| Track |
Title |
Length |
(Style) Parody of |
Description |
| 1 |
"Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies*" |
3:11 |
"Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits |
The song features the slightly altered lyrics of the theme song from the television series The Beverly Hillbillies which are set to the tune of the original. The song actually appears in its entirety in the film as a computer-animated music video/dream sequence. Mark Knopfler himself played guitar on the track. |
| 2 |
"Gandhi II" |
1:00 |
Background music is a style parody of "Theme from Shaft" by Issac Hayes, voiceover a generic movie trailer parody.[citation needed] |
A commercial for the action television film with Mahatma Gandhi as the protagonist; references the film Gandhi. Gandhi was played by director Jay Levey. |
| 3 |
"Attack of the Radioactive Hamsters from a Planet near Mars" |
3:28 |
Style parody of "Gimme Three Steps" by Lynyrd Skynyrd |
A rock song about a number of mutated hamsters terrorizing the planet. |
| 4 |
"Isle Thing" |
3:37 |
"Wild Thing" by Tone Lōc |
About a girl who introduces the singer to the television show Gilligan's Island. This is also Weird Al's first rap parody, "Twister" being an original. Another Tone Lōc hit, "Funky Cold Medina", is referred to in the lyrics: "Ginger and Mary Ann could a used some funky cold medina". |
| 5 |
"The Hot Rocks Polka" |
4:50 |
Polka Medley |
A polka medley including the following songs:
All of these songs are by The Rolling Stones, arranged with some new music by Weird Al. The name of the song refers to Hot Rocks, a best of album of the Stones.
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| 6 |
"UHF" |
5:09 |
Style parody of "State of Shock" by The Jacksons |
A rock song done in the style of a television network's image campaign song; title theme to the movie. |
| 7 |
"Let Me Be Your Hog" |
0:16 |
Style parody of the garage-punk genre |
Rock snippet, heard in the movie as Uncle Harvey lounges in his pool. Contains obvious elements of "I Wanna Be Your Dog" by The Stooges. |
| 8 |
"She Drives Like Crazy" |
3:42 |
"She Drives Me Crazy" by Fine Young Cannibals |
About a man's girlfriend with terrible driving habits. |
| 9 |
"Generic Blues" |
4:34 |
Style parody of B.B. King |
A blues-style song with deliberately cliched lyrics, and the refrain, "Maybe I'll blow my brains out mama, or maybe I'll just go bowling instead". According to Yankovic in the liner notes of Permanent Record: Al in the Box collection, B.B. King has mentioned this song as one of his ten favorite blues songs of all time.[1] |
| 10 |
"Spatula City" |
1:07 |
Original |
Commercial for a spatula outlet store. In the skit, Eldon G. Hallum plays the father, Sherry Engstrom plays the wife, and Sara Allen plays the neighbor. This skit caused a stir when people in Tulsa went looking for Spatula City. |
| 11 |
"Fun Zone" |
1:45 |
Style parody of "Blow Up" by Devo |
Theme to Stanley Spadowski's Clubhouse, the main show-within-a-show in the film. Originally written for failed Saturday Night Live replacement Welcome to the Fun Zone, this song is played at the beginning of every Weird Al concert. |
| 12 |
"Spam" |
2:59 |
Parody of "Stand" by R.E.M. |
About the canned luncheon meat SPAM |
| 13 |
"The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota" |
6:50 |
Style parody of Gordon Lightfoot and Harry Chapin's "30,000 Pounds of Bananas" |
Lengthy folk-type song about a family road trip to a tourist location in Minnesota. |
