The Best of Twisted Tunes, Vol. 2

Artist: Bob Rivers & Twisted Radio Label: Atlantic / Wea Category: Music Average customer rating: Media: Audio Cassette UPC: 075678304545 EAN: 0075678304545 ASIN: B000002JE8 Release Date: 1997-11-11

Tracks:

1. Hello, I Love You (Let's Get Tested)
2. I'm Just a Singer in a Holiday Inn
3. What If God Smoked Cannabis?
4. Beat up Old Jetliner
5. Read It in the Tabloids
6. Mr. Magoo
7. When a Man Loves a Chicken
8. I Used to Rock & Roll All Night
9. Getting Fatter All the Time
10. I'm a Weight Watcher
11. Officer Fuhrman
12. OJ's Trial Thing
13. How It Feels (To Be Old)
14. Bowel Moves
15. Wrong Foot Amputated

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Customer Reviews:

Some good humor; some only ok.......2007-01-04

Bob Rivers is the comedy king of the 1990's and on.......2002-07-02

His takes on songs go further than Weird Al did, which is, tastelessly non-PC at times and yes, twisted. He also has vocalists imitate the originals if possible, so that makes the parody funnier. Another difference between him and Yankovic is that the songs are one to two minute snippets. And the songs sometimes has profanities.

"Beat Up Old Jetliner," a take on the Steve Miller song, is about a decrepit airplane. It ends with the pilot announcing, "Ladies and gentlemen, I just turned off the no-smoking sign. "I figure, the plane's smoking so why shouldn't you?" Whoa!

The funniest song is a send-up on the Doors' "Hello, I Love You." That song becomes "Hello, I Love You (Let's Get Tested)" For what? AIDS. Now that's funny! Joan Osborne's "One Of Us" becomes "What If God Smokes Cannibus?" Key lyrics: "And do you think he rolls his own." "And when the saints go marhcing home, maybe he sits and smokes a bowl."

Now, I really enjoy KISS so I can appreciate the parody of "Rock And Roll All Night," which is "I Used To Rock And Roll All Night." Basically, it rips on KISS for reuniting and going back on the road with makeup. "We're putting on the makeup again/it covers up a bunch of wrinkled skin" And the chorus: "I used to rock and roll all night/but now my hair's turning gray/"I have to get to bed by nine/rub in a tube of Ben Gay." Now that's really funny!

Two Beatles tunes are ribbed--"Getting Better" becomes "Getting Fatter All The Time" and "Eleanor Rigby" becomes "Officer Fuhrman"--"Heeee likes to set up coloured people." This is another highlight.

Speaking of O.J., "OJ's Trial Thing" is a take on Sam Kinison's "Wild Thing" which was of course a classic Troggs hit, full of Kinison's (his imitator, I mean) manic yelling.

I didn't take things too personally when Weird Al ribbed some things I liked, and the same goes for Bob Rivers. I figure, "hey, it's just a song, right?"

So-so production.......1998-11-10

You'll love this album if you want to laugh.......1998-08-09

Blech.......1998-06-12

Now, however, Mister Rivers has lost it. I regret wasting the money on Twisted Tunes #2. If you want comedy/music combos, go with Weird Al or Doctor Demento collections.

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