Big Bambu

Cheech & Chong | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 29, 1991)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Warner Bros / Wea
• ASIN: B000002KJA
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #54,452 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Sister Mary Elephant

2. Ralph and Herbie

3. Streets of New York or Los Angeles or San Francisco Or...

4. Rebuttal: Speaker Ashley Roachclip

5. The Continuing Adventures of Pedro de Pacas and Man

6. The Bust

7. Television Medley: Tortured Old Man

8. Television Medley: Empire Hancock

9. Television Medley: Let's Make a Dope Deal

10. Television Medley: Unamerican Bandstand

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Who'd-a thunk it?, June 19, 2007

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R. L. MILLER (FT LAUDERDALE FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Big Bambu (Audio CD)

Between release of this album and now, Cheech Marin became a bona fide actor and co-starred with Don Johnson on "Nash Bridges". I can just hear Pedro de Pacas' sidekick Man; "Pedro becomes a pig? Bummer, man!" This album was my follow-up purchase to their first album after hearing the duo's Holiday hit "Santa Claus and His Old Lady" the previous year. I bought their earlier album looking for that track, and to this date, no C&C album has featured it. You have to get Dr. Demento's "Greatest Christmas Novelty CD Of All Time", but that's another story. This album grabs you from the first track "Sister Mary Elephant", and I was reminded of it this past Sunday in church, where four baptisms were held. The predictable noise level caused by siblings present forced the Father to practically bellow his sermon, despite the p.a. system, and I commented to my choir director that the padre could have used the help of The Screaming Nun; "Good morning, class...Class....SHUUUUTUUUUUUP!!!" You will also get a foretaste of Marin's versatility in the next album "Los Cochinos", when Marin uses a great Quebecois accent to interview Chong in the part of a crab louse "Buster da body crab" in one sketch on that release. A lot of the humor in C&C's work is sophomoric to say the least, aimed at the Animal House demographic whose sons watch Comedy Central's Carlos Mencia today, but the content of these men's humor obscures the fact that they are brilliant.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Beavis & Butt-head of the '70s., December 9, 2002

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"simnia" (snowy bayou country, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Big Bambu (Audio CD)

I'm constantly amazed at the cleverness, originality, and vocal skills of these guys. It's true they're often gross, profane, and do no-brainer humor, but they're also funny as hell, and their capturing of human stereotypes is outstanding. Canadians, Mexicans, Germans, whites, blacks, DJs, coaches, Christians, panhandlers, homosexuals, and even dogs--no one escapes their imitations! Their use of stereo and sound effects to evoke a visual scene is also great. It's also fun nostalgia from the early '70s, those wild days of hippies and drugs. I just wish their albums contained more tracks, like some of their live material and songs that came out in those days. The routines on this album used to be favorite dialogs for high school students to mimic.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Still Funny today, March 28, 2002

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Lisa Abreu "labreu" (Elkhorn,WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Big Bambu (Audio CD)

Funny how you can hear something as a kid and it was funny and then you play it as an adult and it is still as funny now as it was then. I remember Sister Mary Elephant the best as my kids principal was her revisited. Couldnt stop laughing through her whole presentation. Gotta get it it is cheech and chong at their best but that is just my opinion. Trust me you will Laugh and Laugh. as they say Laughter is the best medicine.