‘Polkattack!’ - Weird Al Yankovic’s Polka Medleys From 1984-2011
(Track listing is below) As a tribute to The Great Weird One, I created a 35+ minute, non-stop track from all of his polka medleys; one gigantic polka jam. I ventured out to find footage of Al playing all this stuff and synced it up the best I could to the audio track and shazam: a tribute to Weird Al’s awesome polka medleys. (The footage gets better after 4:31 - Also, I took out Hot Rocks Polka and left out Polkamon & Bohemian Polka because they aren’t medleys in the same sense as these and I couldn’t find live footage to go along with any of them for the video). In any case, I hope you enjoy it as much as I do! -qxx
00:14 “Polkas on 45” (1984)
04:31 “Hooked on Polkas” (1985)
07:47 “Polka Party!” (1986)
10:56 “Polka Your Eyes Out” (1992)
14:33 “The Alternative Polka” (1996)
19:08 “Polka Power!” (1999)
23:14 “Angry White Boy Polka” (2003)
28:09 “Polkarama!” (2006)
32:02 “Polka Face” (2011)
36:51 Encore
There are three things you learn at weddings while growing up in SW Pennsylvania, and they’re all dances: the Polka, the Waltz, and the Chicken Dance. (Though, Electric Slide has been a comer for a decade-plus, and the Macarena is popular with young ladies who want to show off. We will not talk of my doing the Macarena at my cousin’s wedding. It is… tragic.)
In any case: I love polka music. Always have, always will. Own multiple CDs of polka music. NON-IRONICALLY.
Spent most of my junior and senior HS years at monthly dances at the SNPJ in Strabane, and we always polka’d.
In my Ballroom Dancing class at college, after being mediocre at Foxtrot and Cha-Cha, we switched up to Polka… and I was in my element. So much so that the instructor stopped me and my partner about 3/4th of the way around the ballroom on the first dance, and said to me, “It’s not fair to your partner.”
So, for most of the semester, I polka’d mostly with the instructors, except for the lead-up to finals, and then finals.
Between polka and tango (but that is another tale…), I got an A+ for the class.
In any case, those are my bona fides, as they are. So I hope you appreciate that when I say that Weird Al is generally a musical genius, but will ultimately be remembered for his GODLIKE ability at arranging pop-songs into polka format, you trust my words.
In any case: enjoy 37:06 of awesome.