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Polka Party! is Weird Al's fourth studio album released in 1986. The album sold terribly, and is generally considered by his fans his worst album. It nearly destroyed Weird Al's career as well. The album created 2 singles titled Living With A Hernia and Christmas At Ground Zero. The album was originally released on Vinyl, Cassette and CD making it the first first Weird Al record to have a CD release in its release year with the last three albums being re-issued on CD later. The album was re-issued in 1999 on CD by the label Volcano Records.

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  • Polka Party! is Weird Al's fourth studio album released in 1986. The album sold terribly, and is generally considered by his fans his worst album. It nearly destroyed Weird Al's career as well. The album created 2 singles titled Living With A Hernia and Christmas At Ground Zero. The album was originally released on Vinyl, Cassette and CD making it the first first Weird Al record to have a CD release in its release year with the last three albums being re-issued on CD later. The album was re-issued in 1999 on CD by the label Volcano Records.
Length
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Extra
  • Original
  • Can be found here.
  • Intro is style parody of The Kinks, rest is original
  • Addicted to Love by Robert Palmer
  • Living In America by James Brown
  • Ruthless People by Mick Jagger
  • Style parody of Christmas Carols
  • Style parody of Talking Heads
  • Style parody of country love songs
  • Who's Johnny by EI DeBarge
Producer
Record Label
  • Rock 'n' Roll Records / Scotti Brothers
Name
  • Polka Party!
Genre
  • Comedy
writing credits
  • yes
imagewidth
  • 250(xsd:integer)
Title
Format
  • Vinyl, Cassette, CD
catalog no.
  • FZ 40520
Released
  • 1986-10-21(xsd:date)
Artist
  • Studio Album by "Weird Al" Yankovic
Recorded
  • April 1986 - September 1986
Writer
  • Yankovic
  • Dan Hartman, Charlie Midnight, "Weird Al" Yankovic
  • Daryl Hall, Mick Jagger, Dave Stewart, Yankovic
  • Peter Wolf, Ina Wolf, Yankovic
  • Robert Palmer, Yankovic
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  • Parody of
abstract
  • Polka Party! is Weird Al's fourth studio album released in 1986. The album sold terribly, and is generally considered by his fans his worst album. It nearly destroyed Weird Al's career as well. The album created 2 singles titled Living With A Hernia and Christmas At Ground Zero. The album was originally released on Vinyl, Cassette and CD making it the first first Weird Al record to have a CD release in its release year with the last three albums being re-issued on CD later. The album was re-issued in 1999 on CD by the label Volcano Records. Polka Party was a commercial failure. It received mixed reviews, and did not receive a Gold or Platinum award from the RIAA. The album only got a 177 spot on the Billboard 100 even with the single Living With A Hernia promoting it, with even the single not doing well in the charts. The music on Polka Party is made upon parodies and style parodies of pop and rock music of the 80s. The album also includes style parodies. There is five originals, 4 parodies and 1 polka song.
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