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I Told You I Was Freaky |  | Artist: Flight of the Conchords
Label: Sub Pop
Category: Music
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Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 279
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5.1 x 0.4
MPN: 70800
UPC: 098787080025
EAN: 0098787080025
ASIN: B002M2Z3JW
Release Date: October 20, 2009
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| Tracks:
| • | 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 |
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Product Description
I Told You I Was Freaky is, among a great many other things, a genre-tripping tour de force and includes songs from the second series of their popular and award-winning/nominated HBO TV show.
Album Description
2009 sophomore full length album from the New Zealand Pop/Parody duo (Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement), who are best known for their popular HBO series. Flight Of The Conchords were named Best Alternative Comedy Act at the 2005 US Comedy Arts Festival and Best Newcomer at the Melbourne Comedy Festival, and they received a nomination for the Perrier Comedy Award at the 2003 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. This release features a lyric book with not only the lyrics, but the chords to each song as well.
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| Customer Reviews:
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 Definetely my favourite guitar-based folk band from New Zealand! November 27, 2009
Tim Meeus (Londerzeel, Belgium)
Hi, i just want to write a review about this CD because it's astonishing! I don't write reviews often.
I really like this record because i'm fond of good singing. You should hear Bret singing 'Rambling' or Jemaine singing 'Hurt feelings'. The choir on 'Carol Brown' is just heavenly.
It's quite nice to receive the guitarchords with the album. And they're not very difficult. The music is even enjoying to sing along.
And that's my definition of a good record: it's just a terrific SING-A-LONG - record!!!
New Zealand ROCKS!!!
 Hilarious November 23, 2009
Mel in Ottawa
If you have seen the show, you already know and love the songs. They probably seem very out of context without knowing the background, so I wouldn't recommend this CD for anyone who isn't already a fan. But I kill myself laughing every time I hear it. Gotta love FOTC!
 Good but not as good as the first November 23, 2009
Patrick Barnhart (Missouri, USA)
I love the flight if the conchords. The first cd was great, but I felt the second was not as good. The songs are too specific to the episodes. All in all I liked the music. It just doesn't compare to the first one.
How is it NOT worth buying?? November 13, 2009
Teyss (California)
I was ecstatic upon receiving this album, and am glad to say it still does not disappoint. If you have any sense of humor in the absurdities of popular culture you will love the ridiculousness that is Flight of the Conchords. I have heard that a lot of people think they are "juvenile" and their jokes fall flat-- I can only say that the jokes went right over their heads, probably due to pretentiousness and a proverbial stick up the butt.
That sounds weird, I know, since FotC is generally very silly rather than full of witticisms... but I think most are so used to comedians making fun of everyone else rather than themselves. It's a subtle mockery of modern music, but it's not really insulting. Oddly enough, I can appreciate rap (and rappers) more, after listening to "Hurt Feelings"... before I couldn't see any humor (or anything worth listening to) in rap.
If you're reading this, you probably know at least something about FotC, or have seen one of their songs on youtube... You know they're silly. What I want to say is that the methods in their madness have brought a fresh perspective to comedy that is sorely needed.
Like I said, most comedians (that I have seen) make fun of everyone else, which is funny, yes, but eventually gets stale and bitter. But Flight of the Conchords does it better: they show that lighthearted humor can be seen in any situation.
In essence? Don't take everything so seriously. Not only will you look (and feel) perpetually constipated, you'll miss out on this prodigiously hilarious band.
 Nothing Compared to Their First Release November 9, 2009
Jeff Loudon (Nashville, TN)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Like most comedy acts, Flight of the Conchord's first album was stellar; the result of years worth of stand up and experimentation with both successful and failed bits. Unlike their contemporaries, however, Flight of the Conchords' show on HBO forced the duo of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement to write an entire season worth of musical numbers in a very short period of time. Their second album reflects this accelerated writing.
I Told You I Was Freaky opens extremely well with "Hurt Feelings," a brilliantly written and rhymed rap with Flight of the Conchords' satirical take on the backing tracks of many popular hip hop artists. The remaining highlights of the album are found in the other musical style parodies. "We're Both in Love with a Sexy Lady" features the nonsensical conversations between Bret and Jermaine that fans have grown to love with a blatant stab at R Kelly's "Trapped in the Closet." Further along in the album, "Fashion is Danger" mocks the most ridiculous of synthesizer driven 80s tracks. Unfortunately, with these exceptions, I Told You I Was Freaky is an otherwise forgettable album.
While the entirety of the album is humorous, many of the songs fall flat compared to Flight of the Conchords' previous work. Club hit parodies "Sugalumps" and "Too Many Dicks" are crafted well, but were clearly written to accompany video from their show. Their first album was forged without television in mind, but in this new chapter for the duo, I felt lost without visuals. There is no greater example of this than on "Petrov, Yelyena, and Me," a track about three people stuck on a boat with two of the three turning out to be cannibals. Without the video that accompanies the song, it is sure to be the most skipped track on the CD.
After a lackluster second season on HBO, it is possible Flight of the Conchords will turn back to the standup that made them stars. If this happens, I think we can expect an excellent third album from the duo after they've had time to truly put their comedic minds to work at a reasonable pace. Until then, this album is worthy of a listen, but is not one to be played over and over again like their first effort.
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Track Suggestion: Hurt Feelings
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