Rules

1. Vote for your top 5 favorite songs in the order in which you like them the most.
2. Don't use "DKTOS" as an excuse, there's a Youtube link for a reason.
3. Make sure you get your votes in by the midnight of the 31st.
4. If you don't vote you won't be able to get the 5 extra points for voting, thus if you're in first place you might move down to third or fourth in tight contests.
5. You can't vote for your own song.


Contestants

1. Agrimorfee with "The Meaning From Wife"
http://www.amiright.com/parody/90s/theoffspring97.shtml
    Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxU6jCRi4yc

2. 2nz with "Fight With Your Wife"
http://www.amiright.com/parody/90s/greenday47.shtml
    Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UalJgZ-nRlU

3. Conqueror_of_Parodies with "Nerd's Mating Call"
http://www.amiright.com/parody/90s/oasis49.shtml
    Youtube:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAPtTS0TYtU

4. Wolverine with "Dot Com Special"
http://www.amiright.com/parody/90s/tlc24.shtml
    Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_5OgerpaUo

5. Jeff Reuben with "Boy Toy"
http://www.amiright.com/parody/90s/kidrock13.shtml
    Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5T3efSH6NU

6. Luke Brattoni with "Prick"
http://www.amiright.com/parody/90s/benfoldsfive16.shtml
    Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axpuVLQ_m4w

7. Below Average Dave with "The Bad Dates"
http://www.amiright.com/parody/90s/bloodhoundgang10.shtml
    Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTW8oUV8Aq0

8. Matthias with "Neat Freak"
http://www.amiright.com/parody/90s/thebarenakedladies0.shtml
    Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy7tiCwDHQQ

9. Tomario with "I Pissed A Girl"
http://www.amiright.com/parody/90s/jillsobule5.shtml
    Youtube: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=SclQZ4W2VZ0

10. Arwen with "Platonic? (Mixed Signals)"
http://www.amiright.com/parody/90s/alanismorissette48.shtml
      Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v9yUVgrmPY

11. Melanie Lee with "Macaroni"
http://www.amiright.com/parody/90s/losdelrio4.shtml
     Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z7t-Ox3XvU

12. Emiloca with "Men Speak"
http://www.amiright.com/parody/90s/barenakedladies30.shtml
      Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy7tiCwDHQQ

Why is the voting thread up before the deadline? Is there any easier way to run into a problem with potential changing of votes? I may have to sit out this round because the only one I have that fits the guidelines at all isn't contest worthy but if there is more time I'll see what I can come up with this weekend. But I'm writing for idol first

Why is the voting thread up before the deadline? Is there any easier way to run into a problem with potential changing of votes? I may have to sit out this round because the only one I have that fits the guidelines at all isn't contest worthy but if there is more time I'll see what I can come up with this weekend. But I'm writing for idol first


The deadline is today... And since there's no voting to worry about I can do it during the day instead of waiting for for midnight, and besides Chucky won't post later at midnight anyways so I might as well do it now.

I gave Invisible Boy till Friday and he had a great excuse why he didn't have a parody done yet...

I have idol and haven't been feeling great...but if that's not enough i'll sit out this round

One Pink parody shouldn't be enough to stop you from making a deadline... I mean I completed that parody in a day's time, it's by no means an Eminem song, so it shouldn't take more than a couple hours to write it, and I mean a couple hours at most. It took me about 45 minutes if that.

Not feeling great means more time off work and more time on the computer.

BUT I'm feeling generous seeing that this is the first round of Ages 2, and I'm already giving Invisible Boy an extention, I'll do the same for you. No longer an extention that Invisible Boy though, I'll give you until Friday which means you have today and tomorrow to write your parody for this round. If that's not enough time you'll just have to sit out a round, but I think I'm being more than generous here seeing that you had a headcold and Invisible Boy had an entire Blackout to deal with.

I never said I had a headcold, did I? I'm going to see a doctor tonight to see what's wrong with me and I haven't missed any work but if I miss the round it's fine. Once I found out that the two contests would be in such conflict I decided to make Idol my top priority.

I never said I had a headcold, did I? I'm going to see a doctor tonight to see what's wrong with me and I haven't missed any work but if I miss the round it's fine. Once I found out that the two contests would be in such conflict I decided to make Idol my top priority.


Like I said if you can get a parody done by Friday you can enter, if not, I look forward to seeing you in Round 2.

5 Points: Jeff Reuben's Cabanna Kid
4 Points: Emiloca's Guys Oogling At Bare, Naked Ladies
3 Points: Dave's Bad Date Gang
2 Points: Melanie's Lots Of Noodles
1 Point: Luke's Been Denied

5 pts to Jeff's Toy
4 pts to Dave's Blind spot
3 pts to Matthias' Freaker
2 pts to Conq's Nerd
1 pt to Arwen's totaly Platonic friendships

HM to Emi and Melanie

5 points to Jeff Reuben- Boy Toy
4 points to Wolverine- Dot Com Special
3 points to EmiLoca- Men Speak
2 points to Arwen- Platonic? (Mixed Signals)
1 point to Below Average Dave- The Bad Dates

H.M. to Matthias and Melanie

5 points...(and this surprised me, because going in, I really thought it would go to Emi)...to Luke
4 points to EmiLoca
3 points to Wolverine
2 points to BA Dave
1 point to Jeff

::)  I just read through some of the parodies and glanced through others.  This is going to be a tough one to judge!  I don't know most of the songs, or don't recognize them off hand.  Oh, well.    :P

::)  I just read through some of the parodies and glanced through others.  This is going to be a tough one to judge!  I don't know most of the songs, or don't recognize them off hand.  Oh, well.    :P


To me, Melanie, that is my greatest inspiration to be in these types of contests..

I have found so many new songs that I like through AmIRight contests (and unfortunately some that I can't even tolerate at all (IE Desolation Row and The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald), it allows me a chance to listen to things I likely would have never tried on my own, and revisit old favorites I've forgotten about or didn't care for the first time around--but I like them upon second listen. . .

1 point to Mela-roni Lee
2 points to Wolverine.com
3 points to 2nz Vs. Unamed Wife
4 points to BAD Dates
5 points to Platonic Arwen

Current link to Good Riddance is dead...

Use http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UalJgZ-nRlU for 2nz's parody.

Sheesh, this is going to so feel arbitrary after I get this done--a few coin flips here and there, because so many of these were so damned good.

5pts=Emi
4pts=BAD
3pts=Wolverine
2pts=Arwen
1pt=Jeff

HM to everyone else. Really.

1 point - 2nz              "Fight With Your Wife"

2 points- Arwen          "Platonic? (Mixed Signals)"

3 points- Matthias        "Neat Freak"

4 points- Melanie Lee    "Macaroni"

5 points- Emiloca          "Men Speak"

Does it get any easier?  ???

  I just read through some of the parodies and glanced through others.  This is going to be a tough one to judge!  I don't know most of the songs, or don't recognize them off hand.  Oh, well.  


To me, Melanie, that is my greatest inspiration to be in these types of contests..

I have found so many new songs that I like through AmIRight contests (and unfortunately some that I can't even tolerate at all (IE Desolation Row and The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald), it allows me a chance to listen to things I likely would have never tried on my own, and revisit old favorites I've forgotten about or didn't care for the first time around--but I like them upon second listen. . .


Thanks for saying that...I came here about 5:30pm EST intending to listen to the songs and judge...but I spent the time instead writing e-mails trying to promote my screenplay.  (Yes, I do have a screenplay!)  I also bought more minutes for my cell phone, and wrote a few answers on answers.yahoo.com.  I don't own my own computer, and this internet cafe is scheduled to close at 10pm--I'll have spent $2 an hour, $10 total--and I have a meeting tomorrow.  I'll get it done if I can, but it doesn't look promising...  :\'(

5 points and the crumbs from my humble pie for Arwen.
4 points and one Return To Sender'd Darfur Express Mail package for Luke Brattoni.
3 points and my hand in marriage for Jeff Reuben.
2 points and chopsticks up the nose for 2nz.
1 point for Melanie, and a hip swivel, turn and clap.  AIIIIGHT!

   

Thanks for saying that...I came here about 5:30pm EST intending to listen to the songs and judge...but I spent the time instead writing e-mails trying to promote my screenplay.  (Yes, I do have a screenplay!)  I also bought more minutes for my cell phone, and wrote a few answers on answers.yahoo.com.  I don't own my own computer, and this internet cafe is scheduled to close at 10pm--I'll have spent $2 an hour, $10 total--and I have a meeting tomorrow.  I'll get it done if I can, but it doesn't look promising...   :\'(



Okay, I managed to listen to four songs last night.  Let's see if I can listen to the rest tonight!  :D

:D  Okay, it's a rush job, but here are my votes:

5 points: Neat Freak
4 points: Fight with Your Wife
3 points: Men Speak
2 points: Nerd's Mating Call
1 point:  Platonic (Mixed Signals)

HM: The Bad Dates

I think it helps me if you satirize "One Week".

"Nerd's Mating Call" and "Platonic" were a tie, and I needed to do a "listen-off".

A "hello" to all else who entered!

Happy New Year!  ;D

Open letter to all contestants, but specifically for Melanie Lee and Matthias.

Traditionally in all Amiright contests that we authors have arranged, it has been customary for a Comment to be placed by all judging contestants on the page for each parody involved for each round--at the very minimum, something like "Read for the AGES Compettion." This has been instituted as proof that each contestant did in fact visit each parody page.

Melanie Lee has not done this for her judging in this round, although Matthias' rules stated at the top of this thread do not include this step.

As Melanie Lee is a newcomer to our friendly confines--and I do trust that she has fairly judged each parody, based on her posts above-- I would recommend that Matthias include a rule about leaving comments for the subsequent rounds of this competition, and we can disregard the lack of the same for this round.

As you are the chair of this contest, I leave it to you Matthias for the final decision regarding the issue.

Hate to sound so somber :-[...Have a Happy New Year's Eve/Day if I don't hear from any of you before the end of the day.  :-* :)

Open letter to all contestants, but specifically for Melanie Lee and Matthias.

Traditionally in all Amiright contests that we authors have arranged, it has been customary for a Comment to be placed by all judging contestants on the page for each parody involved for each round--at the very minimum, something like "Read for the AGES Compettion." This has been instituted as proof that each contestant did in fact visit each parody page.

Melanie Lee has not done this for her judging in this round, although Matthias' rules stated at the top of this thread do not include this step.

As Melanie Lee is a newcomer to our friendly confines--and I do trust that she has fairly judged each parody, based on her posts above-- I would recommend that Matthias include a rule about leaving comments for the subsequent rounds of this competition, and we can disregard the lack of the same for this round.

As you are the chair of this contest, I leave it to you Matthias for the final decision regarding the issue.

Hate to sound so somber :-[...Have a Happy New Year's Eve/Day if I don't hear from any of you before the end of the day.  :-* :)


I was also thinking about that. And yeah, that's a step I just forgot to add in here. That was my mistake.

For the next rounds I'll enforce it.

Whew, it hit me I hadn't voted in this yet--BUT then I remembered, I haven't done the parody for round two either. . .the deadline is January 7th. . .that way we weren't cramming to get our votes in just before New Years Eve, good thing too--my time has been limited of late as surely most of yours has. . .

I will vote before the January 7th deadline, thank goodness for that extension, I planned around--it'd be tough time wise had the deadline not been as long as it is for this round.


HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!!  :)

Open letter to all contestants, but specifically for Melanie Lee and Matthias.

Traditionally in all Amiright contests that we authors have arranged, it has been customary for a Comment to be placed by all judging contestants on the page for each parody involved for each round--at the very minimum, something like "Read for the AGES Compettion." This has been instituted as proof that each contestant did in fact visit each parody page.

Melanie Lee has not done this for her judging in this round, although Matthias' rules stated at the top of this thread do not include this step.

As Melanie Lee is a newcomer to our friendly confines--and I do trust that she has fairly judged each parody, based on her posts above-- I would recommend that Matthias include a rule about leaving comments for the subsequent rounds of this competition, and we can disregard the lack of the same for this round.

As you are the chair of this contest, I leave it to you Matthias for the final decision regarding the issue.

Hate to sound so somber :-[...Have a Happy New Year's Eve/Day if I don't hear from any of you before the end of the day.  :-* :)


Y'know, I did consider for a moment leaving comments on this page, but didn't do so because, as I said in my comments, my judging was a rush job.  I don't own a computer at home, and it costs me $2 an hour to use the internet cafe in my neighborhood (where I am at this writing), and it closes around 10pm.  Because of the holidays, I had the usual Christmas busyness, and shorter hours at my job at a public college, as the semester was ending.  (Excuses, excuses...)  ::)

Anyway, I'm glad you trust that I did listen to and judge each entry.  I only listened once, and judged upon first impression only.  (If this negates my votes, so be it.)  :-\\ 

I came here tonight to write my entries for Ages of Amiright Round 2.  I'm going to write two, and choose one.  For the sake of my fellow contestants, I will make the time to go back and leave comments on each Round 1 entry, probably within the next week or two.  I believe I'm returning to my job next week, where I'm allowed to use the computer on my "down" time.  (I recently lost my earphones, and must buy new ones for the job computers...excuses, excuses...)  ::)

Y'know, I did consider for a moment leaving comments on this page, but didn't do so because, as I said in my comments, my judging was a rush job.  I don't own a computer at home, and it costs me $2 an hour to use the internet cafe in my neighborhood (where I am at this writing), and it closes around 10pm.  Because of the holidays, I had the usual Christmas busyness, and shorter hours at my job at a public college, as the semester was ending.  (Excuses, excuses...)   ::)

Anyway, I'm glad you trust that I did listen to and judge each entry.  I only listened once, and judged upon first impression only.  (If this negates my votes, so be it.)   :-\\ 

I came here tonight to write my entries for Ages of Amiright Round 2.  I'm going to write two, and choose one.  For the sake of my fellow contestants, I will make the time to go back and leave comments on each Round 1 entry, probably within the next week or two.  I believe I'm returning to my job next week, where I'm allowed to use the computer on my "down" time.  (I recently lost my earphones, and must buy new ones for the job computers...excuses, excuses...)   ::)



I forgot that I did listen again to two songs to break the tie for fourth place.

Melanie, do you guys have a public library in the area?  Most public libraries have free internet useage so you don't have to pay. . .

Yes...I'm at the public library now.  However, they only allow one hour maximum use per day, and for some strange reason the computers at the Queens Borough Public Library system won't allow you to cut-and-paste.  :\'(

The voting deadline is tonight at midnight!

The voting deadline is tonight at midnight!


midnight am or pm? 

midnight am or pm? 


For the sake of confusion let's say 11:59 PM.

5 pts:  Emiloca
4 pts:  Conqueror of Parodies
3 pts:  BADave
2 pts: Arwen
1 pt:  Wolverine

Very tough to pick out 5.

Down to mister wire:

5 points: #12. Emiloca with "Men Speak"

4 points: #6. Luke Brattoni with "Prick"

3 points: #4. Wolverine with "Dot Com Special"

2 points: #10. Arwen with "Platonic? (Mixed Signals)"

1 point: #5. Jeff Reuben with "Boy Toy"


HM to Matthias with "Neat Freak"

HM to Just about everyone else

1 Point to Jeff Reuben's Boy Toy€

2 Points to Agrimorfee's Offspring Classic

3 Points to Melanie's Velvetta Macarena

4 Points to Matthias' Neat Freak

5 Points to Arwen's Platonic Masterpiece

**Karma to all those who 'pointed' me

Before we reveal the winners of the first round of Ages of Amiright, I first would like to say I'm proud of each and every one of you. You did something that a lot of writers can't do, and that's take a topic I give you, and in a two week period come up with new songs or previous songs that consist of both the decade and the topic provided and even if you didn't win that in itself is remarkable enough as it is.

But there are winners and these people are the ones that are the most popular songs of this round.

And these winners are....

In first place...

Emiloca scoring (39 Points) with her parody "Men Speak"

In second place...

Arwen scoring (32 Points) with her parody "Platonic (Mixed Signals)"

And in third place...

Jeff Reuben scoring (27 Points) with his parody "Boy Toy"

And now for the follow up contestants...

4th: Below Average Dave (26 Points)
5th: Wolverine (21 Points)
6th: Matthias (20 Points)
7th: Luke Brattoni (19 Points)
8th: Melanie Lee (16 Points)
9th: 2nz (15 Points)
10th: The Conqueror Of Parodies (13 Points)
11th: Agrimorfee (7 Points)
12th: Tomario (5 Points)

Congrats Emi, Arwen, and Jeff!

Congrats to our two leading ladies and their boy toy.

Also congrats to Dave for a close 4th.

Congrats to our two leading ladies and their boy toy.

Also congrats to Dave for a close 4th.


Congrats winners, yeah, I was in the running early, but as usual-- fell flat near the finish line, but hey, by the time I get the database caught up, I'm very likely to have the most 4th and 5th place finishes on the All Contests scale, which is kinda cool in it's own right.

My song choice often hurts me, but I parody what I want to parody. . .and besides in this race, I voted last, and ironically, my vote took me off the podium--but that's why I don't try to figure out what place I'm in right before I vote

Fun Round, tough contest.

Awesome that used my 5 point Artistry rule, I really think that should be in EVERY contest--people who enter and vote should never finish with 0 points!

well done Ladies  rising to the top in such a tough round.  :)

Congrats to our two leading ladies and their boy toy.

Also congrats to Dave for a close 4th.


ARGH!  You beat me to that comment!  ;D  Well done Matthias  :)  Congrats to Emi and Arwen, and I'm happy to be along for the ride on the podium.  Congrats to Dave as well, you could have easily beaten me out for that last spot.

It is very fitting that the top 2 places should go to these beautiful ladies...and Jeff, you are beautiful in your own way.  ;)