Off the Deep End

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Template:Album infobox Off the Deep End is the seventh album by song parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic, released in 1992. This is also Al's first self-produced album, after six albums with Rick Derringer. The album cover is an elaborate parody of the Nirvana album Nevermind's cover (see 1992 in music). The lead-off song, "Smells Like Nirvana", also parodies the classic 'Nevermind' track Smells Like Teen Spirit. (Four years later, Al would spoof the album again in a way with Bad Hair Day's "Callin' In Sick", a song that somewhat mirrors the Nirvana track "Come As You Are.")

1 Track listing
2 Personnel
3 Production
4 Charts

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Track listing

"Smells Like Nirvana" (Cobain, Nirvana, Yankovic) - 3:42
- Parody of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit", poking fun at the original song's ambiguous and unintelligible lyrics
"Trigger Happy" (Yankovic) - 3:46
- style parody of Beach Boys songs, ostensibly promoting gun ownership
"I Can't Watch This" (Hammer, James, Miller, Yankovic) - 3:31
- Parody of MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This", about various bad television shows
"Polka Your Eyes Out" - 3:50
- A polka medley of....
  - "Cradle Of Love" by Billy Idol,
  - "Tom's Diner" by Suzanne Vega,
  - "Love Shack" by The B-52's,
  - "Clarinet Polka" (Public domain),
  - "Pump Up The Jam" by Technotronic,
  - "Losing My Religion" by R.E.M.,
  - "Unbelievable" by EMF,
  - "Do Me!" by Bell Biv DeVoe,
  - "Enter Sandman" by Metallica,
  - "The Humpty Dance" by Digital Underground,
  - "Cherry Pie" by Warrant,
  - "Miss You Much" by Janet Jackson,
  - "I Touch Myself" by Divinyls,
  - "Dr. Feelgood" by Mötley Crüe,
  - "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice, and
  - "Ear Booker Polka" by "Weird Al" Yankovic.
    - with new music by "Weird Al" Yankovic.
"I Was Only Kidding" (Yankovic) - 3:31
- About a declaration of love that was a complete joke
"The White Stuff" (Starr, Yankovic) - 2:43
- Parody of New Kids on the Block's "The Right Stuff", where the singer expresses his love for the white stuff that appears between Oreo cookies.
"When I Was Your Age" (Yankovic) - 4:35
- Heavy metal song, with the singer telling his child how he never had it as good as he does, but takes it to exagerant lengths. "every night for dinner, we had a big ol' chunk of dirt"
- Style parody of Aerosmith.
"Taco Grande" (Mejia, Warren, Yankovic) - 3:44
- Parody of Gerardo's "Rico Suave", about a fictional mexican restaurant
"Airline Amy" (Yankovic) - 3:50
- About an airline stewardess the singer adores
"The Plumbing Song" (Farian, Nail, Warren, Yankovic) - 4:05
- Parody of Milli Vanilli's "Baby Don't Forget My Number" and "Blame It On the Rain", suggesting a fictional plumber to a friend
"You Don't Love Me Anymore" (Yankovic) - 4:01
- Ballad, about a girlfriend who did numerous exaggerated things to the singer and his obliviousness to their extent
"Bite Me" [CD only bonus track] - ~0:05
- Five seconds of cacophony, played after 10 minutes of silence between this track and "You Don't Love Me Anymore." Inspired by Nevermind's hidden track, "Endless, Nameless", Al wanted a way to scare listeners who neglect to turn the CD off. This track was present in the CD version of this album, but not the cassette version.