Can you name the following songs parodied by Weird Al Yankovic?

Weird Al Song	Song Parodied	Artist Parodied
My Bologna (1983)		The Knack
I Love Rocky Road (1983)		Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
Another One Rides the Bus (1983)		Queen
*Eat It (1984)		Michael Jackson
*I Lost On Jeopardy (1984)		The Greg Kihn Band
*King of Suede (1984)		The Police
Theme from Rocky XIII: The Rye or the Kaiser (1984)		Survivor
*Like a Surgeon (1985)		Madonna
Girls Just Want to Have Lunch (1985)		Cyndi Lauper
I Want a New Duck (1985)		Huey Lewis and the News
Yoda (1985)		The Kinks
Addicted to Spuds (1986)		Robert Palmer
*Fat (1988)		Michael Jackson
Lasagna (1988)		Ritchie Valens
I Think I'm a Clone Now (1988)		Tiffany
Isle Thing (1989)		Tone Lōc

Weird Al Song	Song Parodied	Artist Parodied
She Drives Like Crazy (1989)		Fine Young Cannibals
*Smells Like Nirvana (1992)		Nirvana
White Stuff (1992)		New Kids on the Block
I Can't Watch This (1992)		MC Hammer
Jurassic Park (1993)		Richard Harris
Achy Breaky Song (1993)		Billy Ray Cyrus
Livin' in the Fridge (1993)		Aerosmith
*Amish Paradise (1996)		Coolio
Gump (1996)
Phony Calls (1996)		TLC
The Saga Begins (1999)		Don McLean
Pretty Fly for a Rabbi (1999)		Offspring
It's All About the Pentiums (1999)		Puff Daddy
Grapefruit Diet (1999)		Cherry Poppin' Daddies
*White & Nerdy (2006)		Chamillionaire
*Canadian Idiot (2006)		Green Day

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Weird Al Parodies Quiz

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Created by: LTH -
Contributed: January 1st, 2010
Published: March 21st, 2010
Category: Music
Plays: 84,539

Tags: Song Quizzes, Artist Quizzes, weird, yankovic, parody, Weird Al Yankovic

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	Flick:	Mar 21st, 2010 at 15:36 GMT	54 points
	Good quiz., but an even better quote from the man himself, ' My brothers and sisters all hated me cause I was an only child.' Pure genius

	CNS:	Mar 21st, 2010 at 15:46 GMT	25 points
	Shouldn't "Ebay" be on here?

	Big_E:	Mar 21st, 2010 at 15:50 GMT	7 points
	Love it when I get the least guessed...is "Jeopardy" really that obscure of a parody?

	Pirate_Higemaru:	Mar 21st, 2010 at 16:47 GMT	-1 points
	I missed MacArthur park because I didn't know how to spell it....Oooooh.

	mennoknight:	Mar 21st, 2010 at 17:05 GMT	7 points
	Always thought the song was "Our Love's in Jeopardy." Who knew.

	ig1234:	Mar 21st, 2010 at 17:21 GMT	15 points
	I couldn't even think how the Chamillionaire version of his own song went Al's ingrained his one on me so much.

	Fitz:	Mar 21st, 2010 at 17:26 GMT	37 points
	Feel like the quiz should have been inverted - name the parody from the song not vice versa. Was too easy to guess without knowing.

	DMwahoo:	Mar 21st, 2010 at 17:41 GMT	6 points
	I agree with the above... Good quiz, but I was able to guess some of the ones that I had never heard before just by title similarity.

	MFazio23:	Mar 21st, 2010 at 17:41 GMT	12 points
	I didn't even play this and gave it a 5 star rating. Such an awesome quiz idea.

	deej:	Mar 21st, 2010 at 17:45 GMT	13 points
	ive seen a few live performances of "lump" where the lead singer for the presidents of the usa ends it with "and that's all...ihavetosay...about that!"

	deej:	Mar 21st, 2010 at 17:46 GMT	12 points
	PS: whenever i sing "lump" in rock band i always sing the "gump" lyrics =")

	GiantsJoe2110:	Mar 21st, 2010 at 17:58 GMT	39 points
	I think White and Nerdy is just as well known, if not better known, than the original.

	dje:	Mar 21st, 2010 at 19:06 GMT	12 points
	churn butter once or twice, livin in an amish paradise!

	teddy109768:	Mar 21st, 2010 at 19:33 GMT	3 points
	What about the Ebay song

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	MLew10:	Mar 21st, 2010 at 19:50 GMT	9 points
	Weird Al is awesome in concert. He does a segment where he changes costumes for every song haha

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	Bretzky:	Mar 21st, 2010 at 21:19 GMT	6 points
	My favorite Weird Al quote (paraphrased): "People ask me all the time when I'm going to write my own music. Of course I have to beat those people to death."

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	SrslySky:	Mar 21st, 2010 at 21:34 GMT	7 points
	I love The Saga Begins. :]] At work they always play American Pie and I find my self singing Weird Al's version instead.

	EugeneAllen:	Mar 21st, 2010 at 21:44 GMT	1 point
	haha awesome quiz. i have a bunch of these songs on my ipod. but what about polkamon and the ebay song

	msteele13:	Mar 21st, 2010 at 21:49 GMT	-2 points
	what about the ebay song?

	Fidelio:	Mar 21st, 2010 at 21:49 GMT	2 points
	There's one thing about Weird Al that's always confused me. Does he need permission from the artists or their record companies to do parody versions of their songs? Considering all of the cover versions and sampling you see nowadays, I'd think the answer would be no. Plus, I remember Coolio being mad at him for parodying Gangsta's Paradise, which would certainly suggest that Coolio didn't give permission for Amish Paradise. Yet I distinctly recall an interview with Weird Al a while back where he said that he's always wanted to parody Prince, but Prince would never give him permission. It makes me wonder.

	Tapestry:	Mar 21st, 2010 at 21:57 GMT	8 points
	He usually gets permission, imitation IS the sincerest form of flattery .. but people like Coolio 'don't get it'.

	Angie:	Mar 21st, 2010 at 21:57 GMT	14 points
	Not sure why Coolio would be mad, considering Gangsta's Paradise is basically Stevie Wonder's Pastime Paradise anyway.

	aerodynamic:	Mar 21st, 2010 at 22:00 GMT	16 points
	In regard to comments about some songs apparently missing, there's a note at the top of this quiz that reads: "This is not a comprehensive list."

	Idran:	Mar 21st, 2010 at 22:10 GMT	13 points
	@Fidelio: He doesn't _have_ to get permission legally, since parody is exempt from copyright law, but he does just because it's the right thing to do. The thing with Amish Paradise was Coolio's people told Al that he said he was fine with it, and then after the song came out Coolio said he'd never heard anything about it and he _wasn't_ okay with it.

	BlueWingX:	Mar 21st, 2010 at 22:11 GMT	12 points
	He doesn't have to get permission, but he only does songs if he can get permission. He does that out of respect and a desire to keep up good relationships in the music community. As for Coolio, apparently there was a miscommunication between Coolio's management and Al's, so Al thought Coolio had given permission.

	greebles:	Mar 21st, 2010 at 22:42 GMT	6 points
	An example of the above is James Blunt's "You're Beautiful." He parodied it as "You're Pitiful" and sometimes plays it live, but never recorded it as they didn't give him permission.

	hubbjm:	Mar 21st, 2010 at 23:06 GMT	4 points
	I didn't know until this quiz that Amish Paradise wasn't a play on Pastime Paradise.

	mschessplayer:	Mar 22nd, 2010 at 00:20 GMT	5 points
	His original songs are so good: When I Was Your Age / One More Minute / Trigger Happy / I'll Sue Ya / Hardware Store, etc. Keep rocking W.A.Y.!

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	alkeiper:	Mar 22nd, 2010 at 01:44 GMT	-4 points
	MacArthur Park is the least guessed. It's not really a good song, but it's one of those songs that you have to hear to appreciate.

	Suffron_SD:	Mar 22nd, 2010 at 02:40 GMT	2 points
	Most of these songs I really don't even know the original or at least have heard Al's version a thousand times more. Yes, I am a geek.

	mccabebabe:	Mar 22nd, 2010 at 02:40 GMT	8 points
	just to be clear, James Blunt was okay with "You're Pitiful" and was all excited about being included; it was his record company that ixnayed it.

	AQuickAlias:	Mar 22nd, 2010 at 03:53 GMT	2 points
	And while we're nitpicking, greebles, "You're Pitiful" was actually recorded, it was simply left off of Straight Outta Lynwood for the reasons mccabebabe describes.

	seemandemon:	Mar 22nd, 2010 at 04:18 GMT	1 point
	this thread is now a weird al lyrics thread: "if he's doing a bar mitzvah, now that you shouldn't miss. he'll always schlep on down for a wedding or a bris. they say he's got a lotta hutzpah, he's really quite hhip. the parents pay the moyl and he gets to keep the tip"

	Absentia:	Mar 22nd, 2010 at 05:55 GMT	-1 points
	I missed 4. Forgive me, Al. I never even knew Gump was a parody of anything.