(Million Dollar Performances/Drag City) Wow! A double A-side/double
doozy/double All Star disc featuring two comics making a fundamentally non-novelty
record, though it’s 110% ridiculous in its successful sincerity. “I Drink” is
the Charles Aznavour sad cirrhosis-celebration, and here we hear Cho finally
getting something worthwhile (other than the piles of money from Logo channel)
for being faux gay…she can can fucking sing cabaret! Even though Neil is doing
his Neil voice here, in this theatrical musical setting it makes perfect sense,
and his inherent wretchedness is just what the lyric calls for. The other cut
is less dynamic but may be better, as the Sonny Curtis B-side “How Little Men
Care” features Choburger (their celeb couple name) collectively singing their
collective ass off, making a great song beautiful-er. My only beef with ‘burger
is that while I understand his beloved RSO record label deserves to be honored
with a tribute logo/label, if you are covering a Sonny Curtis record that
originally had a record label with red blood dripping from the top and green
Mr. Spock blood dripping up from the
bottom, you should steal that label! BTW, I just went online to see if I was
remembering this label right, and Curtis’ “Straght life”/”How Little Men Care”
costs about a dollar on ebay! Wait a few months and you can get both Neil’s and
Sonny’s versions for less than the a sack of White Castles!
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