Editing Polka Party! (section)

===Originals===
On April 22, 1986, Yankovic began recording three new original songs for his next album: "Don't Wear Those Shoes", "One of Those Days", and "Dog Eat Dog".<ref name="recordingdates">{{Cite web| url = http://weirdal.com/archives/miscellaneous/recording-dates/ | title = Recording Dates | access-date = 7 September 2015 | last = Yankovic | first = Alfred M. | author-link = "Weird Al" Yankovic |date=December 2007 | work = The Official "Weird Al" Yankovic Web Site}}</ref> Although "Don't Wear Those Shoes" is an original composition, Yankovic admitted that the intro was inspired by the style of [[The Kinks]].<ref name="kinks">{{cite web| url= http://weirdal.com/archives/miscellaneous/ask-al/#1299| title = 'Ask Al' Q&As for December, 1999| access-date = June 30, 2010| last= Yankovic| first = Alfred M.| author-link = "Weird Al" Yankovic|date=December 1999| work = The Official "Weird Al" Yankovic Web Site}}</ref> Lyrically, the song is a plea by the singer to his wife not to not wear certain shoes which he cannot stand.<ref name=ppliner/> "One of Those Days" is a song detailing horrible things as if they were everyday annoyances. Each horrible thing escalates up to global annihilation while more mundane annoyances pop up at different times.<ref name=ppliner/>
[[File:Talking Heads band1.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Yankovic's song "Dog Eat Dog" served as a style parody of [[Talking Heads]] (pictured).|250px]]

{{Listen|filename=Dog Eat Dog Weird Al.ogg|title="Dog Eat Dog" (sample)|description="Dog Eat Dog", from Yankovic's 1986 album ''Polka Party!''. The sample illustrates the stylistic similarities between the song and the music of [[Talking Heads]].|format=[[Ogg]]}}

"Dog Eat Dog" is a style parody of [[Talking Heads]]. Described as a "tongue-in-cheek look at office life", the song was inspired by Yankovic's past experience of working in the mailroom and traffic department at the [[Westwood One (1976–2011)|Westwood One]] radio station.<ref name="praitb"/> He noted, "At first I thought [the job] was kinda cool that I had a phone and a desk and a little cubicle to call my own, but after a while I felt like my soul had been sucked out of me."<ref name="praitb">{{cite AV media notes|title = Permanent Record: Al in the Box|others = [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]|year = 1994|url = http://dmdb.org/al/booklet.html|first = Barret|last = Hansen|author-link = Dr. Demento|type = liner|publisher = [[Scotti Brothers Records]]|location = [[California]], [[United States]]}}</ref> The song features a line directly parodying the Talking Heads song "[[Once in a Lifetime (Talking Heads song)|Once In a Lifetime]]": "Sometimes I tell myself, this is not my beautiful stapler/Sometimes I tell myself, this is not my beautiful chair!" This mirrors a similar line in the Talking Heads song: "You may tell yourself, this is not my beautiful house/You may tell yourself, this is not my beautiful wife".<ref>{{cite web|title='Weird Al' Yankovic's Dog Eat Dog Sample of Talking Head's Once in a Lifetime|url=http://www.whosampled.com/sample/view/12420/%22Weird%20Al%22%20Yankovic-Dog%20Eat%20Dog_Talking%20Heads-Once%20in%20a%20Lifetime/|publisher=[[WhoSampled]]|access-date=April 24, 2013}}</ref>

On April 23, Yankovic recorded "Christmas at Ground Zero".<ref name="recordingdates"/> The song, "a cheery little tune about death, destruction and the end of the world" was the result of [[Scotti Brothers Records]]' insistence that Yankovic release a Christmas record.<ref name="praitb"/> After Yankovic presented the song to his label, they relented, because it was "a little different from what they were expecting."<ref name="praitb"/> After the song's release, some radio stations banned the record, a move that Yankovic attributes to "most people [not wanting] to hear about nuclear annihilation during the holiday season."<ref name="praitb"/> Following the [[September 11 attacks]], when the general term "ground zero" was co-opted as a proper name for the [[World Trade Center site]] where two of those attacks took place, the disturbing lyrics caused this song to be banned largely from radio.<ref name="pizek">{{cite news|last=Pizke|first=Jeff|title=Season's Beatings |newspaper=[[Daily Herald (Arlington Heights)|Daily Herald]]|publisher=Paddock Publications|date=December 4, 2008}} Retrieved April 24, 2013.</ref><ref name="fisher">{{cite news|last=Fischer|first=Marc|title=On All-Christmas-Song Stations, Little is Sacred|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/23/AR2005122300303.html|access-date=April 24, 2013|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=December 25, 2005}}</ref> Yankovic wanted the song to receive a video, but due to budget reasons, his label did not agree. Yankovic, however, directed one himself which was mostly made up of stock footage, with a live action finale that was filmed in a run-down part of the [[Bronx, New York]] that "looked like a bomb had fallen on it."<ref name="pizek"/><ref name="DVD">{{cite AV media notes |title= "Weird Al" Yankovic: The Ultimate Video Collection |orig-year= 2003 |others= Jay Levey, "Weird Al" Yankoviv |publisher= Volcano Entertainment |id= 82876-53727-9 |year= 2003}}</ref>

The final original that was recorded was "Good Enough for Now", a country music pastiche about how the singer's lover, while not the best, will do for now.<ref name="recordingdates"/><ref name=ppliner/><ref name ="daily"/>