Re: Custom Polkas
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 6:42 am
So I already posted this like 5 years ago in one of the "parodies you've made" threads, but now that we have a thread for custom polkas, I feel it merits re-posting. In retrospect, I'm still quite proud of this effort, which I apparently came up with and wrote in a single day.
The idea just sounded hilarious, reducing one the most serious albums around to a five-minute, sound-effect heavy (italics) polka. The "Closer" bit is basically the same as the version Al recorded for "The Alternative Polka". My other personal favorite parts of this medley include the ironic "Heresy" (sung by a choir), and the one-line version of the album's title track. Enjoy.
THE DOWNWARD POLKA
Polka medley of the album The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails
[Mr. Self Destruct]
I am the voice inside your head (and I control you)
I am the lover in your bed (and I control you)
I am the sex that you provide (and I control you)
I am the hate you try to hide (and I control you)
I take you where you want to go
I give you all you need to know
I drag you down I use you up
Mr. Self Destruct
(Explosion)
[Piggy]
Nothing can stop me now
Cause I dont care anymore (oink)
Nothing can stop me now
Cause I just dont care
[Heresy]
(Choir)
Your god is dead (dead!)
And no one cares (cares!)
If there is a hell (hell!)
Ill see you there (there!)
[March of the Pigs]
All the pigs are all lined up
I give you all that you want
Take the skin and peel it back (peeling, screaming)
Now doesnt that make you feel better?
[Closer]
Help me I broke apart my insides
Help me Ive got no soul to sell (cash register)
Help me the only thing that works for me
Help me get away from myself
I want to (poink) you like an animal
I want to feel you from the inside
I want to (doing) you like an animal
My whole existence is flawed
You get me closer to god
[Ruiner]
How did you get so big?
How did you get so strong?
How did you get so hard?
How did it get so long?
[The Becoming]
Hiding backwards inside of me
I feel so unafraid
Annie, hold a little tighter
I might just slip away (cartoon slip)
Dont you tell me how I feel
Dont you tell me how I feel
Dont you tell me how I feel
You dont know just how I feel
I want to know everything (computing sounds)
I want to be everywhere (airplane)
I want to (squeak) everyone in the world
I want to do something that matters
[Big Man With A Gun]
I am a big man (yes I am)
And Ive got a big gun (gunshot)
Got me a big old (baa) and I
I like to have fun
Held against your forehead
Ill make you (cluck) it
Maybe Ill put a hole in your head
You know, just for the (moo) of it
[A Warm Place]
[Eraser]
Drums!
Need you
Dream you
Find you
Taste you
(Bark) you
Use you
Scar you
Break you
Lose me
Hate me
Smash me
Erase me
Kill me
Kill me, kill me, kill me
Hey, hey, hey hey!
[Reptile]
Oh my beautiful liar
Oh my precious whore
My disease my infection
I am so impure
[The Downward Spiral]
Bang!
[Hurt]
I hurt myself today (weeping)
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing thats real
The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away
But I remember everything
What have I become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end
You could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
If I could start again
A million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way
I would find a way!
(Id go and find a way, Id go and find a way)
Id go and find a way, hey!