But since it's a bunch of suits -- who are actually going against their own artist's wishes -- I have absolutely no problem with it. Since we're already spending so much time here and acting like junior high kids, I want myspace style slashdot profiles. Imagine what this would do to the community. When you read a post and think to yourself "Overweight, Undersexed Wow junkie" you can click the link and see their photos to confirm your suspicions. Plus, think of the fun we'd all have writing the CSS code to design our pages.
Instead of harping on people for their grammar, we could point out how their profile page isn't XHTML compliant. Taco would be everybody's friend by default, but if you're friends with the real CowboyNeal or a girl you would totally put that in your top eight.
Parent Share twitter facebook Re: Score: 2 by colmore writes: "Really if you don't like Weird Al then you must have been unloved as a child. They're usually good for laughs the first listen through, but I can't imagine owning an album. Anywhere from songs per album is an original that parodies a genre or a particular musician without mimicking any single song. I like to sing. Because Al has jokes in his lyrics, he usually does a really good job speaking clearly so the listener can get the jokes.
I could sing along with Smells Like Nirvana the second time I heard it. Weird Al is one of the only musicians whose lyrics I never need to look up after hearing a song. I also have a taste for really bad puns and silly jokes. That's a help too. If you have a less silly sense of humor, I can respect that. If you don't like the voice I have many friends who go berserk for Rush, and I can't listen to their lead singer without wanting to shove a pencil through my ears.
So I can respect that too. Parent Share twitter facebook Re: Score: 2 by FinchWorld writes: "Interesting how he assumes that most people would want to download his music.
Some of his songs are funny, some are not, but Amish Paradise, Fat, and the Saga begins are fantastic, not to mention the music videos. Did this happen only in certain regions or something? Re:I bought his last album Score: 5 , Informative by pezpunk writes: on Tuesday August 22, PM Homepage like the other commenters, i too had no trouble with Poodle Hat.
Al maintains a relatively innocent, upbeat personna, but many of the songs misattributed to him are stupid, mean spirited, or far raunchier than anything Al would want to be associated with. Smokabowla is from the Technohippies. Incidentally I own and have ripped for my own personal use every one of Weird Al's albums. I remember that I did have a slightly hard time getting one of the tracks to rip but it could have been my burner.
He's well aware that the music people are most likely to download free of charge rather than pay for is the stuff they have no intention of keeping long-term. If you really like a song, and are still going to like listening to it five years down the road, you'll happily shell out for a CD. That category covers Weird Al's entire catalogue rather nicely, though.
Really, his songs are mildly amusing for the first few times you hear them - maybe a couple dozen at most. They're not particularly Re:I bought his last album Score: 5 , Informative by RonnyJ writes: on Tuesday August 22, PM I'm just wondering where you got this previous 'anti-download' stance of his from? Weird Al does an 'Ask Al' page and here's a quote from it's on his website, but it's down at the moment so I can't link : I have very mixed feelings about [Napster].
On one hand, I'm concerned that the rampant downloading of my copyright-protected material over the Internet is severely eating into my album sales and having a decidedly adverse effect on my career. He's previously said that his biggest problem with internet downloading is that many files on the internet are incorrectly labelled with him as the artist, some of these being much more offensive than his actual material.
Back in , Spinal Tap sorry, I don't have a n-umlaut key on my keyboard borrowed the domain tapster. Contrary to Nigel's comment, they actually had a lot of songs up there, mostly Spinal Tap, but they did have at least one "mislabeled" song, which was Zappa's "I am the Slime".
The question shouldn't be whether or not it really is Al. The question should be whether or not it's an honest-to-Allah MySpace site. There may be more comments in this discussion. Without JavaScript enabled, you might want to turn on Classic Discussion System in your preferences instead.
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The track is entitled 'Don't Download This Song' and tells of the dangers of illegally downloading music from filesharing sites. Al here. No, really, it's Al. What, you don't believe me? Go ahead, check weirdal. Hit the MySpace link. See if it brings you right back to this page. Go ahead. I'll wait. It's really me. I should point out I'm sure they're very nice people I assure you. This discussion has been archived.
No new comments can be posted. Full Abbreviated Hidden. More Login. What a great song. My favorite lyric is: Don't download this song Even Lars Ulrich knows it's wrong. Cause you start off stealing songs Then you're robbing liquor stores And selling crack and running over school kids with your car! Share twitter facebook. You can send this song in an e-card at the URL of the song [dontdownloadthissong. Parent Share twitter facebook.
Why, didn't you get the memo? More isn't always better. Ok, ok. I lied. It is. Do we seriously care about the difference audio quality between 96 and kbps versions of a Weird Al Yankovic song?! Hopefully no one links to a kbps version of "Amish Paradise" lest our heads exploded in fury.
Something is seriously wrong with your ears if you can't hear artifacts in 96kbps MP3. Sure, it's probably acceptable, but if you're actually gonna listen to it why not go for the better version? Yes, we do. There's a significant difference in quality between properly encoded 96 kbps and kbps; you don't have to be an audiophile to hear it. Audiophiles and the Emperors new trousers Score: 4 , Funny. I'll second that: I was listening to the MySpace version on my dollar Logitech 5.
Correction : I just listened to the higher bitrate version, and the pops are still there. Al is truly a genius. Also, it's not all it's cracked up to be, because you'll find yourself replacing air filters like crazy to unclog all the angels that commit envy-suicide in your house when they see how much you are enjoying your sound system.
I don't care how many fit on the head of a pin, it takes only a few trillion to completely block the airflow on a Filtrete.
I bought it with that " TV. It was a double-package. I know the comment was made as a joke, but in all seriousness Weird Al is a decent musician. The lyrics often sound like they came from a couple of bored teenagers, but his music has a wide variety including a lot of original songs that are not simply knockoffs of a specific song.
Since You've Been Gone is an original in a barbershop quartet style. Swap a few lyrics, and Germs could seamlessly fit into a Nine Inch Nails album. Hardware Store is a brilliant rock and ska parody with a four part harmony I've wasted an embarassing amount of time listening to. Good Old Days easy listening. One More Minute 60s music. Nature Trail to Hell metal. Trigger Happy Beach Boys. And of course, an impressive collection of Polkas. Why not enjoy it all with a good sound system?
Uh, ya. Even Weird Al's parodies are usually better-produced than the originals. Weird Al is easily one of the greatest musicians of the 20th Century. Isn't Albuquerque an original as well? Everyone owes it to themselves to see Al in concert, at least once. He is the real deal. He did Star Wars songs during the encore, one of which seemed be be him and his two co-musicians seemingly ad-libbing nonsense, but it was all synchronized, rocking out with their accordians!!
I want Wierd Al's vocal chords in a tupperware container! Through all my childhood, I loved tormenting my little sister by blasting Weird Al at her I think it's a sign! I'm gonna hafta send her a Weird Al E-Card Is this supposed to be parody or what? Enjoy one of the last artists that is still concerned about his fans and music. Are you an artist? Specifically, do you live exclusively of your art? If no, then I suggest you stop telling other people to live up to standards you don't yourself live up to.
I would like it if artists where more concerned with quality then with money. But I try to avoid forcing my views on other people. Who's forcing? I am just stating my opinion. And to clairify, that opinion is not that artists should not make money - quite the opposite. My friends are a signed band, but they did go through many years of very crappy financial means before the big break.
These friends of mine have earned every dime their contracts got them. There are, however, bands and individual artists that magically appear and seem to be entirely concocted from spreadsheets and focus groups: this I do not like. Nevertheless, some of the. I do not mean to imply that artist should not make money - far from that in fact. Of course artists should recieve compensation for thier works. But the leechery of hangers-on that has evolved around the artists of decades past has, I think, created a culture where the motivation to create art for money is out of ratio to what I in opinion feel is the proper scope.
Yes, I am an artist - not the best of course - but I make music and su. Everyone is vulnerable to that disease. Artists tend to get the big heads like elite athletes do; the camera is on them and they come to believe they are truly great.
In their minds they're deserving. An interesting thing about people coming into money is that, no matter their background, education, or talents, once wealthy they co.
That much, at least, makes sense: Most people generally believe they deserve wealth, as a rationalization for wanting it. If they don't have it, the rationalization goes "The rich assholes have all the money, and Bush is an idiot, or the economy sucks for Reason X, and so I don't have the money I should. Any idiot can be wealthy if they really try, after all, I did it -- which must mean any cretin who isn't wealthy is a lazy bum who doesn't deserve wealth.
Technology is the only expensive hobby I have. If I suddenly had a fortune, I'd probably still eat ramen, and I'd probably wear the same clothes, live in about the same amount of space, ride a bicycle in a small town or own a sensible car, and so on. I'm told all of this is rare. Basically, if I was paid more per hour, then past a certain point, I'd simply work fewer hours. I don't understand the point of working long hours at a high-paying job to support a family you rarely see living in an awesome house you're barely in except to sleep and a cool car you drive to and from work in.
Well said, Mr. Lysergic Acid, or is it Smack Hero? I know everyone has their drug of choice, but don't you think you're going a little hard on the coke heads? Perhaps more artists should be "self-employed" then ;. Perhaps we could call them Independent That could make sense, even -- if the artist of modest ambition can barely afford ramen, and the greedy artist has the cook deliver something healthy every day, then guess which one is going to have more time to focus on art?
Which one will actually be more healthy and alert when creating art? Actually, I only said that so I don't get modded offtopic. What I really want to say is, in your sig, what would the "night" represent? No evidence indicates that great artists are EVER healthy and alert while making their best works.
For example, I point you to Saint Anger by Metallica; their "Ok, we're getting old and gave up drinking and drugs" album. If there was ever a reason to support music sharing, it's the 25 bucks I wasted on that terrible album. He has the sense to realize that he's very well off compared to his fans and jokes about solid gold humvees and diamond studded pools. Is it ironic that the song makes me want to go out and buy his new record, giving Weird Al the money I think he deserves? I do believe it is!
Speaking of Weird Al Score: 5 , Funny. And in other news Score: 4 , Funny. The RIAA begins researching ways to silence this insolent artist who seems hellbent on allowing people to access music even if it IS his music for free. They've been cheated out of their share.
The following were just decided on by the super secret RIAA meeting on financial vengeance. Step 1. Get Angry Step 2. Talk about how you're cheated. Step 3. Step 4. Step 5. Weird Al and MC Lars should have a rap battle about music piracy. They'd sell millions of records. Or have millions of downloads. Or soemthing. I used to be a big metalica fan, then the whole mess with napster and live recordings and etc I lost all respect for them as a band, they're trying to get rid of everything that initially 'made' them as a band.
Napster BAD! I respect that. Hell, I've even mailed artists money in the mail when I've downloaded songs I really liked prior to itunes mostly and I've had some good responses back from them doing that and some interesting t-shirts and signed stuff too I might add. Shrug, the whole drm, screw our fans, etc Weird Al and MC Lars should have a rap battle about music piracy.
They'd sell millions of records. Or have millions of downloads. Or soemthing. I used to be a big metalica fan, then the whole mess with napster and live recordings and etc I lost all respect for them as a band, they're trying to get rid of everything that initially 'made' them as a band. Napster BAD! I respect that. Hell, I've even mailed artists money in the mail when I've downloaded songs I really liked prior to itunes mostly and I've had some good responses back from them doing that and some interesting t-shirts and signed stuff too I might add.
Shrug, the whole drm, screw our fans, etc In the end the fans aren't the only ones hurt the bands are too. Re: Score: 3 , Informative. I'm pretty sure he was referring to the rapper, MC Lars [mclars. Re: Score: 2 , Interesting. Yeah, Metallica's downhill slide started with the Black album, and went straight down from there, but I can't hate them for it. How can you hate the creators of Master of Puppets?? Their old-school music revolved entirely around rage.
I can understand why after 20 years and massive amounts of wealth and fame, you might run out of anger to fuel your music.
So they tried something else. Unfortunatey for them, they suck at "something else", and no longer have the. Is that you? Score: 5 , Funny. His MySpace page is most excellent. Was this summary written by Keanu Reeves? Re: Score: 2. Now thats the funniest shit Ive read here in a long time. Re: Score: 2 , Informative.
Re: Score: 3 , Funny. Either that or just some medieval dickweed pretending to be Keanu. Another free song Score: 5 , Interesting. Looks like his actual site server is getting trashed, but the last time I was there you could download another song, "You're Pitiful". It's pretty app when thinking about the steretypical Slashdot person.
Not sure what it was, though. It looks like you can at least listen to it on his MySpace page. One thing I love about Weird Al's songs is that he does his research. In the song from this "article", he mentions such things as Kazaa.
In "All about the Pentiums", he throws out a lot of technical terms. Weird Al is one of my favorite people ever. He's pretty good to his fans, he fights the true fight, and is hilarious to boot. I can't wait for this next album. Re:Another free song Score: 5 , Informative. There's an overview of what happened over 'You're Pitiful' here [npr. His best parody ever. This album looks too good to pirate!
Re:Another free song Score: 5 , Funny. Oh my gods! Who the hell is the label behind this? Is there a way to buy this album without contributing to the RIAA? Re: Score: 3 , Insightful. I'd pay double if all the money went to Weird Al. Unfortunately, the copyrights are owned by his record label, now Sony, which bought the record label that bought the record label that Weird Al started with, or something. Re: Score: 2 , Troll. Oh look.
Another self-righteous cunt who misses the joke and thinks he knows where I stand on so-called "important" issues. Kindly kill yourself. No one loves you. Re:Another free song Score: 4 , Funny.
Pfft Score: 5 , Funny. Weird Al doesn't tag his MP3s when he rips them. For shame. A link to MySpace Somebody please tell me that got Slashdotted Nope - but the images are linked to wierdal.
Remind me not to host my next site with Network Solutions. Re:A link to MySpace If someone were to link to Slashdot from Myspace Slashdot might get Myspaced?
That would be an act of humiliation. I don't know what I would do a that point. MC Lars Score: 3 , Informative. I think MC Lars had it better: Download this song [myspace. For those of you in the back rows that hadn't realised by now because you may be a bit thick Don't download it off iTunes, anyway Score: 2. Give to your fans or get screwed by your label? Please, Wierd Al should have understood what he was signing. The label is screwing him, not iTunes. Speaking of myspace Score: 5 , Interesting.
Our mail system would be IMAP though. Hah - I was wishing for that this morning. I bet most of the users here would have a bad case of the angles though. Direct Link Score: 5 , Informative. Wget only needed 18 tries, with resuming enabled.
OMFG - the label! Score: 5 , Interesting. Now I have to get a new goddamned movement for my irony meter! Re:OMFG - the label! Weird Al was originally on a very obscure indie label called "Scotti Brothers.
So yes, he is distributed by Sony, but it's not exactly a diabolical plan on Weird Al's part. Actually I have friends who were in another band on the "Scotti Brothers" label, and found themselves in effect Sony artists. Which is not a good thing, because Sony won't honor the Scotti Bros.
This actually happens quite a bit with Indie bands, they sign contracts with small labels which are usually somewhat vague, as neither have access to top-notch entertainment lawyers and the labels are bought out by the majors-- and the bands find themselves having to deal with exactly the people they were trying to avoid.
Looks doubtful Score: 3 , Insightful. Liability and contract don't end when a firm is bought by another one. So by refusing to honor a previously signed up contract with scrotti brother that they bought on, sony would not only open themselves to liability, but likely void the contract freeing to sell the CDs.
Better call Alanis. The semi-ironic twist here? The album, according to Amazon, is being released as a DualDisc, and that means that some computers and players won't be able to handle the album [wikipedia.
Of three computers in my dorm room last year, none of them could play the newest Springsteen album. Because of the format choice, there might be some people that don't have any choice but to download the song, either legally assuming iTunes sells it like they do some of his other albums or through other means. A Geek tragedy, complete with DeusExMachina. Our story begins with a skim over the day's Slashdot headlines.
Yet one topic in particular grabs my attention Being a Weird Al fan, and well-aware of the problems he has collecting from his label, my mind registers the topic both as a must-Read-More and as another chapter to take note of in the long saga of digital music rights. With significant anticipation, I add it to my other fifteen or so open tabs and proceed to work my way through my article reading queue.
I grudgingly visit myspace, but something's amiss. There is no download link! Nothing in the navigation menu, the news posts, or the comments make mention of where I can obtain the song, yet visitors proceed to comment on how much they enjoyed it.
Looking for an alternate link, I return to Slashdot, only to find more reactions without mention of any download difficulties. And so I begin to worry irrationally: "I'm the only one in the world who can't listen to Weird Al! I try two other domains, weirdal. My frustration continues to build. I reflect that perhaps it is a browser compatability issue - I am using Konqueror after all - and try my luck with firefox.
It is as if some divine administrative force knows my IP address and has modified the web server specifically to torment me. I search for torrent files - first through links from kind slashdotters looking to boost their karma, and when that fails, via KTorrent's integrated search plugin.
No matches. My heart races as I continue to exhaust the list of built-in known search engines, until The Pirate Bay has found one match, uploaded a mere twenty-two minutes ago. But to use a torrent from the most infamous peer-to-peer site in existence, what would that make me? Is the torrent legal? Just because Weird Al chooses to distribute it on his webpage doesn't mean he releases that right to others.
I'm sure under these circumstances he couldn't possibly mind, but not having heard of the song's existence prior to reading Slashdot, I simply do not know the record label's stance on the matter, or whether they even have partial rights over this particular mp3.
But it does not matter - I must have the song! The irony - that I am bittorrenting a free-as-in-beer song that possesses a satirical name mocking filesharing litigation, and am potentially committing a copyright violation in the process - is not lost on me. I emerge from my digression to the present.
No peers or seeders. For the moment, the music industry and other enemies of Peer-to-Peer breathe a sigh of relief. Then it occurs to me that the song might be unreachable to those who have not installed the dreaded Flash Plugin.
But why? A slashdot commenter mentions that the song is indeed in the mp3 format, so it is not as if my lack of such a player could possibly prevent me from obtaining this song. For what kind of sick madman would consign a publically-downloadable mp3 to the clutches of a proprietary system and that system alone? As a rule, I have abstained from using Flash on my desktop's Gentoo installation.
This self-denial is due to a combination of fac. Read the rest of this comment Hi, I'm part of the reality squad. I feel it is my duty to inform you that you did not get p1st fr0st. Sadly, you recieved the far less prestigous p1rd th0st. Ascii illustration Score: 5 , Funny. Re:Ascii illustration Score: 4 , Interesting. Er, the joke is that it's okay to download the song, despite the name of the title.. I think he got the joke just fine and made one of his own, which you, apparently, didn't get.
Like this? Re:No problem Score: 5 , Insightful. I will down load it twice, just to show you. Really if you don't like Weird Al then you must have been unloved as a child. Re:No problem Score: 4 , Insightful.
I own all of them, actually. Re:No problem Score: 5 , Informative. Pfft, yeah. He only has 6 platinum records, and 3 gold [wikipedia. You told him! Particularly since his web site doesn't offer a direct link, but instead flat-out doesn't work on my system.
Never liked much of his other music though. Not like Weird Al? You must be Communist. Or live in Oregon. Or both. Re:I bought his last album Score: 5 , Informative. I have a lot of those songs but I've correctly tagged mine. Re: Score: 2 , Insightful. He's not stupid. They're not particularly. I'm just wondering where you got this previous 'anti-download' stance of his from? Re:Best commentary on downloading since Tapster Score: 5 , Interesting.
I hit submit by accident. But the Tapster curse lives on, and even the "orignal" tapster. Re:Blackened Score: 5 , Informative. As stated, Lynwood, CA. Where Weird Al went to highschool, and his parents lived until their recent deaths. Also one-step away from Compton, with about the same reputation: bunch of good for nothing hoodrats trying to be tough and causing problems as a former resident I can say that with the utmost certainty.
I mean, if it really is a MySpace site, then how come my eyes aren't bleeding? That's because you didn't get it. Weird Al also does "style parodies" in which he does a song in the same style as another artist, but not actually a parody of a specific song.
I'm pretty sure that "Don't download this song" is a style parody of "We Are The World" - that benefit song sung by hundreds of celebrities in the 80's Michael Jackson et al. It was also taken off in the Simpsons with "We're sending our love. Related Links Top of the: day , week , month.
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