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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[ibekimbo]

I have always been a Yankovic fan. The man is a genious in his own right!! AS my children grew to an age to appreciate music, I introduced each and every one of them to his music and they've been fans ever since. :)

[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