Yesterday I picked up Weird Al‘s new album, entitled “Straight Outta Lynwood.” I don’t know why I keep buying his CDs, since I don’t listen to them very often. However, I do enjoy his humor and I thought the song “White And Nerdy” was awesome and the video even more so.

In fact, this album wasn’t even a CD; it is called a DualDisc, with a CD potion on one side and DVD on the other. The only problem is this arrangement interferes with converting said CD to MP3. Nonetheless, the DVD extras (5.1 surround and a bunch of music videos) is a nice bonus and more than justifies the $9.99 that Circuit City had it on sale for.

There are some great songs on the album, such as “I’ll Sue Ya,” a Rage Against The Machine style original that is awesome for a number of reasons, “Confessions Part III” which I found funny even though I have never heard an Usher song in my life and certainly not the one that is being parodied, and “Trapped In The Drive-Thru” which is six degrees of awesome. It’s pretty amazing that “Weird Al” is still capable of such amazing work. Now I just need to keep an eye on tour dates 😀