It's time for the Rock Hall to get Weird

[rockingharder]

If you’re like me, your musical journey has taken you through a lot of different phases. I definitely had my Ben Folds Five phase, my oldies phase, my contemporary Christian rap phase, and my David Bowie phase. Okay, I’m always in a David Bowie phase

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[derspatchel]

You're spot on with this. My phase began almost 10 years before yours, just after In 3-D came out and "Eat It" was getting serious radio play. I think his was the first album I ever went down to the record store and purchased with saved-up allowance (the six pop albums I got for a penny by joining the record club don't count.) No 9-year-old kid was gonna know who the B-52s are at that point -- but when Cosmic Thing came out a few years later, one certain kid went back to the Weird Al album and listened to "Mr. Popeil" in a whole new light.

Same thing for Talking Heads and "Dog Eat Dog" off Polka Party; by that time I was actually identifying which songs Weird Al was using to create his style parody (riffs off And She Was, etc.)

He's got an amazing ear for it. And "Genius In France", as far as I'm considered, is his masterpiece, and I'm glad I heard it well after I was fluent in Zappa because it made identifying all of Frank's styles in one eight-minute track all the more fun. Plus he even had Zappa-spawn on lead guitar. How fucking awesome is that?