I came across this fragment of a parody I started a while ago, and I have NO RECOLLECTION whatsoever what OS I might have been using, or where I was going with this.  I thought it would be interesting to see whether maybe one of you clever people might be able to figure it out.  I'm assuming of course, that I wrote it using decent pacing.  Whether or not it rhymes with the OS, I have no idea.

Bruised and bloody feet, and badly battered knees
Wounds that cover most of my head
I'm a mess of hues: black and blue... and red
And my torso bleeds, and I can hardly see

Cheery stuff, huh?  Must have been a bad day.

Ok, lets make it interesting: $10 $20 $30 $50 Amazon.com gift certificate for the first person to figure it out.

I came across this fragment of a parody I started a while ago, and I have NO RECOLLECTION whatsoever what OS I might have been using, or where I was going with this.  I thought it would be interesting to see whether maybe one of you clever people might be able to figure it out.  I'm assuming of course, that I wrote it using decent pacing.  Whether or not it rhymes with the OS, I have no idea.

Bruised and bloody feet, and badly battered knees
Wounds that cover most of my head
I'm a mess of hues: black and blue... and red
And my torso bleeds, and I can hardly see

Cheery stuff, huh?  Must have been a bad day.

Ok, lets make it interesting: $10 Amazon.com gift certificate for the first person to figure it out.


Marrakesh Express by Crosby, Stills, and Nash.

I came across this fragment of a parody I started a while ago, and I have NO RECOLLECTION whatsoever what OS I might have been using, or where I was going with this.  I thought it would be interesting to see whether maybe one of you clever people might be able to figure it out.  I'm assuming of course, that I wrote it using decent pacing.  Whether or not it rhymes with the OS, I have no idea.

Bruised and bloody feet, and badly battered knees
Wounds that cover most of my head
I'm a mess of hues: black and blue... and red
And my torso bleeds, and I can hardly see

Cheery stuff, huh?  Must have been a bad day.

Ok, lets make it interesting: $10 Amazon.com gift certificate for the first person to figure it out.


Luka?

Marrakesh Express by Crosby, Stills, and Nash.


Um... interesting thought... but nope.  But thanks for playing!


Luka?


Um... nope.  I think 'Pooper' is the only viable parody of that tune.

Is that it?  Is that all you got?  I'm very disappointed, people...

Since I don't know all that much post-1980 pop, it's more likely to be a 70's/classic rock tune.  I suppose it's possible that its a more recent tune, but I'd think it would probably have to have been a pretty big hit for me to think of using it for a parody...

I came across this fragment of a parody I started a while ago, and I have NO RECOLLECTION whatsoever what OS I might have been using, or where I was going with this.  I thought it would be interesting to see whether maybe one of you clever people might be able to figure it out.  I'm assuming of course, that I wrote it using decent pacing.  Whether or not it rhymes with the OS, I have no idea.

Bruised and bloody feet, and badly battered knees
Wounds that cover most of my head
I'm a mess of hues: black and blue... and red
And my torso bleeds, and I can hardly see

Cheery stuff, huh?  Must have been a bad day.

Ok, lets make it interesting: $10 Amazon.com gift certificate for the first person to figure it out.


"What A Wonderful World" 

or quite possibly

"I Feel Pretty"

I'm not sure which one so I submit both for your consideration.

Kim

"What A Wonderful World" 

or quite possibly

"I Feel Pretty"

I'm not sure which one so I submit both for your consideration.

Kim


Nope.  Thanks.

one-Metallica?

Is that it?  Is that all you got?  I'm very disappointed, people...

Since I don't know all that much post-1980 pop, it's more likely to be a 70's/classic rock tune.  I suppose it's possible that its a more recent tune, but I'd think it would probably have to have been a pretty big hit for me to think of using it for a parody...


Does it help that it's been driving me crazy all night?  >:(

It would also be helpful to know what portion of the song we're looking at. 

Do you jump around when you're writing?  Could this be a bridge? 

Or do you generally start at the beginning and plow through? 

Is the ellipsis in the "hues" line indicative of a pause...or could it be representative of a string of words that you haven't figured out yet?

How often do you rhyme your lyrics to the original song's lyrics...?  Since that is my tendancy, I've been scouring my memory for an original song with the lyrics "la la la la...post of my bed."  I am well aware that you may not do that very often...but I can't get around it.

Which brings to the table:  Do you know how many horrifying things you can discover if you put "post of my bed" into Google? 

For what it's worth, I can force it into "Morning Has Broken."  The pacing is not so great...but I gave you the benefit of the doubt and figured you wrote this one before you'd mastered your craft. 

You can send my gift card anytime... ;)

I can more or less make it fit to "I'm into something good" by Herman's Hermits

My pacing's usually pretty good, so if these words don't fit pretty smoothly to the tune you're thinking of, you probably have the wrong OS.  The ellipsis wouldn't represent missing words – it probably represents a pause in the OS.  It may or may not rhyme with the OS. 

If it helps, I usually start at the beginning of the tune, but I might start at the chorus if that's where the title comes from -- my parodies usually are based on some distortion of the original title.

To me, this reads more like verse than a chorus, but who knows…

Who knows?
:-\\

Sorry – if I could be much more help that that, I probably wouldn't need to offer you guys a prize to help me.
::)

After we figure out what it is, it'll probably turn out to be some really stupid idea I abandoned for good reason…
>:(

Ok, you losers...  ;)

This is really driving me nuts... so I'm upping the prize to a $20 Amazon.com gift certificate.

Ok, you losers...  ;)


You're the one who doesn't remember the title to the song you are parodying and you are calling us losers?  :D

You're the one who doesn't remember the title to the song you are parodying and you are calling us losers?  :D




Hey, I get a million brilliant ideas a day -- I can't be expected to remember them all...  ;D

hmmm..it could be a Velvet Underground song off of VU and Nico that Im currently forgetting the name of...

hmmm..it could be a Velvet Underground song off of VU and Nico that Im currently forgetting the name of...


Don't think I know any VU... but let me know when you think of it... you never know...

Don't think I know any VU... but let me know when you think of it... you never know...


ah, I remembered it's name: "Venus in furs"

Bruised and bloody feet, and badly battered knees
Wounds that cover most of my head
I'm a mess of hues: black and blue... and red
And my torso bleeds, and I can hardly see


Could the original rhyme in line 1 have been 'batteries', 'flatteries', 'jeopardies' or 'leopard skis'?
It's got an ABBA (not the Swedes) rhyme scheme, and you've focused on alliteration, so that might help ring a bell.

I just realised that you might as well have posted the original lyrics of the song down and I still wouldn't know it.
Guess it's back to exchanging cash in return for goods at the bookstore...

ah, I remembered it's name: "Venus in furs"


No...  but that's a title just aching to be parodied...

Could the original rhyme in line 1 have been 'batteries', 'flatteries', 'jeopardies' or 'leopard skis'?
It's got an ABBA (not the Swedes) rhyme scheme, and you've focused on alliteration, so that might help ring a bell.

I just realised that you might as well have posted the original lyrics of the song down and I still wouldn't know it.
Guess it's back to exchanging cash in return for goods at the bookstore...


I'm at a loss, young Jedi -- I might have rhymed with the OS, or I might not have.  There is a bit of an interesting irregularity with the rhyme scheme, given the the internal 'hues'/'blue' rhyme in the third line... but alas that's not helping me narrow it down at all...  hey, it could be ABBA (the Swedes), though I don't have time to go through their hits right now to see if there might be a match.  So you may have given someone a big clue towards the $20 Supaprize...

So far, the only thing I've been able to come up with is Don McLean's "Vincent" but it doesn't fit well after the first four words.

Ok, clearly this is more difficult (and annoying) than I anticipated, so I'm upping the ante again... $30 gift certificate.

I know the answer, I'm just holding out until you put $50 on the gift card  ;)

I know the answer, I'm just holding out until you put $50 on the gift card  ;)


LOL! 

It's "American Pie," isn't it?

LOL! 

It's "American Pie," isn't it?


Dont' be silly -- it's 'Blinded By the Light'.

It's a trick question there is no original song

Sounds pretty close to Sound of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel
... but what do I know?  :D

Sounds pretty close to Sound of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel
... but what do I know?  :D


You people must think I have NO sense of pacing...  :P

I just said you had no sense...I didn't say anything about pacing  :)

And here I was going to say Margaritaville

the rhyme scheme has got to be the key i can't even think of any songs that rhyme abba so it must be pretty rare. The internal rhyme in the third line should be a good hint too... unless you have a tendency to put extra rhymes in parodies.

$50.  Crap.  He called my bluff.

i felt like i had it last night when my computer was off but i forgot what i was thinking.

i felt like i had it last night when my computer was off but i forgot what i was thinking.


Ouch.  Sucks to be you, E-man.  Take comfort in the thought that you were probably wrong anyway.  :P

Oh I get it...now that it's 50 dollars, I'm suddenly going to have an epiphany?  I have been killing myself since it was a "maybe" on 5 dollars.

And, for the record, if offering more money had to ability to make a person smarter, I wouldn't have had to dump my last 4 boyfriends. >:(

it works for message in the bottle for 1 line that's more than you can say for most of the suggestions here

And, for the record, if offering more money had to ability to make a person smarter, I wouldn't have had to dump my last 4 boyfriends. >:(


I don't know...for $50 bucks, I'd certainly learn how to run the dishwasher or something  ;D

Daydream Believer by The Monkees fits reasonably well

California Dreaming works for lines 1, 3 and 4, so do I get 75% of the reward?  ;D

I thought I'd approach this in a slightly more logical way by looking at the songs Leo uses the most.

but it didn't fit Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious, Modern Major-General or This Life (possibly It's Life, not one I knew)

I thought I'd approach this in a slightly more logical way by looking at the songs Leo uses the most.

but it didn't fit Supercalifragilisticexpealidocious...


Nope, that would be

"Bruised and bloody, gruesome, grubby, wretched and atrocious"

California Dreaming works for lines 1, 3 and 4, so do I get 75% of the reward?  ;D


Hmm... well, that comes closer to fitting the pacing than most guesses so far.

sounds to me like Shattered Dreams?

sounds to me like Shattered Dreams?


Um... don't know the song.

Um... don't know the song.


I think Johnny Hates Jazz did it.

I think Johnny Hates Jazz did it.


Well, jazz singer Johnny Hartman hates this jazz hating Johnny whoever he is.

I'll weigh in with 'One of the solo sections in "Mahna, Mahna" by The Muppets'. Either that or something that you wrote that doesn't really resemble much of anything, which is why you didn't post it (I only mention the latter out of annoyance at your insistance that you are physically, mentally, metaphorically and spiritually incapable of doing such a thing). Come on man, isn't it even slightly possible that you just had a brain-fart and put it on paper. Reads decently on it's own, but I'm comin' up dry man. Incidentally, the cash prize that Leo is offering... is NOW... 186 MILLION DOLLARS!!! Whoever wins will get a dollar a year for 186 million years.

i already guessed no original song... that didn't even get a response

i already guessed no original song... that didn't even get a response


Nah, it must be a parody of something.  Probably an OS whose original lyrics have similar sounds to the words I've chosen.  I'm not normally inclined to come up with a twisted lyric like that out of thin air.


I'll weigh in with 'One of the solo sections in "Mahna, Mahna" by The Muppets'. Either that or something that you wrote that doesn't really resemble much of anything, which is why you didn't post it (I only mention the latter out of annoyance at your insistance that you are physically, mentally, metaphorically and spiritually incapable of doing such a thing). Come on man, isn't it even slightly possible that you just had a brain-fart and put it on paper. Reads decently on it's own, but I'm comin' up dry man. Incidentally, the cash prize that Leo is offering... is NOW... 186 MILLION DOLLARS!!! Whoever wins will get a dollar a year for 186 million years.


Heh.

this is interesting - going by your vintage Leo, and the unorthodox abba rhyme scheme, the song-writer daring to be different in those days was Bob Dylan, so it could be one of his - in fact "Like A Rolling Stone" fits, sort of - except for the second line

the richness of imagery fits Bob's kind of song too

...and the stream-of-consciousness feel

this is interesting - going by your vintage Leo, and the unorthodox abba rhyme scheme, the song-writer daring to be different in those days was Bob Dylan, so it could be one of his - in fact "Like A Rolling Stone" fits, sort of - except for the second line

the richness of imagery fits Bob's kind of song too

...and the stream-of-consciousness feel


Interesting thought, Stu, though I don't know that song well enough to have given it a shot.

This is driving me to distraction. My choices of OS are usually pretty white-bread -- I can't believe I haven't come up with it in all this time.

Might I suggest perusing Johnny's list of the best songs to parody?  It's bound to be on that list, somewhere --  I found my missing keys on that list, just the other day!  ;)

Isn't that the song Jesus Complex by Iron Maiden or something?

I'm sure it's either "Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida" by Iron Butterfly, or "I'm A Little Teapot".......sheesh, I don't know! :o

Might I suggest perusing Johnny's list of the best songs to parody?  It's bound to be on that list, somewhere...



Hmm... that would involve work on my part.
The whole point of offering compensation is to try to incentivize others to do work that I don't want to do.
It's the very foundation of our economic system. 
Well, my economic system, anyway.

It's the very foundation of our economic system. 



;D

;D


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Might I suggest perusing Johnny's list of the best songs to parody?  It's bound to be on that list, somewhere --  I found my missing keys on that list, just the other day!  ;)



Hmm... that would involve work on my part.
The whole point of offering compensation is to try to incentivize others to do work that I don't want to do.
It's the very foundation of our economic system.
Well, my economic system, anyway.



Since I don't know all the songs on the list I'll just post a link to it here

http://www.inthe00s.com/index.php/topic,8559.msg350590.html#msg350590

then maybe someone else will look through it.

Since I don't know all the songs on the list I'll just post a link to it here

http://www.inthe00s.com/index.php/topic,8559.msg350590.html#msg350590

then maybe someone else will look through it.


Cool.  Though of course, it could also be a jazz tune.  Or a song from a musical.  Or a classical symphonic work that I decided to try to put words to...

though it's most likely 70's or 80's Top 40.

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I'm sorry...what?

I'm sorry...what?


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Cool. Though of course, it could also be a jazz tune. Or a song from a musical. Or a classical symphonic work that I decided to try to put words to...

though it's most likely 70's or 80's Top 40.


Can't you read?  What is with you people?

how about i write a parody about severe injury and let you pretend you wrote it (if it's up to your standards) Then can i have $50?

Let me get back to you...

No.

Why don't you just adapt it to A-HA's "Oranges On Apple Trees" and let it go at that?

So it was late...and I was just about to go to bed...and suddenly I started thinking about THIS again...and I had to dig it up...and read it...and re-read it...because I thought that after a couple of months clarity would hit me...I was wrong.  Dammit.

But I'd still love for someone else to figure it out...so I'm bringing it back up to the top.

So it was late...and I was just about to go to bed...and suddenly I started thinking about THIS again...and I had to dig it up...and read it...and re-read it...because I thought that after a couple of months clarity would hit me...I was wrong.  darnit.

But I'd still love for someone else to figure it out...so I'm bringing it back up to the top.


Heh, heh.  It popped into my head a few days ago as well, but I've just about given up on ever remembering what song it's based on, and since all you LOSERS have been NO help -- even with the enticement of a bit of cyber-currency -- it will just have to go down with the Lindbergh Baby, Spam Luncheon Meat and Deep Throat -- um, Marilyn Manson -- as another one of life's mysteries...

-- it will just have to go down with the Lindbergh Baby, Spam Luncheon Meat and Deep Throat -- um, Marilyn Manson -- as another one of life's mysteries...


I don't do well with unsolved mysteries... >:(

But LOL!!

I came across this fragment of a parody I started a while ago, and I have NO RECOLLECTION whatsoever what OS I might have been using, or where I was going with this.  I thought it would be interesting to see whether maybe one of you clever people might be able to figure it out.  I'm assuming of course, that I wrote it using decent pacing.  Whether or not it rhymes with the OS, I have no idea.

Bruised and bloody feet, and badly battered knees
Wounds that cover most of my head
I'm a mess of hues: black and blue... and red
And my torso bleeds, and I can hardly see

Cheery stuff, huh?  Must have been a bad day.

Ok, lets make it interesting: $10 $20 $30 $50 Amazon.com gift certificate for the first person to figure it out.

Wait, LJ...OH...tell me I'm not too LATE...'cuz I GOT IT......ummm..."Witchi-Tai-To" by Brewer & Shipley...Right?  ???

But...since money is of no import to me, you can donate my winning share to an appropriate charity  ;)

If that's NOT it, do I still win the "Home Version" of this game???   :D

prob

I came across this fragment of a parody I started a while ago, and I have NO RECOLLECTION whatsoever what OS I might have been using, or where I was going with this.  I thought it would be interesting to see whether maybe one of you clever people might be able to figure it out.  I'm assuming of course, that I wrote it using decent pacing.  Whether or not it rhymes with the OS, I have no idea.

Bruised and bloody feet, and badly battered knees
Wounds that cover most of my head
I'm a mess of hues: black and blue... and red
And my torso bleeds, and I can hardly see

Cheery stuff, huh?  Must have been a bad day.

Ok, lets make it interesting: $10 $20 $30 $50 Amazon.com gift certificate for the first person to figure it out.


I'll just post songs at random. Aerosmith: Uncle Salty, Lord of the thighs, Sweet Emotion, SOS(Too Bad).
Black Sabbath: Warning, Am I going insane?, Sabbath bloody sabbath, Snowblind.
Pretenders: Back on the chain gang, Mystery achievement, Middle of the road.
Bob Dylan: Knockin on heaven's door, Everybody must get stoned.
Poison: Unskinny bop. The Cult: Up in the clouds, Coming down, Edie(Ciao Baby), Sweet soul sister.
The Cure: Love song, Just like Heaven. Shocking Blue: Venus, Love buzz.
I think I'm way off the mark. But it's fun to try!

i think you just get one or two guesses at a time... otherwise i could probably cut and paste from lists of top 40 songs and the right song would be there but no one would know

I was just having fun with it. I wasn't being serious. ;)

Could it possibly be to part of Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen?

Sorry, haven't checked this thread in a while...

No, to all of the above guesses, I'm afraid.  You people really think I have a rather liberal sense of pacing...