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Favorite music spoofs
Inspired by another thread...
There have been a few of these, both film and TV over the years.
I guess the most obvious one is Spinal Tap. Which is pretty much legendary. In fact when I first saw it, knowing nothing about it (it was not a big hit in the cinema, took a while to establish its cult status), I genuinely thought the actors playing the band were English (at that time none of them were established).
I also have a fondness for the Comic Strip's Bad News. 2 programmes were made, Bad News and More Bad News. There a re a few odd clips on youtube but a lot of them are blocked by channel 4, and what remains is not particularly good quality.
I did find this clip of them 'performing' Bohemian Rhapsody from an old Wogan show, which is not too bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lIbZyUG1sY
But my all time favourite - The Rutles.
Borne out of a spoof from Rutland Weekend Television, a spin off of Python from Eric Idle.
I love this because of the superb attention to detail they went to just to make everything very close to, but not quite the same as the Beatles story, both visually and musically. In fact the musical parodies are incredible, and the recreations of certain historical events are uncanny.
This is a good example -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amiBTezWKqQ
Then there was the bands dalliance with foreign substances...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijFDkpNma-k
The infamous 'god' scandal -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o_HbyIZXY0
And more spot-on musical parodies -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qf8y7v0WIE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qf8y7v0WIE
Of course it helped enormously that Neil Innes and Eric Idle were accomplished musicians.
And the icing on the cake is that because the doc programme was produced by Lorne Michaels, producer of Saturday Night Live, you also get cameo's from Bill Murray, John Belushi, Dan Ackroyd and Gilda Radner. Plus appearances from Mick Jagger, Bianca Jagger, Paul Simon, Ron Wood, George Harrison and Michael Palin.
Very highly recommended.
There have been a few of these, both film and TV over the years.
I guess the most obvious one is Spinal Tap. Which is pretty much legendary. In fact when I first saw it, knowing nothing about it (it was not a big hit in the cinema, took a while to establish its cult status), I genuinely thought the actors playing the band were English (at that time none of them were established).
I also have a fondness for the Comic Strip's Bad News. 2 programmes were made, Bad News and More Bad News. There a re a few odd clips on youtube but a lot of them are blocked by channel 4, and what remains is not particularly good quality.
I did find this clip of them 'performing' Bohemian Rhapsody from an old Wogan show, which is not too bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lIbZyUG1sY
But my all time favourite - The Rutles.
Borne out of a spoof from Rutland Weekend Television, a spin off of Python from Eric Idle.
I love this because of the superb attention to detail they went to just to make everything very close to, but not quite the same as the Beatles story, both visually and musically. In fact the musical parodies are incredible, and the recreations of certain historical events are uncanny.
This is a good example -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amiBTezWKqQ
Then there was the bands dalliance with foreign substances...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijFDkpNma-k
The infamous 'god' scandal -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o_HbyIZXY0
And more spot-on musical parodies -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qf8y7v0WIE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qf8y7v0WIE
Of course it helped enormously that Neil Innes and Eric Idle were accomplished musicians.
And the icing on the cake is that because the doc programme was produced by Lorne Michaels, producer of Saturday Night Live, you also get cameo's from Bill Murray, John Belushi, Dan Ackroyd and Gilda Radner. Plus appearances from Mick Jagger, Bianca Jagger, Paul Simon, Ron Wood, George Harrison and Michael Palin.
Very highly recommended.
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"What the effing crap, that angel guy just touched me up"
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"Over surprised guy"
I should probably link to it... But my links never work so pffft.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bJRKmLnJfY
The songs are both spot on parodies and loving tributes, I'd never heard Get Up and Go in full before - is it bad I like it almost as much as, if not more than Get Back?
Hold my Hand sounds like All My Loving.
I love CB4.
Certainly worth a listen of "Straight Outta Locash" again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quDlXLXmX2M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOfZLb33uCg
http://youtu.be/Q9aM9Ch97U8
Yer innit
The thing that makes it better than most others is the singer actually sounds convincing.
"I pose like Rocky tonight"
Good one - that's why I think he was perfect to do a Beatles parody, because not only was he an accomplished musician, but also has a nice sense of the absurd, and yet also knew how to be reverential at the same time.
The Rutles are indeed the best (IMHO) but Eric Idle didn't actually play any instrument. He played the part of Dirk McQuickly in the film but mimed the bass playing and singing.
All of the musical number are like that - they are just slightly off-kilter to the song they are parodying...recognisable to a degree and with a uncanny accuracy, but reverential at the same time.
But it's also the visual aspect - that whole rooftop setting, the clothes, the facial hair...spot on.
Love that one, one of his best.
'I churn butter once or twice, living in an Amish paradise'
lol!! Sorry missed your post. I love it so much - didn't think anyone except me and my best mate when we're bladdered even knew this!
Slo mo dove! Mullet with head lights. I whip my head to the right! I'm totally shaking his hand!
From start to finish its amazing and Ild love to know how it got made in the first place and what the concept for the video was!
If you like that, you should check this out, Fear Of A Black Planet -
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106880/?ref_=nv_sr_1
A little obscure...I actually saw this at the London Film Festival the year it was released. At the time it was compared to Spinal Tap a lot, but seems to have gotten lost in the mists of time...shame...well worth a look.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD-LAX0DxL4
simpler times......:D
Yeah, I remember them...Angus Deayton, Philip Pope and Michael Fenton Stevens.
Pope was a familiar face on TV back then, stuff like The Fast Show, Who Dares Wins and Blackadder, though his main gig was as a musical arranger and composer.
I think the Heebie Jeebies parody was a fairly limited one...I remember the skit of the famous album cover with the Gibb Brothers looking windswept, and the Heebie Jeebies version showed them holding hair dryers.
Have to say that sort of stuff does not work for me.
It's akin to people who post parodies of various famous movies like Star Wars, where they redo all the voices with scouse/geordie/scottish accents...it's amusing for about 5 seconds.
Similarly with an occasional obsession for people to redo various movie scenes with added fart noises...might have been funny when I was 13 maybe...
You won't like this then?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vskHXtPuvBk
What's wrong with you, man?!!!
Not even that long.