UHF - ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK AND OTHER STUFF

'''UHF - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff''' (1989), sometimes referred to simply as '''UHF''', is the soundtrack to the comedy cult film ''UHF'', by "Weird Al" Yankovic. The album featured many music cuts from the movie as well as some of the commercials ("Spatula City") and other parody bits ("Gandhi II"). The album also featured new original material such as "The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota", which brought the running order up to album length.

Contents

Track listing

Miscellanea

Personnel

Production

Charts

External links

Track listing

Track	Title	Length	(Style) Parody of	Description
1	"Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies ★ "	3:11	"Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits	The song features the slightly altered lyrics of the theme song from the television series ''The Beverly Hillbillies'' which are set to the tune of the original. The song actually appears in its entirety in the film as a computer-animated music video/dream sequence. Mark Knopfler himself played guitar on the track.
2	"Gandhi II"	1:00	Style parody of The "Theme from Shaft"	A commercial for the action television film with Mahatma Gandhi as the protagonist; references the film ''Gandhi''. Gandhi was played by director Jay Levey.
3	"Attack of the Radioactive Hamsters from a Planet near Mars"	3:28	Style parody of "Gimme Three Steps" by Lynyrd Skynyrd	A rock song about a number of mutated hamsters terrorizing the planet.
4	"Isle Thing"	3:37	"Wild Thing" by Tone Lōc	About a girl who introduces the singer to the television show ''Gilligan's Island''. This is also Weird Al's first rap parody, "Twister" being an original. Another Tone Lōc hit, "Funky Cold Medina", is referred to in the lyrics: "Ginger and Mary Ann could a used some funky cold medina".
5	"The Hot Rocks Polka"	4:50	Polka medley	A polka medley including the following songs: ★ "It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)" ★ "Brown Sugar" ★ "You Can't Always Get What You Want" ★ "Honky Tonk Women" ★ "Under My Thumb" ★ "Ruby Tuesday" ★ "Miss You" ★ "Sympathy for the Devil" ★ "Get off of My Cloud" ★ "Shattered" ★ "Let's Spend the Night Together" ★ "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" ★ "Ear Booker Polka" by "Weird Al" YankovicAll of these songs are by The Rolling Stones, arranged with some new music by Weird Al. The name of the song refers to Hot Rocks, a best of album of the Stones.
6	"UHF"	5:09	Style parody of "State of Shock" by The Jacksons	rock song done in the style of a television network's image campaign song; title theme to the movie.
7	"Let Me Be Your Hog"	0:16	Style parody of the garage-punk genre	Rock snippet, heard in the movie as Uncle Harvey lounges in his pool. Contains obvious elements of "I Wanna Be Your Dog" by The Stooges.
8	"She Drives Like Crazy"	3:42	"She Drives Me Crazy" by Fine Young Cannibals	About a man's girlfriend with terrible driving habits.
9	"Generic Blues"	4:34	Style parody of B.B. King	A blues-style song with deliberately cliched lyrics, and the refrain, "Maybe I'll blow my brains out mama, or maybe I'll just go bowling instead".
10	"Spatula City"	1:07	Original	Commercial for a spatula outlet store. In the skit, Eldon G. Hallum plays the father, Sherry Engstrom plays the wife, and Sara Allen plays the neighbor. This skit caused a stir when people in Tulsa went looking for Spatula City.
11	"Fun Zone"	1:45	Style parody of "Blow Up" by Devo	Theme to ''Stanley Spadowski's Clubhouse'', the main show-within-a-show in the film. Originally written for failed ''Saturday Night Live'' replacement ''Welcome to the Fun Zone'', this song is played at the beginning of every Weird Al concert.
12	"Spam"	2:59	Parody of "Stand" by R.E.M.	About the canned luncheon meat SPAM
13	"The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota"	6:50	Style parody of Gordon Lightfoot and Harry Chapin's "30,000 Pounds of Bananas"	Lengthy folk-type song about a family road trip to a tourist location in Minnesota.

Miscellanea

★ In an interview with Dr. Demento, Yankovic indicated that, as a condition for use of "Money for Nothing", Mark Knopfler required that the song title reflect that Yankovic's version was clearly a parody; also as a condition Knopfler was to play guitar on it. Even though Yankovic's guitarist, Jim West, had been practicing for weeks, Mark Knopfler had been playing it on the road for months. Ironically, Jim West's version sounded more like the original version because he was imitating Knopfler.

★ All of the destinations mentioned in the song "Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota" were real places, and came from the book Roadside America. The twine ball serenaded in this song is the ball in Darwin, Minnesota. When Yankovic wrote the song there was no "Twineball Inn" or postcards with "Greetings from the twineball, wish you were here". They came after the song was released.

★ The liner notes for the modern album have several errors; Mark Knopfler is misspelled as 'Mark Knofpler,' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" is missing from the "Hot Rocks Polka" listing, Tone Lōc is written as Tone Luc, and Mick Jagger is written 'MickJagger'. (See "External links" for more.)

Personnel

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

★ Kim Bullard - synthesizer

★ Rick Derringer - guitar, backing vocals

★ Guy Fletcher - synthesizer

★ Steve Jay - bass, backing vocals

★ Jimmy Z. - harmonica

★ Mark Knopfler - guitar (only on "Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies")

★ Warren Luening - trumpet

★ Jim Rose - vocals, announcer

★ Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz - percussion, drums

★ Donny Sierer - saxophone

★ The Step Sisters - vocals

★ The Waters Sisters - vocals, backing vocals

★ Jim West - banjo, guitar (except on "Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies"), backing vocals, background music

Production

★ Producer: Rick Derringer

★ Engineers: Daryll Dobson, Tony Papa

★ Assistant engineer: Jamey Dell, Bill Malina

★ Arranger: "Weird Al" Yankovic

Charts

Year	Chart	Position
1989	The Billboard 200	146

External links

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★ UHF linear notes