Disney had to be sweating just a bit this summer. True, they did
\nhave a huge hit with
\nTarzan<\/i>, but honestly, if you saw the movie
\nSouth Park-Bigger, Longer and Uncut<\/i>, which of these songs
\nstayed in your head?<\/p>\n
You’ve got the custom made mall music of Phil Collins. Then,
\nyou’ve got that incessantly annoying song, “Uncle F**ka” bouncing
\naround in your dome. It’s ugly, it’s dirty and frankly, it’s
\nf***ing hilarious.<\/p>\n
The biggest shock in this soundtrack is the reverence that is
\ntreated for each song. “Mountain Town” seems straight out of
\n“Oklahoma!” with the soaring cadances and the innocent sounding
\nvocals. Hard to imagine such work went into a song which chorus
\ncontains “redneck” and “podunk.”<\/p>\n
Of course, that’s nothing compared to the song that I mentioned
\nearlier, “Uncle F**ka.” The high-pitched voices of Terrance and
\nPhillip (Trey Parker and Matt Stone) fit nicely into the choir-like
\nbackup. But moralists will no doubt notice these subtleties when
\nthey hear such vile banter like, “You’re a bonafide ass licking
\nuncle f**ka.”<\/p>\n
It’s not all shock value though. “What Would Brian Boitano Do,”
\nis a funny, spunky number that actually sounds like it was made for
\nfourth graders to sing. And the artful meshing of three distinct
\nsongs in
\nSouth Park<\/i> fit well in the Les Miserable-like “La
\nResistance.” The show and certainly the movie may not fit the
\ntastes of most people, but no one can deny that creators Parker and
\nStone have done their homework when it comes to studying classical
\nmusicals.<\/p>\n
If this album were to stop at the closing theme, “Mountain Town
\n(Reprise),” this album could have actually had the chance to make a
\nrun for the Oscar. But for better and worse, there’re some
\nadditional “interpretations” of the show-stopping tunes in “South
\nPark.” Sang by the Violent Femmes, Isaac Hayes and for techno
\nlovers, Tricky Daddy, it is amusing to hear fresh material from
\nartists who have not come out with any new releses. And Rush fans
\nwill no doubt buy this soundtrack to hear the uhh, interpreatation
\nof “O Canada.”<\/p>\n
This album is straight ‘A’ material. But I’m not a fool.
\nHumor-themed albums tend to lose their luster after the fourth and
\nfifth listen. And
\nSouth Park<\/i> is no different. Still, no one can deny the
\ncraftsmanship of the musical numbers in this piece. And there’s no
\nway I’m selling a disc when I know I’ll have that once in a year
\ncraving to hear Cartman rip through “Kyle’s Mom’s a B**ch.”
\nSouth Park<\/i> fan or not, excellent anger therapy awaits
\nopen-minded listeners with track one on this CD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":27991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[5729],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-39383","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-soundtrack","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=39383"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=39383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}