Really good send-up of the overly-pretentious and self-important lyrics of the OS...loved the single lines, particularly, " I think I thaw a puddy tat!" ~ ~ ~ but the whole thing was just excellent, Jack...5's ~ ~ ~

thanks for skewering this goofy song...which wasn't half as goofy as the video

555, very good. I agree too. Not a favorite of mine(I like Drive, Driver 8 and Orange Crush the most).

Ever heard of driving schools that practise "descriptive driving" (the student has to talk about why and what he/she is doing while driving)? Your new words here are "descriptive singing". Very good, kinda like Weird Al's take on Smells like teen spirit, though the difference is that this song deserves it much, much, much more. 4:28 minutes of torture improved to 555.

I didn't get the "I think I thaw a puddy tat" bit though, mimicking Elmer Fudd's dialect?

Now that's "Using Your Derision"! (The title I used to parody this.) Way to go on skewering Michael Stipe's tripe.

I Do Know The OS, and it was pretty funny the way you did it, as long as you're not assuming that any of the band members think such thing, COOL!555

Peter - FYI, the "puddy tat" remark actually references the cartoon character "Tweety bird", I believe...a wise-ass nemesis to a cartoon cat, as I recall...Jeez, I can't believe I remember ANY of this crap...I swear I haven't seen any of this stuff in at least 40 years...

"pretentious mess, yes" - Well said, young Ant. I barely KTOS, as it always seemed too inane to sit through. "resistance is fu-tile!" - I picture aliens with robot voices arriving to take over.... Maybe all new OSs should be screened for approval by Red Ant before release. We'd have less crap, but less good parody material as well. 100% rock-solid Fives.

555 even though I like the original just fine.

REM=Raw Emotion Missing. I like some of their music but, some of it just lacks balls. Great job........555

I like balls, does that make me gay? 555BTW

This is just as good a send-up as Corky and the Juice Pigs parody of REM on MAD a few years ago. Great job, Jack.

Always liked the original, but this was the perfect parody for this song anyway, so funny. 5s

Thanks Paul, Alvin, Step-chan, Peter, Michael, Joel, TT, Agrimorfee, Rick C, Iced Print, Dee and Larry.

Paul: Yep, that line you quoted was Tweety Bird's most famous. The cat's name was Sylvester. Tweety kind of looks like Michael Stipe too - small body, big, bald head - lol.

Alvin: Please don't remind me of the video, I've tried so hard to forget it. ;-)

Step-chan: DK the first 2 and don't remember Orange Crush all that well, except the chorus.

Peter: Hadn't heard that term before, but I like it. As for your question, Tweety Bird is a very old cartoon character, and that line is pretty much a direct quote from him.

Michael: I'll check out your semi-plug in a bit.

Joel: No idea what the band thinks about this song, though I know they are wholly embarrassed by "Shiny Happy People" (Whiny, Crappy Pop Song maybe?...)

TT: The second line you quoted is what the Borg on ST:TNG say. Since I had already used "drone" in my WP bash, I used a roundabout way of saying it here. As for screening new songs, no thanks, too torturous, and 90% of the bands out there today wouldn't have a CD if its release depended on my approval.

Agrimorfee: Thanks, and I won't hold it against you. ;-)

Rick C: I thought it stood for Rarely Energetic Music. I like yours better.

Iced Print: I'd be lying if I didn't say I knew this would get a gay reference in comments. To answer your question, I guess that depends on what kind (or whose) balls you like....

Dee: Never saw that, but I'm honored at the comparison you drew between this and a parody skit aired on MAD TV.

Larry: Well, there are 20-some parodies of this song here. I see M&P posted their recorded version, so I'm off to check that out.

The lyrics? The VIDEO to this song is twice as nonsensical. Salute to you, Ant-Man.

Liked it a lot. It has kind of a sulky mood to it. About Sylvestor and Tweetie Bird? Tweety says "I t'ot I taw a puddy tat. I thought you were trying to "thaw" him from the frozen state......5's

Tweety Bird, aha! I'm sure it wasn't aired here when I was a kid, but I think it might be now, that would explain why my mind wandered of in the cartoonish direction even if it landed in the wrong series.

Thanks YAD and Pat, and you're right, that is a much closer (perfect) way that Tweety spoke.

Red...gosh, ya know, I was even PICTURING Stipe as Tweety Bird when I read that line originally....I guess that's what made it stand up out so in my mind at the time. "Sylvester"...yeah...I just couldn't remember the cat's name...I kept thinking of the cat in Tom & Jerry...and I KNEW it wasn't the same character....but I couldn't picture him..."Sykvester" was a black cat in the cartoon and kind of drooled out his words as I now recall it....Jeez...think of all the consequential bits and items I may be now pushing out of my brain to make room for this crap...lol...somebody at work will probably ask me an important Tax Question Monday and I won't know the answer...but - I WILL be able to tell him about Tweety/Sylvester/Michael Stipe and some other cartoon characters as well...

Although I like the OS a lot, I agree with your point of view, and also think there need to be more parodies that lampoon the OS itself (much like Weird Al's "Smells Like Nirvana")

(SOTM) Sorry, Red Ant, but you don't get straight fives from me this time. Your pacing was perfect, I liked the "Puty Tat" lyric, your lyrics were quite humorous, and I five you for that, but "Losing My Religion" is a classic. Dissing this song is like dissing The Bible to me. 552 Better luck next month, man.

(SOTM) see above

(SOTM) I don't mind the OS, but this was a great diss of it. Had me grinning the whole way.

(SOTM) Started laughing at the first verse and all the way to the end. A parody to REMember.

(SOTM) I don't listen to REM, but this parody gives an interesting perspective.

Now end this cruelty Whine! whine! wine whine! End this wine and cheese! Quickly please, quickly please Please! Says it all, I hate this song with a Passion of the Christ (religion get it) Heh, heh, heh... 5's...

(SOTM) BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! Hilarious, Red Ant!

(SOTM) See above

SOTM-Good

(SOTM) LOVE IT --- "rock tripe" --- LOL !!!

Marvellous, Jack - simply marvellous :-D

(SOTM) best line: "I think I thaw a puddy tat!" - very funny, Red - I actually like and never get sick of this OS, even as it plays as muzak in my supermarket, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate you skewering it so thoroughly, Jack - LOL - 555

(SOTM) See above

SOTM...very funny, Red Ant...I have to admit that the OS never really had much meaning...(though I always caught myself singing along with it)...but I never really realized how LITTLE sense it makes until you made me really think about it...=)

(SOTM) I haven't got a clue what's going on here, but it makes more sense than many of the songs I've heard on the radio recently.

Thanks Paul, Olvan, Chris, Agrimorfee, Cat, Rex, Scathe, Matthias, bobpie, Rick C, Max, Johnny D, Phil, Stu, Larry, Arwen, and Jay.

Jay: Song satire; "Making fun of music. One song at a time...."

Arwen: Glad I got you thinking here!

Stu: "...plays as muzak in my supermarket"; the only real beef I had with this song, aside from the goofy video, is it was horribly overplayed, and Stipe's voice, the lyrics and the mandolin. Other than that I like it too. ;-)

Johnny D: Glad I repeated that twice, heh heh.

Max: Thanks for fulfilling your commenting requirement this month.

Rex: I didn't remember that you (and several others) are REM fans. Glad you still liked it.

Chris: I guess I'll hold off on posting my parody of the Bible then.

Olvan: I'm trying to up that number - thanks for checking in here!

Paul: Useless information comes in handy when playing Trivial Pursuit, Jeopardy, and the like. Besides, they'll change the tax codes next year anyway, so some of what you know now will be truly useless in a year, lol.

What a load of bollocks.

Bob: yes, the original song is. Thanks for the agreement on that point.

I didn't realize you did this awhile ago, I'm surprised I've never seen it. Very clever string of seemingly random lyrics that work very well together. I don't have any problems with the way you voted. Very well done :)

I like Stand better, so great job,5s