Style paody guide

Ash · Post by **Ash** » Sun Jan 06, 2002 9:14 pm

Any corrections or comments you would like to make on this Weird Al Style Parody Guide?:

Self-titled debut album

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Happy Birthday Tonio K The Funky Western

Civilization

In 3D

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Mr. Popeil B-52's Private Idaho

Dare To Be Stupid

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Dare To Be Stupid Devo Whip It

Slime Creatures From Outer Space

Thomas Dolby Hyperactive!

Polka Party!

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Dog Eat Dog Talking Heads Once In A Lifetime

Christmas At Ground Zero Phil Spector Christmas (Baby Please

Come Home)

Even Worse

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You Make Me Oingo Boingo Grey Matter

Velvet Elvis The Police Synchronicity II

Twister Beastie Boys Time To Get Ill

Good Old Days James Taylor Only One

UHF

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The Biggest Ball Of Twine In Minnesota

Harry Chapin 30,000 Pounds Of Bananas

Off The Deep End

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Trigger Happy Beach Boys Surfin' USA

Alapalooza

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Frank's 2000" TV REM Shiny Happy People

Traffic Jam Prince Let's Go Crazy

Talk Soup Don Henley Dirty Laundry

Waffle King Peter Gabriel Big Time

Bad Hair Day

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Everything You Know Is Wrong

They Might Be Giants

Everything Right Is Wrong

Again

The Night Santa Went Crazy

Soul Asylum Black Gold

Running With Scissors

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Germs Nine Inch Nails Terrible Lie

Songs that I omitted from this list:

One More Minute - Elvis - Probably, but is there a similar song? I

don't have the resources to listen to every Elvis song...

Melanie - 54-40 - I hear no evidence of this, at least not to any of

54-40's big hits that I'm aware of.

When I Was Your Age - Don Henley - Perhaps, but I couldn't find

anything that sounded similar. Plus it's fairly unlikely that he

would do TWO Don Henley style parodies.

You Don't Love Me Anymore - Extreme - The video was a direct parody...

but I'm not so sure about the song. There aren't enough similarities

for me to either "Hole Hearted" or "More Than Words" to warrant style

parody status.

Callin' In Sick - Nirvana - If we forget the first few notes, there

really is no resemblance to any Nirvana song that I know of.

I'm So Sick Of You - Elvis Costello - As with Elvis Presley, I don't

have the resources to verify this or find a song that closely matches

it.

Post by **bermuda** » Sun Jan 06, 2002 9:41 pm

I'd have to go back and personally listen to every original song - and many of the style-parodied artists' songs - to give you an accurate accounting. And unless I can be accurate and complete, I won't even try to verify the list.

However, a lot of it looks correct.

Bermuda

Post by **algonacchick** » Mon Jan 07, 2002 12:29 am

I think a lot of the style parodies incorporate elements from more than one song from the artist in question. I always thought Waffle King had some "Sledgehammer" in it, too. And Dare to Be Stupid has some references to other Devo songs in it, too. I think "Beautiful World" might be thrown in there. But your list is pretty cool! I don't know a lot of the TMBG stuff, and I think Germs is more like "Closer" by NIN. Just my thought on it.

Patti

[ This Message was edited by: algonacchick on 2002-01-06 23:30 ]

Post by **weird_el** » Mon Jan 07, 2002 4:36 am

I always thought One More Minute sounded a great deal like This Night by Billy Joel.

This Night along with all the other songs on An Innocent Man were pretty generic style parodies of early 60s pop.

whatmepolka · Post by **whatmepolka** » Mon Jan 07, 2002 9:12 pm

On 2002-01-06 23:29, algonacchick wrote:
I think a lot of the style parodies incorporate elements from more than one song from the artist in question.
[ This Message was edited by: algonacchick on 2002-01-06 23:30 ]

I agree........A style parody, I always believed, meant it "copied" an artists' style rather that an exact song.

*shrugs*

But that's just me, I suppose.............

[ This Message was edited by: whatmepolka on 2002-01-07 20:14 ]

Cartunedude · Post by **Cartunedude** » Mon Jan 07, 2002 10:43 pm

On 2002-01-07 20:12, whatmepolka wrote:
I agree........A style parody, I always believed, meant it "copied" an artists' style rather that an exact song.
*shrugs*
But that's just me, I suppose.............

That's what I think, too. But, I also think there are some songs that are closely modeled after a specific song, or contain elements from a specific song. Or something like that...

C-Bob

Accordion Kid · Post by **Accordion Kid** » Mon Jan 07, 2002 10:54 pm

i think that one more minute is along the lines of Spend This Night with Me in Top Secret with Val Kilmer because when i first saw it i thought it was the one more minute video. the resemblance is uncanny!

mrmeadows · Post by **mrmeadows** » Sun Jul 28, 2002 8:28 pm

Yeah, Al's style parodies usually will take one artist and grab references from a number of their songs. For instance, "Dog Eat Dog" is obviously a style parody of Talking Heads. Of course, their well-known "Once In A Lifetime" line is riffed on ("You may ask yourself...etc."), but so are lines from other TH songs. The line about "Do I smell jelly donuts?" is lifted from TH's song "Cities" ("Do I smell home cooking?"), and the last part where he says "Dog Eat Dog" over and over and makes strange sounds in-between is a spoof of TH's finale to "Crosseyed and Painless" (just to name a couple of examples).

I love "Dog Eat Dog". It was great to see him perform it live on Friday night wearing the David Byrne Big Suit!

Meadows

mrmeadows · Post by **mrmeadows** » Sun Jul 28, 2002 8:31 pm

i think that one more minute is along the lines of Spend This Night with Me in Top Secret with Val Kilmer because when i first saw it i thought it was the one more minute video. the resemblance is uncanny!

Well, it wouldn't surprise me if it was a direct reference by Al. If you check Bermuda's FAQ section on weirdal.com, you'll find that "Top Secret!"

is Al's all-time favorite movie!

Meadows

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