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* ''It's beginning to look a lot like [[Team Fortress 2|Dustbowl]]...''
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series]]'' has, at this point, well over a dozen of these, all of which has [[Little Kuriboh]] singing in character the entire time. In addition to the songs he's sung for his other series. LK's page has the full list.
* Star One. Just...Star One. A [[Progressive Rock|progressive]] metal supergroup, assembled and fronted by [[Ayreon|Arjen Anthony Lucassen]], existing solely as a tribute to filmed science fiction. Each song on their one studio album is about a different SF property, from ''[[Outland (film)|Outland]]'' to ''[[Star Wars]]'' to ''[[Blake's 7]]'', plus a cover of Donovan's highly filk-circle-suitable comedy song "The Intergalactic Laxative."
* Cletus T. Judd, of ''I Love Nascar'' fame, is this.
* James Clerk Maxwell rewrote Robert Burns' "Comin' Through the Rye" with lyrics about physics and called it "Rigid Body Sings". He used to sing it, accompanying himself on the guitar. If it wasn't enough that he discovered that light was electromagnetic radiation entirely through the power of mathematics, it seems that he did this about 100 years before filk was invented.
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* Not sure if this counts, but... [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm63Gmaxlho Crank Dat Druid Boy.]
* [http://www.stonefalconproductions.com/noob.htm The Ballad of the Noob], with acompanying [[Machinima]], about a Level 1 noob in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' that takes on a Level 60 character.
* [http://www.oxhorn.com Oxhorn "Brand Movies"] is another WOW Machinima maker that does a lot of original music and is soon to release an album of the songs.
* [[wikipedia:The Fringemunks|The Fringemunks]], a parody of [[Alvin and The Chipmunks]] by Seattle musician David Wu, who did two full albums recapping ''[[Fringe]]'' episodes (some punny, such as "The Cure" on the tune of "[[The Cure|Friday I'm In Love]]"). He also turned "Karma Chameleon" into "[[Lost|Dharma Inititative]]".
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWz5h4or-yo Fresh Prince of Gotham]
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* "Madame Butterfly" by Malcolm MacLaren is, needless to say, based on the [[Madame Butterfly|Puccini opera of the same name]].
* Wumpscut's ''Soylent Green''; you can guess [[Soylent Green|what this is based on]]. Uses samples from the film's German dub.
* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|"Sea Monster Song"]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAvE0AYajk4 a song] by two college students for a school project. It features The Loch Ness Monster, the Kraken, [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs|dinosaurs that never died out]], [[Mix-and-Match Critters]], [[Sharktopus]], [[Fish People]], and [[Everything's Even Worse with Sharks|Shark Week.]] Warning: it's a total [[Ear Worm]].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vG1oVgKzkc Searching For The Golden Eye] by Motiv 8 & Kym Mazelle is based on [[GoldenEye (film)||a certain Bond film]], and even uses the 007 theme's chord progression during the verse.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-Iwio2YH1I Boardwalk Empire State of Mind] by Erik Weiner (aka Agent Sebso). Samples from the show's theme song and the chorus takes off [[Jay Z]]'s "Empire State of Mind".
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* [[Snoop Dogg]]'s "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8tODhvb47s Oh Sookie]", written for the heroine of ''[[True Blood]]''.
* Roughly half of [[Chris Hadfield]]'s recorded work. He's singing about his life; it's the fact that his life includes having commanded the International Space Station that makes some of his music "found filk".
* [[Jim's Big Ego]] has in its catalog "The Ballad of [[The Flash|Barry Allen]]" -- then again, the eponymous Jim is Jim Infantino, nephew of DC Comics artist and
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** Oh, surely not. Lehrer was an old-school piano-bar singer-songwriter of comic and satirical songs, a professional who wrote songs for himself to sing for money. His tunes were mainly original unless he was specifically making fun of some specific thing, and his arrangements are HARD; try playing and singing "Vatican Rag" or "Poisoning Pigeons In The Park" if you don't believe it.
** Also, Lehrer had (or at least professed to have) little respect for the folk music scene, or its style of performance. That said, his music is a regular staple of filksinging circles.
*** [[Flanders and Swann]] were nearer in the sense that their material was mainly quite easy to sing along to but again, professional performers with no interest in amateur
* Ditto [[Allan Sherman]].
* [[Voltaire (musician)|Voltaire]] has his ''[[Star Trek]]'' songs, including the entire album "Banned on Vulcan," as well as the song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaD2iqGvn1w "Cantina"] on ''Ookie Spooky.'' (Warning: This is a ''filthy'' song. You'll never see ''[[Star Wars]]'' the same way again.) Voltaire's presence at events such as Dragon* Con put him in this category.
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** Unsurprisingly, then, in ''[[Everyday Heroes]]'', Carrie writes [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=82525 her own filk] to a Janis Joplin tune.
* [[Nerd Core]], pretty much as a genre. For example, mc chris, professional nerdcore artist and voice actor best known for his work with [[Adult Swim]], has ''Fett's Vette'', a hip-hop ballad about everyone's favorite ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[Memetic Badass]].
* [[Horslips]] were an Irish band, and generally regarded as the inventors of Celtic Metal. "Dearg Doom" is probably
* Rapper Richie Branson [http://www.jefusion.com/2012/02/gundam-wing-hip-hop-mix-tape.html will be releasing] a ''[[Gundam Wing]]''-themed mix tape.
* It's an old tradition to tweak marching tunes. Sometimes they are just adapted, and sometimes made into [[Bawdy Song]], [[Gallows Humor]] or something even nastier.
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