where the pastiche reigns in your head over the real thing...

Despite liking Elvis well enough, whenever I think of his music the first thing that pops into my head is the mock backing track from the Father Ted episode where they all dress up as Elvis and Father Dougal dances around like a teddy boy. The music doesn't even sound anything like a real Elvis song.

And even though I have every album the Beach Boys ever released, if I think of them I still get the "ooo-weee-oooo--ohhhhh" from the Muppet Babies theme tune pop out of nowhere.

Do you ever get this?

Back whenever, we used to do a punk version of "The Smurf Song" which was ahem a bit funny.

Later, after the Barron Knights used it as part of one of their comedy medleys, the rest of the band would only do *that* version to huge hilarity (on their part).

So, is that the sort of thing you mean?

not sure. I guess it's just inspired by the fact I was drinking tea and noticed I had the office "Elvis" mug and immediately the music from Dougal's dance routine started playing as opposed to King Creole or Heartbreak Hotel.

*playing in my head

Kate Bush

Michael Jackson

Mick Jagger

basically, ask any entertainment officer at a holiday camp "who do you do" ...

so many movies where I read the MAD parody before I saw the actual movie. still not sure what MAD was doing parodizing "Altered States," for example.

"Oh wouldn't it be Kerouac!"

A lot of those went beyond parody, and became "re-settings" of the stories into contemporary areas.