the great Luke Ski "Carpe Dementia" (which would have been called "Don't Ask da Fanboys for TP For Your Bunghole After Drinking 27 Root Beers in da Hood!" if only Luke Ski  had listened to my advice.)  The music sounds more professional here than on previous releases.  Everything song is a parody.  Even the stand up comedy routine is a parody. Score: 95  100 means excellent.  Using Tim Cavanagh "Sounds Like Fun" as the standard benchmark 100 score. Reviewed April 24 1999 by Eric Houg Last messed with May 4 2001

01.  Fruit Loops  03:03
(A parody of "Footloose" by Kenny Loggins)  Lyrics about kids cereals.  Food Innuendo Guy must have wrote some of the lyrics.  LL Cool J's song Milky Cereal must have made Luke chant "milky cereal.  The quality of Luke's singing here does not come close to the original tune, so Loops must be filed in the just-for-laughs file only.

02.  Insane And The Brain  03:44
("Insane In The Brain" Cypress Hill)  Excellent lyrics, great narfage, never a dull moment here.  If only the main character, Brain, sounded like he ought to.  Then we wouldn't have to concentrate on what he was saying to figure out who he is supposed to be.  Pinky was done well and is easy to identify.  This song is unchanged from the previous release on "Fanboys 'n da Hood", and as heard as #7 for 1997 on the Dr. Demento Top 25.

03.  Baby Got Brak  04:22
("Baby's Got Back" Sir Mixalot)  About "Space Ghost Coast To Coast" the mostly animated talk show, and "Cartoon Planet" the animated show with the same characters.  Starting with the song name and refrain, the word Brak is crammed in where it doesn't really make sense, just to be a parody.  I think I'm geeky enough to recognize good Space Ghost related references when I hear them, but this song is more like an unsorted pile of references that don't really come together to make an interesting theme.  There may be some rhymes in here that some people find catchy, but I don't think anyone will laugh about them.  It's possible that children who are into Space Ghost would like this song better than I did.  Luke does a great Brak imitation, but his Zorak sounds more like regular Luke Ski, and Space Ghost is so far off that Luke should have pulled some guy off the street to find a better voice.

04.  Bart Simp Sun  04:35
("Black Hole Sun" Soundgarden)  Starring Sideshow Bob.  The title "Bart Simpson" would make more sense, but Luke wants to point out the "Black Hole Sun" parody.    Some of the Simpson voices here are sampled.  Others are Luke Ski doing voices.  Either way is fine with me.  They're well-chosen well-timed sound bites.  The song starts with a sound sample that is noisy enough that when it stops, the song becomes hi-fi, and I went "Huh, what happened?"  Some of Luke's voices are nearly covered up by the guitar music, but I was interested enough to turn up the volume.  Included is one of Luke's favorite characters, Professor Frink, who he neglected in his previous song "88 Lines About 44 Simpsons".  The quality of Luke's singing here does not come close to the original tune.

05.  Cornholio  01:49
("Macarena" Los Del Rio)  Uh oh, Luke is messing with the Luke Ski classics.  This is my favorite Luke Ski song from the previous CD "Shadows Of The Bunghole", and this is the only remake that I like less than the original.  There is more stuff added to this new version, but what amazed me so much when I heard the old version was that Luke could sing Beavis with rapid lyrics that would have tied lesser tongues.  This new version stumbles a bit doing those same lyrics, so I will hang on to the old Bunghole CD and suggest you go get it too if you think this latest version is good.  The new version has more stuff added it that you might like.  Perhaps whatever version you hear first will be the standard that should not be messed with  Of course, if you are not a Beavis And Butthead fan and did not see The Great Cornholio episode or like it, you probably won't think much of this song.

06.  Hill  03:01
("Hell" Squirrel Nut Zippers) Yup.  Yep.  It's a bunch of characters from King Of The Hill, all of them voiced well by Luke.  The dialog is good too.

07.  Kenny Was A Kid From South Park  01:41
("Jerry Was a Racecar Driver" Primus)  A large assortment of classic South Park sound samples crammed into a song about the same, with words sung by someone who sounds not totally unlike like Luke Ski.  Sure it's riding on the success of South Park, but it works for me, and it was #6 for 1998 on The Dr. Demento Show (released to DJs before this album), so it must work for others too.

08.  Macho Man (Oooh Yeah!)  03:11
("Macho Man" Village People)  About "Macho Man" Randy Savage.  Sounds really good and I'm not even a wrestling fan.  Notice I didn't even say "the quality of Luke's singing here does not come close to the original tune" here.  This must have been one of Luke's better days in the recording studio. The Randy Savage voice sounds OK.  The other voices sound kinda Luke-ish.

09.  KramerCostanza  03:25
("Intergalactic" The Beastie Boys)  I think you can guess what this is about.  Seinfeld!  Unfortunately there is no good reason why this topic and the tune go together to make something better.

10.  Titanic Monday  03:02
("Manic Monday" The Bangles)  Hmmm... a light pop song about the movie.  Nicely sung by Luke's sister Amy Sienkowski, but it was a bad idea, so it was doomed from the start, and there were not enough good lyrics on board so rescue it.  A good parody idea.  Lyrics weren't particularly funny.

11.  Back One Week To The Future  02:48
("One Week " Barenaked Ladies)  I was in the room when Back To The Future was on TV, but I wasn't paying close attention to it, since someone else turned the TV on.  I don't remember if I was present for the whole show or which sequel it was.  I had a similar response to this song.  I can say I'm sure Luke watched the movie closely and made accurate references to it, but not very amusing.  The music is well played and Luke does his best to sing as fast as the original song.  That's another problem: lyrics going so fast that it's hard to follow.

12.  Rocky Horror  04:28
("House of Horror" Insane Clown Posse)  This song will only appeal to fans of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.  Or as they say in the marketing biz, it is targeted at a niche market.  Last August, Luke told me "I certainly would never use the f word on my dementia CDs.", yet here it f@#%ing is, not hardly even covered by a door slam sound.  Not that it bothers me.   (.eroG reppiT yebO .eroG reppiT yebO)
Luke replies: "I didn't use the F word you doodiehead!"

13.  Mystery Science Theatre Picture Show  04:41
("Science Fiction Double Feature" The Rocky Horror Picture Show)  About Mystery Science Theater 3000.  This a remake from an earlier album, and the singing is much improved here.

14.  Men In Black (Klaatu Barada Nikto)  03:22
("Where It's At" Beck)  Cool.  This song is loaded with sci-fi sound bytes. Klaatu Barada Nikto, what's that?  I've seen and heard it before.  Maybe some phrase to separate the geeks from the supergeeks.
Luke replies:  Yes, it is.  >:)  KBN was originally used in the film "The Day The Earth Stood Still" as an alien robot code, and has been boosted by several other films as a reference, the most famous being "Army of Darkness" (both films sound bites are included).

15.  You Might Be A Trekkie  05:12
("You Might Be A Redneck" Jeff Foxworthy)  I'm not a Trekkie, but I got some of the jokes in this standup comedy routine, recorded live at GenCon '98.  I'll rate these Star Trek parodies like someone would who is not in the target audience, cuz I'm not.  Trekkies will score it higher, judging from the audience reaction.  (My opinion has not been affected by the fact that "You Might" became #1 on the Dr.. Demento funny five.  Trekkies begin setting their phasors to KILL.)

16.  What's Up Spock? - Deep Space '99 Remix  04:49
("What's Up Doc? (Can We Rock)" Fu-Schnickens)  The most polished Star Trek rap yet, covering the original series through Deep Space 9.  It gets a bit tiring to a nontrekkie, but it must be heaven for a trekkie.
Luke replies:  You didn't even bother to point out that it has all 5 written verses of the song, and now mentions Seven Of Nine instead of Kes.
Eric replies:
True, I don't have a second life to spend on keeping up with all things Star Trek.  (Trekkies begin blasting their phasors at Eric.)

17.  Resistance  03:00
("The Distance" Cake)  Another Star Trek song.  It's Next Generation related, something about The Borg.

18.  Star Wars Trilogy Homesick Blues  02:40
("Subterranean Homesick Blues" Bob Dylan)  Improved from previous Luke Ski version , especially the music.

19.  Bad, Bad Boba Fett  03:07
("Bad Bad Leroy Brown" Jim Croce)  Not as fun to me as when I heard the original song in the 1970's.  A good parody idea.  Lyrics weren't particularly funny.

20.  Y.O.D.A.  03:50
("Y.M.C.A." The Village People)  A new version of a great parody idea (Star Wars' Yoda) that needed redoing.  The previous recording had trouble sounding like Y.O.Z.A or Y.O.C.A. due to Luke and Jason Styles trying to sing the parody lyrics over the original Village People music or some mutation of it.

27.  Quite A Man For An Al Fan  03:09  (the not very hidden track)
("Pretty Fly For A White Guy" The Offspring)  Another niche market song.  A tribute to another artist you've probably heard of if you bought this Luke Ski CD: Weird Al Yankovic.  Like "Baby Got Brak", the title and theme to this parody don't quite fit the original song.  I suspect Luke tried to make them fit in both cases because he likes the original songs.  I think I understood all the references, so I'll rate this song as an average Al fan.  Evil anti-Als may rate it lower.

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