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He is best known for writing and performing comedy songs that often parody specific songs by contemporary musicians. He also performs original songs that are style pastiches of the work of other acts, as well as polka medleys of several popular songs, most of which feature his trademark accordion.
What it says in the title. "DUN-DUNDUNDUN-DUNDUNDUN-DUNDUN-DUNDUNNNNNN". I've seen it mocked in Rocko's Modern Life, seen it featured in a couple of old Tex Avery cartoons, notably "Who Killed Who?"
- ‘Inner City Pressure’ – Flight of The Concords
- ‘Ohio Is For Emo Kids’ – Canadian Softball
- ‘Boots’- The Residents
- ‘Big Bottom’ – Spinal Tap
- ‘Eat It’- Weird Al Yankovic
- ‘Cheese and Onions’ – The Rutles
- ‘Slipped My Disco’ – The Tubes
- ‘The Intro and The Outro’ – The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
- ‘Kill’ – Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias
- ‘Motherbanger’ – Chris Morris
In 2008, New Zealand’s second most successful folk duo used their songwriting chops to evoke the immortal Pet Shop Boys. Popularised by their cult series Flight Of The Concords‘Inner City Pressure’ sees Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement don their turtlenecks, pull out their synths and paint a portrait of life on the never-never. With era-specific p...
With a name like Canadian Softball, it doesn’t take a genius to guess that the group’s third studio albumAwkward and Depressed took aim at the emo subculture. Released in 2017, the LP was a retrospective look at all the weird aspects of the scene that emo fans were too hormone-ridden to acknowledge at the time. ‘Ohio Is For Emo Kids’ is a freakishl...
Multimedia art collective The Residents released a series of incredible spoof albums at a time when the scent of Beatles nostalgia lay heavy on the air. The group prefer to remain anonymous, so they perform wearing giant eyeball heads to disguise their identities. Their debut album, Meet The Residents was released in 1974 on Ralph Records and saw t...
How could we not? Spinal Tap are undoubtedly one of the best-loved and enduringly popular parody bands of all time. Released at the height of hair metal, This Is Spinal Tapcast an ironic gaze over the landscape of classic rock to bring music fans a parody of rock stardom in all its lycra-glad glory. Indeed, Rob Reiner’s artful portrayal of the fict...
Gloriously childish and fabulously true to the original, Weird Al’s pop parody of Michael Jackson’s ‘Beat It’ saw the Californian humourist isolate the aloof yet strangely affectionate brand of comedy that would make him a household name. Complete with a shot-for-shot remake of Jackson’s original video, ‘Eat It’ was surpassed as Yankovic’s most pop...
After Monty Python came off air, Eric Idle set about crafting a new surreal comedy series called Rutland Weekend Television. The Rutles, the brainchild of Idle and his collaborator Neil Innes, were a fictional beat group who often featured on the show playing Beatles-inspired tracks, eventually even starring in their own mockumentary All You Need I...
If they’d wanted to, The Tubes could have crafted seriously cosmic prog-rock albums – they had the talent. But rather than spending months locked in a studio tweaking the dial on a delay unit, they focused their efforts on bringing theatre, parody and satire into pop, pointing their collective hose at everything from sleazy British rockers to Studi...
Created by a group of art school students with an eye for absurdism, The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band attracted the public’s attention after appearing on the 1968 ITV Comedy series Do Not Adjust Your Set. Although the group started out playing a pastiche of 1920s trad jazz, they soon moved into playing more contemporary forms of rock, pop and psychedelia...
In many ways, the Albertos were the northern successors of The Bonzos. Born in Manchester’s disenfranchised post-hippie underground scene, the group cultivated a reputation for artful derision coupled with adept musicality. After the fall of hippiedom, it seemed that nothing was worthy of integrity. With this in mind, the Albertos set about parodyi...
Taken from his cult radio series On The Hour, Motherbanger’ sees Chris Morris expertly replicate the sound of Pixies while making Frank Back sing about wanting to have sex with his own mother both before and after her death. Its clear that Morris was a fan of the group’s work because everything about this track is spot on. The guitar parts could ha...
Sep 6, 2022 · Weird Al may be the most famous name in the parody game, but there are a few other creative spoof songs that deserve credit. We think these parody songs are actually better than their originals.
- Liam Gaughan
- Dave Parrack
- Senior Author
- Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know. This song was everywhere for a while, and the parodies were released thick and fast in its wake. This one, which is titled The Star Wars That I Used To Know is one of the funniest, and is certainly the most fitting for a technology site owned, managed, written, read, and used by geeks of all stripes.
- Alanis Morissette - Ironic. Ironic by Alanis Morissette is an absolute classic. There is, however, one major problem with it: the anecdotes she tells aren't actually all that ironic.
- Carly Rae Jepson - Call Me Maybe. This is the first of two songs by The Key Of Awesome, a group specializing in satirical music parodies. Their victim this time is Carly Rae Jepson, who scored a huge hit with the utterly banal Call Me Maybe in 2012.
- Nickelback - Photograph. I'm a big fan of the country of Canada, but I'm not sure I can ever forgive the Canadians for inflicting Justin Bieber, Celine Dion, and Nickelback onto the world.
To Die For: 25 Flawless Songs About Death. The end of existence is one of music's most frequent themes. These records address it impeccably.
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Oct 23, 2020 · ‘Like A Surgeon’. As a parody of Madonna’s huge hit ‘Like A Virgin’ Weird Al manages to pull off one of the most remarkable feats of his career making both surgery and Madonna funny. The singer was at the peak of her fame when Weird Al targeted her song and proved he was scared of nobody’s legacy.
