ARTiST: The Bigfellas
ALBUM: Chubbed Up
BiTRATE: 198kbps avg
QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz
LABEL: CD Baby
GENRE: Rock
SiZE: 93.77 megs
PLAYTiME: 1h 02min 33sec total
RiP DATE: 2009-04-10
STORE DATE: 2008-09-30
Track List:
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01. California King 5:19
02. Dollar for Every Dime 4:40
03. Moving Day 5:00
04. I Wish That I Were Gay 3:25
05. Johny Get Out of the Sky 4:01
06. Wish You Knew 4:22
07. On the Green 5:09
08. 4:20 6:08
09. Adam & Eve & Ted & Alice 4:04
10. Four Minute Mile 3:32
11. Reinventing the Wheel 3:20
12. Vous Ne Parlais Francais 3:40
13. Stuff on the Moon 6:00
14. Mr. Blue Sky 3:53
Release Notes:
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San Diego's Bigfellas have finally released the album people were afraid they
would, Chubbed Up.The Bigfellas have been described as "Steely Dan for the Pabst
Blue Ribbon set", "Zevonesque", "the #1 threat to Barenaked Ladies,
professionally ... Full Descriptionand personally". This 14-song,
60-plus-minute CD has enough of everything to please the family, but piss off
one person in that family at the same time. The schizophrenic 2008 release
includes a cabaret Gershwin gay ripoff/homage ("I Wish That I Were Gay"),
toe-tapping broke lament ("Dollar For Every Dime - The Lotto Song"), golf rap
("On The Green"), an old-timey waltz ("Four Minute Mile", politically charged
rock ("Johnny Get Out Of The Sky"), an equally anti- & pro-stoner trippy epic
("4:20"), a horn-infused groove about the hassle of relocation ("Moving Day")
and a Francophile jab at America's "freedom fries" idiocy that sounds as if
you're on the streets of paris with a baguette & beret ("Vous Ne Parlez
Francais").Chubbed Up features some cameos from a half-dozen San Diego bands but
relies primarily on the Bigfellas themselves throwing in the kitchen sink,
horns, fiddle, banjo and a whistle solo amongst the wall-to-wall drums, flashy
bass, inside-your-head guitars and strong doses of piano.While you might not be
able to figure out how to describe it to your friends, you'll want them to hear
it anyway.