Father of All. . .
Album details
Artist: Green Day
Year: 2020
Average fodder rating (out of 5): 4
Difficulty: Easy
Assessment of suitability for parodying
Fortunately for parodists, Green Day has clearly gone in the opposite direction from 21st Century Breakdown. Songs are very short, making them easy to memorize, and not a ton of polysyllabic words are used. The subjects of the songs are not all clear-cut, but at least they are not trying to add up to a murky story. All in all, it is simple enough that it could be mistaken for an early work by its artist.
The parodies
Father of All. . . . . . Bother of All. . .
Fire, Ready, Aim . . . Pirate, Ready, Aim
Oh Yeah! . . . Oh Bleah!
Meet Me on the Roof . . . Meet Me in My Room
I Was a Teenage Teenager . . . He Is the Deranged of Deranged
Stab You in the Heart . . . Stab Him in the Heart
Sugar Youth [Explicit] . . . Certain Lunatic
Junkies on a High . . . Sunken in the Tide
Take the Money and Crawl [Explicit] . . . Taking the Money on Board
Graffitia . . . East India Trading Company
Behind the scenes
- I wrote the parody album in February 2020, within just weeks of the album coming out.
- I like to call the parody album Bother of All.
- Remarks about my creative process with this album are found in Album Story 25: Literal Brand New Fodder.
Categories
Album categories: Easy albums, 4-fodder albums, uncut albums
Song categories: Green Day songs, 2020s songs, explicit songs, 3-fodder songs, 4-fodder songs, 5-fodder songs
Parody subject categories: Transformation into a monster, fighting Davy Jones, the devil of the sea, about going to port, about literal heart misplacement, speculation, pirate lifestyle, about currency, about the War Against Piracy
Parody style categories: Miscellanies, completely different takes on songs, purely funny parodies, repurposed songs, clever uses of songs
Other parody categories: Parodies that are accessible to everyone, parodies that do not mention Davy Jones