Running With Scissors Music Cd

Weird Al Yankovic - Running With Scissors

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Running with Scissors      Artist : "Weird Al" Yankovic      List Price : $11.98 USD        ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1999-06-29      Studio : Volcano      Label : Volcano      Avg. Customer Rating : (449 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Running With Scissors      Loved this music      Rating:      The Saga Begins is one of my favorite songs. Interestingly, the song that it parodies (American Pie) is one of my LEAST favorite songs. I guess it just goes to show you. Pretty Fly For a Rabbi is very good as well as All About the Pentiums. Overall, a fun album.     Customer Reviews for Running With Scissors Cd      One of Al's Better Albums      Rating:      This is one of Al's better albums and sees himself getting more serious at parodying complicated music with even trendier lyrical topics. The Sage Begins, Pretty Fly for a Rhabbi and the polka medley are standout tracks. Overall, this album will date from like 2005 as daily horoscopes were no longer popular by 2006 and by 2007 we can see Al as an intelligent guy. I've been listening to Al since the 80s and he changed with the times, he didn't just keep on doing retreads he parodied last year's annoying hit songs. Yeah, if you were at a party, I don't think someone would say put on some Weird Al... Editorial Reviews for Running With Scissors Audio Cd      Amazon.com      The king of pop parodies returns with another zany collection of tunes that poke fun at pop culture. There are a handful of undeniably funny moments--notably "The Saga Begins," which pairs the tune to Don McLean's horrendously sentimental "American Pie" with the plot to the first Star Wars prequel, and a fun, nonstop-dancing polka medley of late-'90s hits that starts with the Spice Girls and ends with Semisonic. Overall, Running with Scissors is well-executed and actually humorous, but the material is a day late and a dollar short. "Pretty Fly for a Rabbi" is funny once, maybe, but the majority of the disc consists of tepid takes on yesterday's news; the best jokes are devoted to Jerry Springer, Eddie Vedder, the Swing craze, and this place called Silicon Valley where they make computers. Why didn't someone tell Weird Al that a parody of Nine Inch Nails' lifeless industrial pop would have already sounded dated in 1995? It must be hard to stay on top of all the current trends and parody them as they happen, but that is something that Weird Al has done in the past, and perhaps will do again. --Mike McGonigal