Weird Al Yankovic
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first heard May 2025
last heard 22 May
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Yeah, you know, I don't know. I've never gone through therapy or psychoanalysis and I don't know how much of my career or my current personality I can attribute to that. And I didn't rebel in any kind of major way. You know, I didn't lash out. I think at the most I got a little sullen.
During my teenage years, because, you know, I was basically confined to my bedroom and I was there with my mad magazines and and and listening to music on my, you know, eight track player. But, yeah, I'm sure it warped me in some ways and I'm sure it contributed to. whatever kind of weirdness is happening in my brain to this day.
Yeah, I mean, it became very much an inner world kind of thing where I relied on my imagination a lot. And that probably was helpful in terms of songwriting and creativity. And yeah, I would think that a lot of my work back then and probably to this day as a result of just kind of being confined to my...
Yeah. I don't know how much I want to blame the age difference on it because no matter what my age was. I think as a verifiable nerd, I would not have really fit in with my classmates. But the fact that I was two years younger certainly didn't help. I started high school when I was 12 years old, graduated when I was 16. I was too young to drive.
My folks wouldn't let me hang out with other kids for the most part. Yeah, socially it was not a pleasant experience.
You know, it just keeps piling on, doesn't it? Yeah, the accordion started much earlier than that. I think my first music lesson, my first accordion lesson was the day before my seventh birthday. So I started very young. I took three years of accordion lessons. And after that, I stopped, I guess. And just kind of played on my own. I could play by ear pretty well.
I could read music for the most part. But I thought it was fun to just listen to the radio and just try to emulate what I was hearing. And my dad liked to sing around the house. He would sing these old World War II Army songs. And I would play along with him. We'd tear it up that way. But... I obviously never fit in.
When I got to be 12, 13 years old, I would try to get together with friends and say, hey, you want me to play in your rock band? And they would say, no. So I learned pretty early on that if I wanted to stay with that instrument, I would kind of have to go my own way.
Well, my last album was 2014, Mandatory Fun.
Yeah. Yeah.
It's a, I think it's like, I'm not sure about how many, I think it's 75, either 75 cities or 75 dates, but it's a pretty, you know, it's mid June to the end of September and it's, it's a jam packed tour and there's no breaks.
Yeah. Well, every tour that we do, we try to make a little different or have some kind of hook to it. And it's not like I haven't been recording any music since my last album. I decided I wasn't going to be putting out traditional albums anymore, but I've written songs for movies. I've had my own movie, which I contributed to.
I did a Polka Mania, which was a polka medley, which you put out last summer. So there's a lot of different things that I've done in the meantime. So we want to incorporate. We're going to play some songs that we've never played before. And we're also going to be playing all the greatest hits. So it's sort of the best of both worlds because for the casual fan, we're playing...
you know, Eat It and Amish Paradise and Yoda and White and Nerdy and, you know, everything that, you know, a casual fan would like to hear. And for all the hardcore fans that want to hear the deep cuts, we've got that too. And we've got some stuff that we're never able to play live before.
But because of this tour, we're doubling the size of the band, which is one of the reasons it's bigger and weirder. It's a bigger show, a bigger production. And it's probably, you know, I'd like to think it's the best tour we've done yet.
Mandatory fun.
Right. But Polkamania was a single I released last year. Mandatory fun.
amazed. That was that was something if I had to pick maybe one moment in my life where my mind was the most blown, it would probably be that because I grew up with Billboard magazine. I did college radio and we had the charts pinned on the walls. And it was sort of like, you know, our radio bibles, like we looked at that
And I dreamed that one day maybe, maybe I would make it onto the Billboard chart. But I never dreamed I'd be number one because that was historically nearly impossible. Before me, the last person that had a number one comedy album was Alan Sherman, which would have been over 50 years prior. And nobody in history had ever debuted at number one on the album chart with a comedy album.
So the fact that I did... It just threw me for a loop. It was very emotional for me. It's just one of those things that I didn't even dream or try to manifest because I just thought it was out of the realm of possibility.
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