History Music / RichardCheese

* {{Medley}}: His "[[Music/GreenDay American Idiot]]" cover devolves into one of these, going through [[ComicallyMissingThePoint "My Country, 'Tis of Thee", "God Bless America", "America the Beautiful", "The Star-Spangled Banner"]] and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers "La Cucaracha"]] before cycling back around to the Green Day song. The live version of "Brass Monkey" earns some other brief Music/BeastieBoys snippets.

* IncrediblyLamePun: During [[Franchise/StarWars the Imperial March]] cover: "Piano solo! Bass solo! Drum solo! HAN SOLO!"
** [[Music/TwoLiveCrew "The horn section so horny!"]]
** PunnyName: His band members.

* MusicalPastiche

* InTheStyleOf: Occasionally mixes up the Lounge covers: for example, "Enter Sandman" by Music/{{Metallica}} is done in the style of the Chordettes' version of "Mr. Sandman", Music/{{Garbage}}'s "Only Happy When It Rains" evokes ''Film/SinginInTheRain'', and his live version of "Don't Cha" has him parody ABBA, George Takei, Music/BobDylan, the Doobie Brothers... at times he breaks out imitations such as Music/{{Bjork}} during a performance.

* IndecipherableLyrics: Undone by many of his covers, in which you can understand him perfectly. He keeps it in tact for Music/LilWayne's "Lollipop", though, by mumbling all the words. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLd22ha_-VU The downright unintelligible]] [[Music/PearlJam "Yellow Ledbetter"]] has Richard [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjfKQaZdWmE making up some]] WordSaladLyrics. Similarly, Rihanna's "Work" turns into gibberish, in-between Richard mocking the song.

* MayTheFarceBeWithYou: ''The Lounge Awakens'' is supposedly a live album recorded on Tattooine. Along with actual ''Franchise/StarWars'' songs and Mark's old song "Star Wars Cantina", there is Weird Al's "Yoda", space-themed songs ([[Music/AFlockOfSeagulls "Space Age Love Song"]], [[Music/BeastieBoys "Intergalactic"]]) and jokey choices ([[Music/BillyIdol "Rebel Yell"]] for the Alliance, [[Music/MichaelJackson "Ben"]] for Kenobi, "You Dropped A Bomb On Me" for the Death Star...).

* TheScapegoat: Britney Spears in his live version of "Toxic", as Richard launches into a monologue blaming her for every scandal, then-recent (such as breaking the toilet on the ISS and attempting to kill some astronaut's girlfriend), even up to and including [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror sending our troops into Iraq]] "[[AuthorTract with no justification whatsoever!]]"

* SongParody: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. The lyrics are kept largely the same, but the tunes are radically changed. The only straight-forward example is "Star Wars Cantina", which is "Copacabana" with the lyrics rewritten to be a plot summary of the ''Star Wars'' original trilogy.

* SpecialGuest: Most times faked - a text-to-speech voice plays Stephen Hawking in "[[Music/MichaelJackson The Girl Is Mine]]", the Sulu in "Light My Fire" is Mark himself... but Music/WeirdAlYankovic and [[Music/{{Slipknot}} Corey Taylor]] have sung with him.

** Richard himself hates being corrected, as witness his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atf0kLYrvcU abortive cover]] of Bel Biv Devoe's "Do Me".

He's become increasingly notable in the 2010s and 2020s for his appearances in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoBatmanMovie'', ''Film/BarbAndStarGoToVistaDelMar'', and the films of Creator/ZackSnyder.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent:
** ''Dick at Nite'', which covers TV themes.
** ''Lavapalooza'', which covers songs tiki-style rather than lounge-style.
** ''Silent Nightclub'' is a Christmas-themed album, and contains one of the band's original songs, about... well, make an educated guess from the title.
** "Star Wars Cantina" is another original song, which is a summation of the original ''StarWars'' trilogy, set to "Copacabana".
** There's "RC on the Air" off of ''Vida la Vodka'', which is a collection of all of Dick's radio appearances.
** ''I'd Like a Virgin'' has a hidden track where a covered band calls up the band to congratulate them, a Mexican hotel owner offering Dick and the band some free rooms at a hotel... and [[BestialityIsDepraved Dick asking for some donkeys]], Dick hitting the microphone with his dick, and asking a woman to open her legs during a concert. ''OK Bartender'' inserts random drunken messages left by fans on Dick's phone between songs.
** "Let's Lounge" is an original song praising this genre.

* IncrediblyLamePun: During [[StarWars the Imperial March]] cover: "Piano solo! Bass solo! Drum solo! HAN SOLO!"

* MayTheFarceBeWithYou: ''The Lounge Awakens'' is supposedly a live album recorded on Tattooine. Along with actual ''StarWars'' songs and Mark's old song "Star Wars Cantina", there is Weird Al's "Yoda", space-themed songs ([[Music/AFlockOfSeagulls "Space Age Love Song"]], [[Music/BeastieBoys "Intergalactic"]]) and jokey choices ([[Music/BillyIdol "Rebel Yell"]] for the Alliance, [[Music/MichaelJackson "Ben"]] for Kenobi, "You Dropped A Bomb On Me" for the Death Star...).

** In his Christmas album, the band begins to play "Last Christmas" by Wham!, but Richard stops them all.
-->''"Uhm, we were going to do a swingin' lounge version of 'Last Christmas', by Wham!... but that song sucks! Next tune!"''

He became increasingly notable in the 2010s for his appearances in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoBatmanMovie'', ''Film/BarbAndStarGoToVistaDelMar'', and the films of Creator/ZackSnyder.

He became increasingly notable in the 2010s for his appearances in ''Film/TheLegoBatmanMovie'', ''Film/BarbAndStarGoToVistaDelMar'', and the films of Creator/ZachSnyder.

[[StageNames Richard Cheese]] (real name Mark Jonathan Davis) is an American musician.

* VivaLasVegas: The band's actually based out of Los Angeles, but UsefulNotes/LasVegas is a common theme and destination spot for them. There's a reason why "Christmas in Las Vegas" was their first original song, and why Creator/ZackSnyder chose him to perform the eponymous song in ''Film/ArmyOfTheDead'' along with Allison Crowe.

Richard Cheese (real name Mark Jonathan Davis) is an American musician.

He produces [[StealthParody seemingly straight]] CoverVersion[=s=] of RockAndRoll and HipHop songs in the style of a LoungeLizard, backed by his band Lounge Against the Machine.

Richard Cheese is an artist who does [[StealthParody seemingly straight]] CoverVersion[=s=] of RockAndRoll and HipHop songs in the style of a LoungeLizard, backed by his band Lounge Against the Machine.

Discography:

* VivaLasVegas: The band's actually based out of Los Angeles, but UsefulNotes/LasVegas is a common theme and destination spot for them. There's a reason why "Christmas in Las Vegas" was their first original song.

* BerserkButton: Bobby is ''very'' protective of his piano if "[[Music/{{Coldplay}} Viva La Vida]]" is anything to go on.

* SceneryGorn: ''[[https://richardcheese.bandcamp.com/track/richard-cheese-live-at-wayne-financial-tower-in-metropolis-2 Richard Cheese Live At]] [[Music/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice Wayne Financial Tower In Metropolis]]''.

* BuiltWithLego: ''Westernanimation/LegoBatmanTheMovie'' [[https://www.dccomics.com/blog/2019/04/18/swinging-through-gotham-richard-cheese-lounges-up-the-lego-batman-movie has a Minifigure version of the group singing]] [[Music/MichaelJackson "Man in the Mirror"]]. The soundtrack also features their version of [[Westernanimation/TheLegoMovie "Everything Is Awesome"]].