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Posted: March 24 2011 at 17:23

Steel Panther has some humorous stuff.

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Posted: March 24 2011 at 18:44

Billy Ray Cirus parody by Weird Al.

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Posted: March 24 2011 at 18:51

Weird Al mimics Zappa. Does this qualify as a parody?

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Posted: March 24 2011 at 19:00

The Persuasions sing Zappa

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Posted: March 24 2011 at 19:05

Zappa plays Zeppelin

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Posted: March 24 2011 at 19:10

As much as I enjoy Weird Al's song parodies, I believe his style or genre parodies are often overlooked. Some of the best include "Dare To Be Stupid" (Devo style parody), "Mr. Popeil" (B-52's style parody), "One More Minute" (doowop parody) and my personal favorite, "The Biggest Ball Of Twine In Minnesota" (Harry Chapin style parody - it kinda resembles "30,000 Pounds Of Bananas").

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Posted: March 24 2011 at 19:33

zappaholic wrote:

As much as I enjoy Weird Al's song parodies, I believe his style or genre parodies are often overlooked. Some of the best include "Dare To Be Stupid" (Devo style parody), "Mr. Popeil" (B-52's style parody), "One More Minute" (doowop parody) and my personal favorite, "The Biggest Ball Of Twine In Minnesota" (Harry Chapin style parody - it kinda resembles "30,000 Pounds Of Bananas").

Seems to be a lot from the guy I haven't heard yet. "Dare To Be Stupid" is classic.

Anything by Dread Zeppelin is Great too.

http://www.dreadzeppelin.com

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Posted: March 24 2011 at 20:07

Anyone know of any funny prog?

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=77000&PID=4106886#4106886

And is this guy (pdimeglio) in the forums?

King Crimson - Happy Family

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Posted: March 24 2011 at 22:09

Weird al - Bedrock Anthem

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Posted: March 24 2011 at 22:31

Butthole Surfers - American Woman

Could be considered a parody but I think it's a cover version.

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Posted: March 24 2011 at 22:36

Little Fyodor - This Diamond Ring

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Posted: March 25 2011 at 02:55

No one's mentioned The Tubes? Good!

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Posted: March 25 2011 at 05:19

I know quite a number of parodies, but my vote of the best one goes to the track 'Monsters Of Schmock' by the Rodgau Monotones on their album Silberhochzeit, where they take the mick out of songs like Smoke on the Water and some AC/DC track I can't remember the name of now.

It's done in perfect lounge-jazz shoo-bee-doo slimy crooner-voice style. Absolutely nails it!

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Posted: March 25 2011 at 06:39

Pastor Rex Cat wrote:

Butthole Surfers - American Woman

Could be considered a parody but I think it's a cover version.

Not so much a cover or a parody, more of a deconstruction.

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Posted: March 25 2011 at 17:22

richardh wrote:

No one's mentioned The Tubes? Good!

I think The Tubes are very capable of doing parodies but they are much more satirical. They did a riotous Beatles cover on the Live album; "I Saw Her Standing There" to accompany the great punk satire "I Was A Punk Before You Where A Punk".

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Posted: March 25 2011 at 17:34

zappaholic wrote:

Pastor Rex Cat wrote:

Butthole Surfers - American Woman

Could be considered a parody but I think it's a cover version.

Not so much a cover or a parody, more of a deconstruction.

Yah, I see what you mean. Kind of along the line of Plunderphonics perhaps.

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Posted: March 26 2011 at 21:54

The Sex Presleys

and The Dread Kennedys

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Posted: March 29 2011 at 17:20

Unless I overlooked something in this thread, I don't recall Bohenian Polka being mentioned.

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Posted: March 29 2011 at 17:28

Happy April Fools people!

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Posted: March 29 2011 at 17:53

How could I forget Pat Boone's Heavy Metal Favorites?! Especially when I own a copy of this!

It's titled "No More Mr. Nice Guy / In A Metal Mood".

Cover songs actually but quite fun to listen to. Featuring Slash nd Dweezil Zappa among others.

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