The Grand Illusion
Album details
Artist: Styx
Year: 1977
Average fodder rating (out of 5): 3
Difficulty: Easy
Assessment of suitability for parodying
There are some fairly specific things in this album, but there is certainly room to pour in whatever things are in your head, and at least the songs make reasonably clear what they are supposed to be about. All in all, lots of fun may await.
The parodies
The Grand Illusion . . . The Bad Delusion
Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man) . . . Fooling Myself (Failing to Understand)
Superstars . . . Stupidity Bar
Miss America . . . With the Crab Claw
Man in the Wilderness . . . Man in the Wilderness
Castle Walls . . . Hassle Falls
The Grand Finale . . . The Grand Finale
Behind the scenes
- I wrote the parody album in the winter of 2013-14.
- I like to call the parody album The Bad Delusion.
- This is the oldest parody album of mine I have deemed publishable. Still, all the parodies needed work later on to accomplish that.
- Remarks about my creative process with this album are in Album Story 1: The Fresh Idea.
Categories
Album categories: 3-fodder albums, easy albums
Song categories: Styx songs, 1970s songs, 2-fodder songs, 3-fodder songs, 4-fodder songs, 5-fodder songs, songs parodied multiple times
Parody subject categories: Parodies about insanity, parodies about lacking knowledge, about being bothered for no apparent reason, parodies about begging to differ from Davy Jones, about transformation into a monster
Parody style categories: Clever uses of songs, completely different takes on songs, repurposed songs, others
Other parody categories: Revised parodies