Three months later, on May 24, 1989, Yankovic recorded three more originals. The first of these, "Attack of the Radioactive Hamsters from a Planet Near Mars", is a rock song about a number of mutated hamsters terrorizing Earth. The second original song, "The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota", is a folk ballad about a family road trip to a tourist location in Minnesota. Musically, the song was inspired both by the book "Roadside America", which "featured all the campy places around the country that one could possibly visit", as well as the music of Harry Chapin and Gordon Lightfoot, which Yankovic described as "storyteller songs, sprawling narratives". The final original song recorded for the album was "Generic Blues", Yankovic's attempt to write "the ultimate blues song". After the release of the song, B.B. King listed it as one of his top ten favorite blues songs.