Songs Mentioning the Beatles: One of Those Days

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Today we have the first, but certainly not the last, intentionally funny song (I say that in case people with various music tastes find some of the other songs “funny” ) on the list of songs that reference the Beatles. Let’s laugh along with one of the greatest parodists in music history. One of Those Days - Weird Al Yankovic Yes, Weird Al does things other than parodies. It’s the parodies that made him famous, but he also writes his own original songs. I don’t know if people who did nothing but parodies would last long. (I’d imagine paying royalties to the original songwriters would break them of that habit quickly.) Instead of spoofing a song, what Yankovic will do — brilliantly — is spoof a certain sub-genre of music, or the sound of a particular artist. You may remember that I used a song from this album in the 40-year-old list, “Dog Eat Dog,” which was a spoof of Talking Heads’ sound. This sounds like some of those late 60s bubblegum pop songs musically. Lyrically, it’s a song that has just about every catastrophe known to man (“a big swarm of locusts is following me”) happening to one poor guy. That includes the destruction of his Beatles records. However, since the bomb drops at the end of the song, it doesn’t really matter. Have a laugh with Weird Al. One of Those Days Written by Alfred Yankovic Recorded by Weird Al Yankovic From Polka Party!, 1986 BEATLE REFERENCE LYRICS: Left all my Beatles records out in the sun