Who knows if Michael Stipe is a fan of Weird Al Yankovic, but both are marking thirty year milestones in 2013: Stipe, for one of his band’s seminal albums and the squeeze-box squeezing song satirist, who made a career out of lampooning MTV-era rock stars, for his first record.
Aside from the anniversary, R.E.M. and Weird Al have something else in common. As he is known to do, Bob the Paper Guy connects the dots on this weeks’ Total Recall.
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