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Osama-Yo-Mama by Ray Stevens
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not Ray's best offering.,
This review is from: Osama-Yo'Mama (Audio CD)
Ray Steven's first CD of new material in several years is something of a disappointment. There are a couple of comic gems on the CD--Freudian Slip and Shut Up and Drive--but overall the album is a bit of a disappointment. It feels as though Stevens and company were eager to capitalized on the word of mouth and apparent revival of interesting with the title track of "Osama Yo Momma!" and slapped together an album of songs that aren't up to Ray's usual standards. Stevens is multi-talented--he can be serious and silly all on the same album--and he tries to be so here. But after the initial song and the other two gems, the rest are largely forgettable--or worse yet. One of the songs about a deer in a back seat of a car has the same tune as Ray's earlier hit "Ballad of the Blue Cyclone." There's also the feeling of Ray putting old jokes to music and building up to the eventual punchline instead of the storytelling quality we got with "Mississippi Squirrel Revival" or "Ahab the Arab." If you're just discovering Ray Stevens or have had interest re-awakened due to his new hit, I recommend getting another CD to show how good he can be. The Ray Stevens Colletion or even both of his MCA collections of greatest hits will show how good Ray can be. This album has flashes of brilliance, but never quite lives up to expectatations.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
yeah, we got yo' terror right here...,
This review is from: Osama-Yo'Mama (Audio CD)
The hook lines abound on OSAMA YO' MAMA and the material on the CD is his standard satire and country comedy. "The Hustler" is even better than what it spoofs, "The Gambler" by Kenny Rogers. "Bon Temps Roulette" is a wild tale of murder, intrigue, and riverboat gambling all fit into a Cajun atmosphere. "Deerslayer" is hilarious...it's a funny story of a man who has what he thinks is a dead deer wake up and go wild in the back of his car! "The Lady on the Radio" is a spoof on love advice call-in shows with a humorous twist at the end while "Gone For Good" is a one for the demented category about a man whose wife has left him with the humor coming from all the extreme forms of anger the wife unleashes (via sound effects) all the while the man meekly shrugs it off and wonders if all this means that she's had enough. "Hang Up and Drive", the CD's second track, deals with the complications of cell-phone talking in the car. "Freudian Slip" is a song about trying not to make mistakes at the worst possible time. The CD's closing track, "United We Stand" is an appropriate send-off and I love the arrangement!
Meanwhile, the entire CD is built around "Osama Yo' Mama". This song started out simply as a radio single late in 2001...the reaction was strong enough to warrant a commercial single and later, this CD, early in 2002. The song goes to great length to make a mockery of Osama bin Laden by teasing him about his "mama" and how she must not have raised him right. Ray, as Mama, gives her son stern lectures over the things that he's done while elsewhere Ray plays the part of George W. Bush, referred to as Dubyah. Ray doesn't necessarily impersonate the President but nevertheless Ray acts the part in this song. A very funny music video was also put together of this song...showing Ray in costume as Patton, MacArthur, Osama's Mama, Rambo, and George W. Bush. Some bellyached that the CD doesn't contain enough patriotic material given the title track...and some questioned why comedy was chosen as a means of expression for 9/11...the second complaint isn't valid simply because those doing that kind of questioning obviously have no concept of who Ray Stevens is. Ray offers some personal feelings about the CD in the paragraph contained within the fold-out cover.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Pretty good, but Ray's done better,
By Mark Twain "live_to_fish" (Albuquerque, NM United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Osama-Yo'Mama (Audio CD)
This was the first Ray Stevens CD I bought after hearing "Osama-Yo'Mama" on the radio. I agree, "Deerslayer" is a knock-off of Steven's own "Ballad of the Blue Cyclone", but I like "Deerslayer" better anyway. The rest are ok, "Bon Temps Roulette" is hilarious. Buy this, if not for originality, for the novelty.
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