![]() ![]() So there's a track-by-track written in slightly less time than it takes to listen to the album all the way through - which is not long at all. It's consistent with the album's theme of putting together a bunch of very short, unmemorable, not funny songs - but group them all together and it's just hysterical!Īngels: "There are angels/In the clouds/Doing it" - who doesn't find that hilarious? They're singing about angels "doing it" and to back that up they inventively sing, "doing it, doing it, doing it, doing it, doing it, doing it!" He then says "shut up girlfriends from the past". ![]() It makes it heaps funnier you know.Ĭarol Brown:A song where all the women who have side-stepped Jemaine are listed. Well here's that song, the duo provide a cappella bings and bongs in place of percussively plucking a fence. It was the soundtrack of the penultimate scene from season two a moment when the show seemed to be announcing "well, we're done, thanks for coming for the ride, we've got nothing left. I mean he did that already as part of The Black Seeds, right?įriends: The nadir of season two was seeing Bret and Jemaine pretending to pluck a wire-fence and sing along. But I would have thought that writing pisstake reggae had gotten rather boring for Bret McKenzie. And The Police were accused of being a faux-reggae band. You Don't Have To Be A Prostitute:Here Bret and Jemaine sing a song about not having to be a prostitute and they do it as a faux-reggae song that's funny because The Police wrote a song called Roxanneabout a prostitute (and about her not having to be a prostitute). Too Many Dicks (On The Dance Floor): This is probably the best song on the album - but as with Sugarlumps (the number two songs on the album) you have to wonder if there's much point in satirising pop songs that are so stupid to begin with. Petrov, Yelyena, And Me: This ridiculous Russian sea-shanty send-up was written many years ago and appeared on the duo's Folk The World live CD. Guess what? It's even worse on record - sounding like Marilyn Manson covering David Bowie in the style of The Pet Shop Boys. That means that when Bret sings Jemaine can't do the soul-croon or the whispered thing when he's repeating so he just dead-pans commentary at the end of the lines ( "oh yeah?" "what did she look like?" "oh, nice!")įashion Is Danger:This song accompanies one of the least funny scenes in the least funny episode of the second season. ![]() ![]() But at least, six songs in, the folk-parodists are finally parodying folk. Rambling Through The Avenues Of Time: I think some of the members of Blerta probably want a co-writing credit for this. Hilarious and freaky!ĭemon Woman: I'm sure this song was on one of the albums by The Darkness wasn't it? This time - to mix it up - Jermaine does the whispered back-up vocals. I Told You I Was Freaky:Our heroes Bret and Jemaine are four songs in to their new album and "New Zealand's 4th Best Folk Parody Duo" are still lazily rewriting hip-hop and modern R'n'B. This one sees Jemaine copy almost everything Bret says, hamming it up with his faux soul-croon. We're Both In Love With A Sexy Lady: Our heroes Bret and Jemaine are three songs in to their new album and "New Zealand's 4th Best Folk Parody Duo" are still lazily rewriting hip-hop and modern R'n'B. So let's see how these songs stack up on a studio album: I was critical, when watching the show, that the songs were not as good - written in a hurry (the first season featured songs that were close to ten years old). I blogged about season two of the show Flight Of The Conchords - click here for a refresher. Or lasting.Īctually, it's called I Told You I Was Freaky - and it is the second studio album from Flight Of The Conchords.Įssentially it is the soundtrack to season two, arriving well after season two has been played, twice, and been released on DVD. Clearly it was beneath "Weird Al" Yankovic to bother, so Flight Of The Conchords picked up the scraps. Either that or we could just leave it alone to sound as stupid as it does. Sugarlumps:Well if Fergie is going to sing about her "lovely lady lumps" in the song My Humpswell then it possibly deserves to be ridiculed. Hurt Feelings: A rap parody about having hurt feelings. ![]()
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