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Favorite music spoofs
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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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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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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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How about The Bonzos' version of The Sound Of Music?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bJRKmLnJfY |
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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. ![]() Hold my Hand sounds like All My Loving. |
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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!
Certainly worth a listen of "Straight Outta Locash" again ![]() https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quDlXLXmX2M |
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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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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
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The bonnie Tyler total eclipse piss take is one of my favourite videos ever. Highly recommend it!
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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The Heebie Jeebies ?
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How about The Bonzos' version of The Sound Of Music?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bJRKmLnJfY |
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Anything by Weird Al Yankovich
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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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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. But it's also the visual aspect - that whole rooftop setting, the clothes, the facial hair...spot on. |
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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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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" ![]() 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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I love CB4.
Certainly worth a listen of "Straight Outta Locash" again ![]() https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quDlXLXmX2M 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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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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FRIENDS SPOOF: http://youtu.be/FOPMJ7oAqHY
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The Heebie Jeebies ?
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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Bad News for me. Can listen to their albums time and again without getting bored with them.
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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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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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vskHXtPuvBk What's wrong with you, man?!!! |
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