I have said that there is no song that could not be parodied, the glaring exception "Iki Maska" by Nina Hagen.

Here is a live performance, as I can't find the original track for free for your listening enjoyment. There is no Internet transcription of lyrics.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_ZEWoYA2us

I will add more entries to this concept as I encounter them: songs that I truly believe are *impossible* to write parodies for. I will provide lyrics and a listening source so any of you people who have a lot of time and a strong constitution can REALLY complete a comprehensible, non-misheard lyric style parody of these and prove me wrong. ;D ;D :D

Blueberry Boat, by The Fiery Furnaces. I was a mean bastard to Kristof Robinson and challenged him to complete a parody of this song, for which he has not completed and he has not spoken to me in ages. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh3plEz6r8s . Note that the vocals do not begin until 2:05.

Here are the lyrics. Yup, there is a section in Inuit!

I had a locket, a little silver charm,
Given to me so to keep me out of harm.
Canvasing the quayside trying to earn my keep,
A killick tore it off my neck and threw it in the deep.
And now I'll never, never, never feel like I am safe again
And now I'll never, never, never feel like I am safe again
And now I'll never, never, never feel like I am safe again.
Up to the quarentine, late night aboard,
Try to raise our fees but we get what they afford.
Busy work below deck according to form;
Waiting for the clear to leave but then comes up a storm.
We hid beneath the barrels of blubber hoping that the rain had passed
But when the wind kept up the rats cut down the rigging off the mast
And then the rust chewed through the anchor chain and out to sea we're cast.
The clouds dried and cracked
It was calm in fact
The ship had been towed,
By sea Dyaks towed
So we're sold Kolaba
'n sent -- I let out a sob, a
cry oh no it's disaster -- T-Ranter Bay Madacascar.
Great gulps of Greek fire get us in;
Sling sticks at the stockade Fort Dauphin;
A guardsman gave a griffin said grease my duke:
Down by the chimney and out through the fluke.
A looby, a lordant, a lagerhead, lozel,
a lungio lathback made me a proposal:
Straight sail, top mast, astrolabe prospected
down in his dry dock erected infected;
Mocked up with silk strings and taffeta tricked
with nails out of driftwood already iron sicked:
now spy out the glass at whatever missteps me
and the press gang warrant's signed Sir Edward Pepsi.
Course it wasn't long till I caught the croup,
Dawding on the drizzy deck of my majesty's sloop.
If only the hlmsman would turn from his whip staff
With my azimuth compass I'd go by the hectograph
Up to the whaling fleet in Gilbert sound
Then back in the hull when we come around
With 100 seals and 2 polar bears
Nearly in the harbor without any cares,
But then:
A looby, a lordant, a lagerhead, lozel,
a lungio lathback made me a proposal:
Straight sail, top mast, astrolabe prospected
down in his dry dock erected infected;
Mocked up with silk strings and taffeta tricked
with nails out of driftwood already iron sicked:
now spy out the glass at whatever missteps me
and the press gang warrant's signed Sir Edward Pepsi.
Half hour sandglass
Seven saker round shot
Ice for the moonshine
And chichsaneg.
Canyglow, canyglow, canyglow don't say nugo
Tie tight my sugnacoon
In comes the tucktodo
Aba in aob aginyoh.
Look awennye
Get out my sawygmeg
Yliaout, yliaout
Weave us on shore
Unuiche quoysah
Maconmeg
And I gave a sasobneg.
Canyglow, canyglow, canyglow don't say nugo
Tie tight my sugnacoon
In comes the tucktodo
Aba in aob aginyoh.
And now we live by muskles, water weeds with small relief in store
And all the sick men in the Galean were then put upon the shore
And on the 22nd we didn't see our general any more.
Down came our trestle-trees, no pitch tar or nails;
Fore shrouds break no rope we trust;
Only shift of sails.
Drink my Rosa Solis; struck suddenly ahull
Yield ourselves we spoomed, my sinews stiff,
My eyes were dull.
And now I'll never, never, never feel like I am safe again
And now I'll never, never, never feel like I am safe again
And now I'll never, never, never feel like I am safe again.
And as we pass the equinoctial only 5 of us could stand
And while the capsten without sheets or tacks by all of us was manned
And on the 11th day of June ran in at Barehaven to land.

Desert Urbania by UnExpect

So much for the wicked bonds strangling inspiration
Silent...you retreat into the Temple
Desert Urbania and drown...
Deep within the mosaic
of an inward fraction
Float forth subtle emissaries from outer-materia
Emerging, but THEY are one, blooming on Mount Chimera
Globular insinuation, mystic mood in a nameless location.
Enu edayon éikerppa
Sink and desert Urbania
"He offered me a shapeless way so unusual
A breach in the maze to feel the unexplainable".
Mere words!
They're not suitable swords
To elate the pagans and their hordes
(Veiled
treasure, I still dream beyond this mortal frame)
We must focus on
guiding pupils willing to soar
The school of thoughts, mirage haven for
the sightless to explore.
Enu edayon éikerppa
Sink and desert Urbania
"Dancing on the limbs of a venerable and graceful oak Escorted by fading Elvish shadows, to me He spoke

"Truth is a shattered sun blinding
the senses of nations proclaiming they gaze at the right fragments...
In this perspective...
I prefer okapis to humans".

Admire the Invisible,
The misunderstood majesty of the imaginative ghost Seize the momentanous
splendour, disciple
Short-lived, Fleetingly sublime.

Admire the Invisible,
The misunderstood majesty of the imaginative ghost Acknowledge
with serenity the inescapable gaping jaws
Obsession of the voracious clock...

Standing on the edges of reality, one could magnify even a sea
Believe and develop your innermost We conjure you, be our host...

Controlled madness
Lucid mummy
Ghoulish caress
Acid coffee
Would it seem senseless?
If we scream like banshees ?

Orchestrated wonders
"Lose your way" and plunder
A charred Bone-Wheel
is spinning
Unique !! Everything is yours to taste...
Wave it still... Long Live The King!
Want to peel your skin? There is no haste...
Trancelike motion
Absorb our potion...

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAi-JBkebiE&feature=related

Cry For The Fire, by The Residents

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4k5bvYtozI. No lyrics sheet available.

You may think that this would be a simple parody, but once you get to 1:50... :o

A bastard by the name of agrimorfee
Had challenged poor Kristof to this parody

I just might try these I haven't been sleeping well because my mind is wandering too much.

A song I think is impossible to parody... anything by Asaki. Japanese folk/metal/scat is impossible in my book. I'll put up some links when my dial-up speed gets better.

I just went to hear Blueberry Boat for the first time and I'm thinking oh man if I can get something written at then hear better with the implant, this might be a blast to video.

                                                                                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh3plEz6r8s
I had a locket, a little silver charm,
Given to me so to keep me out of harm.
Canvasing the quayside trying to earn my keep,
A killick tore it off my neck and threw it in the deep.                                      kil′·lock
And now I'll never, never, never feel like I am safe
now I'll never, never, never feel like I am safe
now I'll never, never, never feel like I am safe

Up to the quarentine, late night aboard,
Try to raise our fees but we get what they afford.
Busy work below deck according to form;
Waiting for the clear to leave but then comes up a storm.

We hid beneath the barrels of blubber hoping that the rain had passed, But when the wind kept up the rats cut down the rigging off the mast, And then the rust chewed through the anchor chain and out to sea we're cast.

                          ( INS)

And then the rust chewed through the anchor chain and out to sea we're cast.,The clouds dried and cracked,It was calm in fact,The ship had been towed,By sea Dyaks towed,So we're sold Kolaba,'n sent -- I let out a sob, a cry oh no it's disaster -- T-Ranter Bay Madacascar.

Great gulps of Greek fire get us in;
Sling sticks at the stockade Fort Dauphin;
A guardsman gave a griffin said grease my duke:
Down by the chimney and out through the fluke.
A looby, a lordant, a lagerhead, lozel,
a lungio lathback made me a proposal:
Straight sail, top mast, astrolabe prospected
down in his dry dock erected infected;
Mocked up with silk strings and taffeta tricked
with nails out of driftwood already iron sicked:
now spy out the glass at whatever missteps me
and the press gang warrant's signed Sir Edward Pepsi.

Course it wasn't long till I caught the croup,
Dawding on the drizzy deck of my majesty's sloop.
If only the hlmsman would turn from his whip staff
With my azimuth compass I'd go by the hectograph
Up to the whaling fleet in Gilbert sound
Then back in the hull when we come around
With 100 seals and 2 polar bears
Nearly in the harbor without any cares,
But then:
A looby, a lordant, a lagerhead, lozel,
a lungio lathback made me a proposal:
Straight sail, top mast, astrolabe prospected
down in his dry dock erected infected;
Mocked up with silk strings and taffeta tricked
with nails out of driftwood already iron sicked:
Now spy out the glass at whatever missteps me
and the press gang warrant's signed Sir Edward Pepsi.

Half hour sandglass                                                          saundglass                         
Seven saker round shot                               
Ice for the moonshine                                                      mounshine                 
And chichsaneg.                                                            shick an egg                     

fly fly flora
half half ay
fly fly flora
hit by a storum
can a cora
give it up
hit by a storum
a a clocks off
half by a bora
I'm intoxicated
can a bora, can i cora, can ya toffae, can a bor
fly from the storma
Fly fly flora
Fly fly flor
I've been boawrded

And now we live off of the bottom,weeds with small relief in store 
And all the sick men in the Galean were then put upon the shore
And on the 22nd we didn't see our general any more.

Down came our trestle-trees, no pitch tar or nails;                     
Fore shrouds break no rope we trust;Only shift of sails.
Drink my Rosa Solis; struck suddenly ahull
Yield ourselves we spoomed, my sinews stiff,My eyes were dull

And now I'll never never never feel like I am safe again
And now I'll never never show my face with others thats within         
And now I'll never never never feel like I am safe again

A song I think is impossible to parody... anything by Asaki. Japanese folk/metal/scat is impossible in my book. I'll put up some links when my dial-up speed gets better.


Like Scatman Crothers?

Not the other type?  :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm17cZASqzY

Definetly can't argue with that one. ^

:D

Hocus Pocus, by Focus

Any foreign songs would be considered impossible to parody

I'm planning to parody Revolution 9 one day...

Any foreign songs would be considered impossible to parody

I'm planning to parody Revolution 9 one day...


TSB does foreign songs quite often (apparently, but I can't say whether they are good  ;)).

Red Ant is thus far the only person who has successfully accomplished a "Revolution 9" parody.
http://www.amiright.com/parody/60s/thebeatles1441.shtml

Red Ant is thus far the only person who has successfully accomplished a "Revolution 9" parody.
http://www.amiright.com/parody/60s/thebeatles1441.shtml

Rick Duncan has too (he's done *all* the Beatles)

Re foreign songs, I've done the Marseillaise a couple of times, and Dylan Baranski's done Plastique Bertrand's Ca Plane Pour Moi - they're not impossible at all, it's just that you don't spend the same sort of time listening to the lyrics.

Foreign songs aren't impossible. I've parodied Japanese groups Iceman, Breakerz, Project R, and L'arc~en~Ciel. However, Asaki and Des-ROW are nearly impossible.

he he  now where was I

And now he's never never never gonna speak to you again

maybe I'll come up with something.