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Despite All My Rage: How “Weird Al” Saved My Life by Frank Smith

Every so often some wild musical huckster will come along and turn the world upside down. When I was young that huckster was “Weird Al” Yankovic. He plagued every one of my family’s road trips. He was the guy whose tapes were dubbed and traded amongst friends during grade four social studies. He was the great communicator. His send-ups of “Beat It,” “My Sharona” and “Another One Bites the Dust,” were the peak of hilarity. By high school I thought I’d outgrown these things—the loud angsty stuff was now where it was at—but then “Weird Al” put music back into context, and he did it with a polka. Afterwards, I could not take seriously any band seeking to obfuscate their angst with loud guitars ever again.

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