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Liam Lynch : Jokster songwriter, who has nothing to do with this MP3 - except become fodder for another parody. Isn't it ironic? Doncha think? It's like RAAAIIIIINNNNN.....
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Tuesday, May 20, 2003
MP3 Review,
"My West Hollywood Lifestyle - Whatever" by Tedd Schermerhorn of T-ball and BJ is more than worth a listen.
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What do you get when you take a song born from a show that lampooned popular culture with sock
puppets, and then make a parody of it? Probably one of the most amusing MP3 tracks this side of "Dr. Demento".
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This review probably deserves to be in the A & E section - but since the work in question also has a nice sexual payoff, I figured it might as well go into this column
(that and I've got more video-game fodder waiting to use the A & E space - so deal).
Tedd Schermerhorn of T-ball and BJ has written, produced, and released on their website a great little 2 meg
mp3 titled "My West Hollywood Lifestyle Whatever".
Aside from being worthy of mirroring on this site the track is actually more original - and far more edgy than the song it lampoons.
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"My United States of Whatever" by Liam Lynch was actually a throwaway song, from a throwaway show by MTV. In one of Viacom's last accidentally decent and creative outings - "The Siffl and Olly Show" - Liam and friends took the concepts that evolved from a series of British MTV bumpers and actually managed to create a pretty good - albeit short lived - series. The show was a low-budget visual representation (in sock-puppet theater) of a batch of audio tapes created by a group of sometimes understandable people - talking about sometimes understandable things - with sometimes questionable levels of drug-use being involved. Taking 10 second slices of inane chatter, and padding it out to 25 minutes proved to be challenging (to say the least) so over the course of the series Lynch wrote several songs that ranged from the Guns and Roses parody "Fake-Blood", the goth and art scene parody "Performance Art" and the now infamous and overplayed parody of nothing in particular "My United States of Whatever".
But it goes without saying (or writing) - that if you play anything on the air too many times, there's a budding "Weird Al" Yankovic ready to make fun of you. In this case, I can honestly say that the parody is far more interesting than the original novelty song, mostly because "My West Hollywood Lifestyle" actually tells a story, and creates a believable depiction of the character-types that infest the city of West Hollywood (incorporated in 1984 - whatever).
"My West Hollywood" also has the nerve to actually be funnier the longer you listen to the song - with several excellent payoffs rather than the one single joke that Lynch tacks onto the end of his near-random series of non-sequitors. I can honestly say that I laughed more than once listening to Tedd's writing while I only managed a smirk when hearing Liam's material. Lastly, while Liam does nothing out of the ordinary with his voice-talent, T-Ball and BJ actually bring an honest to goodness character to life convincingly for a couple of minutes. At least a character that one can identify with, particularly if you've ever been to West Hollywood.
If you would like to disrupt your home or office for 2 minutes and 15 seconds - as well as risk the wrath of your human resources department - then you could do worse than waste your time and bandwidth with the above provided links.
Tech-note: This site mirrors files by default - in an attempt to avoid sending a flood of users to the original author's site which often has the nasty habit of creating bandwidth issues. We of course can remove such content if the author prefers.
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The Doomsday Clock
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