Not really a cover version or stolen song
Posted by adze thuggery on 20 April 2008 - 9:57am.
Enjoyed recent posts on those themes but it made me think of pastiche and parody versions and other taking the piss situations. Just been looking on You Tube and enjoyed some Rutles, some Weird Al Yankovic and some Not The 9 o'clock News. Anyone have an absolute favourite they'd like to share?
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It's been posted on here a few times...
...but "The Beatles doing Stairway to Heaven" always does it for me.
Does Spinal Tap count?
...
From MMT
I'll get the Bonzo's in early. Surely this was one of the first Elvis parodies, pre-dating the Vegas period by several years. You can understand why when the mums and dads sat down with granny and the kids on Boxing Day 1967, this caused a bit of a stir ...
How about
Robbie Fulks 'Fountains of Wayne Hotline'
Sadly not on Youtube but Googleable (?). In its way as brilliant as the band themselves
and
Mitch Benn 'Everything Sounds Like Coldplay now'
Spot on spoofery with Chris Morris
Major ukeage
The George Formby was quite a revelation. I was disappointed, though, that they didn't mention some of the many other sadly forgotten post-war end-of-the-pier precursors of the pop and rock we know and love, such as Joseph Locke's "War Pigs" or Tessie O'Shea's "Blue Monday".
This was great in its time
A very long time ago............
Ah yes .............Angus Deayton, whatever happened to him.
Flight of the Conchords
Their songs are such brilliant parodies of musical styles:
Parody? Homage? Tribute? Theft?
Fantastically well done ...
Great to see the Hee Bee Gee Bees up there...
I'm rather fond of Mitch Benn's spoof on Coldplay and all their imitators...
Oh by the way, the Hee Bee Gee Bees also released Status Quid's "Boring Song" as a single...
Supertrash
"Scatological Song" would have gone down a storm here, too, but I can't find it anywhere.
More Flight of the Conchords - having fun at Bowie's expense
David Lee Roth
When Dave left Van Halen and went solo he released the ancient "Just a Gigolo" as a single. Well, someone, somewhere (I can't remember who) did a razor-sharp parody called "Just A Big Ego."
Just a Big Ego
I'm just a big ego
And everywhere I go
People say that they enjoy me
They pay for just a chance
to look at my tight pants
Oooh It makes them horny
There will come a day when
I will only pray
Oooh What will they say about me
When the end comes they'll know
I've got a big ego
The world revolves around me
And I make a lot of dough
Everywhere I go
You should see the cars I'm drivin'
All the chicks I meet
Fall down at my feet
Ooh they love my jivin'
I didn't write this song
It'd take too long
And ruin the fun I'm havin'
When the press comes around
They'll print anything I say
Let them write about me
Gotta' a big ego
And everywhere I go
The world is fallin' for me
In England and in France
I've got them in a trance
They can't live without me
There will come a day
This hunk will pass away
Ooh how will they live without me
When the end comes
They'll know
That I was just a big ego
The world revolves around me
Cuz
You see London I love me too
That's right Oooh
Baby, come and do me one time
What do you say
Diddly squat diddly squat bibbly bibbly bop owww
Hey girls check me out…I've got the worlds biggest
all these comments and no mention of "beatallica"
Just check out the level of devotion required to master that james hetfeld growl.
Just say Cheese.
Tha absolute master of cocktail loungecore, Mr Richard Cheese. If you have enjoyed Paul Ankas versions of Jump and the like, or enjoyed any of Mike Flowers Pops, Richard is your man. Subversive and brilliant. Try Stairway to Heaven and Sunday Bloody Sunday (latter as salsa) as starters, before moving into some of his gangsta rap covers.
National Lampoon's
"Southern California Brings Me Down" managed to shoehorn pretty much all of Neil Young's ouevre into one spot-on five minutes. Last spotted on an obscure import album many many years ago. There may have been Spinal Tappers involved.
Seconded
Southern California Brings Me Down is brilliant, it was originally on the Goodbye Pop album which also features Art Rock Suite, a spot on prog parody. Christopher Guest is involved.
I also have an earlier National Lampoon album called Radio Dinner* which features Magical Misery Tour, a John Lennon spoof by Tony Hendra based on the famous 1970 Rolling Stone interview.
You can download a free mp3 of it here
*it also includes Those Fabulous 60s, a spoof K-Tel type ad voiced by 'Bob Dylan'
More Cowbell ??
More cowbell anyone...... ??
Status Who...
...and much funnier than Phil Pope