Flight of the Conchords is an award-winning New Zealand comedy band, self-described as "New Zealand's fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo". While a couple previous blog posts ( 1 2 ) talked about their recent TV series on HBO, this post will focus...
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12-19-2008
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Musical parody...such a fine art. Back in the day, I was a big "Weird Al" Yankovic fan ("It's all about the Pentiums, baby!"). There are also bands that take well-known music and reinterpret it: some of my favs include Hayseed Dixie (they play AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Van Halen,...
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11-17-2008
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Filed under: reviews, modern rock, 1960s pop, country-rock, rock and roll, retro, country, R&B, punk rock, me first and the gimme gimmes, showtunes, parody, live recordings