It doesn’t include “First World Problems,” which was very much a sort of song The Pixies would have written in terms of the music style.

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    That’s because a lot of these are “style parodies” where he parodies the style of a certain band.

    Everything You Know Is Wrong is famously a style parody of They Might Be Giants.

    Once you hear the style you can’t unhear it. He nails TMBG uncannily.

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        A fair number of the original artists have been outlasted by Al, but I deeply wish we could get an album of them covering Weird Al’s style covers. I think TMBG would be up for it, and I suspect you could get Trent Reznor to cover “Germs.”