Comments on: Weird Al’s Polka Music Maps The Decline Of Pop Music

By: monkeywithamonocle

monkeywithamonocle — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:44:11 +0000

Dear Mr. or Mrs. Interrobang,
Thank you for your kind words, I have taken your points into consideration and after our research department conducted a lengthy and arduous check of “Weird” Al’s Wikipedia page they found that “Belvedere Cruisin'” was played on the radio by Dr. Demento in 1976, 35 years ago. SO HA! We’re BOTH wrong. But it got me curious to learn more about “Weird” Al so I thank you.
The polkas were put in order from when the music in them was relatively released. That is why Polkas On 45, Hot Rocks Polka, and Bohemian Polka are all out of order, to more accurately illustrate the downward spiral popular music has taken since the sixties (almost 240 years ago.) Otherwise the pop culture songs would hop around decades and throw the whole thing off.
As for the download, I didn’t think “Weird” Al would mind if his music was appropriated and used for comedic purposes, but I’m glad you have bought all of his albums. You truly are a righteous dude.

By: Interrobang

Interrobang — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:38:15 +0000

Nice article, but I’d like to point out that Weird Al’s first released single (four years before his first album) was in 1979, and so his career is about 31 years and not almost 40. Granted, there’d be some controversy as to where his career truly began, but 40 years ago, he was 11 years old.

Editing together all of his polkas is really a genius idea, but allowing it up for download is technically illegal. I’ve bought of all the polkas before, which is how I convinced myself to download this awesomeness, but still. They’re edited together very nicely, but why aren’t the polkas in order of their release?

By: monkeywithamonocle

monkeywithamonocle — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 06:04:10 +0000

WetMogwai-
Where do you get off giving completely appropriate and insanely valuable advice huh? Now because of YOU a major problem has been fixed and we’re all forever in your debt. I hope you’re happy. Pshht.

-monkeywithamonocle

By: WetMogwai

WetMogwai — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 05:31:09 +0000

I’d love to listen to it. Can you do everyone (especially your web host) a favor and compress it? AIF is uncompressed audio. The file is huge. If you make it an mp3, everyone can listen to it and it will be a smaller file that everyone can download faster.