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As Kosher As They Wanna Be (Digitally Remastered)

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Gather up your Lubavitcher friends and listen to these two zeydes singing their tuchases off. My favorite track for funny is "Oui! It's So Humid" but "Young Jews Be Proud" gives me a lump in the throat.

I'm confused by the smattering of reviewers who pan this album. If you read the other reviews you'll find that most of them confess to having owned this cd at some point, and that they are shocked and horrified to find it's still available.

I mean, what would one really expect from a parody group called "2 Live Jews" who put out a song called "Oui! It's so humid" ? Did anyone really think this was going to be a golden classic they were going to keep and cherish forever, possibly pass on to their kids...? A jewish Dark Side of the Moon or Stairway to heaven? Come on! it's a joke album and some jokes get OLD!

But -- if it made you laugh - even once - it sort of did it's job, didn't it?

I have a collection of joke and parody albums, and this one fits in just fine. It's not up there with the King of musical comedy Spike Jones, but it's still good. Do I drive around listening to it in my car? No. Do I listen to it as I sip a nice chianti? No. But it sometimes comes out at parties and it always gets a hearty laugh. If that's all you really expect from a joke album, then you should be pretty content.

The musical style is dated, yes. Rap was much younger and simpler when this was first released. But the rhymes are good and often downright clever. I'd even be willing to recommend their disco album.

And I actually don't mean the kind that it takes to put out an album like this... I mean the group CHUTZPAH. Go look/listen to their albums. Eponymous by Chutzpah is great. Fun, Jewish Hip Hop with strength and a 'tude.

If you want your Jewish hip hop - straight up beautiful... find Ta-Shma's Come Listen.

If you want Jewish and classic/funny... try You Don't Have to Be Jewish.

Enjoy!

I liked these guys' schtick so much that I sought out all their albums. If you liked Weird Al back in the 80s, you'll probably love these guys. They have the advantage [over Yankovic] that their parodies aren't dependent on your being familiar with someone else's work. This album IS their best one, and it's definitely worth owning. So, if you're like me- in your 40s, with fond memories of Weird Al's earliest work, who was later disappointed as he parodied songs you'd never heard, you'll probably LOVE this album. That's the best way I can describe these guys' music, since it's unlike anything else I'm familiar with.

I happened to be reading on another web page about the guys from TLC's In a Fix, and found out that Danny (AKA Danny Paul) from the show was a writer on this CD. Sure, this is not new stuff, it's dated and people probably won't find it amusing as I did when it came out. But it was funny then and mildly humorous now. I only play it now and again for nostalgia (and to annoy my kids). Just thought I should note that the writer is still around and funny as heck - just watch In A Fix. See if you can find him doing stand up in your area, I look forward to seeing him perform someday.

so there's a lot of Jewish hip hop out right now and these guys just don't hold up...This is as bad if not worse than MOT. It's just not even trying to be good. If you want to hear some good hip hop with good music, check out Matisyahu or Chutzpah.

I can't believe this album is actually still in production! I used to own this about a bazillion years ago, back in high school and I got a big kick out of it...for maybe the first couple of times I listened to it. After that, it got worse with each successive playing until I basically had to throw it away.

Satisfy your curiosity with the 30 second RealAudio soundclips provided here, laugh and run away from this album. Unless, of course, you just want something you can play in a car for your blind date whom you have no desire to see again. :-)