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Chucky and Rick - with Chucky's decision to end the "Voting Top Ten Lists" on Amiright, I think it would be pretty cool for Amiright to start putting more emphasis, more encouragement, and more publicity into postings of actual recordings of parodies posted on Amiright.

Isn't music what Amiright is about, anyway?  And isn't music ultimately meant to be performed and listened-to, not merely read ?
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Confuse me? I agree with the former statement about giving more encouragement/emphasis to recordings, but I disagree with the first part of Johnny's latter statement. Music is meant to be performed and listened-to, but the focus here at amiright is not creating music, it's creating lyrics. This is an important distinction, because there are parodies here that I believe look better on paper because they don't 'use' the intricacies of the song that they are based on enough.

There is an extra level of skill, in addition to the ability to create a good rhyme scheme, that makes a parody sound good when performed. As a personal 'for instance', I feel very few of my parodies would keep all of their witticism in recorded form, one notable exception being 'Breaking the Seams'. I think one of Spaff.com's greatest gifts is the theatrical feeling of his parodies creations. I'm not sure if he's recorded it yet, but one of my favorite examples is this one: http://www.amiright.com/parody/misc/westsidestorycast1.shtml

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Chucky and Rick - with Chucky's decision to end the "Voting Top Ten Lists" on Amiright, I think it would be pretty cool for Amiright to start putting more emphasis, more encouragement, and more publicity into postings of actual recordings of parodies posted on Amiright.

Isn't music what Amiright is about, anyway?  And isn't music ultimately meant to be performed and listened-to, not merely read ?
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Johnny, I agree to a degree.  But I also agree with 2nz about the lyrics part.  We don't all have a sound studio or voices to go with it, but we can all try our hand at writing parodies. That's the part that drew me here in the first place...writing parodies.

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Confuse me? I agree with the former statement about giving more encouragement/emphasis to recordings, but I disagree with the first part of Johnny's latter statement. Music is meant to be performed and listened-to, but the focus here at amiright is not creating music, it's creating lyrics. This is an important distinction, because there are parodies here that I believe look better on paper because they don't 'use' the intricacies of the song that they are based on enough.

There is an extra level of skill, in addition to the ability to create a good rhyme scheme, that makes a parody sound good when performed. As a personal 'for instance', I feel very few of my parodies would keep all of their witticism in recorded form, one notable exception being 'Breaking the Seams'. I think one of Spaff.com's greatest gifts is the theatrical feeling of his parodies creations. I'm not sure if he's recorded it yet, but one of my favorite examples is this one: http://www.amiright.com/parody/misc/westsidestorycast1.shtml
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Johnny, I agree to a degree.  But I also agree with 2nz about the lyrics part.  We don't all have a sound studio or voices to go with it, but we can all try our hand at writing parodies. That's the part that drew me here in the first place...writing parodies.
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2nz and Adagio,

I do agree with both of you - Amiright is still, and I agree it should remain primarily, a place for people to post and review each other's written parody lyrics.

I didn't intend to suggest that Amiright should start emphasizing musical recordings at the expense of written parody lyrics which are usually never intended to be performed or recorded, but simply read and enjoyed as humorous lyrical literature.

IMHO, a lot of stuff posted on Amiright would work very well as lyrics performed to the original song's music....a lot of highly-skilled parody authors write and post here, and their command of pacing and rhyme is often so superb that their parodies would fit marvelously into the original tunes with great comic and/or profound emotional effect.

That said....Adagio and 2nz, I really do agree that the first mission of Amiright ought to remain song parody lyrics for the enjoyment of readers.....not musical composition, performance, and recording.

However....it would be nice to see a bit more space made available to those among us - myself NOT included, by the way - who have the wherewithal to create and post recorded musical performances of parodies....they're so much fun to listen to!

I'm not a recording artist - I don't have the technology, I read sheet music very poorly, and I don't play an instrument..... ol' Johnny D is just a writer of lyrics - that's all.

Adagio - like you, what attracted me to Amiright in the first place was the chance to write and post my song parody lyrics for others to read and give me constructive feedback on....I don't have the musical talent, skill, or technology to compose and perform and record - but I can write lyrics for fun and laughs!  ;D

Johnny D

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I'm not a recording artist - I don't have the technology, I read sheet music very poorly, and I don't play an instrument..... ol' Johnny D is just a writer of lyrics - that's all.

Adagio - like you, what attracted me to Amiright in the first place was the chance to write and post my song parody lyrics for others to read and give me constructive feedback on....I don't have the musical talent, skill, or technology to compose and perform and record - but I can write lyrics for fun and laughs!  ;D

Johnny D

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Writing lyrics for fun and laughs you do exceedingly well!  :D

Pat