh-out-loud funny. My underdog favorite for the album though is, as always, the polka medley - 'The Alternative Polka' is one of the best of these pieces and in it Al takes the latest and coolest in alternative rock anthems and derives them of all coolness - among these are Beck's 'Loser', Alanis Morisette's 'You Oughtta Know', Nine Inch Nails' 'Closer', Smashing Pumpkins' 'Bullet With Butterfly Wings', Green Day's 'Basket Case' and Soundgarden's 'Black Hole Sun'. Bear in mind that in 1996 this was not only popular but also the most cutting-edge and critic-friendly music around and by ridiculing it Al kicks it roughly off its pedestal. Again, Al shows just how much he's tapped into modern music and also just how much pretentiousness and bulls**t there is even in the best of it.

'Bad Hair Day' is one of Weird Al's best albums; if you're looking for a good laugh and don't mind a few jokes at the expense of good music, it's well worth it. If you're a Coolio fan and you stumbled into it through 'Amish Paradise', it's also worth the purchase.

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