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I think rather than this site being overrun with oldies as you say (that is a relative term anyway, young'un  :P ;)) - it is one of the few sites I have have seen that seems to have a decent balance rather than being skewed ONLY towards current day songs.   :)
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Amen to that!

Though I DO see Ethan´s point. And maybe it is easier for us "less young" to see that balance because even if we don´t know the newer songs, we probably do know wheter or not the artist is a household name or not (unless we lived tribal life the last ten years), wheras the youngest might not know even recognize the name of artists who haven´t produced any new material the last 20 years or so, since Golden Oldies are more of a real radio thing than a we´re-using-MTV-as-radio-what-do-you-mean thing. ;)

No offence meant Ethan, but I don´t agree with you here. Though, for the record, you have just given me an idea which I´m gonna present in a new thread.  :D

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i kinda like your idea, merry except for a couple of problems. 1 is that the only downloading program i have on my computer that isn't in french (my brother downloaded french kazaa) is limewire, which probably won't carry old songs that i consider obscure. But i'll try anyway maybe i'll actually find a song i like in the process. Secondly i don't even really like my bullet with butterfly wings parody its awful ratings make me feel like it should forget it exists which i generally do.
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Well, what is wrong with using the French KaZaa? Surely it doesn't translate all the songs into French? :D ;)

As for the Bullet/Butterfly song, I just looked at your list and grabbed that one at random because it looked lonely.... :)

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But my main point somewhere in here is that there just seems to be two fairly distinct generations competing here, and the kids are gettin' their butts beat, and they don't like it.
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In terms of making the top tens,  this old crone is getting her butt soundly whipped, too.  I've *never* had a number one or even cracked the top 5.  I've cracked the top ten with only 4 parodies (one of them to a Puddle of Mudd song, but admittedly, it got up there because it happened to be a slow voting/submissions week) and I've never spent more than 3 days up there (I was up there that long only once, in only one category with the Puddle of Mudd parody.)  Like Ethan, I'm usually lucky to pull in as many as 10 votes on a parody, the first week it's up.  

Mind you, that's with voting daily, leaving comments, parodying oldies, participating in this board, getting nominations and my own category in the amiright awards, receiving lots of great comments from regulars and averaging decent ratings in each category.  So, a lack of votes comparative to those whose parodies regularly appear in the top tens cannot necessarily be attributed to parodying newer material and/or having fewer years of writing experience.  

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personally, I think it's sad that there are people who know nothing about music that came out before they were born. The Beatles broke up before I was born, yet I know all their songs very well and yet I still keep up with contemporary music like the White Stripes and the Foo Fighters.


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I completely agree with you here!  Its a shame older music is disrgarded by younger generations (including my own!)  I mean, i was born in the early 80s....somehow I feel that I know more about the music from before I was born than the stuff after (though I do follow recent stuff quite a bit...plus, I know a great deal of Indie and underground stuff...I hate the pop charts).......People from my generation and younger should look into older artists.....they might like it...

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personally, I think it's sad that there are people who know nothing about music that came out before they were born. The Beatles broke up before I was born, yet I know all their songs very well and yet I still keep up with contemporary music like the White Stripes and the Foo Fighters.

I was seperating music by decade, but there's so much stuff that was either covered in a different decade, or came out in like 1999 vs. 2000 that keeping them properly organized is more work than it's worth. I think if you look at the original performer field, and you don't recognize who the performer is, it doesn't really matter if it's this decade or 30 years ago.
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8) 8)Good point1The E verly Brothers had their biggest hits before i was born,but i'm familiar with all of them.Their LP Gone Gone Gone actually cameout the year i was born.Cheers! ;D

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I completely agree with you here!  Its a shame older music is disrgarded by younger generations (including my own!)  I mean, i was born in the early 80s....somehow I feel that I know more about the music from before I was born than the stuff after (though I do follow recent stuff quite a bit...plus, I know a great deal of Indie and underground stuff...I hate the pop charts).......People from my generation and younger should look into older artists.....they might like it...
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And further to that, you would get a surprise as to just how many songs in the present day are covers of older songs  :)

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And further to that, you would get a surprise as to just how many songs in the present day are covers of older songs  :)
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No kidding...but I prefer the original most of the time, which tells you volumes about the quality of the "old fogie" music :)

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No kidding...but I prefer the original most of the time, which tells you volumes about the quality of the "old fogie" music :)
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From an old fogey to a younger one, well said   ;D