The Lonely Island- Turtleneck and Chain ALBUM REVIEW

Listen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQlIhraqL7o

Turtleneck and Chain has some pretty memorable tacks on it, to be honest. Some of these might be the best this comedy rap outfit has ever penned. "I Just Had Sex" has already blown most of their other videos away on the view count, and the title track is a hilarious piece of wardrobe humor I've never really heard them dive into before.

The features here are pretty nice. I heard everybody from Beck to MIchael Bolton on here. I guess my only problem is some of these tracks aren't that funny to me at all. Some even fail to reach a level of ridiculousness some of the other tracks do. I'd figure with a song like "I Just Had Sex" on there, songs like "The Creep" would have some kind of bar to reach for when it came to jokes and gags.

Plus, it sort of bugs me that this music sounds exactly like the style of pop rap it's trying to create a slight parody of. I guess you should keep your enemies close, but we're so close it's hard to tell what the relationship Lonely Island has with this music really is. Maybe they're "frenemies"?

Either way, tracks like "Jack Sparrow" and "Throw It On the Ground" are refreshingly absurd, letting go of any perceived need to make sense. That, to me, is where I really get something out of this album. The dick jokes are alright, too.

What do you think of this LP? Love it? Hate it? What do you think of comedy in music? What is the funniest song you've ever heard? Is it "Pizza Party" by L'Homme Run? Is it "Like Surgeon by "Weird Al" Yankovic?

5 8====Ds out of 10 8=======Ds

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FAV TRACKS: I JUST HAD SEX (FEAT. AKON), NO HOMO, I THEW IT ON THE GROUND, WE'RE BACK!, JACK SPARROW, TURTLENECK AND CHAIN

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[dwaynedwightIII]

"i love comedy ... [pause]... [puts huge glasses on]" - classic

[twist3dlogic89]

wtf RAS TRENT WAS HILARIOUS

[Pittsisamazing]

@maggot68584 I like how someone that already has enough subscribers to be a youtube partner, in your perspective, is someone trying to be a partner with an opinion no one cares about. And why, exactly, is this freshly circumcised dick specifically from the 60's?

[maggot68584]

Nobody cares about your opinion. Stop trying to be a partner and get a job. And goddamnit grow some hair and get rid of those dumbass glasses, you look like a freshly circumcised dick from the 60s.

[LazyByName]

After Party was hilarious, man, Santigold's part is classic

[mcchickeninthehat]

I didn't get Shy Ronnie until I saw the music video for it, it's freakin hilarious.

[138Surfer]

Wow

[queeniedivine]

:O Shy Ronnie was hilarious

[MrHickory93]

"I love the hard murder rap sound on the first trip...but theyre all rapping about how flacid their penises are."

[andrenygma]

I'll give it one more penis, Because the track "Mama" was hilarious

[kivbirdzta]

Dude, I'm from the Caribbean... Trust me, Ras Trent was funny...

[jesterman50000]

@twist3dlogic89 same with space olympics