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FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS

I TOLD YOU I WAS FREAKY (SUB POP)

FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS - I TOLD YOU I WAS FREAKY 40108
format:
1 CD
release:
23.10.2009
label:
SUB POP
item ID:
40108
barcode:
0098787080025
While Flight of the Conchords first hammered out their reputation from behind the relative safety of acoustic guitars, blithely billed as a "folk comedy" act, nowadays their musical style runs rampant, unchecked.

Judging from the range displayed on their sophomore album I Told You I Was Freaky, Flight of the Conchords have yet to unearth a genre which can withstand their artistry.

Unflinching in their lyrical stance, sophisticated with their arrangements, crafting melodies which always lodge firmly in the frontal lobe: Flight of the Conchords have here created 13 best-selling ringtones, humbly masquerading as songs.

Their rhymes are fearless, their thesauruses dog-eared. Only cool, confident specimens of manhood such as these could drop three-dollar vocabulary busters like "dungarees" and "pantaloons" while still mesmerizing the ladies with their undulating "Sugalumps." Vivid imagery? Check: The ardent "Angels" should spur listeners to think twice the next time they consider catching a snowflake on their tongues.

Better still, the amorous odyssey of the album's zenith, "We're Both in Love with a Sexy Lady," unfolds before the listener's very ears in real time; Flight of the Conchords are making history, and You! Are! There! I Told You I Was Freaky is, among a great many other things, a genre-tripping tour de force and includes three songs from the second series of their popular and award-winning/nominated HBO TV show which are otherwise as yet unreleased ("Rambling Through the Avenues of Time," "Too Many Dicks (On the Dance Floor)" and "You Don't Have to Be a Prostitute").
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. HURT FEELINGS
  • 1.2. SUGALUMPS
  • 1.3. WE'RE BOTH IN LOVE WITH A SEXY LADY
  • 1.4. I TOLD YOU I WAS FREAKY
  • 1.5. DEMON WOMAN
  • 1.6. RAMBLING THROUGH THE AVENUES OF TIME
  • 1.7. FASHION IS DANGER
  • 1.8. PETROV, YELYENA AND ME
  • 1.9. TOO MANY DICKS (ON THE DANCE FLOOR)
  • 1.10. YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A PROSTITUTE
  • 1.11. FRIENDS
  • 1.12. CAROL BROWN
  • 1.13. ANGELS