Favourite Parodies?

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Topic: Favourite Parodies?

Posted By: Textbook
Subject: Favourite Parodies?
Date 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 By: chopper
Date Posted: July 05 2010 at 06:39

Well, talking of AC/DC I'd have to mention Hayseed Dixies versions of various Accer Daccer numbers, "Back in Black" on the banjo is hilarious.

Posted By: BaldFriede
Date 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 By: Easy Money
Date 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?

Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: July 05 2010 at 07:44

I like Mörglbl's cleaver parodies on "Highway to Hell" and "Smoke on the Water".

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Posted By: Ronnie Pilgrim
Date 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!

Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: July 05 2010 at 11:11

Like A Surgeon

Honestly Weird Al does practically all of the parodies I listen to.

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Posted By: yanch
Date 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!!!

Posted By: Ronnie Pilgrim
Date 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 is Spinal Tap material.

Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: July 05 2010 at 16:52

Posted By: yanch
Date 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 is Spinal Tap material.

One of the best, if not the best!! Too many great bits to go into!

Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: July 05 2010 at 17:47

Yes, The Rutles. Especially Piggy In The Middle, which I couldn't find a movieclip on youtube.

Does We're Only in it For the Money count? And how about Kraftwerk's: fahren, fahren, fahren... instead of the Beach Boys fun, fun, fun...?

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Posted By: Dean
Date 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 By: Dean
Date Posted: July 05 2010 at 18:47

..of course a lot of The Beatles double white album was in the form of parody.

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Posted By: Textbook
Date 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.

Posted By: Easy Money
Date 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.

Posted By: Textbook
Date 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.

Posted By: Falx
Date 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) Big smile

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Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: July 10 2010 at 15:47

A new one, a must watch for all fathers. Basically the best rap song ever too.

Posted By: Klogg
Date Posted: July 10 2010 at 18:54

Well, it's a cover. But with Residents! So it's funny like a parodie

Posted By: peart_lee_lifeson
Date Posted: March 24 2011 at 17:23

Steel Panther has some humorous stuff.

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Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 24 2011 at 18:44

Billy Ray Cirus parody by Weird Al.

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Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 24 2011 at 18:51

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

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 24 2011 at 19:00

The Persuasions sing Zappa

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 24 2011 at 19:05

Zappa plays Zeppelin

Posted By: zappaholic
Date 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 By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date 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" rel="nofollow - http://www.dreadzeppelin.com

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date 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" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=77000&PID=4106886#4106886

And is this guy ( http://www.youtube.com/user/pdimeglio" rel="nofollow - pdimeglio ) in the forums?

King Crimson - Happy Family

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 24 2011 at 22:09

Weird al - Bedrock Anthem

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 24 2011 at 22:31

Butthole Surfers - American Woman

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

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 24 2011 at 22:36

Little Fyodor - This Diamond Ring

http://www.littlefyodor.com/" rel="nofollow - http://www.littlefyodor.com/

Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 25 2011 at 02:55

No one's mentioned The Tubes? Good!

Posted By: npjnpj
Date 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!

Posted By: zappaholic
Date 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 By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date 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".

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date 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.

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 26 2011 at 21:54

The Sex Presleys

and The Dread Kennedys

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 29 2011 at 17:20

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

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 29 2011 at 17:28

Happy April Fools people!

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date 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.

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 29 2011 at 17:56

Now THIS is a parody!!! Jocko Bozo by The Firemen.

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 29 2011 at 19:03

Blowfly and Jello Biafra - "R. Kelly In Cambodia". Dead Kennedys parody

For Mature Audience!

Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: March 30 2011 at 03:14

Has there ever been a better parody of the Beach Boys as the second of these three tracks? ((Sorry, they were uploaded as a bunch by someone else; skip to 4:25 for the song I mean)."Barbarians - bah, bah, barbarians". Yes indeeed..
The thiird track is a nice parody too, this time of a shanty. The whole album is full of parodies, including a parody of avantgarde music..

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Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 30 2011 at 12:35

A classic from the late, great George Carlin.

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 30 2011 at 12:42

The Happy Birthday Variations of Victor Borge. Parts 1 and 2.

Attention!: Requires uninterruped listening.

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 30 2011 at 12:48

This has to be a parody by Cheech & Chong.

Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: March 30 2011 at 12:52

Ooops, forgot to add the video I meant:

Skip to 4:25 to hear the best Beach Boys Parody ever.

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Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 30 2011 at 13:30

BaldFriede wrote:

Ooops, forgot to add the video I meant:

Skip to 3:25 to hear the best Beach Boys Parody ever.

Thanks! lol.

Hey! I am impressed! lol.

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 30 2011 at 13:39

Gwar plays Alice Cooper

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 30 2011 at 14:04

I consider this a complimentary satire of gospel music by Kiss.

With your choice of masked...

...or unmasked.

Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 30 2011 at 16:29

^ for me that was just a terrible mangling of a perfectly good song although not as horrible as this

this is how it should be done

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: March 30 2011 at 18:01

richardh wrote:

this is how it should be done

An old favorite band from way back! Thanks for posting this one.

And speaking of The Sweet; check out this Who cover. Just like the original, it's about a boy being dressed up as a girl!

Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 31 2011 at 02:20

^ Yep same for me. They also did a very acceptable Beatles cover

they also had their proggy moments of course

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: April 02 2011 at 20:41

A 1960s flower power satire by Jefferson Hankerchief.

Serious political activism from Country Joe McDonald.

Warning: Profanity

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: April 02 2011 at 21:33

A satire of Pop Songs by Suicidal Tendencies. I LOVE the Suicidals.

Warning: Profanity

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: April 02 2011 at 21:43

This has got to be the cleanest one from The Mentors I could find.

For Mature Audience

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: April 02 2011 at 21:47

Steel Panther with "Death To All Butt Metal". I think.

Warning: Profanity

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: April 02 2011 at 22:33

An interesting and amusing one from way, way, WAY back yet dealing with a serious topic.

Robert Crumb and His Cheap Suit Serenaders with a cat song.

For Mature Audience.

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: April 02 2011 at 23:00

A Mad Magazine record called "Makin' Out".

Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: April 02 2011 at 23:08

Lonely Island in this thread? Really? They're my second least favourite band ON EARTH. Oh well, opinions I guess.

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: April 02 2011 at 23:15

Barnes & Barnes: Party in My Pants

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: April 02 2011 at 23:21

Originally posted by DisgruntledPorcupine

DisgruntledPorcupine wrote:

Lonely Island in this thread? Really? They're my second least favourite band ON EARTH. Oh well, opinions I guess.

Which band?

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: April 02 2011 at 23:43

DisgruntledPorcupine wrote:

Lonely Island in this thread? Really? They're my second least favourite band ON EARTH. Oh well, opinions I guess.

Wait! Lonely Island is the name of a group, I understand now.

Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: April 02 2011 at 23:56

Textbook wrote:

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.

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: April 09 2011 at 22:55

Nestor Pistor "Winestoned Plowboy".

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: April 09 2011 at 23:10

Maclean & Maclean "The 9 Days of Christmas".

Warning: Profanity

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: April 19 2011 at 17:15

"Kittens On The Web". A parody of Metallica's "Enter Sandman".

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: April 19 2011 at 17:53

"Weird Al" Yankovic "Dare To Be Stupid"

Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: April 19 2011 at 19:35

Weird Al has done some funny parodies, but my top one is Zappa's Were Only In It For The Money. It was a parody of style more than a direct parody of songs.

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Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: April 19 2011 at 20:31

Slartibartfast wrote:

Weird Al has done some funny parodies, but my top one is Zappa's Were Only In It For The Money. It was a parody of style more than a direct parody of songs.

That's an amazing album and it's a satire of the 1960s!

Flower Punk is done in the style of "Hey Joe", or so I have read from either The Real Frank Zappa Book

or The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play.

A poke at psychedelia

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: April 19 2011 at 21:19

Warning: Profanity

A parody of gospel music and a SubGenius favorite by John Butler.

Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: April 20 2011 at 06:40

Not that I don't like Yankovich parodies:

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Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: April 20 2011 at 16:34

Speaking of Mr. Yankovic, here's his latest - for which his target has refused permission:

Edit: apparently, the management of the parodied artist has caved, and the song will be on Al's next album as planned. Behold, the power of the Intertubez.

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Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: April 21 2011 at 20:00

Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain's rendition of that classic Isaac Hayes movie theme from 'Shaft' played live at Cambridge Folk Festival

Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: April 21 2011 at 23:04

Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: April 22 2011 at 09:38

I miss Corky and the Juiced Pigs

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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: May 07 2011 at 19:05

Page 4 and no Half Man Half Biscuit yet?

soon remedied:

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Posted By: Garden of Dreams
Date Posted: May 08 2011 at 11:45

Weird Al is obviously great. I love Smells Like Nirvana.

I'm surprised no one has said this: Jethro Tull's Thick As A Brick

Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: May 08 2011 at 12:00

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Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: May 09 2011 at 00:50

Warning: May cause abdominal rupture from excessive hard laughter!

John Ashcroft "Let The Eagle Soar backwards (Oh Sweet Evil)"

And he's now Blackwater's new ethics chief.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/05/blackwaters-new-ethics-chief-john-ashcroft/" rel="nofollow - http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/05/blackwaters-new-ethics-chief-john-ashcroft/

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: May 09 2011 at 01:22

Orange Hat "The Castaway Song - Led Zeppelin meets Gilligan's Island"

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: May 09 2011 at 01:27

A Summertime Doors parody.

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: May 09 2011 at 18:37

The Capitol Steps.

http://www.youtube.com/user/CapitolSteps" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/user/CapitolSteps

Posted By: Pastor Rex Cat
Date Posted: July 11 2011 at 20:04

A Disney Radio version of Cannibal Corpse's Hammer Smashed Face.

The artist is Andy Rehfeldt whom I don't know much at all about at this moment.

Hilarious!

http://www.youtube.com/user/AndyRehfeldt" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/user/AndyRehfeldt

Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: July 11 2011 at 21:45

At the beginning of side two of Atomic Rooster's album Made In England is "Intro", which is a brief parody of a bible thumping minister of the evangelical variety bemoaning the world

Chris Farlowe-"In this day and age,wo, there's lots of strife in the world, and i've got a little message that i want everybody to hear-please don't fight and fuss and work" he continues, and then the plug is pulled soon after, sounding like the song slowing down to nothing

So much for the fire and brimstone minister!

Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: July 11 2011 at 21:46

has this been posted yet?