Songs that are imitations/spoofs/sendups of another singer/band's style

I'm thinkin of things such as the following:
4th Time Around(Dylan imitating Lennon imitating him on Norwegian Wood)
Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting(Stones)
Smells Like Teen Spirit (Pixies?)
Watch That Man (Stones again?)
I feel like Pavement/The Fall is a little too frequent to count, I am thinking of affectionate/slightly pisstaking one offs from one rival to another
Thanks in advance...

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V-2 Schneider?

fIREHOSE - "For The Singer Of REM"

does ween do that? examples pls

Little Brother - "Cheatin" (R Kelly and Ronald Isley)

psh, look at their whole catalogue, they do it all the time. practically every song they do is an imitation of another style
xpost

here's a particularly obvious example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbq9I1rTofg

I've always thought the Rolling Stones song "Who's Been Sleeping Here" sounds like them trying to do Dylan.

"Skin Trade" is Duran Duran's homage to Prince.

Blur are kind of specialists at this:

"She's So High": Stone Roses
"For Tomorrow": XTC
"Stereotypes" and "Country House": Madness
"Fade Away": Specials
"T.O.P.M.A.N": Fun Boy Three
"Entertain Me": Berlin era David Bowie
"Beetlebum": White Album era Beatles
"Song 2": Nirvana
"You're So Great": Pavement

REM "Radio Free Europe" (Tommy Tutone)

Speaking of this weekend's death of Robert McNamara (which we weren't):

Simon & Garfunkel - "A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)" - A somewhat embarrassing Dylan parody

Nirvana "Aero Zeppelin"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpGFAMlZsmE

Bruce Springsteen: State Trooper (Suicide)

Phil Collins "In the Air Tonight" (Peter Gabriel)

ok, bug, other than that song royally sucking, how'z about letting us know who they are supposed to be imitating?

lol, you're precious. it sounds like jimmy buffet to me, with the steel drums and all.

isnt it just general knowledge that that's ween's deal u____u

guess you had to be there

.....

where?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp1AO57-ic0

Weird Al's "Dare to Be Stupid" is an homage to Devo

Kim Carnes apeing Rod (the Mod) Stewart in 'Bette Davis Eyes'

4 Electric Light Orchestras:

Randy Newman - "The Story of a Rock 'n Roll Band" (parody)
Adrian Belew - "Big Blue Sun" (unspoken homage)
L.E.O. - Alpacas Orgling (spoken homage)
The Moody Blues - "Gemini Dream" (possibly not intentional, but boy is it ELOish)

^ also Huey Lewis "Do You Believe in Love"

ELO "Don't Bring Me Down" (Abba)

Randy Newman "Rider in the Rain" (Eagles)
Steely Dan "Glamour Profession" (Dr Buzzard)

Ween "Pandy Fackler" (Steely Dan)
Neil Young "Powderfinger" (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
Neil Young "Computer Age" (Kraftwerk)

Faces - Lazy Sunday is the source of inspiration to Blur's Parklife.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhyEMZkfLMo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIEsmGzo2UE

Gene Simmons "See You Tonite" (Beatles)
Paul Stanley "Wouldn't You Like To Know Me" (Raspberries)
Kiss "Hard Luck Woman" (Rod Stewart)
Kiss "I Want You" (Led Zeppelin)
Led Zeppelin "Going to California" (Joni Mitchell)

Pulp "Party Hard" (Bowie)

I thought we did this before, but "Rivers" is a pretty damn good Weezer song written and performed by Sugar Ray.

the Soft Boys' "Only the Stones Remain" is about, uh, the Stones. And Stonehenge, I guess.

Weird Al's "Dare to Be Stupid" is an homage to Devo

Weird Al has done about 100 similar spoofs.

ELO "Don't Bring Me Down" (Abba)

Don't hear this at all. If you'd said:

Elvis Costello - "Oliver's Army" for Abba I'd agree.

Steely Dan "Do It Again" (Santana)

More obviously:
Titanic: "Sultana" (Santana)

Yoko Ono's Midsummer New York has a very Elvis/early Beatles sound to me, not that I have read that it was intentional..

The two Jay Reatard tracks on the split with Oh Sees are send ups of Times New Viking and Blank Dogs:

"Telephone Voltage Network"
"Blank Blogs"

Back in the USSR is the obvious one that comes to mind

Tears For Fears: "Sowing The Seeds Of Love" (1967 Beatles)

Weird Al has done about 100 similar spoofs.

True, but unlike the lion's share of his work, this track is an original song that parodies/tributes Devo's style as opposed to merely one of their songs.

When I say Yankovic has made some 100 spoofs, then I mean spoofs/pastiches. Yes, he has also done song parodies, but about half of the songs of every one of his album is an original song that parodies the style of some famous performer.

See these clips for:

"Brian Wilson":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEodu4yLSzw

"Talking Heads":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWhsuqFj8kU

"James Taylor":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYDo2exy7dg

"Nine Inch Nails":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqSKqS91UdA

"R.E.M.: :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwRYZz0K1Dk

"Beach Boys":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV-a4LZLcuY

"Beastie Boys":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LobFMX6RFw

And at least an anthemic ballad like Band Aid/USA For Africa etc:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnr-lIg3uaA

Weird Al's "Craigslist" is a full-on Doors pastiche (and is hilarious):
http://www.spinner.com/2009/06/15/weird-al-yankovic-craigslist-video-premiere/

that one traveling wilburys song

Speaking of people who spoofed themselves, sort of, you may add Diana Ross' "Chain Reaction", which was a brilliant "Supremes-with-and-80s-sound" thing.

Alice Cooper, "Blue Turk" (The Doors)

Frank Zappa, "Broken Hearts Are for Assholes" (Adrian Belew does a pretty good Bob Dylan)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r0XFYHkanQ

xpost - zappa song is "flakes"

Benny Hill, What a World (Bob Dylan)

Dang it, I had a feeling I was naming the wrong song.

How do you embed a YouTube movie? Fuck it, consider this

There are two on the second side of "Hunky Dory". First "Song For Bob Dylan" and then "Queen Bitch" (Velvet Underground).

Fleetwood Mac did this a bit in the early days. Fake Elvis, fake [various blues guys who I don't know much about]

Weird Al does Frank Zappa with "Genius in France". The most obvious Ween one that I can think of is "Let Me Lick Your Pussy" as a Prince imitation.

The Left Banke - Bryant Hotel (The Kinks)

Prefab Sprout- Cars and Girls (Springsteen)

Other than lyrically "Cars And Girls" doesn't sound much like Springsteen though.

Justin Timberlake: "Rock Your Body" (Michael Jackson)

that one traveling wilburys song

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Tuesday, July 7, 2009 12:34 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

oooh, slamming post, man.

This song by The Monroes was a huge hit in Norway in the summer of 1983, and sounds exactly like something Madness might have come up with:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3OUUl9ttTM

Battles - Atlas / The Glitter Band

The Fall - I Am Damo Suzuki

America's Horse with no Name = Neil Young.Even his dad thought it was his son after hearing the song on the radio (according to Shakey)

Denim's album Back in Denim is rife with vitriolic send-ups of Bowie, Kiss, Oasis, and rock and roll in general.

As well as Queen and the Rollers and most of the 70s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6Wp_Hr64EQ

and Ace Frehly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-4vMQOOiUY

Hellacopters "Paul Stanley"

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― ello. ow are oo? (bug), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 01:00 (2 days ago)

Yup.. the exact statement I wanted to post..

First time I heard "The Mollusk" I recall having a band for every song.. I won't be able to remember it exactly but here's my best shot..

"The Mollusk" spoken part sounds like The Moody Blues.
"Polka Dot Tail" the effect on the guitar solo always reminded me of the one in Pink Floyd's "Time."
"Buckingham Green" vocals totally reminded me of Ozzy.

Fuck.. 3 out of 14 isn't especially great, but better than nothing.

Also "Baby Bitch" pre-dating Elliott Smith is just weird..

I am kinda ashamed to admit that the first thing that came to mind upon reading the thread title was an Anal Cunt song.

Liam Lynch - Fake Songs

Peter Paul and Mary - "I Dig Rock and Roll Music"

Utopia - _Deface the Music_ (Beatles)

P.M. Dawn - Art Deco Halos - (T. Rex)

Weezer - "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)" is like the Ulysses of this shit.

Wings' "Arrow Through Me" = Steely Dan

brian eno -- dead finks don't talk (bryan ferry)

Thanks everybody--inspired examples!

Nirvana - Smells like Teen Spirit.

(The version on Top of the Pops: Morrissey)

There are two on the second side of "Hunky Dory". First "Song For Bob Dylan" and then "Queen Bitch" (Velvet Underground).

― Geir Hongro, Tuesday, July 7, 2009 5:07 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark

QB sounds nothing like the VU! and bewlay bros sounds more like dylan than does song for BD!

i guess its sendups not soundalikes though