The Food Album

The Food Album

Infobox Album |
Name = The Food Album
Type = Compilation album
Artist = "Weird Al" Yankovic


Released = June 22, 1993
Recorded =
Genre = Comedy
Length = 30:57
Label = Scotti Brothers
Producer = Rick Derringer, "Weird Al" Yankovic
Reviews =
*Allmusic (3/5) [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:bq8m968odep2 link]

Last album = "The Best of Yankovic" (1992)
This album = "The Food Album" (1993)
Next album = "Alapalooza" (1993)

"The Food Album" is a compilation CD of songs by "Weird Al" Yankovic that features songs about food. A similar compilation,"The TV Album", was released in 1995 and featured some of his songs about television shows. The album cover is designed by Mr. Lawrence.

Track listing

Every track on this album has to do somewhat with food. They include:

Notes

*Notable for its absence is "Girls Just Want To Have Lunch", from "Dare To Be Stupid", Yankovic's only previously released food-related song not to make the album. According to Yankovic, this is due to the fact there is a "royalty ceiling" on the albums and he needed to pick one song to cut from the list in order to turn a profit on the album. "Girls Just Wanna Have Lunch" was chosen due to Yankovic's personal dislike of the song, as his record label had forced him to record it in order to release "Dare To Be Stupid" back in 1985. [ [http://weirdal.com/aaarchive.htm#1298 "Weird Al" Yankovic: The Ask Al Archive ] ]

*Also absent from the release is "Waffle King." Though the song was released later in 1993 on "Alapalooza", it had already been included on the "Smells Like Nirvana" single the year before. It is not known why this song was omitted.

*The album was released only grudgingly by Yankovic. At the time, Scotti Bros. had insisted on putting out a new Weird Al album in order to meet fiscal projections for that quarter, despite the fact there was no album ready ("Alapalooza" would not be released until later in the year). The original concept was an album entitled "Al Unplugged", which would have featured a cover depicting Yankovic holding kitchen appliances, but instead of featuring live performances, would only feature studio remixes of previously released material with the electronic instruments missing. Yankovic convinced them to release "The Food Album" instead, but would later describe it as a "cheesy compilation" put out "against [his] better wishes and judgement." [ [http://weirdal.com/aaarchive.htm#0299 "Weird Al" Yankovic: The Ask Al Archive ] ] "The TV Album" was released under similar circumstances.

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