Rewriting the songs again

You know sometime, I'll have to get that headset out again and actually try recording some of these parody songs.

Daft post tonight .... Surviving Mars is out tonight, which I've been quite looking forward to. The pre-release streams on the ParadoxExtra with Susie and Nikki of the publishers have been particularly enjoyable. (Here's the link to their playlist again)

Anyway, Nikki mentioned that she's listening to more heavy metal music lately and .... that triggered the "let's rewrite a song into a parody" thing again.

Here goes :
The Martian Immigrant Song

Ah-ah, ah!
Ah-ah, ah!

We come from the home of the pa-ra-dox
From the planet Earth, where the pizza's cold
Managers of people
We'll drive rockets to red Mars
To build the domes, and rush the babes
Mysteries, I am coming!

On we seek with rover drones
Our only goal will be a perfect dome

Ah-ah, ah!
Ah-ah, ah!

We come from the home of the pa-ra-dox
From the planet Earth where the pizza's cold
How fine your dusts so red
Can whisper "look meteor"
Susie the host, Nikki controls
You are our overlords

On we seek with rover drones
Our only goal will be a perfect dome

So now you'd better stop and come join us on Mars
For Nikki's dome will rule the sol despite of all your lazing

Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh

Here's a link to the Led Zep original of Immigrant Song (you may recognise it from Thor Ragnarok where I was most definitely head bopping along to it in the cinema).

I also rewrote another classic lately for KatherineOfSky, warlord of the Factorio wastes. This one was based on Run To The Hills by Iron Maiden (another link to a youtube version)

Woman came down from the sky
She brought us smoke that made us cry
She killed our blues she killed our nests
She took our dead for her own need

We fought her hard we fought her well
Out on the plains we bit and spit
But still she came with tank and flame
All our colonies will be tamed?

Jumping through ash clouds and barren wastes
Broken tree limbs on the plains
Chasing the robots back to their ports
Biting them in their own game
Murdered for freedom the nuke sneak attack
Woman and turrets and lasers ransack

Run to the hills, run for your lives
Run to the hills, run for your lives

Orange warlord in barren wastes
Hunting and nuking her trade
Mining the iron and stealing the fish
The only good trees meet grenade
Cracking the fuel and being a pest
Destroying the worms and erasing their nests

Run to the hills, run for your lives

Can't beat those classics. But sometimes you can improve on them. I'll leave you with a link to a Weird Al parody based on American Pie. Here is "The Saga Begins". It's brilliant.

PS Too tired to open Surviving Mars tonight but I did enjoy listening and watching to the Susie and Nikki launch stream.