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Stephen Lynch - The Craig Machine Audio CD

A fair review of the Stephen Lynch "The Craig Machine" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Stephen Lynch reviews here, or go back to the Stephen Lynch tabs.

Stephen Lynch Band: Stephen Lynch
Title: The Craig Machine
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Release Date: 2005-10-04
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Vanilla Ice Cream 2: Baby 3: Halloween 4: Love Song 5: Craig 6: Beelz 7: Albino 8: Mixer At Delta Chi 9: Little Tiny Moustache 10: Pierre 11: Whittlin' Man 12: Classic Rock Song 13: Not Home 14: Voices in My Head

A funny Listen
Lynch on thr Comedy Channel. I bought this right after I watched Mr. I thought that I was buying the DVD and not a CD. Still I am not disappointed. For those of us with a twisted sence of humor it's perfect.



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Extremely funny
Listening to one of Stephen Lynchs' songs here and there really makes my day. I downloaded this CD onto my phone so I could listen to it anywhere, and I'm glad I did.


Hysterical!
Of course you have to like Stephens work and take it for what it is but if you like to laugh at off-color humor I would recommend you get this!. Some of Stephens best work - this CD keeps us in stiches the entire time.


Offensive, great music, funny
I don't mind, though some of your friends might. Not for the feint of heart, Stephen Lynch delivers an awesome collection of songs that are wonderfully melodic and at times unbelievably offensive. This goes beyone George Carlin offensive by a long stretch so preview it before sharing. I love it. In fact, I'd like to have the sheet music for this album, and I would like to see it delivered live.


Best album so far
But what's more, and what is obvious most on this album, I think, is that Stephen Lynch pushes society's buttons. I've been a Stephen Lynch fan for a few years now, because I haven't heard anyone else who can combine so many valuable qualities in a single performer: he is a talented songwriter, a remarkable vocalist -- no human being should be able to sustain a note as Lynch does on "Gay" from A Little Bit Special -- and a hilarious comedian. He's a social critic, and the best kind -- one that doesn't get preachy. The subjects he chooses to write about, and the sorts of things he says about them, are precisely targeted at our taboos; taboos that prevent us, normally, from revealing our inner thoughts or admitting that a newborn baby may be ugly. The way he targets these taboos with humor and exaggeration makes us question the reason for these taboos. Why can't we say that the baby is ugly? Some babies are -- and, even though the taboo is even more severe against admitting it, I would expect a new parent to be happier when given a good-looking baby, rather than an ugly one.

This is what Stephen Lynch does: he makes us think about ourselves, and laugh at ourselves, and snap our fingers and sing along as we do so. For anyone who hasn't heard Lynch before, I would recommend this album first; his humor is a little bit less toilet/gross-out on this album than the other two, and the songs are better, overall -- as has been said in other reviews, the first two albums have their weak points, but this one really doesn't. That't not to say, however, that the other albums should be avoided, or that there isn't any gross humor on this one. That's what you get with Stephen Lynch: great music, great laughs, and a little bit of nauseous self-loathing. Good stuff.


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