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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Ishotdanieljohnston on 20 Apr 2008, 01:51
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So I bought this today after seeing the really great album cover production and hoping the music would be equally radcore. I'm halfway through and I'm actually getting a bit of a Ween cum Paul's Boutique era Beastie Boys feel. What do people think of these guys and this style of comedy album? When's it done well? When's it done badly?
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I haven't heard the album, but I own the first season on DVD and I just can't see the songs working outside the context of the episodes. Some of them would, I guess, but they wouldn't be nearly as funny.
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Well that's where I disagree. I guess it must have something to do with which kind of their comedy you were introduced to first. I first encountered Flight of the Conchords at youtube, and even though they have very charismatic rhetorics, it's still just songs a long way down the road. I think they should just record their shows at various venues in stead of making that silly DVD.
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I haven't heard the album, but I own the first season on DVD and I just can't see the songs working outside the context of the episodes. Some of them would, I guess, but they wouldn't be nearly as funny.
Au (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGoi1MSGu64) contraire (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbbxA8a_M_s)
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Yeah actually, as a person who enjoyed them before the show came out, I thought a big part of their humor was that each of the songs has no real context, and not too much of a connection to one another.
The show was funny, but not nearly as good as the standup/albums they released, since they had to connect everything and put a story behind it.
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I haven't actually seen the show, but a friend keeps telling me she'll lend it to me. The album is pretty good though, they're no just ccoustic and they've gone for that really dated really Barry White sound where everything is filled out and synthy which sounds funny and cool.