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Cheech & Chong/Cheech & Chong's Wedding Album

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At camp, in 1978, my best friend brought a tape of this album. We must have worn it out by the time we left camp, and laughed our brains out time after time. "Championship Wrestling," is absolutely classic, no doubt. "Other Tapes," features a busted-up biker getting exactly what he deserves from a happy man of medicine. R. Zimmerman's testimonial is an all-too-real glimpse of the future for any smoker. "Earache my Eye,"--well, who hasn't lived that one before school or work? I'll get an earache the next time I want to skive off work. "Wake Up America" is funny as all get-out. Geraldo Rivera needed somebody to parody him, and still does. "Baby-Sitters," with the modern-day version of "Three Little Pigs," is another laugh-out-loud bit. never drink anything when playing this album--you may land in the E.R. for real, kids.

After some great initial albums, Cheech & Chong seemed to have started losing their magic touch with this album, and didn't quite recover in later years. There are still some great routines here, but for the first time a few boring and excessive tracks also found their way onto the album. "Championship Wrestling," although a sadly classic scene from everyday life, is fairly dull in both the right and left tracks where two different comedy routines happen simultaneously. "The Other Tapes," where a hospitalized motorcycle accident victim undergoes a painful examination, isn't much more funny than listening to a torture. "Hey Margaret," however, despite being very vulgar, has always struck me as very humorous, maybe because of the total abandon with which it is done. It's also a reminder of the greater freedoms of the early 1970s in the pre-Meese Commission era. "Black Lassie," based on the popular black pride song "Theme From 'Shaft'" from 1971, is pretty good also, as is the 1974 radio hit "Earache My Eye." The album's worth getting for its better routines.

There's alot of great skits on this one just like all cheech and chong cds' And they do more than just doper humour that was their earlier hallmark. Geraldo Rivera is one type of person they do a skit on that is very funny. I don't think there's a bad moment on this one comedy wise and I don't even do dope. Of course you get the fantastic hit single on here 'earache my eye' featuring alice bowie , that's a really cool song in itself and they still do that live. (they did this last week 10/15/10) in colorado springs and this skit was just as funny as when I saw them back in the day. They need to put out a live cd of their show because they do have lots of material old and new to choose from. But this cd is from their peak back in the 70's so grab it if you want alot of laughs.

I think "The Other Tapes," and C&C's signature "Dave's Not Here," are two of the funniest album-comedy bits I have ever heard. Cheech and Chong were so craftsmanlike in the early days that you had to wonder if they were really stoners at all. They were running low, though, by the time of The Wedding Album. The idea behind "Championship Wrestling," especially, was probably old & tired ten years before when Woody Allen did the same bit as a narration about the New York Giants -- I'd bet money that they both lifted the idea from Redd Foxx or Moms Mabley. Then Meat Loaf eclipsed them both with "Paradise by the Dashboard Lights." I think the whole concept can be retired, now.

My cd arrived within 2 weeks and in great condition.Thank you. It will make a great X-mas present! Gratefully, "Rosey Bottom", (Normal,Il,USA)

I was looking for this for the longest time and I'm glad that I found it
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Cheech and Chong's fourth album shows you didn't have to be a doper to get the jokes.Having trouble . . . A)Babysitting brats? B)making out in your girlfriend's parents' house? c)doing an expose on the recording industry? Then you'll know where the laughs come from.