BAD HAIR DAY

'''Bad Hair Day''' is the ninth album by "Weird Al" Yankovic, released in 1996. (see 1996 in music). It includes the hit "Amish Paradise", a parody of Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise".

Contents

Track listing

Notes

Credits

Production

Charts

Track listing

Track	Title	Length	(Style) Parody of	Description
1	"Amish Paradise" (A. Ivey, Jr., L. Sanders, D. Rasheed, S. Wonder, Yankovic)	3:20	"Gangsta's Paradise" by Coolio	About an Amish man who raps about his lifestyle.
2	"Everything You Know is Wrong" (Yankovic)	3:48	Style parody of They Might Be Giants	About an unusual sequence of events, the title being a parody of Firesign Theatre album.
3	"Cavity Search" (Bono, U2, Yankovic)	4:19	"Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" by U2	About a man's painful visit to the dentist
4	"Callin' In Sick" (Yankovic)	3:40	Style Parody of "Lithium" and "Come as You Are" by Nirvana	About a lazy man feigning illness to skip work.
5	"The Alternative Polka"	4:50	Polka medley	A polka medley including the following alternative rock songs: ★ "Loser" by Beck ★ "Sex Type Thing" by Stone Temple Pilots ★ "All I Wanna Do" by Sheryl Crow ★ "Closer" by Nine Inch Nails ★ "Bang And Blame" by R.E.M. ★ "You Oughta Know" by Alanis Morissette ★ "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" by Smashing Pumpkins ★ "My Friends" by Red Hot Chili Peppers ★ "I'll Stick Around" by Foo Fighters ★ "Black Hole Sun" by Soundgarden ★ "Basket Case" by Green Day ★ "Ear Booker Polka" by "Weird Al" Yankovic
6	"Since You've Been Gone" (Yankovic)	1:22	Style parody of A cappella	Discusses a man's feelings after a break-up, at the end, ironically saying, "I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here"
7	"Gump" (Chris Ballew, The Presidents of the United States of America, Yankovic)	2:10	Lump by The Presidents of the United States of America	About the story of Forrest Gump.
8	"I'm So Sick of You" (Yankovic)	3:26	Style Parody of Elvis Costello. Chorus lines have a similarity to "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" by The Monkees	About the singer's girlfriend and her odious personal habits.
9	"Syndicated Inc." (Dave Pirner, Yankovic)	3:54	"Misery" by Soul Asylum	About a family's devotion to syndicated television.
10	"I Remember Larry" (Yankovic)	3:56	Style parody of The Monkees, the melody also bears some similarity to "See the Constellation" by They Might Be Giants	About a cruel neighborhood prankster (possibly a bully) named Larry (who preformed such cruel gags as poisoning Al's lawn with toxic waste, to chopping Al's car in half), and how much the singer misses him after his death, until it is revealed that Al was the one who murdered him. Contains a backmasked message at 3:10, "Wow, you must have an awful lot of free time on your hands."
11	"Phony Calls" (Organized Noize, Marqueze Etheridge, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopez, Yankovic)	3:22	"Waterfalls" by TLC	About the dangers of prank calling. Contains an audio clip from ''The Simpsons'' featuring one of Bart Simpson's many prank calls to Moe's Tavern.
12	"The Night Santa Went Crazy" (Yankovic)	4:03	Modeled on Soul Asylum's "Black Gold". Beginning is very close to the beginning to "Mama, I'm Coming Home" by Ozzy Osbourne	A Christmas-themed song about Santa Claus finally snapping and embarking on a killing spree.

Notes

★ This album was the last one to feature Yankovic's old look (before his LASIK eye surgery), as well as the last to be released under the Scotti Bros. label, before his move to Volcano Records.

★ "Bad Hair Day" was originally going to be released in 1995, but was later bumped back to 1996 due to production delays.

★ Originally the song "Green Eggs and Ham" (Parody of U2's "Numb") was going to be on "Bad Hair Day." Yankovic, however was unable to get permission from the estate of Dr. Seuss.

★ ''The Alternative Polka'' was originally going to have an interploration of the Weezer song Buddy Holly between "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" and "My Friends". However, the song's writer, Rivers Cuomo, decided against the idea at the last minute, forcing Yankovic to edit the song out of the medley. Weezer, however, was thanked in the liner notes since the layout had been prepared beforehand. Weezer later allowed Al to include their hit "Beverly Hills" in the polka medley from Straight Outta Lynwood.

★ On some copies of this album, the copyright is 1994, 1995, and/or 1996.

Credits

★ "Weird Al" Yankovic - accordion, keyboards, background vocals

★ Hank Azaria - Voice of Moe Szyslak

★ Nancy Cartwright - Voice of Bart Simpson

★ Gary Herbig - bass saxophone

★ Steve Jay - bass, background vocals

★ Tommy Johnson - tuba

★ Warren Luening - trumpet

★ Joel Peskin - clarinet

★ Lisa Popeil - background vocals

★ Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz - percussion, drums

★ Rubén Valtierra - keyboards

★ Jim West - guitar, background vocals

Production

★ Producer: "Weird Al" Yankovic

★ Engineer: Tony Papa

★ Assistant engineer: Colin Sauers

★ Mixing: Tony Papa

★ Mastering: Bernie Grundman

★ Arranger: "Weird Al" Yankovic

★ Art direction: Doug Haverty

★ Photography: Carl Studna

Charts

'Album'

Year	Chart	Position
1996	The Billboard 200	14

'Singles'

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1996	"Amish Paradise"	The Billboard Hot 100	53