Description:A handful of contemporary movies have whimsically looked back at the '80s. Various bands have borrowed from the time period's musical trends with a tongue-in-cheek attitude. But Weird Al was busy sending up that decade while it was still happening. On Dare to Be Stupid, Yankovic parodies, among other things, smash hits by two reigningA handful of contemporary movies have whimsically looked back at the '80s. Various bands have borrowed from the time period's musical trends with a tongue-in-cheek attitude. But Weird Al was busy sending up that decade while it was still happening. On Dare to Be Stupid, Yankovic parodies, among other things, smash hits by two reigning divas of yore. "Like A Surgeon" turns Madonna's song into an inexperienced doctor's first-person account of his, uh, practice. Weird Al's version of a certain Cyndi Lauper hit proclaims, "Girls Just Want to Have Lunch." In this loony world, the object of desire in "I Want a New Drug" is transformed into a duck. On "Yoda," Yankovic targets the Kinks' early '70s hit, "Lola." Who else but Weird Al would turn a song about sexual identity and confusion into a tune about George Lucas's "wrinkled and green" creature? --Fred Cisterna... (more)(less)
Manufacturer : Volcano Release date : 12 March 1991 Number of discs : 1 EAN: 0614223200521 UPC: 614223200521
"As stated above, I bought this album in conjunction with License to Ill, as my first two musical purchases. More than anything probably could, that fact defines two fundamental things of my being. First, the desire to explore a culture I identified with and wished to learn from and second the acceptance of where and what I am at the time (then and now). The Beastie Boys gave me hip hop and everything that would later come to mean to me and Weird Al gave me acceptance of who and what I am.
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