Audio Cassette review:
Cheech & Chong - Cheech & Chong's Wedding Album

Cheech & Chong - Cheech & Chong's Wedding Album

Band: Cheech & Chong Title: Cheech & Chong's Wedding Album Rating: Release Date: 17 October, 1990 Media: Audio Cassette Tracks: 1: Championship Wrestling 2: Other Tapes 3: Testimonial by R. Zimmerman 4: Hey Margaret 5: Earache My Eye 6: Wake up America 7: Black Lassie (A Great American Dog) 8: Wake up America (Conclusion) 9: Baby Sitters 10: Three Little Pigs 11: Coming Attractions

Customer Reviews alltime comedy classic We must have worn it out by the time we left camp, and laughed our brains out time after time. At camp, in 1978, my best friend brought a tape of this album. "Championship Wrestling," is absolutely classic, no doubt. "Other Tapes," features a busted-up biker getting exactly what he deserves from a happy man of medicine. R. Zimmerman's testimonial is an all-too-real glimpse of the future for any smoker. "Earache my Eye,"--well, who hasn't lived that one before school or work? I'll get an earache the next time I want to skive off work. "Wake Up America" is funny as all get-out. Geraldo Rivera needed somebody to parody him, and still does. "Baby-Sitters," with the modern-day version of "Three Little Pigs," is another laugh-out-loud bit. never drink anything when playing this album--you may land in the E. R. for real, kids. Starting to show some wear WEDDING ALBUM is only about half an album, filled out with bits which never quite worked. By 1974, Richard and Tommy had been running at full creative speed for five years; inevitably, their juices were running low. After the incredible quality and success of the first three albums, this one is a big letdown. There are some bits which are truly inspired: "Wake Up America" is a great jab at Geraldo Rivera, although the "Black Lassie" song in the middle of the bit wears out quickly, and "Earache My Eye" (which was a hit single) is still quotable years later. The remainder of the LP shows that the guys really needed some rest and a chance to recharge their comedy batteries. For completists only. Not their best, but it still shines. There are still some great routines here, but for the first time a few boring and excessive tracks also found their way onto the album. After some great initial albums, Cheech & Chong seemed to have started losing their magic touch with this album, and didn't quite recover in later years. "Championship Wrestling," although a sadly classic scene from everyday life, is fairly dull in both the right and left tracks where two different comedy routines happen simultaneously. "The Other Tapes," where a hospitalized motorcycle accident victim undergoes a painful examination, isn't much more funny than listening to a torture. "Hey Margaret," however, despite being very vulgar, has always struck me as very humorous, maybe because of the total abandon with which it is done. It's also a reminder of the greater freedoms of the early 1970s in the pre-Meese Commission era. "Black Lassie," based on the popular black pride song "Theme From 'Shaft'" from 1971, is pretty good also, as is the 1974 radio hit "Earache My Eye. " The album's worth getting for its better routines. . You can see a complete list of all Cheech & Chong discography, or go back to the Cheech & Chong tabs