{"id":1258,"date":"2006-10-07T23:09:15","date_gmt":"2006-10-07T22:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2006-10-07T23:09:15","modified_gmt":"2006-10-07T22:09:15","slug":"review-weird-al-yankovic-straight-outta-lynwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/?p=1258","title":{"rendered":"Review: Weird Al Yankovic &#8211; Straight Outta Lynwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another whole album of parodies. But&#8230;uhm, I can&#8217;t even figure out half of&#8217;m. That doesn&#8217;t actually matter, but what does is that as a whole, it&#8217;s not a whole-in-one (even though it&#8217;s Weird Al&#8217;s first top 10 album, entering straight to that position in the Billboard this week).<br \/>\nGranted, humorous as he is, most songs, even the worst ones have a few funny lines in them. He can even get your attention going on for a solid 11 minutes with a slow simmering soul fueled dialogue driven R&#038;B song. But the most fluid trademark homerun parody (James Blunt&#8217; You&#8217; Beautiful turns to You&#8217;re Pitiful), can&#8217;t be even counted, as it&#8217;s not on the album, and is only available as a free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allthingsyank.com\/yourepitiful.mp3\">download<\/a>, due to legal matters. Plus of course, I rate on voice, composition and technical merits, not on humor. That said, as a music CD, I can&#8217;t rate it that high (how can I consciously recommend others to listen to it), even though on comedy alone it&#8217;s acceptable, making the combined grade still below average. I&#8217;d recommend you pick up his previous album Poodle Hat.5\u00c2\u00bd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another whole album of parodies. But&#8230;uhm, I can&#8217;t even figure out half of&#8217;m. That doesn&#8217;t actually matter, but what does is that as a whole, it&#8217;s not a whole-in-one (even though it&#8217;s Weird Al&#8217;s first top 10 album, entering straight to that position in the Billboard this week). Granted, humorous as he is, most songs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}