Every Ape and His Brother

Every Ape and His Brother is the working "band" alias for the Dozerfleet founder, and is a "group" that specializes more in writing song lyrics than in actual song performance. Performers for songs are chosen on a by-volunteer basis. The name is based on the phrase: "Next you know, every ape and his brother will be coming out of the trees to be a part of it all!"

History
Every Ape began as just a random collection of song parodies that were made by the Dozerfleet founder as he saw appropriate in accordance with tunes that fit well with more than one set of lyrics. Many of the parodies were done to poke at the sound of the artists' voices, exaggerating their more violent tendencies by having them sing lyrics with more literal graphic violence in the song content than usual; as well as poking at the fact that the artists themselves probably would not have made their songs about the parody song's topics. In this respect, the parodies were done in the spirit of Weird Al 1 ; albeit a more violent version of that artist.

The PCMace website, long since missing, once used the phrase "every ape and his brother." The official name for the "band" began in January of 2007. It was a collaboration mostly of songs that had been submitted to AmIRight.com. On Wedneday, July 25th of 2007, Every Ape received its own MySpace page.

This page was soon followed by GarageBand and iLike pages being made. The first songs to be submitted to GarageBand and iLike were "The Hundred-Acre Woodland Massacre," "They'll Claw You Open," and a test demo of a theme tune for Stationery Voyagers. Since then, Every Ape has been making parody song lyrics grouped into albums. Each time a new song comes out, it is usually submitted to AmIRight.com under the username of BulldozerBegins.

The MySpace page was canceled on Sunday, March 20th of 2009 at 3:40 PM EDT.

Voice effect
For many of the demos made for the MySpace page, most of them involve the singer's voice being lowered a few octaves using Audacity software, sometimes with an echo effect.

Singles

 * "The Hundred-Acre Woodland Massacre" (2007)
 * "They'll Claw You Open" (2007)
 * "Salem (Story of a Trial)" (2008)
 * "Slaughterized" (2008)

Morbid! The Horrendous Hobo!!!

 * Released in 2007.
 * The title for the first parody song collection came to be known as Morbid! The Horrendous Hobo!!!
 * This was partially because that was the name of a random drawing made in 1997.
 * Another reason for the title is the amount of violence in some of the parodies.
 * This album is the only one so far to parody the same artist more than once.
 * There is an imaginary line waiting to get in to an awards show in Hollywood in the "Every Ape" side-story. Morbid himself is the first of many creatures to be in line behind the red carpet.  This is consistent with the phone conversation two men had earlier that day that "every ape and his brother" would be at that show.  The meaning of that usage of the term was that one could expect nearly everyone and everything to be in attendance or involved.
 * Morbid, due to his hideousness, has survived numerous lynching attempts by fearful visitors. During the hanging attempt he survives at the beginning of this album, he points the angry villagers to a cassette tape lying on the ground.  Announcing "the tape...," he urges the villagers to play the tape in a cassette player.  They do so.  The contents of the tape are the songs on the album.

Elefante Elegante Interesante Importante



 * Released in 2007.
 * The title for the second parody song collection came to be known as Elefante Elegante Interesante Importante
 * The Elegant, Interesting, Important Elephant was a running gag in the Dozerfleet founder's high school Spanish classes.
 * While Morbid! floated around and parodied songs from 2000-2006, Elefante parodies a more diverse group of songs, including 90's songs.
 * There is an imaginary line waiting to get in to an awards show in Hollywood in the "Every Ape" side-story. The Elephant himself is the second of many creatures to be in line behind the red carpet.
 * Unlike Morbid, the Elephant is somehow popular.

The Chicken of the Opera

 * Work on this album began in 2008.
 * The title for the third parody song collection came to be known as The Chicken of the Opera.
 * The Chicken's focus is more on folk and classical tunes than modern songs.
 * There is an imaginary line waiting to get in to an awards show in Hollywood in the "Every Ape" side-story. The Chicken himself is the third of many creatures to be in line behind the red carpet.
 * Like Morbid, the Chicken is feared and hated. Yet, unlike Morbid, the Chicken is somehow impossible to catch and harm.