Note to new participants: Welcome, and good luck. Please read all guidelines carefully. Especially, please make sure to read all the entries and vote by the end of the month. The SOTM is not so much a contest as a feedback exchange. If you have any questions, feel free to ask, either in this thread or via personal message. Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

~~Vote by replying to this thread with your five favorites in order:
1st choice- 5 points
2nd place- 4 points
3rd place- 3 points
4th place- 2 points
5th place- 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.
~~Voters are strongly encouraged to leave at least a brief comment on every parody, to prove they've at least clicked on them all. Failure to do so will not result in official consequences, but will indicate to others that you're not interested in receiving comments either.
~~In the event of a tie, the parody with the most first place votes wins.
If it's still tied, the parody with the most second place votes wins.
If it's still tied, a brief playoff round will be held.
All participants will have the first week of the month to choose one favorite from among the tied entries.
Tiebreaker voting is strongly encouraged but not required. On the eighth day the one with the most votes wins.


1.  Still Whack-A-Mole For Me by Jeff Reuben

2.  Scales by Rex Ungericht

3. Working To Pay Back The Zoo by Arwen

4.  Pope John Paul by Johnny D

5.  At 115(MPH) by Scathe

6.  Smithereens by MooRocca
                 mp3

7.  Fake I.D. by Charlie Decker

8.  Meet Pope Benedict XVI by Agrimorfee
               Lyrics
                  midi

9.  The President's Song by Phil Alexander

10.  Nothing Is Worse Than These by Dumb *ss Kid

11.  Opening Day:  The *True* Most Wonderful Time of the Year by Claude Prez

12.  Vatican City by Spaff.com
                 MP3

13.  Yankovic by Luke Brattoni

14.  I Am Sixty - Going On Seventeen by Stuart McArthur
                 midi

15.  Under the Raincoat by Rick Cormier

16.  English is illogical ! by Red Ant

17.  Sixteen Sons by Dee Range
                 Lyrics

18.  Dinner by MysteryGoat

19.  Sir Jack by Mike Armstrong

20.  Britney Spears by Tim Mayfield

21.  I Stole De Mobile (but I Did Not Get De Papacy)  by Peter Andersson a.k.a K1chyd

22.  Extensively Remodelled, Now I'm Mostly Artific-ial by Kristof Robertson

23.  The Wreck Of Island Aeromotive by Guy DiRito

24.  In Da Sub(way) by 2nz

Finally!

Okay, here are my choices:

1st Place (5 Points) - 'Smithereens' by MooRocca
2nd Place (4 Points) - 'Vatican City' by Spaff.com
3rd Place (3 Points) - 'Fake ID' - Charlie Decker
4th Place (2 Points) - 'Meet Pope Benedict XVI' by Agrimorfee
5th Place (1 Point) - 'In Da Sub(Way)' by 2nz

Good Luck to everybody!  :)

Ooookaaaay....

24 entries.
Only two DKTOS's
Six parodies which, IMHO, are up with the best material these particular authors have ever written...
Another seven that have given me that "I wish I'd written that" feeling

WHY MUST YOU ALL MAKE THIS SO FREAKIN' HARD??
:-\\ :-\\ :-\\ :-\\ :-\\ :-\\ :-\\ :-\\ :-\\ :-\\ :-\\ :-\\ :-\\ :-\\

Yeah I know what you mean. " Indecision clouds my vision ". It will take a while before I can give these a honest vote. :-\\ as well.

New Pope, new Edmund Fitzgeralds, more food, more sick jokes...anyway :-X

5pts=Spaff (grrr!)
4pts=Red Ant
3pts=Dee Range
2pts=Jeff Reuben
1pt=Phil

(Dumb A**, thanks for the 2ptS!:))

After deliberating for HOURS on this and reviewing each parody several times I have come down to the 5 funniest to me ( they all are well paced ).


1st choice- 5 points  Vatican City by Spaff.com
2nd place- 4 points   Sixteen Sons by Dee Range
3rd place- 3 points    The President's Song by Phil Alexander
4th place- 2 points    Still Whack-A-Mole For Me by Jeff Reuben
5th place- 1 point.    Under the Raincoat by Rick Cormier

Thank you Agrimorfee. Everyone of these ( in the contest ) is great even though many I DKTOS on. (  :-[  a bit on that )

Good luck to everyone here, excellent parodies all around.  :)

I've just had to bite the bullet and go with gut instinct, or I'd be here all month!

5pts: Jeff (#1) Still Whack-a-Mole
4pts: Arwen (#3) Working To Pay Back The Zoo
3pts: Dee (#17) Sixteen Sons
2pts: Phil (#9) The Presidents Song
1pt: Spaff (#12) Vatican City

The Wreck Of Island Aeromotive by Guy DiRito - 1 point

The President's Song by Phil Alexander - 2 points

Still Whack-A-Mole For Me by Jeff Reuben - 3 points

Working To Pay Back The Zoo by Arwen - 4 points

Opening Day:  The *True* Most Wonderful Time of the Year by Claude Prez - 5 points

1. Five Points...Dee Range (16 Sons)
2. Four Points..Claude Prez (Opening Day, the Most Wonderful Time of the Year)
3. Three Points..Red Ant (English is Illogical)
4. Two Points...Arwen (Working to Pay Back the Zoo)
5. One Point....Jeff Reuben (Stll Whack-a-Mole For Me)

It's probably a shock to see me voting so early...but I'll be in San Diego (WOOHOO!) for the last part of the month, and won't be able to get my last minute voting in... :)

So...if I could give all of these guys 5 points, I would...they were ALL stand-outs...among a list of excellent entries...

5 points for Jeff...for describing my dream date...(I'm telling you, a man who beats a carnie in the spleen is what EVERY girl is looking for)...

4 points for Kristof...my ongoing hero of sorts...

3 points for Claude...I love Christmas music, I love baseball, and I LOVED his parody...

2 points for Stuart...the one line I left in my comment made it contender for me...

1 point for Dee...16 sons...infinite laughs... :)

Again...this is getting harder and harder...this was EXCELLENT month...!

(This was a very tough round for me to judge, I liked too many for too wide a variety of reasons!  Great stuff, everyone!)


9.  The President's Song by Phil Alexander

12.  Vatican City by Spaff.com
               
21.  I Stole De Mobile (but I Did Not Get De Papacy)  by Peter Andersson a.k.a K1chyd

15.  Under the Raincoat by Rick Cormier

20.  Britney Spears by Tim Mayfield

5 pts:  #12 Vatican City--Spaff.net
4 pts:  #3 Working To Pay Back The Zoo--Arwen
3 pts:  #7 Fake ID--Charlie Decker
2 pts:  #15 Under The Raincoat--Rick Cormier
1 pt:  #11 Opening Day--Claude Prez

Don't know what you're all bitching about, this was easy as anything to vote for. ;)

5 points to The President's Song by Phil Alexander
4 points to Sixteen Sons by Dee Range
3 points to Extensively Remodelled, Now I'm Mostly Artific-ial by Kristof Robertson
2 points to Vatican City by Spaff
1 point to Fake ID by Charlie D

5 points to Kristof's "Extensively Remodelled, Now I'm Mostly Artific-ial" (#22)

4 points to K1chyd's "I Stole De Mobile (but I Did Not Get De Papacy)" (#21)

3 points to Rick C's "Under the Raincoat" (#15)

2 points to Phil A's "The President's Song" (#9)

1 point to Red Ant's "English is Illogical" (#16)

Great job as always, everybody. You're all winners! Just these people a little more than everybody else.

5 pts. - #22 Kristof
4 pts. - #12 Spaff
3 pts. - #1 Jeff
2 pts. - #16 Red Ant
1 pt. - #3 Arwen

5 points to #22.  Extensively Remodelled, Now I'm Mostly Artific-ial by Kristof Robertson

4 points to #17.  Sixteen Sons by Dee Range

3 points to #15.  Under the Raincoat by Rick Cormier

2 points to #1.  Still Whack-A-Mole For Me by Jeff Reuben

1 point to #3. Working To Pay Back The Zoo by Arwen

5 Points #17  Sixteen Sons by Dee Range

4 Points #14  I Am Sixty - Going On Seventeen by Stuart McArthur

3 Points #01  Still Whack-A-Mole For Me by Jeff Reuben

2 Points #15  Under the Raincoat by Rick Cormier

1 Point  #18  Dinner by MysteryGoat

I probably say this every month, but I'm not exaggerating a bit to say that this was best set of SOTM entries yet. I went through them making notes on which ones DEFINITELY had to be in the top 5, and I ended up with 10. I read most of them two or three times, and cutting my list from 10 to 5 was a fairly impossible task. Here's where the dust settled:

5 points: 22. Extensively Remodelled, Now I'm Mostly Artific-ial
4 points: 17. Sixteen Sons
3 points: 14. I Am Sixty - Going On Seventeen
2 points: 7. Fake I.D.
1 point: 9. The President's Song

Honorable mentions all around. If you feel shafted, don't; please see my individual comments to you.

xoxox
Spaff

I hate having to leave so many worthy songs off the top 5 list, when so many deserve it, but here are my 5 favorites this month. Congrats to everyone in this contest, and thanks for all the laughs.

5 points.....Kristof
4 points.....Spaff
3 points.....Rick Cormier
2 points.....Stuart McArthur
1 point.......Arwen

Another tough month, all the top 4 on my list would IMHO have been contestants for top 3 SOTY 2004! That’s how hard it was this month. And the bunch I had to tell apart for fifth place was even bigger!!! After much agony I decided to give that sole point to a newbie that has never made my five-list before, but it could have gone to anyone of approx 8-10 songs. Anyway, a tad above the rest, basically because of the timing with current events when it was first posted, is in my book:

“Vatican City” by Spaff.com

And then, getting 4, 3, 2 and 1 points:

“The President's Song” by Phil Alexander

“Extensively Remodelled, Now I'm Mostly Artific-ial” by Kristof Robertson

“Sixteen Sons” by Dee Range

“English is illogical” by Red Ant

First and second were clear-cut for me. 

Kristof's has everything - gags, wit, pacing, nudge-nudges, no wasted lines - all his parodies do, but this was pure Kristof and is song of the year for me so far. 
Spaff's was great until I downloaded the previously DK'd OS, and then it became brilliant - witty, playful, topical and sharp - all his trademarks.
 
Arwen has the most individual style and sense of humour on the site imo. Her parodies are unmistakeably hers, and the detail-based mock-outrage, and the micro-environment she consistently recreates deserves honouring in itself.

Phil's erudition, wordplay, and pacing perfectionism always hit a chord with me

and Red Ant's lateral idea was great in itself, but the quirky execution of it, and the witty frills he tacked on charmed me, AND he's a newbie!


5 votes        22.   Extensively Remodelled, Now I'm Mostly Artific-ial       Kristof Robertson
4 votes        12.   Vatican City                                                            Spaff.com
3 votes        3.     Working To Pay Back The Zoo                                  Arwen
2 votes        9.     The President's Song                                               Phil Alexander
1 vote         16.    English is illogical                                                    Red Ant

and apologies to K1 (the choice of OS, and the matching of its tone, were a delight)   

First and second were clear-cut for me. 

Kristof's has everything - gags, wit, pacing, nudge-nudges, no wasted lines - all his parodies do, but this was pure Kristof and is song of the year for me so far. 
Spaff's was great until I downloaded the previously DK'd OS, and then it became brilliant - witty, playful, topical and sharp - all his trademarks.
 
Arwen has the most individual style and sense of humour on the site imo. Her parodies are unmistakeably hers, and the detail-based mock-outrage, and the micro-environment she consistently recreates deserves honouring in itself.

Phil's erudition, wordplay, and pacing perfectionism always hit a chord with me

and Red Ant's lateral idea was great in itself, but the quirky execution of it, and the witty frills he tacked on charmed me, AND he's a newbie!


5 votes        22.   Extensively Remodelled, Now I'm Mostly Artific-ial       Kristof Robertson
4 votes        12.   Vatican City                                                            Spaff.com
3 votes        3.     Working To Pay Back The Zoo                                  Arwen
2 votes        9.     The President's Song                                               Phil Alexander
1 vote         16.    English is illogical                                                    Red Ant

and apologies to K1 (the choice of OS, and the matching of its tone, were a delight)   



Yes, but WHY did you vote for them?
;)

Yes, but WHY did you vote for them?
;)



little brat >:(  -  so I had some time on my hands - so sue me  >:( >:( :P

whoops, I forgot this  (thanks Wacko J.)

Another great month... there's too much talent here, and somehow five choices is even harder.  I'd whittled the selection down to ten, then six (and found it very hard to kick out Jeff's Whack-a-Mole).  Excellent stuff, everybody.

5 points - #22.  Extensively Remodelled, Now I'm Mostly Artific-ial by Kristof Robertson
4 points - # 6.  Smithereens by MooRocca
3 points - #15.  Under the Raincoat by Rick Cormier
2 points - #16.  English is illogical ! by Red Ant
1 point  - # 3. Working To Pay Back The Zoo by Arwen

I had a top eleven...  I wonder if flipping coins is legal in deciding...

5 points - #22 - Extensively Remodelled, Now I'm Mostly Artific-ial - Kristof Robertson
4 points - #16 - English is illogical! - Red Ant
3 points - #12 - Vatican City - Spaff.com
2 points -  #9 - The President's Song - Phil Alexander
1 point  -  #4 - Pope John Paul - Johnny D

Tim

I had a top eleven...  I wonder if flipping coins is legal in deciding...

5 points - #22 - Extensively Remodelled, Now I'm Mostly Artific-ial - Kristof Robertson
4 points - #16 - English is illogical! - Red Ant
3 points - #12 - Vatican City - Spaff.com
2 points -  #9 - The President's Song - Phil Alexander
1 point  -  #4 - Pope John Paul - Johnny D

Tim


Thanks, Tim!    :)

Five points to #22 (Kristof)

Four points to #12 (Spaff)

Three points to #9 (Phil)

Two points to #17 (Dee)

One point to #8 (Agrimorfee)

Well, June 1st here and 3 people yet to vote. Any bets on whether or not they will? Assuming that they are west of EST they still have time left to vote.

I still feel like a bum having to narrow a list to just five, but then I remember I operate under the delusion that this whole mess is about exposure, and then I feel better.

5 points: #15.  "Under the Raincoat" by Rick Cormier

4 points: #12.  "Vatican City" by Spaff.com

3 points: #17.  Sixteen Sons by Dee Range

2 points: #22.  Extensively Remodelled, Now I'm Mostly Artific-ial by Kristof Robertson

1 point: #3. Working To Pay Back The Zoo by Arwen

5pt - "Yankovic" by Jake A Ralphing
4pt - "Under the Raincoat" by Rick Cormier
3pt - "Extensively Remodelled, Now I'm Mostly Artific-ial" by Kristof Robertson
2pt - "Vatican City" by Spaff
1pt - "Fake I.D." by Charlie Decker

Please note, the first few parodies listed I commented as "(ABC)", a small typo is all, thank you.

5pt - "Yankovic" by Jake A Ralphing


Well, that was out of the blue. Cheers!

Hopefully this is right; usually I doublecheck so let me know if I screwed up.

First Place:  "Extensively Remodelled, Now I'm Mostly Artific-ial" by Kristof Robertson -- 60 points

Second Place:  "Vatican City" by Spaff.com -- 56 points

Third Place:  "Sixteen Sons" by Dee Range -- 40 points

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Phil Alexander 32
Rick Cormier 28
Jeff Reuben 26
Arwen 22
Red Ant 18
Claude Prez 13
Stuart MacArthur 11
Charlie Decker 10
MooRocca 9
K1chyd 7
Luke Brattoni 5
Agrimorfee 3
2nz 1
Guy DiRito 1
Tim Mayfield 1
MysteryGoat 1
Johnny D 1

Only disqualification I have is Mike Armstrong; great job everybody.  Congratulations Kristof, Spaff, and Dee

Congratulations to everyone, especially Kristof, Spaff and Dee.

Great round, congrats winners!

Congrats to all on a stellar round, especially Kristof and Dee. And many thanks to those who supported my bid for the papacy.

xoxox
Pope Spaff LXIX

:D

Fourth again?  I'm making a habit of this...  congrats to all, especially to an even more fun Major-General parody than mine was ;)

Thank you to everyone who voted for my Frankenbarbie creation. I'm so chuffed to have done well this month, because I was particularly proud of this effort of mine...and that happens a lot less often than you'd think. Congrats to Spaff, who I was convinced had this in the bag (again... ;)) and especially to Dee, who's always been incredibly supportive of me, but only needs to have a look in the mirror to catch sight of a great parodist. As Spaff has already said, this was a phenomenal month for parodies...and everyone deserves a glass of bubbly....what?...no, I'm not buying a round!....I'm a what-skate?....sheesh  ;D

Congrats to Kristof, Spaff and Dee! Excellent round overall. Keep 'em coming.

congratulations to everybody who took part  :)

so let's see - Kristof, Spaff and Dee go 1 2 and 3

there's obviously a flaw in the system - time for an overhaul to ensure the cream rises to the top

big congrats guys :)

WOW! To even get 3rd in a contest with such a wealth of great entries is beyond belief to me. Seeing my name up there behind Kristof and Spaff, I had to believe I was dreaming, because they are in a different league, and from a different planet from us mortals. But many, many thanks to ALL for the votes and laughs. :)

Congrats Kristof, Spaff & Dee. And thanks to DoRitos for my one vote.

Kristof, you're on a roll! Keep up the outstanding work; and the same goes for everyone else too. While I'm disapointed that (IMHO) my best parody ever didn't crack the top 10, it had some very stiff competition and there's no shame in it. Oh, well, I have a good feeling about next month!

Congratulations to Kristof, Spaff, and Dee!

Medals have been posted!  ;D

First Place:  "Extensively Remodelled, Now I'm Mostly Artific-ial" by Kristof Robertson -- 60 points

Second Place:  "Vatican City" by Spaff.com -- 56 points

Third Place:  "Sixteen Sons" by Dee Range -- 40 points



Congrats to everyone, it was an outstanding month, I'm proud to even have scored points with my own silly little ditty in such hard competion.  :)

Kristof:
You're now the kind of Android that is always fully functional
You bump and grind and squirt your stuff in intervals quite punctual

Spaff:
The BennySixteenth Chapel is already 78 years old and raised because of that, I predict that the dark side will keep you alive long enough to get at least one more "creational" shot at the chair.

Dee: There must be a tie in joke between your sixteen sons and Benny Sixteen the mentioned above here, I just can't come up with it from the top of my head, instead I'll send you some "rubber miters" for your "head".