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Q​*​bert

from Needlessly Meta by the great Luke Ski

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    The 12th full length comedy music album by 'the great Luke Ski' features his Logan Award winning parody about struggling to lose weight, "Candybars". He also pays tribute to "The Mandalorian", the women of "Star Wars", "The Twilight Zone", "Supergirl", "The Flash", "Adventure Time", and greatest animated series in the history of Cartoon Network, "Mighty Magiswords" (on which Luke was a storyboard artist, writer, voice actor, and songwriter for 3 years).

    As the title implies, many of the tracks on this album are very specifically about what has been going on in Luke's life during the 8-and-a-half years that have passed since his last album. The best of times (living the animation life, and making songs for the FuMP dot com and running the MarsCon Comedy Music Track) and the worst of times (trying to make a living in the gig economy, navigating being single again in the 2020s, and the skin-melting heat of southern California).

    And as a continuation from his previous album "4th Grade Talent Show" there are 7 new "Dumb Parody Ideas" tracks for you to enjoy / be reviled by. In any case, as Paul Sabourin put it during the "Paul & Storm" concert at FuMPFeST 2016, it's all "Needlessly Meta".

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And original chiptune song about the classic video game "Q*bert".

When there are groups of things in pop-culture, I often find myself gravitating towards the one in the group that I feel is very awesome yet unjustifiably getting less love and attention than the rest. My favorite Star Trek show is "Deep Space Nine". My favorite Fraggle is Boober. My favorite Disney movie of the past decade is "Meet The Robinsons"...

...And my favorite classic 80's arcade game is "Q*bert".

Which inexplicably seems to be the only game of that era that didn't get it's own obnoxious novelty song... Until now.

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This is a song about Q*bert.
This is a song about Q*bert.
If you ask “What's your favorite game?”
I'll tell you it's Q*bert.
People did songs about Pac-Man.
People did songs about Frogger.
People did songs about Donkey Kong.
No one did a song about Q*bert.

So this is a song about Q*bert.
This is a song about Q*bert.
Hopping 'round his pyramid
each time I drop a quarter.
Gotta turn all the blocks blue!
Gotta turn all the blocks green!
An orange, big-nosed, armless freak
with obsessive compulsive disorder!

This is a song about Q*bert.
This is a song about Q*bert.
Coily is the springy snake
who tries to squash him flat quick.
Q*bert jumps on a rainbow disc.
Coily jumps and falls to his death.
Q*bert is the only guy
who's killed more snakes than St. Patrick.

This is a song about Q*bert.
This is a song about Q*bert.
Red balls bouncing in his path.
I start to feel the pressure.
Ugg is hopping the right walls.
Wrongway's hopping the left walls.
Who taught them to hop that way?
It must be M.C. Escher.

This is a song about Q*bert.
This is a song about Q*bert.
If you say that I'm obsessed,
I'll tell you that I'm not, feeb!
But when Sam and Slick show up,
I swear just like Q*bert.
Using such profanity,
we should call him 'Gilbert Gottlieb'!

This is a song about Q*bert.
This is a song about Q*bert.
The “Saturday Supercade” cartoon
filled me with such radical glee!
He was awesome in “Wreck-It Ralph”
and that ad for Radio Shack.
'Cause of him I now know how
to work my joystick diagonally!

This is a song about Q*bert.
This is a song about Q*bert.
Born in '82 when people said,
“Take off, you hozer!”
But now after 32 years,
there's finally a song about Q*bert,
and I will keep playing it
'til I'm the Supreme Noser!

credits

from Needlessly Meta, track released December 26, 2014
Music & mixing by Kyle A. Carrozza

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the great Luke Ski Burbank, California

"the great Luke Ski" is The Dr. Demento Show's most requested artist of the 21st Century. His parodies and original songs about pop-culture have made him a favorite performer at fandom conventions all across the country. Founding member of The Funny Music Project, aka 'the FuMP' .com .

Luke Ski is an animation Storyboarder, Writer, & Voice-Over Actor.

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