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Graham Kennedy wrote:I always liked that song.

Same. then again it's Weird Al. The guy's an underrated genius.

Another fave of his

Graham Kennedy wrote:Another fave of his

Good one. Here's one that's in my perennial Top Ten favorites.



of course, I could post Weird Al songs all day.

(Apologies for double-posting, but the music is good)

For the first time ever, after four decades buried deep in the vaults, a previously unreleased version of ‘Time’, recorded in 1986 by Freddie Mercury for the concept album of the hit musical of the same name, has finally emerged after two years of work by the globally successful musician, songwriter and producer Dave Clark, a long-time friend of Freddie’s, using the song’s full title, ‘Time Waits For No One’.

‘Time Waits For No One’ shows Freddie Mercury at his most compelling; a completely stripped-down performance, accompanied by just a piano, showcasing one of music’s most beloved and show-stopping voices.

Nutso wrote:

For the first time ever, after four decades buried deep in the vaults, a previously unreleased version of ‘Time’, recorded in 1986 by Freddie Mercury for the concept album of the hit musical of the same name, has finally emerged after two years of work by the globally successful musician, songwriter and producer Dave Clark, a long-time friend of Freddie’s, using the song’s full title, ‘Time Waits For No One’.

‘Time Waits For No One’ shows Freddie Mercury at his most compelling; a completely stripped-down performance, accompanied by just a piano, showcasing one of music’s most beloved and show-stopping voices.

That... was beautiful.

Fun fact : the diner she's singing about was a real place, Tom's Restaurant in New York, which Vega visited often whilst she was a student in the city. She has said that the events of the song, which she wrote in 1981/2, were largely true. Now in the song she references "turning to the funnies", and only two New York newspapers had comic strip pages in 1981/2. And of those, only the New York Post carried a front page story about the death of an actor. The actor was William Holden, who was a good friend of Ronald Reagan and was the best man at his wedding to Nancy. Holden actually did die from a fall which resulted from his drinking excessively.

Which means the day the song refers to has got to be the day that story was published, which was Wednesday, November 18, 1981! However, weather reports for the city indicate that it did not rain that day, so Vega must have taken that from a different day.

Also a fun fact : pictures of the exterior of Tom's Restaurant were used for the exteriors of Monks Cafe in Seinfeld.