It doesn’t include “First World Problems,” which was very much a sort of song The Pixies would have written in terms of the music style.
That’s because a lot of these are “style parodies” where he parodies the style of a certain band.
Everything You Know Is Wrong is famously a style parody of They Might Be Giants.
Once you hear the style you can’t unhear it. He nails TMBG uncannily.
The only way Everything You Know Is Wrong could get any better is if TMBG did a cover of it.
Last time I was on a road trip, the 10-minute-long “Stuck In The Drive-Thru” came up on my stream and about halfway through, my daughter in the back seat goes “Who is this?!? It’s epic!” I think she’s been hooked on Weird Al ever since?
I thought that was making fun of R. Kellys Trapped In The Closet
Oh I didn’t know that! I will have to check out the original.
It is, that one’s a straight-up parody, not a pastiche like the songs in the link.
Thanks, I’ll peruse this. Dare To Be Stupid is my favorite song by both him and one of top Devo songs.
I believe Mark Mothersbaugh called it “more Devo than Devo.”
He’s so good at that. I know Presidents started replacing the final line of Lump with that of Gump, I wouldn’t be surprised if other bands do similar things. Of course that’s a parody, not a pastiche, but still.
Don McLean has definitely substituted the chorus from The Saga Begins when he’s doing live shows
