Parodies have their place, but that place is usually not on a CD, unless that CD consists of ALL parodies. And I would not buy that CD unless it were VERY cheap.

For instance, I love what Weird Al Yankovic does with pop songs. They're even funnier when you see the video. His videos always include sight gags that parody the original video. But I wouldn't play most of his CD's more than once or twice.

When my wife and her band made their first cassette tape, it was all tunes except for one song. The song was a parody of "English Country Garden." The first time I heard it, it was sort of funny. The second time, it was still kind of cute. It's gone downhill from there. My wife and I have grown to hate it, and whenever we play that tape, we fast-forward past that song. I think the whole band came to regret including it on the tape.

But they still sing it sometimes at concerts, and I don't blame them, because most people in any given audience usually haven't heard it before, and they always get a good chuckle.