Best Parody Music

[The Passenger]

Weird Al Yankovic is generally regarded as the most popular guy who does parody music.

what are some of your favourites from him or others??

My favourite from him is definately Amish Paradise (Coolio's Gangstas Paradise).

There is also quite a bit of other stuff out there which is credited to be him but isn't.

Favourite all time parody is Cats in the Kettle. To the tune of Cats in the Cradle.

Did you ever think when you eat chinese
It ain't pork or chicken but a fat siamese
yet the food tastes great so you don't complain
but that ain't chicken in your chicken chow mein
seems to me i ordered sweet n sour pork
but garfields on my fork
he's purring here on my fork

there's a cat in the kettle at the peking moon
the place where i eat every day at noon
they can feed you cat and you'll never know
once they rap it up in dough, boy

can't understand the second verse as well as the first. get on kazaa and you should be able to get a copy.

Two other good ones are "He got the wrong foot amputated" which is a very good parody of Offpsrings Come Out and Play. And Joan Osborne's What if god was one of us taken off to the tune of "what if god smoked cannabis"

any other good ones?

 

[sherb]

I don't have any of Wierd Al's stuff, so I can't really make any comparisons between his and other parody music.

However, I do have 439 Golden Greats by the Heebeegeebees. It was released in the early 80's and is a brilliant parody record, both in term of lyrics and also the music itself sounding extremely similar to the original artist.

It featured songs such as -
Meaningless Songs (Heebeegeebees)
Boring Song (Status Quid)
Dead Cicada (Beagles)
(Dancing) Up The Wall (Jack Michaelson)
Bird of Peace (Neil Dung, Bob Vylan, The Bland, Frank Sumatra, Dean Martian, Leonard Crowing, George Harrassing)

I think you get the idea!

My favourite was always Boring Song by Status Quid. While it may not be hard to parody Status Quo's songs and musical style, I loved the way this group did it. Here are the lyrics -

Boring song, boring song
We have to sing the same refrain
And the same refrain again
Of this boring song
Boring song

Another line, another line
One day maybe we will find
This boring song another line
Boring song
Another line
The other line, the other line
This is the other line
The other line, the other line
The other boring line
The other boring line, a line, a line, a line
A boring line

Second bit, second bit
The first bit we got tired of it
So we wrote the second bit of this
Boring song
The second bit

Final bit, final bit
Sounds just like the rest of it
But it is in fact the final bit
Of this boring song
The final bit

Another bit, another bit
Another final bit
Another bit, another bit
Another final bit
Another final boring bit, a bit, a bit
Another bit

Boring song, boring song, boring song

This is the end, this is the end, this is the end..............

Another end, another end, another end.....................

Oh not again
No not again
Please not again

(To put the final few verses in context, the song keeps sounding like it has finished but keeps starting up again!).

 

[jim boy]

I had always hoped Weird Al's Polka your eyes out was a parody of the Angry Samoans' Poke your eyes out, but than I found out it wasn't. Pity.

 

[PeteLX]

Well I love the Darkness, so I won't call them parody music....

Spinal Tap have to be the ultimate in parody.

 

[sherb]

And I suppose you would have to include the Rutles too I suppose!

 

[lioness]

Originally posted by sherb
And I suppose you would have to include the Rutles too I suppose!

They're the first ones I thought of as I saw the title of this thread!!

Weird Al is pretty good too though.

 

[Z_K]

Originally posted by PeteLX
Well I love the Darkness, so I won't call them parody music....

You would not want to either.

Death becomes people who head down this road near me.

 

[Mog]

As a word of warning, if you try downloading Wierd Al stuff via Kazaa or whatever, be aware that about half of them aren't actually by him. Especially songs with titles like Weenie in a Bottle.

 

[Squeak]

In Da Pub by 50 Pence.

 

[P_D]

Weird Al Reigns Supreme

Favs are:
You Don't Love me Anymore & Ebay

"You Don't Love Me Anymore"

We've been together for so very long
But now things are changing, oh I wonder what's wrong?
Seems you don't want me around
The passion is gone and the flame's died down

I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem
That time that you made it with the whole hockey team
You used to think I was nice
Now you tell all your friends that I'm the Antichrist

Oh, why did you disconnect the breaks in my car?
That kind of thing is hard to ignore
Got a funny feeling you don't love me anymore

I knew that we were having problems when
You put those piranhas in my bathtub again
You're still the light of my life
Oh darling, I'm beggin', won't you put down that knife?

You know, I even think it's kinda cute the way
You poison my coffee just a little each day
I still remember the way that you laughed
When you pushed me down that elevator shaft

Oh, if you don't mind me asking, what's this poisonous cobra
Doing in my underwear drawer?
Sometime I get to thinking you don't love me any more

You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill
Now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will
You set my house on fire
You pulled out my chest hairs with an old pair of pliers

Oh, you think that I'm ugly and you say that I'm cheap
You shaved off my eyebrows while I was asleep
You drilled a hole in my head
Then you dumped me in a drainage ditch and left me for dead

Oh, you know this really isn't like you at all
You never acted this way before
Honey, something tells me you don't love me any more, oh no no
Got a funny feeling you don't love me anymore

 

[CarterS]

Originally posted by PeteLX
Spinal Tap have to be the ultimate in parody.

What sets them apart from other parody acts is the fact that not only are their lyrics funny, but the music is actually decent too. And all their tracks aren't direct parodies of well known songs so they aren't leaning on the fame of them.

 

[oh_my_hat]

Hayseed Dixie. Hearing AC/DC & KISS songs Country & Western style is funny as hell.

 

[Woodson]

Originally posted by oh_my_hat
Hayseed Dixie. Hearing AC/DC & KISS songs Country & Western style is funny as hell.

I'll give my vote to the Scared Wierd Little Guys who can make something out of nothing when it comes to parody. Imagine hearing AC/Dc's Jailbreak sung in the tune of Home and Away.

Brilliant !

 

[Ryan8024]

Originally posted by sherb
I don't have any of Wierd Al's stuff, so I can't really make any comparisons between his and other parody music.

However, I do have 439 Golden Greats by the Heebeegeebees. It was released in the early 80's and is a brilliant parody record, both in term of lyrics and also the music itself sounding extremely similar to the original artist.

It featured songs such as -
Meaningless Songs (Heebeegeebees)
Boring Song (Status Quid)
Dead Cicada (Beagles)
(Dancing) Up The Wall (Jack Michaelson)
Bird of Peace (Neil Dung, Bob Vylan, The Bland, Frank Sumatra, Dean Martian, Leonard Crowing, George Harrassing)

I think you get the idea!

My favourite was always Boring Song by Status Quid. While it may not be hard to parody Status Quo's songs and musical style, I loved the way this group did it. Here are the lyrics -

...

My dad has that in his record collection. I'll have to dig it out again one day.

Meaningless soooongs
In very high voicehehehes
And a little scream.... AH!