It's Never Easy Being Cheesy [Enhanced, Import]

Fast Food Rockers | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 20, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced, Import
• Label: Avex Trax Japan
• ASIN: B000244EB0
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,230,930 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. It's Never Easy Being Cheesy

2. Fast Food Song

3. Say Cheese! (Smile Please)

4. I'm Not Going To Tell You Again

5. Running Rings Around My Heart

6. Sail Away

7. Unforgettable

8. 9 Times Out Of 10

9. Rocker's Carnival

10. Ghostbusters

11. Kiss Me Quick

12. Strut Your Funky Stuff

13. Adventure

14. Stompin'

15. One Step Away From Love

16. Fast Food Song (Video)

17. Say Cheese! (Smile Please) (Video)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3.0 out of 5 stars I would rather eat this CD than listen to it again, May 10, 2011

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Megarat "a well-intended critic" (Squirt Island, USA, Earth) - See all my reviews

This review is from: It's Never Easy Being Cheesy (Audio CD)

Behold, corporate pop at its worst.

Being fair, the album's single (the imaginatively titled "Fast Food Song") is catchy and fun (well, fun-ish), but the rest of the CD is the exemplar of saccharine, committee-produced, ultra-processed pop music. Absolutely horrible. Let's face it, this band was produced as a gimmicky, throwaway pop act just to create the single, so the rest of the album is filler. Filler in the worst possible way. You get 13 inane filler tracks generated by either a computer algorithm or a very cynical person as a practical joke. They're completely unlistenable.

It's tempting to call this the musical equivalent of fast food, because of the context, but at least fast food provides a non-zero amount of nourishment. This is more like musical styrofoam. Musical depleted uranium. Musical dysentery.

While I'm still not inured to the music on this CD, and true, I'd rather cut off my foot with a spoon than listen to it again, I need to admit that I still keep it around, as a weapon of sorts, just to inflict upon people at those appropriate moments. Suddenly the music becomes tolerable, in a meta-humor sort of way. Do you have some unwanted guests? Are in-laws over-staying their welcome? Looking to create a memorable moment at your ex-girlfriend's wedding? Just play a few (or many) choice tracks from this CD and watch everyone cringe, or fidget uncomfortably, or even wallow in mental anguish. Everyone's reaction is unique, like beautiful Lovecraftian snowflakes.

There aren't many CDs that evoke this response, and for that I give it three stars.