Notes
- Originally, Nickelback had given Yankovic permission to use their song "Photograph" in "Polkarama"; however, he was unable "to find a way to incorporate the song into where it didn't sound wedged in or tacked on", Al decided not to use it, although he still thanked Nickelback in the liner notes.
- T-Pain had also given Al permission to parody one of his songs, in this case "I'm N Luv (Wit A Stripper)" into "I'm in Love With the Skipper", a Gilligan's Island-themed song. However, Yankovic decided not to record it. T-Pain is also thanked in the liner notes. Yankovic performed the song in the parody medley during his Straight Outta Lynwood Tour.
- The numbers and letters on the album cover have several meanings: "NLY" are the initials of both Yankovic's daughter and his father. The number "27" is an in-joke with Yankovic's fans, but February 7 was also his mother's birthday. The license plate originally read "27 4LIFE" during the photo shoot.
- James Blunt also gave Yankovic permission to record the song "You're Pitiful", a parody of his hit "You're Beautiful", however Blunt's record label would not allow the release of the song in any form that could be profitable to Yankovic. However the song was still recorded and released, and if the record label had not prevented the release on the market it would have been a single instead of "White and Nerdy".
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“The night is itself sleep
And what goes on in it, the naming of the wind,
Our notes to each other, always repeated, always the same.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
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Married to immortal verse,
Such as the meeting soul may pierce
In notes with many a winding bout
Of linked sweetness long drawn out,
With wanton heed and giddy cunning,
The melting voice through mazes running,
Untwisting all the chains that tie
The hidden soul of harmony;”
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Of Attick tast, with Wine, whence we may rise
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He who of those delights can judge, and spare
To interpose them oft, is not unwise.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)