Weird Al Style Parodies

Many of "Weird Al" Yankovic's songs are pastiches or "style parodies", where it is written in the style of some genre or artist without directly parodying a song. Can you name the artists Weird Al parodied with these songs?

Many of Weird Al's songs parody an entire genre, instead of a specific artist. These are not included.

Many of these songs are in the style of a specific song by an artist. Guess the name of the artist, not the song parodied.

Some of these songs parody more than one artist. Only one needs to be guessed for each song.

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"Weird Al" Yankovic

Happy Birthday

Tonio K

"Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D

Buy Me a Condo

Bob Marley

Mr. Popeil

The B-52s

Dare to Be Stupid

Dare to Be Stupid

Devo

One More Minute

Elvis Presley

Slime Creatures from Outer Space

Thomas Dolby

Cable TV

Elton John

Polka Party!

Dog Eat Dog

Talking Heads

Christmas at Ground Zero

Phil Spector

Even Worse

You Make Me

Oingo Boingo

Velvet Elvis

The Police

Twister

Beastie Boys

Good Old Days

James Taylor

UHF – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff

The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota

Harry Chapin and Gordon Lightfoot

Off the Deep End

Trigger Happy

The Beach Boys and Jan & Dean

I Was Only Kidding

Tonio K

Airline Amy

Nick Lowe and Jonathan Richman

Alapalooza

Young, Dumb & Ugly

AC/DC

Frank's 2000" TV

R.E.M.

Traffic Jam

Prince

Waffle King

Peter Gabriel

Bad Hair Day

Everything You Know Is Wrong

They Might Be Giants

I'm So Sick of You

Elvis Costello

I Remember Larry

Hilly Michaels

Running with Scissors

Germs

Nine Inch Nails

Albuquerque

The Rugburns, George Thorogood, and Mojo Nixon

Poodle Hat

Wanna B Ur Lovr

Beck

Why Does This Always Heppen to Me?

Ben Folds

Bob

Bob Dylan

Genius in France

Frank Zappa

Straight Outta Lynwood

Pancreas

Brian Wilson

I'll Sue Ya

Rage Against the Machine

Virus Alert

Sparks

Close but No Cigar

Cake

Alpocalypse

CNR

The White Stripes

Skipper Dan

Weezer

Craigslist

The Doors

Ringtone

Queen

If That Isn't Love

Hanson

Stop Forwarding That Crap to Me

Jim Steinman

Mandatory Fun

Lame Claim to Fame

Southern Culture on the Skids

My Own Eyes

Foo Fighters

Mission Statement

Crosby, Stills & Nash

First World Problems

Pixies

Jackson Park Express

Cat Stevens

Medium Rarities

Lousy Haircut

The Prodigy

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