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Old 01-03-2015, 19:59
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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.
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Old 01-03-2015, 20:42
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I'm not sure I've understood the thread completely, but the Literal version of Total Eclipse Of The Heart on YouTube makes me laugh everytime!

"What the effing crap, that angel guy just touched me up"

&

"Over surprised guy"

I should probably link to it... But my links never work so pffft.
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Old 01-03-2015, 20:43
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I love the film that takes the piss out of gangsta rap CB4, Chris Rock is bang on and if you like any hip hop I defy you not to get wrapped up in the parodies in it!
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Old 01-03-2015, 20:48
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How about The Bonzos' version of The Sound Of Music?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bJRKmLnJfY
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Old 01-03-2015, 20:50
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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.
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.
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Old 01-03-2015, 20:55
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I love the film that takes the piss out of gangsta rap CB4, Chris Rock is bang on and if you like any hip hop I defy you not to get wrapped up in the parodies in it!
I love CB4.

Certainly worth a listen of "Straight Outta Locash" again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quDlXLXmX2M
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Old 01-03-2015, 20:59
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The bonnie Tyler total eclipse piss take is one of my favourite videos ever. Highly recommend it!
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Old 01-03-2015, 20:59
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Fond of this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOfZLb33uCg
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Old 01-03-2015, 21:01
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Not sure if it counts for the thread, but i've been slightly obsessed with "Carl Poppa" since I heard it a few days ago. A "song" by Carl Grimes from The Walking Dead

http://youtu.be/Q9aM9Ch97U8
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Old 01-03-2015, 21:02
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The bonnie Tyler total eclipse piss take is one of my favourite videos ever. Highly recommend it!
Yer innit this is what I posted about.

The thing that makes it better than most others is the singer actually sounds convincing.

"I pose like Rocky tonight"
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Old 01-03-2015, 21:07
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The Heebie Jeebies ?
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Old 01-03-2015, 21:08
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How about The Bonzos' version of The Sound Of Music?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bJRKmLnJfY
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.
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Old 01-03-2015, 21:09
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Anything by Weird Al Yankovich
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Old 01-03-2015, 21:11
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Old 01-03-2015, 21:11
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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.
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.
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Old 01-03-2015, 21:12
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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.
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.
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Old 01-03-2015, 21:16
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Love that one, one of his best.

'I churn butter once or twice, living in an Amish paradise'
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Old 01-03-2015, 21:18
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Yer innit this is what I posted about.

The thing that makes it better than most others is the singer actually sounds convincing.

"I pose like Rocky tonight"
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!
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Old 01-03-2015, 21:21
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I love CB4.

Certainly worth a listen of "Straight Outta Locash" again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quDlXLXmX2M
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.
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Old 01-03-2015, 21:27
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The Barron Knights were pretty popular in the 60s doing parodies like this......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD-LAX0DxL4


simpler times......
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Old 01-03-2015, 21:31
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Old 01-03-2015, 21:33
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The Heebie Jeebies ?
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.
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Old 01-03-2015, 21:33
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Bad News for me. Can listen to their albums time and again without getting bored with them.
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Old 01-03-2015, 21:37
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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...
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Old 01-03-2015, 21:40
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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.
You won't like this then?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vskHXtPuvBk

What's wrong with you, man?!!!
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