Tao
Album details
Artist: Rick Springfield
Year: 1985
Average fodder rating (out of 5): 4
Difficulty: Intermediate
Assessment of suitability for parodying
Largely depends on how much you can work with the songs. They are generally repetitive, which makes them easy to learn, but also means less room to tell a story. Also, as Rick Springfield albums tend to, it includes a number of words that do not appear often in popular songs, which may or may not be helpful.
The parodies
Dance This World Away . . . Blast Those Tentacles Away
Celebrate Youth . . . Fountain of Youth
State Of The Heart . . . Craze of the Heart
Written In Rock . . . Written in Logs
The Power Of Love (The Tao Of Love) . . . The Horror of Love (The Loss of Love)
Walk Like A Man . . . Walk Like Humans
The Tao Of Heaven . . . The Flying Dutchman
Stranger In The House . . . Strangeness Going Around
Behind the scenes
- I wrote the parody album in January 2019.
- I like to call the parody album Island.
- Remarks about my creativity with this album are found in Album Story 21: The New and Old.
Categories
Album categories: Intermediate-difficulty albums, 4-fodder albums
Song categories: Rick Springfield songs, 1980s songs, 3-fodder songs, 4-fodder songs, 5-fodder songs
Parody subject categories: Parodies about fighting Davy Jones, parodies about the events of On Stranger Tides, parodies about the story of Davy Jones and Calypso, lacking knowledge, parodies about the devil of the sea, parodies about begging to differ from Davy Jones, transformation into a monster
Parody style categories: Turnabout parodies, clever uses of songs, repurposed songs, others
Other parody categories: Parodies that do not mention Davy Jones