2. Weird Al Yankovic, “Buy Me a Condo”
From 1984’s 3-D, the same album that gave us the classic “Eat It,” this early “Weird” Al gem is told from the point of view of a Ras making the transition from yard life to a yuppified existence in a condo, complete with a Cusinart, a “T-shirt with the alligator on,” and Jackson Browne records. “Gonna cut off mi dreadlocks, throw away all mi ganja, I’ll have a tupperware party, maybe join me a health spa...”