When Paula Cole released her breezy country/Americana ballad "Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?" in 1996, she was irritated by the fact her fans missed one key attribute:

She'd meant it to be ironic.

This tidbit was largely overlooked by her fans, the critics, and even Wikipedia, which notes: "The first two verses explore infatuation and discovery; a bridge expresses disillusionment, and a final verse changes to despair." (Kind of a metaphor for our entire music career, actually.) Of course, that's Wikipedia for you - and looking at the rest of the entry, I'm hard-pressed to find anything else they got right about this song, either.

Much like our version.

So why the confusion? Maybe, back in the 90s, people didn't know what irony was, until another song came along to explain it: apparently, it's like rai-yeee-ain on your weddingggggg day. Glad we got that cleared up.

But here's what I DON'T get. Back in the day - say around the time of Elvis - a whole lotta US states (including California) were actually part of Mexico. (We won them in a poker game.) Today, a lot of American citizens in those states can actually trace their lineage back to that time. So the fact that our government is deporting citizens from states they no longer like anyway, and which used to be Mexico, back to modern-day Mexico, smacks of irony to me.

~ Bob

Bad hombres:

M. Spaff Sumsion: Lyrics

Zelda Pinwheel: Lead and backing vocals

Chris Mezzolesta: Kokomo vocals, epilogue

Bob Emmet: Concept, all instruments, production, etcetera

While Super Mario was my favorite video game franchise growing up, Zelda replaced it pretty quickly once I discovered Twilight Princess and Wind Waker in the late 2000s. Thiis was followed by about a decade of not having a functioning Nintendo system, but when I bought a Switch I mostly played Breath of the Wild and now mostly Tears of the Kingdom.

I'd already written a song about older Zelda games years ago, which I was fortunate to have played on the Dr. Demento show, but every once in a while I'd wonder why I'd spent so much time playing the open world games without writing a song about them. And yet nothing came to mind until Pink Pony Club had been one of the most popular songs in the United States (and probably the world) for a while and it spent a good deal of time running through my head, and then I came up with the basic idea of how the inventory (Link's Load of Stuff) in Tears of the Kingdom seemed too heavy for even the strongest of heroes to carry. It took a while from the moment of inspiration until finishing, but it's here now and I hope you like it.

As should be apparent, it's not me on the vocals, but someone I've hired before to anonmously provide vocals for parodies I've written.

Do you hate shopping for clothes? This song was inspired by a true story that took place at the long defunct Merry Go Tound clothing store chain back in the day!

The sweetner used in the sugar free variety of these gummi bears will tear you up if you eat too many at one time. The reviews online of this product are a riot...and perfect topic for a song! There's a dance mix of this one too. Music video here .

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As always when Kim Jong Duh is in (what's left of) the white house, the scandals and nightmares come far too quickly and numerously for me to keep up. This song is about air traffic horribleness from earlier this year... and it seems appropriate to drag it out now, with the air traffic controllers on furlough (which might be over before this song gets to you). Oh well.

You know me... I have to parody this classic John Denver song every few years. I think this is the fourth one. Wow.

Music: John Denver

Words: SG and Niamh Bagnell

Guitar, mandolin, bass, piano, arrangement, production: SG

Oh no! Republicans have learned our secret, that millions of supposed protesters are actually hired agitators and haters who only care about getting paid by George Soros. As long as they're on to us, we might as well let them hear our 'leader' lay out our rules, in song

Where I compare MY Superpowers to those Superhero tough guys in the comic universe!

Happy Halloween!

The best way for me to celebrate is with some old friends... Really. Old. Friends.

A scary bit of fun with some singing delebs (that's dead celebs)

An original song by Joe J Thomas of Joe's Dump (JoesDump.com)

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Not a Quinn-Martin Production

A song about how our body betrays us. Erin wants you to know that everything in this song is true (even the part about hurting herself painting) except the bleeding, which Rand added because he couldn't resist adding another rhyme. And yes, the chorus was borrowed from Parks and Recreation.

Music by Rand Bellavia

Lyrics by Erin Bellavia

Erin Bellavis: vocals

Rand Bellavia: guitar, harmony vocals

Mike Brunacini: concertina, organ

Mike Mallory: bass

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