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.

~~By entering, you are agreeing to read and comment on all the other entries and vote.

~~Anyone who enters but does not both comment on all entries and vote by the end of the month is disqualified and may not participate next month.

~~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 win.

and the 19 entrants are:

1. The Matrix 2: The First Movie by the_conqueror_of_parodies

Phonetic Lyrics here

mp3 here

2. The Fat Life by The Charnstar

mp3 here

3. Hollywood Needs New Writers by Matthias

mp3 here

4. You're So Swell Agrimorfee by Rick Cormier

mp3 here

5. Free Forever! What A Night! by Johnny D

Free karaoke-style MIDI audio file of "Oh, What A Night"

6. Hope Martha Isn't Homely Tonight by Jeff Reuben

mp3 here

7. One Week (Straining To Write Something For SOTM) by Arwen

mp3 here

8. Mad Libs by Agrimorfee

mp3 here (Tears For Fears version)

9. Age Of Asparagus/Vegetarians by Michael McVey

10. The Sport's-Utility's Song by wannabemustangjockey

mp3 here

11. (Bleep) (Bleep) Snakes On A Plane by Chris Bodily TM

mp3 here

12. Can't Fill This Order by Cat

weird YouTube vid here

Alternative if you don't like weird YouTube vids

13. Trivia Skill Won't Take You Too Far by Stuart McArthur

mp3 here

14. Yellow Substitute by Peter Andersson a.k.a K1chyd

mp3 here

15. Billy Ray's Movie Theme Tunes, No. 2: Speed by Kristof Robertson

mp3 here

16. Number One On MySpace by Ragdoll

Top Of The Pops ouTube vid here

17. Don't Prolong (The Song About People With Problems) by FiFi

YouTube vid here

18. Inflatable by Jack Wilson

mp3 here

19. She's Bee-Stinging Me by Tim Mayfield

YouTube vid here (without the first line of ths song)

So there shouldn't be any excuse to not know the original song to any of them, since I provided them all. If I missed an entry, or if someone finds a better OS of the last one, feel free to let me know.

So there shouldn't be any excuse to not know the original song to any of them, since I provided them all.


Wow...that's a lot of extra work!  Thanks!! :-*

Conqueror, I love Jesus as much as the next guy does, but please remove the evangelistic cover-version of "Oh, What A Night" from my SOTM entry.  I did not provide that audio file to include with my entry, and I do not want my entry to be exploited for preaching, so please, remove that audio file NOW.

Conqueror, I love Jesus as much as the next guy does, but please remove the evangelistic cover-version of "Oh, What A Night" from my SOTM entry.  I did not provide that audio file to include with my entry, and I do not want my entry to be exploited for preaching, so please, remove that audio file NOW.


While I think that Conqueror should take the link off at your request, I'm taking from your tone that you're WAY more bothered by this than you should be.

I'm sure it's an honest mistake...(I don't think he's secretly on a mission to promote any religious beliefs at all)...he probably isn't familiar with the original and did the best he could.  And I really doubt that anyone would have suddenly considered your entry to be preaching anything...

While I think that Conqueror should take the link off at your request, I'm taking from your tone that you're WAY more bothered by this than you should be.

I'm sure it's an honest mistake...(I don't think he's secretly on a mission to promote any religious beliefs at all)...he probably isn't familiar with the original and did the best he could.  And I really doubt that anyone would have suddenly considered your entry to be preaching anything...


You're right, Super Arwen.  I simply hope he takes the link off.

I took care of it

Try listening to "December 1963" via Rhapsody (must download their free player):
http://play.rhapsody.com/frankievallithefourseasons/anthology/track-26

Or try a decent MIDI (plays automatically):
http://resources.bravenet.com/audio_clips/disco_dance/four_seasons_-_december_1963/listen/

Hope this helps this situation.

Thanks bobpiecheese for putting up the voting thread. My Internet is back up for now, at least until the squirrels again decide that the telephone line would make a good lunch.

One note: Max Power did not reply with the URL of his parody on the entry thread, and subsequently is/was not entered. Good luck to all this month.

You're right, Super Arwen.  I simply hope he takes the link off.


Sorry about that. Arwen was right, I wasn't familiar with the OS, and I was trying to get it done before I had to go to bed, so I apologise. Would you like me to put up Agrimorfee's midi instead?

Sorry about that. Arwen was right, I wasn't familiar with the OS, and I was trying to get it done before I had to go to bed, so I apologise. Would you like me to put up Agrimorfee's midi instead?


No apology necessary, Conqueror, and no hard feelings!  It's cool.  I appreciate your effort to get the voting thread up promptly.

Please put up the following free karaoke midi, which includes a karaoke synth-vocal-line:

Free karaoke-style MIDI audio file of "Oh, What A Night"

Thanks!   ;D

Aaaack! No weird YouTube videos, please!!

Here's the .wav file I used while writing it:

clicky

Is anyone having trouble d/l'ing #6?  ???

Is anyone having trouble d/l'ing #6?  ???


Actually, yes.  It just hangs up on me.

5pts=Cat
4pts=Rick C.
3pts=Arwen
2pts=Wannbemustangjockey
1pt=Conqueror

To the SOTM newbies, you submitted some good stuff---if one or more of the 5 folks above had not submitted theirs, you would have placed higher. Keep on wriiting and competing!  8)

1 points = Trivia Skill Won't Take You Too Far by Stuart McArthur
2 points = Age of Asparagus by Micheal McVey
3 points = Matrix 2: The First Movie by C.O.P
4 points = Hollywood Needs New Writers by Matthias
AND THE BIG FIVE POINTS GOES TO...
Dot Dot Dot

CAN'T FILL OUT THIS ORDER by CAT (She's red)

1 pt. Peter Andersson a.k.a K1chyd
2 pts. Michael McVey
3 pts. Kristof Robertson
4 pts. Cat

*DRUM ROLL*

..................

5 pts. Matthias

Wow!!!! Thanks FIFI!

no proo blee mo!

(Fifi, thank you very much, but you're supposed to comment on all the parodies.)

Thanks, Fifi and Charnstar. And I'm sure (Cat) they're comments will be posted by the end of the month.

MM

5 Points To: Agrimorfee's (adjective) (title)
4 Points To: Cat's Cooking
3 Points To: Kristof's Movie Review
2 Points To: Stuart's Trivia Game
1 Point To: Pete's Bananas

This probably took me the longest of any SOTM I have ever participated in. So many great parodies, so little time to figure out which one should get the five points. In fact, I changed my Top Five a couple times and now my decisions are final.

1 Point to Hollywood's lack of originality
2 to by
3 Points to not having enough time to write a SOTM parody
4 Points to the Great Bumble Bee Massacre
5 points to the most dangerous bus in the world

In other words:

1 Point "Hollywood Needs New Writers" by Matthias
2 Points "Mad Libs" by Agrimorfee
3 Points "One Week" by Arwen
4 Points "She's Bee-Stinging Me" by Tim Mayfield
5 Points "Speed (Nervy Swervy Bus)" by Kristoff Robertson

Also, honorable mentions to everybody else. Good luck to everybody!  :)