~~Entries begin after the last parody update of the month.
~~Any song first appearing at AmiRight during the contest month (this year) is eligible.
~~To enter, reply to this thread with the url of your entry.
~~By entering, you are agreeing to read all the other entries and vote.
~~On the eighth day of the month, entries close and voting begins.
~~Vote by replying to voting thread with your three favorites in order:  Top choice gets 3 points, next gets 2 points, third favorite gets 1 point.
~~You're not allowed to vote for your own song.
~~Once you've posted a vote, you're not allowed to change it.
~~Voting continues until the last day of the month ends.
~~Anyone who's participated in a SOTM contest may vote.
~~Anyone who enters but does not vote by the end of the month is disqualified and may not participate next month.
~~When the new month begins, the first person to enter the next contest should copy this message and start the new entry thread with it.
~~Rule changes may be suggested by any participant in their entry post.  Changes are made only when a majority of that month's voters specify a "yes" vote along with their contest votes.

I only wrote one song this month:

http://www.amiright.com/parody/70s/barrymanilow33.shtml


Also, I'm proposing a rule change: 

~~Voters must leave a brief comment on every parody, indicating they've read it for the SOTM contest (something like, "SOTM--555" or whatever)

If you have an opinion on this, indicate yes or no in this thread when you enter your song.  If it passes, it will be in effect for this month's contest.

  :D  http://www.amiright.com/parody/70s/aerosmith21.shtml "Dance This Way" to Aerosmith's "Walk This Way".  A sample of the music is included on the top portion of the parody.

I vote 'yes' that we all leave votes, etc.  to each contest parody.

So much easier to pick when you only write one song a month  :)

Cross Eyed Girl, tune of Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison:

http://www.amiright.com/parody/60s/vanmorrison7.shtml

And yes (I try to leave them anyway)

This is the least active month I've had since I joined, I've been away. And yes, Claude, I am one of the guilty parties about the comments. I read each song, usually vote, but I've been very remiss in commenting on everything. So I'm voting yes with Adagio and promise to follow the new rules like a good contest participant. Whatever voting I may have missed in the last few months is gone now anyway, So I guess we all get a new start. As a tribute to the month, I'll go with the last one I did:

http://www.amiright.com/parody/60s/who4.shtml

I would kill two birds with the one stone by submitting 'Nacho Monn', but I'm an environmentalist. Emphasis on the 'mental'.
A Weird Al parody that I hope won't get me chased off the site by a hollering mob of yokels with pitchforks:

"Your Bosses' Notes To Get Paid" parody of that hilarious 'Horoscope' song.
http://www.amiright.com/parody/90s/weirdal3.shtml

The rules above seems simple enough, though due to my school related absence I have never entered before and I´m not really up to date on how this works. Is this like signing up for an initial voting round that will be followed by others as some contestants are eliminated, survivor type thingie, or is it just one voting round where the winner takes all?

  //  Peter "K1chyd" Andersson

My entry is:

American Pride

.....which is my parody of Don McLean's "American Pie".

..............and yes, I agree with leaving "SOTM" comments, I've been doing it for awhile, already.... ;D

I can't enter because I didn't write a song last month, but can I still vote on the new proposal?

If so: "YES" to Claude's new proposition, although I try to do that anyway. Speaking of which...

i think it should be encouraged but optional because of the difficulty of penalizing people who don't comment on everything and because of how much trouble it was for me to leave a comment on all of last months entries last night. Anyway here's my entry... plunder the sea:

http://www.amiright.com/parody/80s/thelittlemermaid2.shtml

"Fifteen" (the only july song i had and only two votes thanks tot he screw up) parody of Nirvana's "Rape Me". please ignoret he first conment, it made me angry.

http://www.amiright.com/parody/90s/nirvana122.shtml

The rules above seems simple enough, though due to my school related absence I have never entered before and I´m not really up to date on how this works. Is this like signing up for an initial voting round that will be followed by others as some contestants are eliminated, survivor type thingie, or is it just one voting round where the winner takes all?

  //  Peter "K1chyd" Andersson

Just one round.  The first week of the month entries are taken, then you have the entire rest of the month to vote--you read every entry (possibly leaving a short comment on each), post your three favorites in order to the voting thread, and you're done.

Hi.  First time I'm entering these, but I understand the rules.  I'm submitting my funniest for July, "Godfatherzilla":  http://www.amiright.com/parody/60s/johnnyrivers22.shtml

What the hell...pretty sure this is the best I've got as far as July goes...(besides my MASTERFUL Dan Fogelberg piece that nobody knew the original for... ;))

It's called "Pull Your Pants Up, Please" and is a parody of "Take a Chance on Me" by ABBA.

http://www.amiright.com/parody/70s/abba75.shtml

Merry & Pippin's entry is :

Letter B

Based on The Beatles' "Let It Be"

http://www.amiright.com/parody/70s/thebeatles30.shtml

I'd rather not require comments on every piece -- it's not going to make someone read a piece they're not inclined to read.  They'll just leave a token meaningless comment, and I'm not sure what's gained by that.  I'd prefer that votes and comments be inspired by readers' organic responses and genuine sense of courtesy and comraderie rather than mandated political correctness.

I concur with Leo Jay, that meaningless comments would be posted, but I believe that it is the only way a truly fair competition is maintained. I must admit that seeing the URL ending with some old 60's fogie puts me off reading it, but I have always gone through every parody and left feedback as it turns out I might actually be familiar with the tune or find a really well written parody which would have been previously overlooked for voting.

So YES, comments on everyone else's work seems only fair.

My vote is YES. I'm all for Lee OJ's "token meaningless comments" and "mandated political correctness." Especially if it makes Ralphing Luke confront those "old fogeys." Like, ahem:

http://www.amiright.com/parody/70s/manfredmannsearthband1.shtml
("Blind Dates kind of Bite" to "Blinded by the Light")

Better yet, JARLB, how 'bout if we force you to listen to the originals? Here's Manfred Mann in all his/their overwrought glory:
http://www.spaff.com/dktos

xoxox
Spaff

My vote is YES. I'm all for Lee OJ's "token meaningless comments" and "mandated political correctness." Especially if it makes Ralphing Luke confront those "old fogeys." Like, ahem:

http://www.amiright.com/parody/70s/manfredmannsearthband1.shtml
("Blind Dates kind of Bite" to "Blinded by the Light")

Better yet, JARLB, how 'bout if we force you to listen to the originals? Here's Manfred Mann in all his/their overwrought glory:
http://www.spaff.com/dktos

xoxox
Spaff



This is some sort of blackmail! And I'm falling for it!

It took only three months for me to become the resident grouch pissing in the wind...  :P

Just one round.  The first week of the month entries are taken, then you have the entire rest of the month to vote--you read every entry (possibly leaving a short comment on each), post your three favorites in order to the voting thread, and you're done.


Noted and understood. So I´m joining, trying out my luck with...

"(These Are The Guidelines If You Want) A Threesome Of Numero 5 For A Song"
Based on "99 Bottles Of Beer On The Wall" - Traditional.

URL: http://www.amiright.com/parody/misc/traditional527.shtml

i think it should be encouraged but optional because of the difficulty of penalizing people who don't comment on everything and because of how much trouble it was for me to leave a comment on all of last months entries last night. .


It is a trouble for me to comment on every entry, I have limited time at the office to screw around as much as I do, let alone look at every entry. I am with Ethan on this. I generally comment on exemplary songs that hit me hard with the laughs or tears.

Anyway, this entry probaobly won't win as it is such a new song that no one will ever hear on the radio and can't find on the 'net, but goshdarnit, it was my favorite work this month that still puts a smile on my face, voting totals be damned! ;)

http://www.amiright.com/parody/2000s/thepolyphonicspree0.shtml

Seeing that it's an election year & convention season, my entry is:
www.amiright.com/parody/misc/elvispresley59.shtml
I vote yes to comments. If the idea is to prove that we've
read each one, how about having to chose a "best line"?

http://www.amiright.com/parody/90s/madonna27.shtml
Original can be heard at:
http://laniestone22.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/expressyourself.mp3


On the proposed rules change:
I have missed commenting only one month, last month.  I read each entry more than once, I rated each entry (more than once to make sure my votes took -- which rather seems a waste  of time now that I see what's happened to the ratings since I left -- gee whiz, I can't leave for one week, can I?  hee hee!)  Anyway, I didn't want to put just "SOTM - voted/commented" because it makes it sound like it was a chore to read them when the opposite was true or I wouldn't play along every month, but I was not feeling particularly witty or insightful and I know "Nice Job" loses its meaning if it's said too many times... Yada yada yada...  A comment doesn't prove a parody was read, only that it was opened and lack of a comment does not prove that the parody was not opened, read, rated and considered.  So, I'm going to vote a soft "no" on requiring the comments.   

Ok, I'll give the token meaningless comments thing a shot...

But can I make a request? (I wouldn't go so far as request an actual 'rule change' since anarchist that I am, I resist all forms of authoritarianism, but...) It would help if the final list displayed entries by song name/author rather than by url -- can we each submit our entries in this format:

A-y-y-y, Bee, Sea (The TV Song) by Leo Jay

It's just a matter of using the following format to create the link:

{url=paste the url here}write your text here{/url}

But use square brackets instead of... hip ones? { }.