Music to Orkish ears., The Shadowrun Parody Music Project Options

[Headshot_Joe]

Many of you may have seen my parody of "Modern Major General" over in the Shadowrun board, and since it's posting I have been wanting to create more Sixth World inspired parodies of various songs, both popular and classic. This is a topic for me to keep all of you updated on my progress, and for others who have the parody gene to demonstrate their control over it. Suggestions, both for modifications to posted songs, and ideas for other parodies, are welcomed and encouraged.

I am the very model of a Shadowrunner Criminal
I am the very model of a Shadowrunner criminal
I've stole it, be it digitable, technical, or magical
I know the immortal elves, and I quote their fights historical
From Earthdawn to Tir na Nog, in order categorical

I'm very well acquainted, too, with contacts all reliable
I’ve dealt with Mr. Johnsons, both the simple and maniacal
About bleeding edge SOTA I am teeming with a lot o' news
With many cheerful facts about the latest stuff from Renraku

With many cheerful facts about the latest stuff from Renraku
With many cheerful facts about the latest stuff from Renraku
With many cheerful facts about the latest stuff from Renra-Renraku

I'm good at interrogations keeping all my subjects concious
I know the scientific names of gases quite innocuous
In short, in matters digitable, technical, or magical
I am the very model of a Shadowrunner criminal

In short, in matters digitable, technical, or magical
He is the very model of a Shadowrunner criminal

I know draconic history, from Lofwyr to Prez Dunkelzhan
I ran the diagnostics on my teams GMC panel van
I quote in Sperethial all the crimes of Humanis Policlub
In combat I can floor most enemies with my machineguns-sub

I can sell illegal rifles from old Ingrams to those new Ares
I know the casting focus of mages at Aztechnology
Then I can hack a file of which I've been within its node afore
And bristle all the hairs on the neck of the system registrar

And bristle all the hairs on the neck of the system registrar
And bristle all the hairs on the neck of the system registrar
And bristle all the hairs on the neck of the system regiregistrar

Then I can write a wired skill in cryptographic data form
And tell you ev'ry detail of Ehran’s stash of elven lore
In short, in matters digitable, technical, and magical
I am the very model of a Shadowrunner criminal

In short, in matters digitable, technical, and magical
He is the very model of a Shadowrunner criminal

In fact, when I know what is meant by "drundeah" and "zathien"
When I can tell at sight Damien Knight from that damned Harlequin
When such affairs as corporate infiltrations I’m invited on
And when I know precisely what is meant by "Makkanagee morkhan"

When I have learnt what progress shall be made in genetechnology
When I know by heart the floors of the Renraku Archology
In short, when I've been splattering some elemental effigies
You'll say a better Shadowrunner surely there has never been

You'll say a better Shadowrunner surely there has never been
You'll say a better Shadowrunner surely there has never been
You'll say a better Shadowrunner surely there has never ever been

Paramilitary knowledge, with a mercenary specialty
Has served very well in runs from Seattle to the Philippines
But still, in matters digitable, technical, and magical
I am the very model of a Shadowrunner criminal

But still, in matters digitable, technical, and magical
He is the very model of a Shadowrunner criminal


Shadowrun-de-yada (featured on the FuMP Sideshow)
Never gets old, huh?
Nope.
It kinda makes you wanna-
Break into song?
Yep.

I love Seattle.
I love noise pollution.
I love street battles.
I love to Shadow Run.
I love the sixth world.
And all its sights and sounds.

Boom-de-yada
Boom-de-yada
Boom-de-yada
Boom-de-yada

I love the Johnson
I love the mission plan
I love to improvise
Whenever the shit hits the fan
I love the sixth world
It’s such a violent place

Boom-de-yada
Boom-de-yada
Boom-de-yada
Boom-de-yada

I love explosions
I love fatalities
I love augmented
And virtual realities
I love the sixth world,
Technology’s a drug.

Boom-de-yada
Boom-de-yada
Boom-de-yada
Boom-de-yada

I love blood magic
And Aztechnology
I love to delve the
Renraku Archology.
I love the sixth world.
It’s batshit craziness.

Boom-de-yada
Boom-de-yada
Boom-de-yada
Boom-de-yada

I love smart goggles
And thermographic sight
I love to be the one
Who goes bump in the darkest night
I love the sixth world
And all the stealthyness

Boom-de-yada
Boom-de-yada
Boom-de-yada
Boom-de-yada

I love employee
Confidentiality
I love corp wars and
Extraterritoriality
I love the sixth world,
It’s full of business sense.

Boom-de-yada
Boom-de-yada
Boom-de-yada
Boom-de-yada

I love great dragons.
I love Prez Dunkelzhan.
I love the future
The whole damn Earth becomes Japan.
I love the sixth world.
It means so much to me.

Boom-de-yada
Boom-de-yada
Boom-de-yada
Boom-de-yada

Boom-de-yada
Boom-de-yada
Boom-de-yada
Boom-de-yada
Boooooom


T'was the Night Before Christmas
Twas the night before Christmas, and all through Seattle
All the runners were stirring, for a massive street battle.
Their weapons were loaded with ammo to spare,
All hoped that Knight Errant would not venture there.

The grenades were nestled all snug in their belts,
While everyone hoped to hold onto their scalps.
And the shaman with totem, and I with my rifle,
Had just settled upstairs to avoid all that trifle.

When out in the road there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from cover to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a bee,
Tossed aside sandbags and looked down to see .

The cars on the street all blazing away
Giving the objects below the luster of day.
When, what to my perceiving eyes should appear,
But a massive troll sammy, with a large angry sneer.

Luau shirt, lederhosen, and mouth full of tusks,
I knew in a moment it must be our Krusk.
More rabid than weasels, was our big bullet sponge.
He whistled, and shouted, and called out his challenge!

"Now Riggers! now, ‘Mancers! now, Mages with Focuses!
Oh, Adepts, Go-Gangers and Cybered up carcasses!
Get down here and fight me!” was his mighty call,
“I’ll blast away! Blast away! Blast away all!"

As trailers that before the wild hurricane fly,
He obliterated obstacles, made everything die.
‘Til up to the porch steps the corpses they stacked,
When into my commlink, our rigger dwarf hacked.

He sent me the numbers, via augmented reality
An update on the number of total fatalities
I stared at the numbers, then swiveled in horror,
As the giant Chinese troll kicked down the locked door.

He was covered in blood, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with carnage and soot.
A bundle of skulls he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a semi deranged maniac.

His eyes-how they twinkled! His odor so heavy!
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a chevy!
His tusk befilled mouth was drawn up like barbed wire,
And a mark on his face like he’d just kissed a tire.

The stump of a leg he held tight in his teeth,
And the entrails encircled his head like a wreath.
He had a broad face and a massive troll body,
Battleaxe on one shoulder, and a twin barreled shotty!

He was bloody and damp, a right jolly old troll,
And I shook when I saw him, without self control!
A wink of his eye and a twisted up sneer,
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to fear.

He spoke not a word, but went straight to his “work”,
And filled all the coffins, then turned with a jerk.
And sticking his finger inside of his nose,
He dug for a moment then pulled out a rose!

He sprang to his cycle, to his team gave a whistle,
Then fired it up and made my neck hairs bristle.
But I heard him exclaim, as he rode out of sight,
"Happy Deathness to all, you put up a good fight!"


"Lonestar" (Shadowrun Parody of "Rockstar" by Nickleback)
I'm through with working for Corps
At such embarrassing wage
I can hardly pay my rent
And it fills me full of rage
With no career advancement
In the future that I can foresee

(Tell me what you want)

I want a covert team
Who can meet the quota
A ninja and a sammy with the latest SOTA
And a king size Troll strong enough
to lift an Ork or three

(Yeah, so what you need)

I'll need a, a credit stick that's got no limit
And a big black van with a drone rack in it
Possibly an Ares Roadmaster
Possibly a GMC

(Been there done that)

I want magic support that can Astral Project
And a Face who’s worth at least a little respect
And as for rigging drones
You can leave that part up to me.

(So how you gonna do it?)

I’ll cyberware up until I go insane
I'd even lose my body, and borg my brain

'Cause we all just wanna avoid Lonestar
Knight Errant, and whoever else the cops are
The nuyen comes easy and the guns come cheap
We’ll kill without regret and we’ll never lose sleep
And eventually we’ll build up such intrigue
We’ll have to start up our own runner’s league
Every good drone rigger's
Gonna work for us
Every hot gun-bunny
with her “ammo drums”
and well..

Hey hey I wanna take out Lonestar
Hey hey I wanna take out Lonestar

I wanna be great like Lofwyr but not a dragon
Get a lifetime membership with doc-wagon
Steal a couple artifacts
So I can rack up karma for free

(I'll take HMHVV... ha ha)

I’ll be that rare non-elf who becomes immortal
Get a penthouse suite on Zurich Orbital
Gonna date an eco-shaman that loves to
cast a heal on me

(So how you gonna do it?)

I’ll learn all that I can about the arcane
I’ll put Aztechnology’s mages to shame

'Cause we all just wanna avoid Lonestar
Knight Errant, and whoever else the cops are
The nuyen comes easy and the guns come cheap
We’ll kill without regret and we’ll never lose sleep
And eventually we’ll build up such intrigue
We’ll have to start up our own runner’s league
Every good drone rigger's
Gonna work for us
Every hot gun-bunny
with her “ammo drums”
And we'll hire jobs out to specialists
Like master debaters
And cunning linguists
We can even turn a profit on the body pile
Everybody's got an organ legger on speed dial
well..

Hey hey I wanna take out Lonestar

I’ll turn on something that’ll jam their sensors
Gonna buy my team their own NERPS dispenser
Get Mystic Adepts to come on all my runs
Who knew law-breaking could be so much fun?

'Cause we all just wanna avoid Lonestar
Knight Errant, and whoever else the cops are
The nuyen comes easy and the guns come cheap
We’ll kill without regret and we’ll never lose sleep
And eventually we’ll build up such intrigue
We’ll have to start up our own runner’s league
Every good drone rigger's
Gonna work for us
Every hot gun-bunny
with her “ammo drums”
And we'll making a living off organized crime
Staying one step ahead
Getting paid on time
We'll steal anything within a thousand miles
If we get gunned down we’re gonna die with style
well..

Hey hey I wanna take out Lonestar
Hey hey I wanna take out Lonestar



MP3s on FileFreak (Right click and "save as" to keep a free copy for yourself)

Current Shadowrun Parody Projects:
"T'was the night before Christmas"
"Rockstar"
I NEED SUGGESTIONS!!!

So, what do you think?

[Nifar]

I would like to congratulate you on creating the finest examples of Shadowrun filk I've seen.

[Headshot_Joe]

So, to update, I've just finished uploading an embarrassingly low-quality self-rendition of Shadowrun-de-yada to the internet... Check the original post of updates...

[Nifar]

I regret to inform you that the link appears to be broken.

[Headshot_Joe]

I regret to inform you that the link appears to be broken.

No, I'm pretty sure it works...It's a direct link to the MP3 file, so some browsers might not support it, and if you have slow internet, it may look like nothing it happening. Try right clicking and "save as"... If that doesn't work, please tell me, and I'll see if I can fix it...

EDIT: Oops, I may have been mistaken...I switched some preferences around, it should work now..

EDIT EDIT: My bad, lemme just link to the page with the mp3 on it, rather than the mp3 itself...

[Nifar]

Totally works, and is totally awesome.

Just for your knowledge, this is going to get added to the Geek Karaoke Night rotation, along with such classics as "What Do You Do With A Drunken Vulcan" and "The Ivanova Blasphemy Song" (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

[Headshot_Joe]

Totally works, and is totally awesome.

Just for you're knowledge, this is going to get added to the Geek Karaoke Night rotation, along with such classics as "What Do You Do With A Drunken Vulcan" and "The Ivanova Blasphemy Song" (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

Thank you. It's uncommon for me to get comments, especially considering how tone-deaf I am...

I'm going to try and get some more folks involved, mostly from my running group, and perhaps my college writer's club...Maybe even make a video...

[Garou]

Well i am not familiar with the original song, but we can try to get it on a better rendition using Soundtrack Pro or some other similar software. would be awesome. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) after i finish studying for my M.Ds exams, perhaps we can try it. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Headshot_Joe]

Updated with "T'was the Night Before Christmas", Shadowrun Edition. Working on "Rockstar"...

[Kumo]

Awesome.

[Moirdryd]

Legendary

[Trigger]

Legendary

No.

Legen.....wait for it......dary. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Dr.Rockso]

You sir are some kind of twisted genius,

[MoonYou]

very epic my friend, very epic

[Headshot_Joe]

Nice to hear everyone's appreciating what I'm doing. As another update, Shadowrun-de-yada has been featured on the FuMP Sideshow today! This will (hopefully) allow it to reach a slightly wider audience.

Also, in other news, I have finished writing lyrics for a Shadowrun parody of "Rockstar" by Nickleback. I'm editing it into the top post now, hope you all enjoy!

I NEED SUGGESTIONS FOR MORE SONGS TO PARODY!

[Moirdryd]

Ultimate Showdown (of ultimate destiny)

99 Red Ballons

[Trigger]

I have been thinking about doing a spoof of 'Sit on my Face' by Monthy Python.

Shoot me in the face and tell me its for money...

[eidolon]

I have been thinking about doing a spoof of 'Sit on my Face' by Monthy Python.

Shoot me in the face and tell me its for money...

Make it so!

Nice work. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Kumo]

Could we add more verse to Shadowrun-de-yada (IMG:style_emoticons/default/spin.gif) ?

[Headshot_Joe]

Could we add more verse to Shadowrun-de-yada (IMG:style_emoticons/default/spin.gif) ?

By all means, go ahead. I had a few more little ideas, but decided to cut it off where I had it, because the song is supposed to be short, and gets awfully repetitive sounding if you add too many more verses. Mine aren't perfect, however, so if you come up with some you think are more fitting, by all means, post them, I'd love to see them.

I'm still working on getting a good group together for making videos of "Shadowrunner criminal" and "Shadowrun-de-yada"... If anyone on here lives in or near Oregon (or nearby, like in Washington), and would like to help, you'd be much appreciated. I myself live in Oregon City, but we'd probably meet up and film in Portland, or maybe even make the trek up to Seattle, for (augmented) realities sake....

[Kumo]

I don't know if it's better, but...

I love sprawl gangers
I love my minigun
I love to double-cross
The Golden Snout again
I love the Sixth World
It's full of places to hide

Boom-de-yada
Boom-de-yada
Boom-de-yada
Boom-de-yada
...

I NEED SUGGESTIONS FOR MORE SONGS TO PARODY!

Ghostbusters?

[Dumori]

Ultimate Showdown (of ultimate destiny)

Don't you mean the Ultimate Shadowrun. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif) I don't know enough meta plot to fit enough high lvl NPCs in it to make it funny enough. Though the Grate Dragons are must and so are the Immortal Elves. I'll see if any thing comes to mind.

[Nifar]

Ghostbusters?

Yesyesyes! It must be done.

[Headshot_Joe]

Ultimate Showdown (of ultimate destiny)

99 Red Ballons

I'm not sure about USoUD, because it's pretty specific, and would be hard to replicate...plus, I really don't have enough background knowledge on the game to make it work yet. I'll put it on the back burner, and maybe eventually look at the project, but for now, it's not something I feel capable of.

99 Red Balloons, however, gives me an idea...Something about 99 free spirits, and summoning them, etc...I may just have to attempt to do this one.

I have been thinking about doing a spoof of 'Sit on my Face' by Monthy Python.

Shoot me in the face and tell me its for money...

LOL, I might actually try this one...

I don't know if it's better, but...

I love sprawl gangers
I love my minigun
I love to double-cross
The Golden Snout again
I love the Sixth World
It's full of places to hide

Boom-de-yada
Boom-de-yada
Boom-de-yada
Boom-de-yada
...

Ghostbusters?

Too many sylables in the last line, but it's pretty good otherwise...whoever the Golden Snout is...(again, more or less clueless about Shadowrun Lore)

And Ghostbusters would be awesome, however it's not got a lot of lyrics, and "Shadowrunners" is four syllables wherease "Ghostbusters" is three... The beat for the song REALLY requires three syllables, unlike some songs which can squeeze in another. I'll look into it, but I'm not sure I can get around that syllable thing.

AND, I'm thinking about writing a Shadowrun parody of Weird Al's "Hardware Store"

Somethin' real big (big) happened in Seattle
Feelin' rattled, wanna go and start a battle
I think I might just go right out of my mind
Unless I can increase my kills

I got a lot of dice and I wanna make a roll
But my GM says I need to practice "self control"
I really don't care, all I want is a chance
To justify all these skills!

I can't wait, (no I) I can't wait (oh when)
When am I gonna get to have some fun?
I'm goin' (yes I'm) goin', I'm a-goin' to play
Goin' to play I'm goin', really goin' to play
Goin' I'm goin' to play oh yes, I'm goin' to play
Shadowrun!

Working on it more...

[Nifar]

A parody of a parody? Welcom to the wold of Kenefsky (I think I spelled that right) filk. It's all downhill from here.