my older brother introduced me to weird al & would burn cd's for me to listen to. i've actually heard most of weird al's parodies before the original songs, and whenever i hear the originals, i always think of weird al's version first lmao. i remember being stunned by the hardware store song though (one of his rarer originals) because of the really long part where he lists off a bunch of tools and homeware appliances lol. those goofy songs were one of the few things that kept me together way back then haha.