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Lounge Against The Machine,Richard Cheese

- Lounge Against The Machine
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Richard Cheese
Released 2000

Only Happy When It Rains (Originally By Garbage)
02:03
9,199 plays

Holiday In Cambodia (Originally By Dead Kennedys)
01:43
9,183 plays

Rockafeller Skank (Originally By Fat Boy Slim)
02:05
8,918 plays

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songs

- 1
- Nookie/Break Stuff (Originally By Limp Bizkit)
- 02:35
- 17,254 plays

- 2
- Guerilla Radio (Originally By Rage Against The Machine)
- 02:15
- 11,797 plays

- 3
- Come Out And Play (Originally By Offspring)
- 02:43
- 17,026 plays

- 4
- Closer (Originally By Nine Inch Nails)
- 02:21
- 19,488 plays

- 5
- Wrong Way (Originally By Sublime)
- 02:15
- 14,467 plays

- 6
- Bullet The Blue Sky (Originally By U2)
- 02:55
- 7,421 plays

- 7
- Creep (Originally By Radiohead)
- 02:56
- 15,229 plays

- 8
- Last Resort (Originally By Papa Roach)
- 01:40
- 18,026 plays

- 9
- Rape Me (Originally By Nirvana)
- 01:55
- 17,905 plays

- 10
- What's My Age Again (Originally By Blink 182)
- 01:23
- 14,799 plays

- 11
- Smack My Bitch Up (Originally By Prodigy)
- 03:01
- 15,879 plays

- 12
- Fight For Your Right (Originally By Beastie Boys)
- 01:55
- 13,302 plays

- 13
- Only Happy When It Rains (Originally By Garbage)
- 02:03
- 9,199 plays

- 14
- Suck My Kiss (Originally By Red Hot Chili Peppers)
- 00:56
- 7,765 plays

- 15
- Holiday In Cambodia (Originally By Dead Kennedys)
- 01:43
- 9,183 plays

- 16
- Rockafeller Skank (Originally By Fat Boy Slim)
- 02:05
- 8,918 plays

album review

In the late '80s and early '90s, two of the funniest characters on Saturday Night Live were the Sweeney Sisters, a Las Vegas-style lounge act that mercilessly butchered everything from Tin Pan Alley standards to Motown hits. Played to perfection by Jan Hooks and Nora Dunn, the Sweeney Sisters were the ultimate parody of cheesy, campy Vegas lounge acts. Like those SNL characters, Richard Cheese has a good laugh at the expense of lounge music on Lounge Against the Machine. But this goofy CD doesn't butcher Tony Bennett or Frank Sinatra; instead Cheese turns his attention to mostly alternative rock hits of the '90s. In Cheese's hands, everything from Nirvana's "Rape Me," Garbage's "Only Happy When It Rains," and Radiohead's "Creep" to Rage Against the Machine's "Guerilla Radio" and Limp Bizkit's "Nookie" gets a lounge makeover. The songs' angst-ridden lyrics and Cheese's frivolous, Vegas-minded arrangements make for odd, ironic contrasts, and that's exactly what the singer is going for. In addition to lampooning lounge music, Cheese is laughing at the abundance of angst that one hears in a lot of alternative rock. One could say that he is making fun of two idioms (Vegas lounge music and alternative rock) at the same time. But Lounge Against the Machine doesn't need to be analyzed to death. This CD should be taken for what it is: A cute and amusing novelty item. ~ Alex Henderson, All Music Guide