Post some links to your favourite musical pastiches.
(From wiki: A pastiche is a work of visual art, literature, theatre, or music that imitates the style or character of the work of one or more other artists. Unlike parody, pastiche celebrates, rather than mocks, the work it imitates.)
I love this track where Porcupine Tree go overtly Hawkwind
Manic Street Preachers salute Rush (MSP are big Rush fans)
"One should never magnify the harsh light of reality with the mirror of prose onto the delicate wings of fantasy's butterfly"
Thumpermonkey - How I Wrote The French Lieutenant's Woman
"I'm content to listen to what I like and keep my useless negative opinions about what I don't like to myself -- because no one is interested in hearing those anyway, and it contributes absolutely nothing to the conversation."
aith01
^Holy sh*t! I think my favourite part was the Donovan bit.
"One should never magnify the harsh light of reality with the mirror of prose onto the delicate wings of fantasy's butterfly"
Thumpermonkey - How I Wrote The French Lieutenant's Woman
"I'm content to listen to what I like and keep my useless negative opinions about what I don't like to myself -- because no one is interested in hearing those anyway, and it contributes absolutely nothing to the conversation."
aith01
Ween go Steely Dan
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883...
That rules out the bunch of Zappa I'd post otherwise.Originally Posted by Geoff O'Donoghue
The Dukes of Stratosphear
Utopia-Deface the Music
That's nowhere near as good as the album version:
Robin Trower does Jimi Hendrix:
I've never heard "Out" by Porcupine Tree before. I assume it's from Yellow Hedgerow Dreamscape?
Their track "Oceans Have No Memory" is definitely a homage to "Albatross" by Fleetwood Mac.
Their song "Four Chords That Made a Million" also seems to be a Beatles pastiche, specifically a nod to the song "Taxman".
Here's a song by Australian band Midnight Juggernauts that I think owes a lot to the sound of Hawkwind:
Gotta be this, more love from one band to another has never been encapsulated better than in this song
Alan Jenkins and The Kettering Vampires.
"please do not understand me too quickly"-andre gide
Weird Al did a bunch of songs where he pastiched (lovingly) the styles of other musicians. Here are a few...
Zappa:
Gabriel:
Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.
But what I found even more entertaining was when he actually pastiched the videos too...
Devo:
Dylan:
Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.
Peter Bardens and Camel pay hommage to Dutch band Supersister -with whom they had toured a little earlier- with this piece that in fact copies the style of R. J. Stips' band.
Their pastiche of The Beach Boys rivals The Beach Boys' best work:
Some stuff that was new to me in this thread, thanks.
Deface The Music has already been mentioned - that qualifies because Rundgren has mentioned a million times the debt he owes to The Beatles.
I've recently posted in another thread The Hee Bee Gee Bees' Eagles parody Dead Cicada, and I reckon the accuracy of the imitation must mean there's enough affection for the original artists in there for it to qualify as pastiche. Other examples: Meaningless Songs In Very High Voices (Bee Gees); Boring Song (Status Quo).
The late Andrew Gold's album 'Greetings From Planet Love' by the fictional group The Fraternal Order Of The All was/is criminally overlooked. A long-time admirer of '60s bands, Gold admitted he was inspired to finally do the pastiche by the Dukes Of Stratosfear. Byrds, Doors, Beach Boys, Beatles etc... well worth seeking out: https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...al+planet+love
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