1986 Songs: Dog Eat Dog

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Can you believe we’ve had this genius around for four and a half decades? Could I leave him off a countdown? Of course not! While this wasn’t a “hit,” they did make a video for it, though. Let’s laugh! Dog Eat Dog - “Weird Al” Yankovic You can probably tell why I love this song so much: Weird Al went to town on Talking Heads with this song. While it’s not a direct parody of one Talking Heads song, he’s definitely impersonating David Byrne’s singing. The opening sounds a little like “And She Was” from 1985’s Little Creatures (and the “dog eat dog” cold ending is a replica of the “and she was” ending of that song). He paraphrases “Once in a Lifetime” (“sometimes I tell myself this is not my beautiful stapler, sometimes I tell myself this is not my beautiful chair!”). The biggest parodies from this album were “Living With a Hernia” and “Addicted to Spuds” (“Living in America” by James Brown and “Addicted to Love” by Robert Palmer, respectively), but I just had to include this hilarious original. Dog Eat Dog Written by Alfred Yankovic Recorded by “Weird Al” Yankovic From Polka Party!, 1986 I love to watch my boss get angry so I can count the veins in his neck: