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August 20, 2010 12:44 AM

brentalfloss is a comedian, musician, and gamer. He first gained notoriety when he added lyrics to the title theme from Mega Man 3 and created the "With Lyrics" series on his Youtube channel, though his most recent hit is Dr. Mario With Lyrics.

More "With Lyrics" Videos:
Zelda With Lyrics, Super Mario 3 With Lyrics, Ducktales With Lyrics, Final Fantasy Classic With Lyrics.

In his spare time he alsoteaches kids how to write, stage and produce musicals, is an accomplished piano player, and does Colm Wikinson impressions set to Chrono Trigger music. His seriers popularity has led to a full length album (physical CD or a non-DRM download) and limited tours across the country.

posted by ShawnStruck (17 comments total)

This punch out one has a super funny rap in it too.
posted by Potomac Avenue at 2:04 AM on August 20, 2010

omg fucking banjo kazooie i still have dreams about that game where i am the bear and the bird has let me go and im falling endlessly like this ellipse...
posted by Potomac Avenue at 2:09 AM on August 20, 2010

I like the 2-2 Blues.
posted by Philosopher Dirtbike at 2:21 AM on August 20, 2010 [2 favorites]

I liked the Mega Man 3 one quite a bit, but I just now noticed that I can't hear certain riffs from the MM3 theme without immediately expecting to hear the desperate scream: "HOPE RIDES... ALOOOOONE"
posted by Greg Nog at 3:32 AM on August 20, 2010

...won't you feel like a man dressed up like Peter Pan...

Awesome.

omg fucking banjo kazooie i still have dreams about that game where i am the bear and the bird has let me go and im falling endlessly like this ellipse...

Fucking red feathers, just let me fly. I am great at it, and I promise not to bitch about the incessant clipping.
posted by edbles at 6:03 AM on August 20, 2010

What Weird Al does looks easy but it's not. not everyone can or should do it.
posted by amethysts at 6:29 AM on August 20, 2010 [1 favorite]

I liked this guy a lot less after I heard Tetris with Lyrics.
posted by Gin and Comics at 6:47 AM on August 20, 2010

I liked this guy a lot less after I heard Tetris with Lyrics.

Yeah I kept waiting for the here's where I make fun of people who have these attitudes part of that video and it kept not arriving.
posted by edbles at 6:52 AM on August 20, 2010

I liked this guy a lot less after I heard Tetris with Lyrics.

Christ, what an asshole. (Hey! I always wanted to do that!)
posted by robself at 7:34 AM on August 20, 2010

Here is a Tetris with Lyrics that is full of genius history lessons and amazing production values...no sophomoric sexism.
Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris
posted by soy bean at 7:58 AM on August 20, 2010 [6 favorites]

Scrooge McDuck is not a mallard.

And if you're discounting Tetris at all, much less with the most random point of sexism I've ever heard, then your opinion on games is worthless to me.
posted by cmoj at 9:14 AM on August 20, 2010

I saw BrentalFloss last weekend when he emceed at Bit Gen 5. He's a pretty good artist, and a pretty good performer to boot.
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 9:53 AM on August 20, 2010

edbles: "I liked this guy a lot less after I heard Tetris with Lyrics.

Yeah I kept waiting for the here's where I make fun of people who have these attitudes part of that video and it kept not arriving."

"If you sing this on key/Immediately/She'll forget that you're a dick!"
posted by ShawnStruck at 11:23 AM on August 20, 2010 [1 favorite]

The only acceptable lyrics for the Tetris Song are, "The Tetris Song", sung intermittently* and in the style of Andy Kaufman's rendition of Mighty Mouse.

If the song is in a brisk 4/4, the pickup to measure four indicates where the lyrics go: "Dun dun dun dun dun dun | dun dun dun dun dun dun | dun dun dun The | Tetris Song."
posted by Wossname at 2:05 PM on August 20, 2010

Other than the tasteless Tetris song, there are some quite clever lyrics there in the "with lyrics" compilation. Unfortunately, once you've picked up one set of lyrics for the theme it can be hard to hear any other - and the more-known the theme, the more likely it is to already have been done.

A few alternatives:
Rabbit Joint - Legend of Zelda (often, and oddly, misattributed to System of a Down)
Game Over - Little Mac's Confession
The Mario
posted by lantius at 4:11 PM on August 20, 2010

His rhymes in the Mega Man rendition were ok, but Duane and BrandO did it better.
posted by Ziggy Zaga at 11:40 PM on August 20, 2010

But the Tetris song is already a Russian folk song, complete with lyrics!
posted by noyb42 at 4:53 AM on August 22, 2010 [1 favorite]