How ironic.
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AKA Babe-raham Lincoln.
Yep, this has been done with a bunch of recent songs and seems to work well with a wide range of music. And Vangelis was using a similar technique on his own compositions as early as 1973.
Or at least make it not suck.
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We can do two things!
I like my sex my partners like my coffee: instant.
A terrible song? This I gotta hear!
The saddest part is that due to being surrounded by sycophants and yes-men, the Crazy Frog never sought out the mental health treatment he so desperately needed for his tragic craziness.
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He's heading to the old mill!
I'll see that picture and raise you Tori Amos nursing a piglet: http://www.examiner.com/ima…
Earlier in the year I posted the unforgettable Ween parody 'Sing Like A Dickhead And Dance Like A Duck'.
That is fucking superb.
It is indeed terrible, and has really no redeeming features. But I went through a weird phase - totally coincidentally coinciding with my upcoming (at the time) ten year high school reunion - where I became obsessed with listening to the commercial music that I didn't like in the nineties. It was somehow more…
Breakfast At Tiffany's is actually kind of fascinating because it is so shit, and yet it inexplicably became a massively successful hit song. By 'shit', I mean it sounds quite amateurish if you really listen to it* - any production flourish is pretty much non-existant (except for some stock standard delay on that…
As if we haven't suffered enough!
Axis Of Awesome's ruminations on the use of that 'Four Chord' progression is pretty great: http://www.youtube.com/watc…
This is probably as good a place as any to post Australian comic Tony Martin's sketch which parodies 'Stand' and Stipe's incoherent lyrics in general: http://www.youtube.com/watc…
Nah, you're right, but there's no need to abandon the concept entirely. Shooting fish in a barrel can be fun, but it's all a little too easy. And I don't think selecting 'classics' like Stairway goes far enough - they need to pick out songs that AV Club people actually like and respect and then argue eloquently as to…