The Collection
Album details
Artist: Ultravox
Year: Songs originally from 1980-84, compilation released 1984
Average fodder rating (out of 5): 3
Difficulty: Moderate
Assessment of suitability for parodying
There are not too many words to be worrying about. The lyrics are easy to learn, but that is where the ease ends. The words themselves are often difficult, long terms not often used in popular lyrics.
The parodies
Dancing With Tears In My Eyes . . . Casting No Fear in My Eyes
Hymn . . . Don’t Give
The Thin Wall . . . The Ship’s Wall
The Voice . . . Annoys
Vienna . . . Mania
Passing Strangers . . . Passing Sailors
Sleepwalk . . . Sea Walk
Reap The Wild Wind . . . Caribbean Wild Wind
All Stood Still . . . All Got Ill
Visions In Blue . . . Monster in Blue
We Came To Dance . . . We Blame Romance
One Small Day . . . One Ship’s Mate
Love’s Great Adventure . . . Love’s Great Wrecker
Lament . . . Dementia
Behind the scenes
- I wrote the parody album in December 2014.
- I like to call the parody album The Treasure Chest.
- Remarks about my creativity with the album are in Album Story 7: Need Not Be Easy.
- This was the first time I parodied every song on an album.
- This is the longest parody album to date (and will probably stay that way, as many albums do not even have fourteen songs and even then I usually skip tracks for various reasons).
Categories
Song categories: Ultravox songs, 1980s songs, 2-fodder songs, 3-fodder songs, 4-fodder songs, 5-fodder songs
Parody subject categories: Parodies about not being scared, about begging to differ from Davy Jones, parodies about being bothered for no apparent reason, insanity, parodies about avoiding Davy Jones, sailing, speculation, Pirates of the Caribbean as a franchise, pirate lifestyle, story of Davy Jones and Calypso
Parody style categories: Clever uses of songs, completely different takes on songs, pleasant parodies, purely funny parodies, repurposed songs, others
Other parody categories: Parodies that are accessible to everyone