As you may or may not know, I don't drink, and I mention this only because it may be source of my problem with this particular disc. In a bar setting, perferably someplace in New Orleans, getting the drunk on with a bunch of good friends this would probably be thoroughly entertaining, not because it's super-duper good, but because it's energetic and works hard to be fun. In my living room, most of it just seems kinda silly.

Nobody can accuse this disc of sounding similar throughout. At times there's that funky, soulful New Orleans vibe thing (which I can't stand at all), then there's a touch of ska/reggae in another song, then lead vocals change from a Tom Waits sounding mofo to a much smoother cat. If there's one unifying point among any of this is that I think all tracks try valiently to be fun and I can appreciate that. You remember that song by Jean Knight, "My Toot Toot"? Some of these songs seem to try that hard to reach novelty status, at least it seems to me. It's certainly an ecclectic effort.

Seventeen tracks is a heck of a long disc, especially when it's not the kind of thing you would normally listen to.

Some random thoughts:
Track 1- sounds almost like some Smash Mouth inspired song that would roll at the end of a Shrek movie.

Track 5 is terrribly familiar. I know a song that sounds very, very similar to this and it's been killing me that I can't figure it out.

Track 8 would probably be my fave. Cool guitar. "Each and Every Mother Funker" is a funny lyric.

Thanks for sending it, FWIW, the comp fared much better but that will be another day.

jc