Editing Off the Deep End (section)

===Originals===
On June 6, 1990, recording for ''Off the Deep End'' officially began at Santa Monica Sound Recorders, in [[Santa Monica, California]].<ref>{{Citation|last=Yankovic|first=Alfred |publisher = [[Volcano Records]] | title = Off the Deep End | work = 'Weird Al' Yankovic Official Limited Edition Trading Cards| number = 45|year=2013}}</ref> The first recording session started with "Airline Amy".<ref name="recordingdates"/> These recording sessions marked the first time Yankovic self-produced his songs, after six albums with [[Rick Derringer]].<ref name="otdeliner">{{cite AV media notes |title=Off the Deep End |others=[["Weird Al" Yankovic]] |year=1992 |type=CD liner notes |publisher=[[Scotti Brothers Records]] |id=72392 75256-2}}</ref><ref name=aa1998n/> The producer and musician had parted ways because Derringer found that Yankovic would not listen to his input, and Yankovic came to realize that he could do most of the production work himself. Subsequent studio albums would be produced by Yankovic.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Gallagher, Marriott, Derringer & Trower: Their Lives and Music|first=Dan|last=Muise|date=2002|publisher=Hal Leonard|isbn=9780634029561|page=218|quote=Rick Derringer: So I was becoming less and less infatuated because Al wouldn't listen to my input, my direction. He really wanted it to be slicker. And he wouldn't allow me to make it less slick in order to make it less funny. And the whole image of the novelty producer I did not like at all.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Gallagher, Marriott, Derringer & Trower: Their Lives and Music|first=Dan|last=Muise|date=2002|publisher=Hal Leonard|isbn=9780634029561|page=218|quote='Weird Al' Yankovic: It was certainly nothing personal and it was certainly no reflection on his talent as a producer. It just got to the point where I felt like I could hold the reins by myself.}}</ref> In regards to this split, Yankovic said: "We [i.e. Yankovic and his band] had a great run with Rick, he's a terrific guy{{emdash}}but I had become more and more of a control freak over the years, and I'd finally gotten to the point in my recording career where I felt that I could capably hold the reins all by myself."<ref name=aa1998n>{{Cite web| url = http://weirdal.com/archives/miscellaneous/ask-al/#1198| title = 'Ask Al' Q&As for November 1998| access-date = June 26, 2010| last = Yankovic| first = Alfred M.| author-link = "Weird Al" Yankovic|date=May 1999| work = The Official "Weird Al" Yankovic Web Site}}</ref> By late 1990 five originals—"Airline Amy", "Trigger Happy", "When I Was Your Age", "[[You Don't Love Me Anymore ("Weird Al" Yankovic song)|You Don't Love Me Anymore]]", and "Waffle King"—were recorded.<ref name="recordingdates">{{Cite web| url = http://weirdal.com/archives/miscellaneous/recording-dates/ | title = Recording Dates | access-date = March 3, 2017 | last = Yankovic | first = Alfred M. | author-link = "Weird Al" Yankovic |date=November 1998 | work = The Official "Weird Al" Yankovic Web Site}}</ref>
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"You Don't Love Me Anymore" was one of the last original songs recorded during the 1990 sessions.<ref name="recordingdates"/> The song is written as a soft acoustic [[ballad]]. However, the lyrics are of a—literally—destructive relationship between Yankovic and an unnamed girl.<ref name="praitb"/> Although they were formerly in love, the "flames died down" and they are no longer passionate—in fact the girl hates Yankovic to such an extent that she repeatedly attempts to kill him. In 1992, when the album was finally released, Yankovic desired to release the song as a single. His record label, Scotti Brothers, allowed it under the stipulation that the music video be a parody of another music video.<ref name="setlist">{{cite news|title = Set List: 'Weird Al' Yankovic|first = Nathan|last = Rabin|author-link = Nathan Rabin|url = https://www.avclub.com/weird-al-yankovic-1798226810|newspaper = [[The A.V. Club]]|publisher = [[The Onion|The Onion, Inc]]|location = [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]]|date = June 29, 2011|access-date = June 29, 2011|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110701100237/http://www.avclub.com/articles/weird-al-yankovic,58244/|archive-date = July 1, 2011|url-status = live|df = mdy}}</ref> "You Don't Love Me Anymore" was subsequently released to radio on June 19, 1992.<ref name="allmusicyou"/> While the song was an original composition, the video was a parody of "[[More Than Words]]" by [[Extreme (band)|Extreme]].<ref name="setlist"/> Yankovic later explained that when the song was released, many people erroneously believed it was a parody of "More Than Words", and thus, Yankovic crafted the music video to be a parody of the song.<ref name="WashingtonPost">{{Cite news | last = Harrington| first = Richard| date = June 26, 1992| title = Weird Al in Parody Paradise; He's Hit a Nirvana With His Latest and He's Bringing It Here| url = https://www.washingtonpost.com | newspaper = The Washington Post| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20010208221807/http://www.al-oholicsanonymous.com/interviews/washpost.html|archive-date = 8 February 2001| access-date = June 27, 2010}}</ref> The single received moderate radio attention, which surprised Yankovic, because he had always thought that radio stations "usually just go for the parodies".<ref name="praitb"/>

One of the original songs recorded in the 1990 sessions was "Waffle King". However, when Yankovic resumed recording in 1992, he recorded a new original called "I Was Only Kidding".<ref name="recordingdates"/> Originally, "Waffle King" was supposed to appear on ''Off the Deep End''. However, by the time the recording of the parodies for this album began, Al had written all the original songs that were to appear on his next album, ''[[Alapalooza]]''. Because he was concerned that one of the jokes from the song "I Was Only Kidding" might be dated by the time his next album would finally be released—a line that references the movie ''[[Wayne's World (film)|Wayne's World]]'': "I really love you... not!"—Yankovic included "I Was Only Kidding" on ''Off the Deep End'' in place of "Waffle King". "Waffle King" was instead used as the b-side of the "[[Smells Like Nirvana]]" single and would later resurface on ''Alapalooza''.<ref name="wafflewaffle">{{Cite web| url = http://weirdal.com/archives/miscellaneous/ask-al/#0396| title = 'Ask Al' Q&As for March/April, 1996| access-date = June 26, 2010| last = Yankovic| first = Alfred M.| author-link = "Weird Al" Yankovic|date=March–April 1996| work = The Official "Weird Al" Yankovic Web Site}}</ref>

The album also contains a [[hidden track]] at the end called "Bite Me". The "song", which consists of several seconds of loud music and Yankovic screaming, appears after 10 minutes of silence following "You Don't Love Me Anymore". According to Yankovic, the song was supposed to "come on [...] and scare you to death".<ref name="robo"/> Later pressings of ''Off the Deep End'' by [[Volcano Records|Volcano]] and pressings outside the USA took away the hidden track and silence.<ref name="june1999">{{Cite web| url = http://weirdal.com/archives/miscellaneous/ask-al/#0699| title = 'Ask Al' Q&As for June, 1999| access-date = June 26, 2010| last = Yankovic| first = Alfred M.| author-link = "Weird Al" Yankovic|date=June 1999| work = The Official "Weird Al" Yankovic Web Site}}</ref> The track is a nod to Nirvana: pressings of ''[[Nevermind]]'' featured the hidden track [[Endless, Nameless (song)|"Endless, Nameless"]].<ref>Berkenstadt, Jim; Cross, Charles. ''Classic Rock Albums: Nevermind''. Schirmer, 1998. {{ISBN|0-02-864775-0}}</ref>