Roundworm
Track Listings
| 1. Acts of Parody (Kristoph Klover, Kathy Mar and Taunya Gren) |
| 2. Nobody's Moggy Lands (Seanan McGuire) |
| 3. Doppel-entendre (Julia Ecklar and Heather Alexander) |
| 4. Mutant Generations (Steve Macdonald) |
| 5. Something's Under the Bed (Heather Alexander) |
| 6. By the Time I Get To... (Julia Ecklar) |
| 7. The Comforts of Home (Ookla the Mok) |
| 8. Eternal Flame/God Wrote in LISP (Julia Ecklar) |
| 9. Wise Men Feared to Tread (Acacia Sears) |
| 10. Mineral Rights (Leslie Fish) |
| 11. Threes, Take 3 (Julia Ecklar) |
| 12. December of Cambreadth (Heather Alexander) |
| 13. Meltdown (Julia Ecklar) |
| 14. Dear Departed (Kathy Mar) |
| 15. Black Flag (Annwn) |
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Product Description
Bob is often described as the "Weird Al Yankovic of filk". But that's not quite true.
Unlike Weird Al, Bob Kanefsky ("Kanef") doesn't record his own parodies. Instead, he hands off that honor to the original artists.
Roundworm collects fifteen of Bob's most delicious parodies, led by the filk dream team of Julia Ecklar and Heather Alexander.
Julia and Heather are joined by Leslie Fish, Taunya Gren, Kristoph Klover, Kathy Mar, Steve Macdonald, Seanan McGuire, Ookla the Mok, and Acacia Sears, along with Bay Area folk heavyweights Annwn, Jon Berger (formerly of Tempest), Margaret Davis, Karl Franzen, Cat Taylor and Mark Ungar.
Produced by Kristoph Klover.
Roundworm,Bob Kanefsky (Julia Ecklar & Heather Alexander),Prometheus Music,A wicked folksong parodist, with works featured in Sing Out magazine, as well as on folk and humor radio shows like Chicago's Midnight Special, and Music with Moskowitz.
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ASIN: B00008YO8O Release Date: 2000-05-01 |
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Album Description
Bob is often described as the "Weird Al Yankovic of filk". But that's not quite true.Unlike Weird Al, Bob Kanefsky ("Kanef") doesn't record his own parodies. Instead, he hands off that honor to the original artists.
Roundworm collects fifteen of Bob's most delicious parodies, led by the filk dream team of Julia Ecklar and Heather Alexander.
Julia and Heather are joined by Leslie Fish, Taunya Gren, Kristoph Klover, Kathy Mar, Steve Macdonald, Seanan McGuire, Ookla the Mok, and Acacia Sears, along with Bay Area folk heavyweights Annwn, Jon Berger (formerly of Tempest), Margaret Davis, Karl Franzen, Cat Taylor and Mark Ungar.
Produced by Kristoph Klover.
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Pure Glee.......2006-04-06
Cruel to be kind?.......2003-08-24
First the caveat, and it really isn't much of one at all:
If you've never heard of filk before, or aren't much into SF or Roleplaying Games, then you may not quite get *all* the gags that are packed into Bob Kanefsky's wicked lyrics. In which case, don't worry, because the music is splendid, and as long as you at least know *any* of the following snippets of information:
- What a cat is (and roughly what shape it should be);
- What a space shuttle is;
- Who Mr Spock is;
- Where you would normally find a "mage" and a "cleric" in the same sentence;
- Which part of Rudolf the Reindeer is commonly reputed to reflect light in the low frequency end of the visible spectrum;
- how clean a *normal* kitchen is kept;
...then you'll find plenty to giggle or groan about on this album.
The tunes are all stolen from songs that really deserve much better exposure in their own right. To add insult to injury, these tunes are in some cases force-fed back to their original owners with Kanef's new lyrics attached, and the victims are then ensnared into performing the new version!
Now, this could have been done as a "cheap laughs" album, with just a few guitars round a stereo mike on a free afternoon in somebody's living room, and still been great fun, but no: These are all top-notch studio recordings of top-notch performances. As a result, the album also serves as a handy introduction to some of the performing talent that lies largely undiscovered in the filk community. Once you've heard Heather Alexander's voice here, you'll want to buy her album "Insh'Allah - The Music of Lion's Blood" (avaliable right here on Amazon). Once you've heard Ookla the Mok here, you have as much of an idea as any total unsupecting innocent does of what to expect of their albums and concerts. I'd never heard of Leigh Ann Hussey and her band Annwn (pronounced "Ah-noon", apparently) before this album.
"Roundworm" is the first Bob Kanefsky album on CD - A logical follower to the earlier "Tapeworm", which was released on a wax cylinder. Oops, sorry, I mean a tape. [FEEBLE GRIN]
(Note to Amazon: Have I hit a thousand words yet?
And why can't we get any of this wonderful stuff through the *UK* Amazon site, hmmm....? )
Parodies plus great musicianship.......2003-08-24
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