Skip to content
- Released: May 2008
- Rating: 6/10
- Vote and comment on this album:
Mickey taking Ozzies debut.
Flight Of The Conchords is a Grammy Award-winning New Zealand folk-comedyduo comprising of former University film and theatre students Bret McKenzie andJamie Clement. In the past, theyve billed themselves as Formerly New Zealandsfourth most popular guitar based digi-bongo a capella-rap-funk-comedy-folk-duo.
This is their debut full-length debut. On it, they take the proverbial mickey usingvarious styles of music. Foux du Fafa is a classy start as they bang-onabout the people who try their hand at learning a second language in this caseFrench.
The gist is, they claim, that we seldom achieve a proper level of conversational skillsopting to recite conversational sentences they have learned, all to the fluid,cool and continental breezy shuffle, sounding somewhere between Swiss outfitYello or Fun Lovin Criminals. For Inner City Pressure, they use PetShop Boys West End Girls as a basis for their slant on 21st century urbanlife.
They also target naff Hip Hop through songs Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenocerosand Boom adopting a pseudo American accent which they do superbly, using mashedup and silly lyrics with great effect. Then they go for social issues a laMarvin Gaye (Whats Going On?) and Black Eyed Peas (Where Is The Love), via brilliantsoul stylings.
Bowie, is, well, about 70s icon David Bowie. Their vocal mimicry isoutstanding, even getting the Dames voice to a t, whilst referencing many ofhis songs including Fame.
Leggy Blonde parodies love ballads that, inanely, contain little morethan descriptors of the lover.
File under: Humourous..not side splitting.
Weblinks:myspace.com/conchords /bbc.co.uk/comedy/conchords /flightoftheconchords.co.nz
The full list of tracks included are :
1. Foux du Fafa
2. Inner City Pressure
3. Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros
4. Think About It
5. Ladies Of The World
6. Muthauckas
7. The Prince Of Parties
8. Leggy Blonde (featuring Rhys Derby)
9. Robots
10. Boom
11. A Kiss Is Not A Contract
12. The Most Beautiful Girl (In The Room)
13. Business Time
14. Bowie
15. Au Revoir
Elly Roberts passed away in 2011, but he was a man who was so passionate about all types of music and loved meeting his musical heroes, such as Mick Hucknall at a book signing at the Trafford Centre, Manchester in 2007.
A former teacher and also a music journalist, DJ and radio presenter on local community station Calon FM, plus appearances on BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio Cymru and BBC Radio 2, Elly started doing reviews for DVDfever.co.uk in 2004 and he did the majority of the CD and concerts reviews on the website.
I know also that he loved getting away for the summer to Spain and I hope that wherever he is now he is enjoying the hot sunshine and, as one of his friends has said on his Facebook page, that he is interviewing his musical heroes.