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* Nox Arcana's albums are full of these. One is about the [[Cthulhu Mythos]], one about vampires, one about [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s works and so on.
* [[Leonard Nimoy]]'s "Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" is a [[So Bad It's Good]] example of original filk (though it wasn't written by Nimoy himself; he just sang it—don't ask why).
* Most of the production of the now-defunct band [[S.P.O.C.K
* [http://www.ooklathemok.com/ Ookla the Mok]: A rock band with heavily filkish undertones. Filk Rock.
** Ookla the Mok hardly count as Found Filk—they regularly attend (and perform at) filk conventions, and have won [http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/groups/ookla-the-mok.html numerous] [http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/people/rand-bellavia.html Pegasus] [http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/people/adam-english.html Awards].
* Many of the songs by the group [[wikipedia:The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets|The
* [[The Alan Parsons Project]]'s ''Tales of Mystery and Imagination'' about [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s stories.
* Mastodon's most popular and arguably best album is based entirely upon ''[[Moby Dick]]''.
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* ''[[The Perpetual Aquarium]]'' webcomic regularly includes not only filk songs related to various ''Neopets'' or pop culture themes, but whole filk musicals as well.
* ''It's beginning to look a lot like [[Team Fortress 2|Dustbowl]]...''
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The
* Star One. Just...Star One. A [[Progressive Rock|progressive]] metal supergroup, assembled and fronted by [[Ayreon|Arjen Anthony Lucassen]], existing solely as a tribute to filmed science fiction. Each song on their one studio album is about a different SF property, from [[Outland (film)|Outland]] to [[Star Wars]] to [[Blake's 7
* Cletus T. Judd, of ''I Love Nascar'' fame, is this.
* James Clerk Maxwell rewrote Robert Burns' "Comin' Through the Rye" with lyrics about physics and called it "Rigid Body Sings". He used to sing it, accompanying himself on the guitar. If it wasn't enough that he discovered that light was electromagnetic radiation entirely through the power of mathematics, it seems that he did this about 100 years before filk was invented.
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* Greg Champion of Australian radio show ''The Coodabeen Champions'' writes song parodies and original songs, mainly about [[Australian Rules Football]], but also [[Cricket]], other sports, and miscellaneous subjects.
* [[College Humor]] turned [[Jay Z]] / [[Alicia Keys]] "Empire State of Mind" into "[[Star Wars|Galactic Empire]] [http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1931187 State of Mind]".
* Raccoon Factory's "Kimi ga Kureta Yume", an original song written as a tribute to the ''[[Takotsuboya K-ON! Trilogy|Takotsuboya K-ON Trilogy]]''. It covers the first two volumes of the trilogy, with a later released song, "Day alternates with night", covering the last part.
* Archie Fisher's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg_MtqTESME "Witch of Westmoreland"]
* Not sure if this counts, but... [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm63Gmaxlho Crank Dat Druid Boy.]
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