HBO's Flight of the Conchords - a PSB takeoff

[glennjridge]

last episode was the best one yet. I would call it an instant classic. they got mugged but brett got scared and left jermaine on his own to face the muggers when they got cornered.
and then there was this tension between them because brett left jermaine to die.

loved that rap song hip-hopapotamus and rhymenocerous they did also.

its my new favorite HBO show. just cant get into john from Cincinnati which is another HBO show. this season of entourage is as good as ever though

[Dipso]

Sorry to revive such an ancient thread, but it would seem that the Conchord's PSB parody Inner City Pressure is to be a single. Hooray!

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/art ... 1003708864

New Zealand duo Flight Of The Conchords skewers synth-pop, the French, David Bowie, American R&B, hip-hop and unattainable sexual conquests on its self-titled debut album, due April 22 via Sub Pop.

The 15-track set features songs first aired on the Conchords' hit HBO series, but they have been retooled in the studio with producer Mickey Petralia.

Fans will delight in the new versions of "The Prince of Parties" and "The Most Beautiful Girl (In the Room)," which accompanied two of the most memorable sequences in the HBO show.

Also included are the dazzling Pet Shop Boys parody "Inner City Pressure," which will be the first single worked to radio, the Kraftwerk-with-acoustic-guitars "Robots," the aptly named David Bowie tribute "Bowie" and the disco pastiche "Think About It."

The Conchords' debut EP, "The Distant Future," will vie this weekend for the Grammy for best comedy album.

[psb-freak]

Is the video clip still available ?

[Dipso]

Your wish is my command:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wqfcwgT0Ds

[psb-freak]

Your wish is my command:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wqfcwgT0Ds

That was hilarious. Thanks for the link.

[Janet Street-Porter]

That's uncannily good. They're Kiwis, aren't they? How does he do Neil's intonation so well?

[Naughty Zoot]

Thanks, dipso, for bringing this back to our attention. Here's the full item:

Flight Of The Conchords Prep Debut Album
Flight Of The Conchords

February 08, 2008, 3:15 PM ET

Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.
New Zealand duo Flight Of The Conchords skewers synth-pop, the French, David Bowie, American R&B, hip-hop and unattainable sexual conquests on its self-titled debut album, due April 22 via Sub Pop.

The 15-track set features songs first aired on the Conchords' hit HBO series, but they have been retooled in the studio with producer Mickey Petralia.

Fans will delight in the new versions of "The Prince of Parties" and "The Most Beautiful Girl (In the Room)," which accompanied two of the most memorable sequences in the HBO show.

Also included are the dazzling Pet Shop Boys parody "Inner City Pressure," which will be the first single worked to radio, the Kraftwerk-with-acoustic-guitars "Robots," the aptly named David Bowie tribute "Bowie" and the disco pastiche "Think About It."

The Conchords' debut EP, "The Distant Future," will vie this weekend for the Grammy for best comedy album.


Here is the track list for "Flight of the Conchords":

"Foux du Fafa"
"Inner City Pressure"
"Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros"
"Think About It"
"Ladies of the World"
"Mutha'uckas"
"The Prince of Parties"
"Leggy Blonde"
"Robots"
"Boom"
"A Kiss Is Not a Contract"
"The Most Beautiful Girl (in the Room)"
"Business Time"
"Bowie"
"Au Revoir"


I also love Hiphopopotamus vs Rhymnocerous.
C'mon 4/22/08

[Dipso]

That's uncannily good. They're Kiwis, aren't they? How does he do Neil's intonation so well?

They are indeed. I love love love the line "guess you'll never be a concert flautist". It's so ridiculous.

By the way, I believe Bret McKenzie (the bearded one) is behind the Video Kid track on Neil's Back To Mine album.

[greenmile]

I also love Hiphopopotamus vs Rhymnocerous.

"I'm the Hiphopopotamus, my lyrics are bottomless"
" "


Saw this show for the first time when BBC3 repeated it in its entirety over Christmas and now suffering serious withdrawal symptoms.

But why no "The Tape Of Love" ?

"Brown paper,white paper, stick them together with the tape, the tape of love"

[Dipso]

There's a long piece on Flight Of The Conchords in today's Observer. I must admit that I am beginning share the journalist's crush.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/woman/st ... 81,00.html

[sneakythesnake]

Thanks, LOVE it!!

Been laughing my socks off at the lyrics

[Naughty Zoot]

[quote="Dipso
By the way, I believe Bret McKenzie (the bearded one) is behind the Video Kid track on Neil's Back To Mine album.[/quote]

You are correct! I just checked the credits & Video Kid was written & produced by Bret McKenzie - from the album Prototype on Loop Recordings.

cue up " It's a small world after all..... "

[Dipso]

I wonder if the unexpected contact from the Pets regarding Video Kid planted the seed for Inner City Pressure. It's a fairly obscure track and presumably McKenzie was quite unknown at the time. I seem to remember a quote (in Literally??) where he expressed how utterly amazed he was when he received the Pets' request to use the song.

[glennjridge]

I cant get that little Ba Ba ba-ba Bow! harmony part out of my head from "Foux du Fafa".I have no control over it.

I could be in a meeting at work listening to one of the supervisors talking and then suddenly out of the blue, Ba Ba ba-ba Bow!