Anybody else hate parodies?

Subject: RE: Anybody else hate parodies?
From: mousethief
Date: 21 Dec 00 - 01:26 PM

For those who care, some of the parodies I have written can be found here: clicky

Alex

Subject: RE: Anybody else hate parodies?
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Dec 00 - 02:59 PM

Murphy's 27th Law

"You have taken yourself too seriously!"

Parodies and puns are like anything else....there are good ones and bad ones. The really good ones are treasures that are a window on life....some folks just don't WANT to look too closely.

Subject: RE: Anybody else hate parodies?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 21 Dec 00 - 08:26 PM

I Like the good ones, if they're done well, and I agree, one should know one's audience or be in "safe company" rather than risk widespread offence. I write them too, but mine are usually on topical subjects, so cannot be sung more than a couple of times before they go out of date, e.g.

Step we gaily, on we go, all the way to old Skibo,

Armed with super video, all for Madonna's wedding,etc,etc.

Tattie B

Subject: RE: Anybody else hate parodies?
From: ddw
Date: 22 Dec 00 - 12:05 AM

I don't have time to read through all the posts here, but thought I'd throw this out for what it's worth — pardon if someone's already mentioned it.

How 'bout Ray Stevens? He's an absolute musical genius and he parodies EVERYTHING. His parody of Pirates of Penzance is a scream and what he does to the Michael Jackson (now tell HE is begging to be parodied!) song Bad would probably give a sheep lover a woody.

And what about Tom Lehrer (Sp?). He parodied all kinds of things.

Low humor? Not if it's done well.

david

Subject: RE: Anybody else hate parodies?
From: Matt_R
Date: 22 Dec 00 - 12:14 AM

Um....ddw...Ray Stevens doesn't really do parodies...they are all originals. The parody of Michael Jackson's "Bad" was done by Weird Al...he called it "Fat". "The Pirate Song" a classic I learned WAY before I came here to ECU where "The Pirate Song" is a tradition...references The Pirates of Penzance, but in no way parodies it. All the music is original. OK wait...there is one that isn't original...his spoof of "Thus Spake Zarathustra" was "Thus Cacked Henrietta". Same exact music...escept instead of instruments he used animal noises.

Subject: RE: Anybody else hate parodies?
From: ddw
Date: 22 Dec 00 - 12:46 AM

Matt — maybe you're right about Pirates not being a parody of a song, but it's a parody of the play. And you can add "Back in the USSR," a parody of "Back In The U.S.A." to the list of parodied songs. Weird Al may have done a parody of MJ's Bad, but so does Stevens — ends it with a barnyard chorus featuring the bleating of sheep on the 'B-a-a-a-d" bit. He also parodied a Beach Boys tune, then name of which escapes me at the moment, and one called "The Flies of Texas."

Seems to me I've seen your posts claiming Stevens is a favorite of yours, so maybe you're just not aware of all the songs he's lampooning.

david

Subject: RE: Anybody else hate parodies?
From: Matt_R
Date: 22 Dec 00 - 01:05 AM

Is this newer stuff, maybe? I know his 70's and 80's stuff...

Subject: RE: Anybody else hate parodies?
From: ddw
Date: 22 Dec 00 - 01:11 AM

Yeah, Matt — some of this stuff is from the '90s. And if I remember it right, the BBs song I couldn't think of was "Surfin' USSR." Check it out — he copies the musical styles almost perfectly with absolutely outragous lyrics, then sometimes does something wild with the music as the song progresses.

david

BTW — last post here for now. Don't work again until Xmas Day.

Happy Humbug, everybody.

Subject: RE: Anybody else hate parodies?
From: Matt_R
Date: 22 Dec 00 - 01:18 AM

Ah see? The last one I had was from 1988.