# This Is Comp: Weird Al's The Alternative Polka (1996), Tracks 1-6

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Podcast: [Discord and Rhyme: An Album Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/discord-and-rhyme-an-album-podcast-727978)
Published: 2026-06-09T09:00:00+00:00
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This week, we don our lederhosen and celebrate the return of our compilation series dissecting "Weird Al" Yankovic's polka medleys, on which he rounded up and lovingly lampooned the chart music of the day. Originally released on his 1996 album Bad Hair Day, "The Alternative Polka" was Al's attempt to catalog the emerging radio format of alternative rock, though the artists in this batch cover so much stylistic ground as to suggest that maybe, just maybe, the whole "alternative" label was just a marketing gimmick. Whether it's a real genre or not, we've finally reached the radio hits our hosts grew up listening to, which makes for a fun discussion with a healthy dose of '90s nostalgia.

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