Greetings and salutations Hivers. Today let's go into another Evening Groove / Three Tune Tuesday post.

As always, thanks to @ablaze for making this series. Lots of people participate in it! Follow the tags to find a ton of good music recommendation.

This week I thought we'd sit back and have a laugh. Now there have been many comedy song artists over the years. These days the two most famous ones are probably Weird Al and They Might Be Giants. I want to focus on Weird Al for this post.

For those unfamiliar, Weird Al usually does a combination of parodies of popular songs and original humor songs. Unlike many people who sing parody songs, Weird Al always asks the original artist for permission, which results in some ideas never being turned into songs. For example, at one point he wanted to make a parody of Live and Let Die by Paul McCartney, but Sir Paul turned him down so he shelved the idea.

(※Paul reportedly told Al that he loved his work, was a huge fan, and that he could parody any of his songs; Al picked Live and Let Die and suggested Chicken Pot Pie just because he thought it was funny. Paul, being famously a vegetarian, wasn't happy with that idea and nixed it. Ironically, Weird Al is also a vegetarian. Al slightly contends this story and says it was Linda who refused the idea, not Paul, who initially also thought it was funny.)

Weird Al has now been around so long that he's considered one of the greats. Although his first four albums did well, it wasn't until his fifth album, Even Worse, and his parody of Michael Jackson's Bad (which Jackson loved so much, he helped him make the video) that really put him on the map. His albums since then have done incredibly well. He has sold more than 12 million albums. His work has earned him five Grammy Awards, four gold records, and six platinum records in the U.S.

Anyway, let's look at a few of his best songs. Or at least a few of the ones that tickle me the most as of this writing.

Like a Surgeon

This is a parody of Like a Virgin by Madonna. Madonna herself suggested both the parody, the title, and some of the lyrics. It is a hilarious ode by a hapless surgeon who is dismayed that his patients keep dying on him.

This is such a great song. To this day when I hear four evenly spaces notes, this song starts playing in my head.