Title: Funny, but Needs to Be Seen to Be Appreciated
Review: I was lured into buying this album because of how quirky and strangely disturbing the video for "Mountain Trip..." was. A "family" singing a vaudevillian-style ditty about public executions in post-WWII Japan is certainly unique and funny, but hearing it on CD just doesn't do it justice. That's pretty much the problem with the rest of the album.Despite the "stories" within each song being very humorous, the whole package just doesn't work because we're only getting half of the presentation. It's not as much the music as it is the experience and an experience this odd deserves more than a CD job. A DVD companion is a must for this goofy concept album.
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