July 18th, 2007
When Travis covered ...Baby One More Time as tender British comfort rock, it was cute.
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When Jonathan Coultan did Baby Got Back as a singer/songwriter folk troubadour, it was funny.
When The Gourds played Gin n' Juice in up-the-mountain bluegrass style, it was just bizarre.
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November 21st, 2006
So the news recently hit that Weird Al finally has a Top 10 record after all these years. According to Billboard, that's 73,000 copies of Straight Outta Lynwood sold. Congrats to Al; he deserves it.
It's worth noting, though, that album sales are down overall and that nearly equal sales of 72,310 only ranked a 16 on the Billboard 200 for 1999's Running with Scissors.
But really, that news has got ...
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