What's not to love about NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts? Or Weird Al, for that matter?
From Brandon Choe’s fantastic Los Angeles Times feature article about AL:
Yankovic is far and away the most successful comedy recording artist of all time. He’s sold more than 12 million albums. His last album, “Mandatory Fun,” was the first comedy album in history to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 — and the first one to top that chart at all since Allan Sherman dropped “My Son, the Nut” in 1963. It went on to win Yankovic his fourth Grammy Award — of what are now five — in 2015.
We're clearing the decks of Weird One's posts, with our final gem landing on Wednesday.
If you've downloaded the previous three WEIRD AL offerings & left a comment, we thank you. If you haven’t joined in, maybe the fourth time is the charm?
ReplyDeleteWho gets your vote for turning in the BEST performance on NPR’s Tiny Desk?
I’m gonna have to go with SHARON VAN ETTEN, who is immortalized here:
https://jonderblog.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-best-of-sharon-van-etten.html#comment-form
Here’s the link:
WEIRD AL’s TINY DESK CONCERT:
https://pixeldrain.com/u/ymmeDnqo
Thanks Stinky, great series. The best NPR performance.., hard one, there have been so many; David Byrne, Sparks, Hermanos Gutiérrez, Khruangbin, Hiromi....
ReplyDeleteI'm only familiar with David Byrne & Sparks. I need to check those other fellows out.
ReplyDeleteI'm having trouble extracting this. Maybe it's me. But I have to say, losing all my hipster cred, that I really enjoyed Sabrina Carpenters from a year ago. Maybe Redd Kross will do one!
ReplyDeleteI downloaded it and unzipped it with a different tool than I usually do, Jay Dee Gee, & it works. Do you have more than one way to unzip stuff?
ReplyDeleteRedd Kross is overdue for a TINY DESK CONCERT! I'll check out Sabrina Carpenters.'
Sabrina Carpenter's Tiny Desk is great!
DeleteGlad you liked it! Looking forward to the final AL post!
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