Title: Dear Lord WHY???
Product review: Ouch. Claypool, Trey, and Copeland are very accomplished musicians, but this album isn't particularly good. The technical skill is there (Claypool especially, he really steals the spotlight in my opinion), but the songs have little or no hook at all. I did like Birthday Boys, though, and that sounded more like a Phish song than anything else. Better songwriting would save this album. Some folks are drawing parallels between Frank Zappa's lyrics and those on this album. As a Zappa fan, I'm offended by that. Zappa was incredibly literate and it showed in his conceptual continuity - these guys sound like they wrote these in high school. Frank was dirty, lewd, and childish at times, but he never mired in the painfully contrived and/or forced-sounding lyrics found in "Weild the Spade" and "Mr. Oysterhead" I'm glad I didn't pay money for this, and I suggest that you borrow it first for a listen as I did.
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