many of the songs on the album, such as "Dog Eat Dog", "Addicted to Spuds", and "Christmas at Ground Zero", went on to become fan favorites and live staples. Two of the album's tracks, "Living with a Hernia" and "Addicted to Spuds", appeared on Yankovic's first greatest hits album (1988), "Christmas at Ground Zero" appeared on the second volume (1994). In addition, the 1994 box set Permanent Record: Al in the Box contained five of the album's songs: "Addicted to Spuds", "Dog Eat Dog", "Here's Johnny", "Living with a Hernia", and "Christmas at Ground Zero". Only "Dog Eat Dog", however, appeared on Yankovic's 2009 Essential collection, although the 3.0 version contained "Living with a Hernia". Commercial performance Polka Party! was released October 21, 1986. After it was released, the album peaked at No. 177 on the Billboard 200. Compared to Yankovic's previous albums—Dare to Be Stupid peaked at No. 50 and In 3-D peaked at No. 17—Polka Party! was considered a commercial disappointment for the comedian. The album was the lowest-charting studio album released by Yankovic and is one of his few studio albums not to be certified either Gold or Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The others include the soundtrack to his film UHF (1989) and Poodle Hat (2003). Yankovic was dismayed by the album's lackluster reception. He noted that he "thought it was the end of [his] career". Yankovic explained that "I figured I'd peaked with 'Eat It' and 'Like a Surgeon' and now people were slowly forgetting about me and I was well on my way to obscurity." However, Yankovic's next album, Even Worse, would resurrect his career and become his best-selling album at the time; the experience led Yankovic to realize that "careers have peaks and valleys, and whenever I go through the rough times, another peak might be right around the corner." Track listing Personnel Credits adapted from LP liner notes. Band members "Weird Al" Yankovic – lead and background vocals, accordion, keyboards, glockenspiel Jim West – guitars, background vocals Steve Jay – bass guitar, banjo, background vocals Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz – drums, percussion Additional musicians Pat Regan – synthesizers Rick Derringer – guitars Lisa Popeil – background vocals The Waters Sisters – background vocals Warren Luening – trumpet Bill Anderson – tenor saxophone Gary Herbig – baritone saxophone Joel Peskin – clarinet Tommy Johnson – tuba Jim Cox – pedal