Flight of The Conchords - I Told You I Was Freaky

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4...according to our Phil on Fri 16 Oct, 2009.

I caught onto Flight Of The Conchords quite late but when I eventually got it (the first few viewings made me think it was a massive pile of shit) I realised it was a total work of comedy genius. Very understated but very funny... Initially it was the songs that put me off but now I hink they're some of the funniest moments of the show. The 2nd series didn't reach the dizzying heights of the first for me but there's some diamond tunes on 'I Told You I Was Freaky' and it's nothing but a joy to hear asshole and casserole rhymed together (two of my favourite things). The songs are novelty but they weirdly don't wear off as I'm still enjoying the first album when I hear it so there's more longevity here than you'd expect! It's more elelectronic/electro than the previous album which was more acoustic so they've moved on a bit... The 80's pop of 'Fashion Is Danger' is authentically created. They pastiche well, they do.... Anyway it's not for everyone but I guess it must be for a reasonable amount of Sub Pop are doing a 2nd album by 'em. You should check out Business Time from the first album... Man that rules!!

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· The second season of the Emmy-nominated comedy Flight Of The
Conchords, following the lives of New Zealand’s premiere digi-folk parodists
Jemaine and Bret as they try and break New York, was transmitted on BBC 4 in
the Spring of this year and will get a full terrestrial BBC broadcast later in the year.
The songs from this album were performed on this series.
· 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.
· ‘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 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’.
· LP comes with a coupon code for a free MP3 download of the entire
album.

Hurt Feelings * Sugalumps * We’re Both In Love With A
Sexy Lady * I Told You I Was Freaky * Demon Woman *
Rambling Through The Avenues Of Time * Fashion Is
Danger * Petrov, Yelyena And Me * Too Many Dicks (On
The Dance Floor) * You Don't Have To Be A Prostitute *
Friends * Carol Brown * Angels