Off The Deep End (Remastered) "Weird Al" Yankovic

• 1 Smells Like Nirvana 03:42
• 2 Trigger Happy 03:46
• 3 I Can't Watch This 03:31
• 4 Polka Your Eyes Out 03:50
• 5 I Was Only Kidding 03:31
• 6 The White Stuff 02:43
• 7 When I Was Your Age 04:35
• 8 Taco Grande 03:44
• 9 Airline Amy 03:50
• 10 The Plumbing Song 04:05
• 11 You Don't Love Me Anymore 04:01
• Total Runtime 41:18

Info for Off The Deep End (Remastered)

Off the Deep End is the seventh studio album by "Weird Al" Yankovic, released in 1992. This album was the first album self-produced by Yankovic, after six albums with Rick Derringer. Recorded between June 1990 and January 1992, the album was a follow-up to the unsuccessful soundtrack to Yankovic's 1989 film UHF. Off the Deep End and its lead single "Smells Like Nirvana" helped to revitalize Yankovic's career after a lull in the late 80s.

The musical styles on Off the Deep End are built around parodies and pastiches of pop and rock music of the late 1980s and early 1990s, including the newly arisen grunge movement. Half of the album is made up of parodies of Nirvana, MC Hammer, New Kids on the Block, Gerardo, and Milli Vanilli. The other half of the album is original material, featuring many "style parodies," or musical imitations of existing artists. These style parodies include imitations of specific artists like The Beach Boys and Jan and Dean.

Off the Deep End was met with mostly positive reviews and peaked at number seventeen on the Billboard 200. The album also produced one of Yankovic's most famous singles, "Smells Like Nirvana," a parody of Nirvana's major rock hit "Smells Like Teen Spirit," which peaked at number thirty-five on the Billboard Hot 100. This song was Yankovic's second-highest charting single, after "Eat It," which was released in 1984. The cover also parodies the cover of Nirvana's album, Nevermind. The original had a naked baby in the water with a dollar bill cast by a fishing rod, Yankovic's replaced the baby with himself, and the dollar bill by a doughnut. Off the Deep End was Yankovic's fourth Gold record, and went on to be certified Platinum for sales of over one million copies in the United States. In addition, the album was later nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Recording in 1993.

"Following his exposure in the mid-'80s, Weird Al Yankovic's career stumbled with the poor-selling Polka Party in 1986 and his feature film UHF that tanked in 1989. Clearly, many people had grown tired of Yankovic's presence, just as they'd grown tired of the artists he was satirizing. Thus his chance for a comeback came in 1992, when Nirvana stormed the scene with "Smells Like Teen Sprit," a song that turned the music world upside down and ended the careers of many of the artists Yankovic had once used to heighten his success. Not too surprisingly, "Smells Like Nirvana" was the first single off of Off the Deep End, Yankovic's first album in three years. The song, which pokes fun at the original version's incoherent lyrics, was a smash hit, and not undeservingly -- it reveals the kind of brilliant writing Yankovic was still capable of doing. Though no other parody on the album matches the cleverness of "Smells Like Nirvana," satires such as "I Can't Watch This" and "Taco Grande" come quite close. In addition to re-establishing his satirical craftsmanship, Deep End showcases some of Yankovic's best originals ever; "Trigger Happy," "When I Was Your Age," and "You Don't Love Me Anymore" prove to be the album's greatest songs. As his best album since In 3-D, Off the Deep End is the answer to those who questioned Yankovic's credibility as an evolving artist." (Barry Weber, AMG)

Weird" Al Yankovic, accordion, keyboards, vocals, background vocals
Steve Jay, bass, background vocals
Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz, percussion, drums
Jim West, banjo, guitar, background vocals
Additional musicians:
Joel Peskin, clarinet
Brad Buxer, synthesizer
Tommy Johnson, tuba
Warren Luening, trumpet
Carmen Twillie, background vocals
Julia Waters, background vocals
Luther Waters, background vocals Maxine Waters, background vocals
Oren Waters, background vocals
Cheech Marin, vocals on "Taco Grande"
Gene Morford, background vocals, "Trigger Happy"
Peggy Newman, background vocals, "The Plumbing Song"
Jerry Whitman, background vocals, "Trigger Happy"
Natasha Neece, background vocals, "The Plumbing Song"
Samantha Kaye, background vocals, "The Plumbing Song"
Alisa Curran, background vocals, "The Plumbing Song"
Jim Haas, background vocals, "Trigger Happy"
Jon Joyce, background vocals, "Trigger Happy"

Produced by "Weird Al" Yankovic

Digitally remastered

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