Best Songs from "Weird Al" Yankovic's Off the Deep End

Off the Deep End is the 7th studio album by "Weird Al" Yankovic, released in 1992. This album was the first self-produced by Yankovic after six albums with Rick Derringer. Recorded between June 1990 and January 1992, it was a follow-up to the unsuccessful soundtrack for Yankovic's 1989 film UHF. Off the Deep End and its lead single, "Smells Like Nirvana," helped revitalize Yankovic's career after a lull in the late 1980s.

The album produced one of Yankovic's most famous singles, "Smells Like Nirvana," a parody of Nirvana's major hit "Smells Like Teen Spirit." The song peaked at number thirty-five on the Billboard Hot 100 and became Yankovic's second-highest charting single, after "Eat It," which was released in 1984. The album cover also parodies the cover of Nirvana's album Nevermind. While the original featured a naked baby underwater chasing a dollar bill attached to a fishing hook, Yankovic replaced the baby with himself and swapped the dollar bill for a doughnut.

Genres: Comedy, Comedy rock

Band Members and Production:
"Weird Al" Yankovic - accordion, keyboards, vocals, background vocals, producer, arranger
Tony Papa - engineer
Marlene Aragon - overdubs
Edith Fore - overdubs
Neil Ross - overdubs
Beau Weaver - overdubs
Steve Jay - bass, background vocals
Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz - percussion, drums
Jim West - banjo, guitar, background vocals
Brad Buxer - synthesizer
Alisa Curran - background vocals, "The Plumbing Song"
Jim Haas - background vocals, "Trigger Happy"
Tommy Johnson - tuba
Jon Joyce - background vocals, "Trigger Happy"
Warren Luening - trumpet
Cheech Marin - vocals on "Taco Grande"
Gene Morford - background vocals, "Trigger Happy"
Peggy Newman - background vocals, "The Plumbing Song"
Joel Peskin - clarinet
Carmen Twillie - background vocals
Julia Waters, Luther Waters, Maxine Waters, Oren Waters - background vocals
Jerry Whitman - background vocals, "Trigger Happy"
Natasha Neece - background vocals, "The Plumbing Song"
Samantha Kaye - background vocals, "The Plumbing Song"

The Top Ten

You Don't Love Me Anymore

I Can't Watch This

I Was Only Kidding

When I Was Your Age

Smells Like Nirvana

The Plumbing Song

Trigger Happy

Taco Grande

The White Stuff

Polka Your Eyes Out

The Contenders

Airline Amy

Bite Me

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