UHF - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack And Other Stuff

UHF - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack And Other Stuff
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Album by "Weird Al" Yankovic
Released 1989
Recorded 1988
Genre Comedy
Length ?? min ?? sec
Record label Rock 'n Roll
Producer Rick Derringer
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"Weird Al" Yankovic Chronology
Even Worse
(1988)
UHF
(1989)
Off The Deep End
(1992)

UHF - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack And Other Stuff (1989), sometimes referred to simply as UHF, is the soundtrack to the comedy cult film UHF, by "Weird Al" Yankovic. The album featured many music cuts from the movie as well as some of the commercials ("Spatula City") and other parody bits ("Gandhi II"). The album also featured new original material like "The Biggest Ball Of Twine In Minnesota" which brought the running order up to album length.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Money For Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies" - 3:11
  2. "Gandhi II" - 1:00
  3. "Attack Of The Radioactive Hamsters From A Planet Near Mars" - 3:28
    • Rock song about a number of mutated hamsters terrorizing the planet
  4. "Isle Thing" - 3:37
  5. "The Hot Rocks Polka" - 4:50
    • A polka medley of....
      • "Brown Sugar",
      • "You Can't Always Get What You Want",
      • "Honkey Tonk Women",
      • "Under My Thumb",
      • "Ruby Tuesday",
      • "Sympathy For The Devil",
      • "It's Only Rock 'n' Roll",
      • "Miss You",
      • "Shattered",
      • "Let's Spend The Night Together", and
      • "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction".
  6. "UHF" - 5:09
    • Rock song; title theme to the movie. This is the second longest version, the longest being in the movie itself, and the shortest being released on later albums such as Greatest Hits, Volume II.
  7. "Let Me Be Your Hog" - 0:16
    • Rock snippet, heard in the movie as Uncle Harvey lounges in his pool.
  8. "She Drives Like Crazy" - 3:42
  9. "Generic Blues" - 4:34
    • Blues-style song with deliberately uninspired lyrics
  10. "Spatula City" - 1:07
    • Skit: commercial for spatula outlet store
  11. "Fun Zone" - 1:45
    • Theme to Stanley Spadowski's Clubhouse, the main show-within-a-show in the movie. Originally written for failed SNL replacement Welcome to the Fun Zone, this song is played at the beginning of every Weird Al concert.
  12. "Spam" - 2:59
    • Parody of R.E.M.'s "Stand", about the canned luncheon meat SPAM
  13. "The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota" - 6:50

Personnel

Production

  • Producer: Rick Derringer
  • Engineers: Daryll Dobson, Tony Papa
  • Assistant engineer: Jamey Dell, Bill Malina
  • Arranger: "Weird Al" Yankovic

Charts

Album

Year Chart Position
1989 The Billboard 200 146
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