Filk Song: Difference between revisions

See also [[Heavy Mithril]], which almost by nature qualifies at least as "found filk," and [[Nerd Core]].

 

 

Not to be confused with [[Suikoden|Flik]] [[Red Baron|of the Blue Lightning]].

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== Filk and Filk Artists of Note ==

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q50UBIWXvfc "Banned From Argo,"] an original song (and the old [[Trope Namer]] for what is now [[Persona Non Grata]]) describing what happened when the the crew of the ''U.S.S. [[Star Trek|Enterprise]]'' went on shore leave on the planet of Argo, and the swath of destruction they left in their wake. [[Memetic Mutation|The piece became so popular]] that Leslie [[Creator Backlash|eventually became sick of it]], and many other filkers started to follow suit.

*** Worse, to Leslie's loud but (mostly) good-natured complaint, "Banned from Argo" has been refilked so much, about everything from other ''[[Star Trek]]'' series to other TV shows to SCA storytelling to just [[Hurricane of Puns|random puns]], that there's an entire songbook, "The Bastard Children of Argo."

** For example, Bob took one of Leslie Fish's Kipling tunes and wrote "They're Singing 'Banned From Argo,'" about how many veteran filkers have come to dislike the song from overexposure. One verse states that Leslie Fish has plugged her ears because ''she just doesn't want to hear it.'' And he got Leslie to perform it.

* [[League of Legends]] is becoming quite a popular subject, thanks to Riot's [https://web.archive.org/web/20130702152120/http://na.leagueoflegends.com/news/songs-summoned-contest-results Songs of the Summoned] contests. Searching "League of Legends songs" on Youtube will get you about 9,500+ hits

** Frequently, Fish or Alexander would, with Lackey's explicit encouragement, take the songs that appeared in her novels and set them to music.

** In what can only be described as an auto-[[Shout-Out]], Lackey named one of her minor characters Leslac, after the filkish term for a '''Les'''lie Fish-Mercedes '''Lac'''key collaboration. (Naturally, the character was a bard, albeit one who...didn't always get the story right.)

* [[Frank Zappa]] wrote at least one song ("Cheepnis") about his love of horrible low-budget science fiction movies. The movie he mentions in his pre-song patter on ''Roxy and Elsewhere'' would show up on ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' twenty-five years later.

* A number of [[YouTube]] videos, described as "Literal Videos", feature an original song video with the lyrics reworked to describe what is on screen. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj-x9ygQEGA Like this one].

* There's a song called ''Aquaman's Lament'' which seems to be by a guy named Mark Aaron James... it's pretty excellent, anyway.

* When Marni Nixon ("the Ghostess with the Mostest," a great singer famous for having dubbed over many [[The King and I|great]] [[My Fair Lady|movie]] [[West Side Story|musicals]] and never once getting credit) performed at the Hollywood Bowl in ''[[A Prairie Home Companion]]'' (which itself frequently features filks), she sang a parody of "[[My Fair Lady|I Could Have Danced All Night]]," called "[[Crowning Moment of Funny|I Could Have Dubbed Myself]]."

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9kpmDexmEc "I Killed A Guy and I Liked It"] Kate Perry parody.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOpOKe8d9Oc "Filling Out My Death Note"] parody set to [[Eminem]]'s "Cleaning Out My Closet" Whole series spoilers and amateurishly done but the lyrics are funny as hell.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R-rrn1O2hY The Omega Kawaii L Song], based on [[Final Fantasy VII|The Omega Kawaii Cloud Song]]. Contains spoilers for the whole series.

** [http://www.youtube.com/user/kpts4tv#p/u/1/6fu2nykadfY This song] from one of the [[Abridged Series]], a parody of Ke$ha's "Tik Tok." Immature, yes, but also quite amusing.

* ''[[The Guild]]''s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urNyg1ftMIU "Do You Wanna Date My Avatar"] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMrN3Rh55uM "Game On"].

* Spider Robinson, as part of a [[Robert A. Heinlein]] tribute essay called "Rah, Rah, R.A.H.", wrote his own filk song, "Ol' Man Heinlein" (to the tune of "Ol' Man River" by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein). It can be found in Robinson's anthology ''Time Travelers Strictly Cash''.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSS-cJu_h7I "Even Gods Cry"] by The Turtlenecks, written about the ''[[God of War (series)|God of War]]'' games from Kratos' point of view. It seems rather out of place on an album mostly populated with grunge-metal tributes, although it's clear from the lyrics that it's at least somewhat parodic.

* [[Abney Park]]

 

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