I love Weird Al and could list a dozen of his songs off the top of my head that are funny and brilliant. But are there songs by other artists that you like? The only parody artist I know of that comes close is Bob Rivers. I think he does an even better job than Weird Al of making his songs sound like the original, although they’re generally not as clever and funny as Al’s. If I had to pick one of Rivers’ songs, I’d say Middle Age Waistline.
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You are saying a parody song is a re-record of a current song, but with comedic new lyrics?
Love the Rutles, but Todd Rundgren’s band did a wonderful Beatles album. With a song parodying each of their periods.
I just love the early-era “I Just Want To Touch You” and “That’s Not Right”. And the post-LSD-period “Everybody Else Is Wrong” with backward masking and all…
Nevermind.
As Ian Macdonald put it, “entire careers (e.g., the Electric Light Orchestra) have been based on the cello line in Strawberry Fields Forever.”
Love that! Haven’t heard it in years. (Since before the Simpsons mayor — “I am a bad little boy…”)