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I have been enjoying middle-period Mozart lately. Classical is a huge and daunting field. It can be embraced by anyone however, starting anywhere, because all roads lead to all other roads.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pcsgX9DTUg

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That's kind of why I like Mozart sometimes: he's nothing BUT catchy hooks. He just takes them to other worlds as well.

@noyoushutthefuckupdad @a_rival_to_amazon @balan @Jazzy_Butts @wjmaggos @BoredStupid @Hasheagle @amerika @basileion @lccmv @zonz @russ @coyote @dew_the_dew @verita84 @neet @sim @sj_zero @Hollahollara This is unironically musically one of Weird Al's best original (non-parody) songs, you could strip out the lyrics and jokes and it would still be a really good song to listen to. "When I Was Your Age" and "Stuck in a Closet with Vanna White" both legitimately shred as sort of borderline punk metal songs, and they are both decently funny as well but even without that they're good songs. "I'll Be Mellow When I'm Dead" not only a good original but a great anti-hippie song. "One More Minute" was my favorite as far as funny songs. "One of Those Days" very relatable but also a decent song just to listen to. "Hardware Store" became a meme for how catchy it is just in its own right, and shows how hard Weird Al works on these songs instead of just changing some words and being like okay there it's my song now.

Some of his style parodies are great like "Dare to be Stupid" and "I'll Sue Ya" aka the Rage Against the Machine song that's better than anything by Rage Against the Machine. "Dog Eat Dog" was a good Talking Heads style parody. There's that story of those punk rockers that came up to Weird Al and said "hey man we really love Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota." "White and Nerdy" and "Trapped in the Drive Thru" of course being better and more memorable than the original, but the gold standard for that might be "It's All About the Pentiums" which easily eclipsed the original in every way possible, even the video was better.

Going through the wiki just for the list of all of his songs and it says that "Albuquerque" is a style parody of The Rugburns and I can kind of see that since it did remind me a lot of "Dick's Automotive" and The Rugburns had a handful of decent songs too but no one even remembers they ever existed anymore sadly.