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Topic: Favourite Parodies? Posted: July 04 2010 at 04:46
Bob Rivers' AC/DC parody "Dirty Deeds Done With Sheep" often cracks me up with the title alone, I don't even need the song.
Yours?
I know Weird Al will probably eat this thread alive (and he deserves to, he's dominated this genre for years- remarkably so, usually it's such a novelty thing, it's amazing how he's stayed popular and fresh and the guy has revealed a remarkable talent for rap in the past few years) but most fans of parody already know him inside out so don't be afraid to turn us on to lesser known gems :)
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Posted: July 05 2010 at 07:02
How about Robert Calvert's parody of the Beach Boys' "Barbara Ann" on his album "Lucky Leif and the Longships"? "I guess you might call us barbarians. Barbarians ba-ba, Barbarians, barbarians, ba-ba, Barbarians".
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Posted: July 05 2010 at 07:16
National Lampoon did an album called Goodbye Pop that included a 15 minute 'art rock suite' that is a hilarious send up of prog with recognizable references to Yes, Focus, Tull and others.
People involved included Paul Schaeffer and a couple guys who went on to do Spinal Tap. In fact its pretty obvious this song/skit was the inspiration to make Spinal Tap.
The liner notes to the song are funny and say something like there are 15 bands wrong with this song, can you name them?
Anyone else ever hear this great satire?
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Posted: July 05 2010 at 11:05
John Lennon parodying Paul McCartney in Let It Be. On the rooftop, at the end, he sings:
"Sweet Loretta Fartin' thought she was a cleaner, but she was a frying pan."
I saw a comic on television play "Stairway to Heaven" and substitute the words from the theme to Gilligan's Island. It's hilarious - and it works. Try it!
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Posted: July 05 2010 at 16:35
The Ruttles-the Beatles parody done by Neil Innes, who did all the original songs for Monty Python. There was even a mockumentary done about them. Fantastic stuff!!!
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Posted: July 05 2010 at 16:38
yanch wrote:
The Ruttles-the Beatles parody done by Neil Innes, who did all the original songs for Monty Python. There was even a mockumentary done about them. Fantastic stuff!!!
Awesome. Which brings to mind immediately the This isSpinal Tap material.
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Posted: July 05 2010 at 16:55
Ronnie Pilgrim wrote:
yanch wrote:
The Ruttles-the Beatles parody done by Neil Innes, who did all the original songs for Monty Python. There was even a mockumentary done about them. Fantastic stuff!!!
Awesome. Which brings to mind immediately the This isSpinal Tap material.
One of the best, if not the best!! Too many great bits to go into!
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Posted: July 05 2010 at 18:45
Albertos Y Lost Trios Paranoias were pretty big towards the end of the 70s, touring with Hawkwind and later headlining with support from The Police and The Stranglers. Their parodies were in the British tradition of The Bonzo Dog Do Da Band (rather than the Baron Knights or The Grumbleweeds) so weren't straight rips from well known tunes but original works in genre styles, and for that they take a while to sink in who exactly they are lampooning, but it does mean that (unlike other comedy parodies) you can listen to them more than once. Their most famous release was the Snuff Rock EP that lampooned The Pistols, The Clash and The Dammed, but they also had a pop at Acid Rock, Frank Zappa, Barry White, Demis Roussos, Lou Reed, Bob Marley & Prince Far I, Pink Floyd & Hawkwind, Status Quo, Abba and Southern Boogie.
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Posted: July 05 2010 at 22:17
Dean: Isn't that something that was decided retroactively to defend a lot of the silliness on it?
Also worth mentioning is The Lonely Island, a parody hip-hop group who've done several hilarious songs. My favourite is Like A Boss. (But yes that's Justin Timberlake in Dick In A Box and T-Pain in I'm On A Boat.)
Also, hip-hop fans might like to check out Fear Of A Black Hat, which is a rap movie in the vein of Spinal Tap.
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Posted: July 05 2010 at 22:25
^ Fear of a Black Hat is a rip on NWA, if you were following NWA when they first came out, the movie is deadly accurate, even copying TV interviews and promo posing they did.
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Posted: July 05 2010 at 22:32
Well yeah the name of the group in Fear Of A Black Hat is NWH (Niggaz With Hats). I always thought Tasty Taste (one of the main characters) was a hilarious rapper name.
There's another rap parody movie of a similar scope called CB4 but FOABH is generally agreed to be better.
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Posted: July 06 2010 at 04:19
BaldFriede wrote:
How about Robert Calvert's parody of the Beach Boys' "Barbara Ann" on his album "Lucky Leif and the Longships"? "I guess you might call us barbarians. Barbarians ba-ba, Barbarians, barbarians, ba-ba, Barbarians".
Robert Calvert was an insane genius, and a brilliant singer. I've never heard Dave Brock sing Hawkwind's Spirit of the Age and Quark, Strangeness and Charm with as much humour and wit as Bob did.
As for parodies, I think he was making fun of Kraftwerk's Autobahn (1975) or Trans Europa Express (1977) in his song The Luminous Green Glow Of The Dials Of The Dashboard (At Night) (1981)
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