| 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 "Money for Nothing". 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, the price for allowing Al to make his parody. |
| 2 |
"Gandhi II" |
1:00 |
Original |
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 |
Original |
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 a style parody. Another Tone Lōc hit, "Funky Cold Medina", is referred to in the lyrics: "Ginger and Mary Ann coulda 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 |
With lyrics written in the style of a TV station's large promotional campaign; title theme to the movie. |
| 7 |
"Let Me Be Your Hog" |
0:16 |
Original |
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 Chicago blues |
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.[6] |
| 10 |
"Spatula City" |
1:07 |
Original |
Commercial for a spatula outlet store. In the scene, Eldon G. Hallum plays the father, Sherry Engstrom plays the wife, and Sara Allen plays the neighbor. |
| 11 |
"Fun Zone" |
1:45 |
Instrumental |
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" |
3:12 |
"Stand" by R.E.M. |
About the canned luncheon meat Spam |
| 13 |
"The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota" |
6:50 |
Style parody of "30,000 Pounds of Bananas" by Harry Chapin |
Lengthy folk-type song about a family road trip to a tourist location in Minnesota. |
