Like a Top 40 Henny Youngman, "Weird Al" Yankovic's appeal seems to be as much about his semiheroic refusal to hang it the fuck up, already, as it is about his rec­ords - which, love 'em or hate 'em, never lack for targets. His latest batch of fish in a barrel sends up the paparazzi ("You just picked up some transvestite/Seconds later, it's up on the website," he chirps on "TMZ," a remake of Taylor Swift's "You Belong With Me"), online commerce (the Doors-biting "Craigslist") and Lady Gaga ("Perform This Way"). The jokes don't always relieve the earworm annoyingness of the Xeroxed tunes. Still, you can only hate so much on an accordion medley titled "Polka Face."

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“I Can See for Miles”

A foreboding accusation of lies and deception, "I Can See for Miles" was given a psychedelic hard-rock veneer by Pete Townshend's whiplash guitar riffs and Keith Moon's thundering drums. The song helped break the Who as stars in the United States, giving them a Top Ten hit in late 1967. "I swoon when I hear the sound," boasted Townshend in Rolling Stone. "The words, which aging senators have called 'drug oriented,' are about a jealous man with exceptionally good eyesight. Honest."