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While I'm not saying you guys are a drag?

It is a seriously complete drag that this thread got this far without this coming up...

A bit more seriously though...

How do you mention them without anything else along with the mention?

The presentation is at least sixty percent of it.

numberthirty wrote: Fri Aug 26, 2022 7:10 pm While I'm not saying you guys are a drag?

It is a seriously complete drag that this thread got this far without this coming up...

Hahahahahahahaha that was awesome

This one always feels like it is right there on the line...

(also one more chance to win over some of the grumps from the "Glam..." thread...)

I know that Macaulay Culkin had a parody band called The Pizza Underground, who played Velvet Underground songs with the words changed to be about pizza. That sounds like a sad, shitty idea to me, but I guess the guys from Mac Sabbath saw potential.

There was always a little bit of this going on in Goober & The Peas...

Anthony Flack wrote: Sat Aug 27, 2022 5:39 pm I know that Macaulay Culkin had a parody band called The Pizza Underground, who played Velvet Underground songs with the words changed to be about pizza. That sounds like a sad, shitty idea to me

I never heard The Pizza Underground, so maybe the music does suck, but I like the idea - VU is like the ultimate underground/super-influential band in a way, and here's a band deciding to cover their songs, but swap their lyrics to ones about pizza.

My generalized impression of joke bands is that they're half-committed to whatever they're doing. They're often not great artists writing great songs, but if you squint hard enough from the right perspective can see how playing a bunch of half-assed songs about the teevee show Lost is funny, i guess??? Weird Al is fine. He isn't a dabbler. The rest of them can go pound sand.

Mac Sabbath made a great video, but I have a hard time with Brummy Ozzy's lyrics coming out with a fake Cockney accent.