Why not do so more often? He makes the accordion sound like it belongs in a rock song, no mean feat. In the audience at Overture Hall last night, that was inescapable.įirst, the guy can really play the accordion. And like everyone, I’ve heard the big parodies like “Eat It.” But I’d never sat down and really thought about Weird Al’s songs. And the purported extreme unpopularity of the songs didn’t prevent the audience from singing along to most of them.Īt some point during the period when people listened to music on iPods, someone in my family had some Weird Al deep cuts on a playlist that we used to cue up on long car rides. Its focus, as Yankovic tells the audience at the start of the concert, is “a bunch of extremely unpopular songs.” He did play less well-known original material, but parodies did not entirely escape the set list. Weird Al, who has been parodying pop hits since even before 1979’s breakthrough “My Bologna,” is touring with his The Unfortunate Return of the Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Tour. “Awesome!” “We like Weird Al!” “I hear he puts on a heckuva show.” “I’m envious.” It turns out there are a lot of Weird Al fans, and his July 14 show at Overture Center’s spacious Overture Hall was a sellout.
I was surprised, when I mentioned to various people that I was going to see Weird Al Yankovic at the Overture Center, how enthusiastic everyone was.
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