Today's Revelation

[hkellick]

Weird Al Yankovic's "Good Old Days" is a style parody of Kenny Loggins.
I didn't realize it until Kristen played "Pooh Corner" and I realize I knew the melody..

Go ahead. Try it yourself. Play Pooh Corner and then Good Old Days.

Woot-yo! :) I feel special for figuring out another style parody!

Now if I only could figure out what "Hardwore Store" is a Style Parody of!

Comments

[kolys.livejournal.com]

*blinks*

I haven't owned too many Al CDs, but I thought the Food Album actually listed what each song was a parody of.

Or is that cheating?

[lite.livejournal.com]

Al does two sorts of parodies..
Direct Parodies ("Eat It", "My Bologna", "Amish Paradise") and style parodies that SOUND like a certain artist but are not a direct parody of a song ("Everything You Know Is Wrong", "Dare To Be Stupid", "Frank's 2009" TV")

"Good Old Days" is a style parody of Kenny Loggins. It's not a direct parody of "Pooh Corner", but it sounds an awful lot like it.. plus probably other Kenny Loggins songs as well.
Do you see the difference?

[phoenixsong]

I would dispute "Good Old Days" being a style parody as opposed to a song parody of "Return to Pooh Corner," based on both the theme and the melody. The main vocal line is virtually identical, and both wax heavily nostalgic.

[kolys.livejournal.com]

Actually, that helps a lot - I'd been trying to puzzle over the similarities-yet-not-quite-match of "The Night Santa Went Crazy" and Soul Asylum's "Black Gold".

[lite.livejournal.com]

Yar.
Or "Germs" and Nine Inch Nail's "Terrible Lie"
Some of his style parodies seem to be more based on one song ("The Night Santa Went Crazy", "Young, Dumb and Ugly" "Germs", "Good Old Days") while pulling in bits and pieces from other songs.
Others pull in a couple songs and try to meld them together ("Dare To Be Stupid", "Everything You Know Is Wrong")