What's Your Name [EXPLICIT LYRICS]

Adam Sandler

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 16, 1997)
• Original Release Date: September 16, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Label: Warner Bros / Wea
• ASIN: B000002NHU
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #87,837 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Among his Saturday Night Live peers--Chris Rock, Chris Farley, David Spade--Adam Sandler has always been the most musically inclined. It's only natural then that the creator of Opera Man and "The Hanukkah Song" would record What's Your Name, an entirely song-based, and often hilarious, musical parody record. The album's first song commences with one of Sandler's trademark nonsense words--a menacing "Schnoin!"--then goes on to tell the tale of a neighborly old man whose hobby is "Moyda" (or murder). There's also two spot-on snipes at Bruce Springsteen, "The Lonesome Kicker" and "Listenin' to the Radio," and one of the most unsettling dance-floor throw downs you'll ever hear--the P-Funk meets Ween booty-shake of "Dance Like You Just Shit Your Pants." Sandler ransacks just about every musical genre known to western humanity, but it's his unrepentant immaturity, more than his chops, that's sure to make What's Your Name a junior high school bus classic for years to come. --Matt Hanks

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Adam Sandler is an insane genius--and a hell of a lot of fun, December 20, 1998

By A Customer

What makes this recording superior to others of its ilk (i.e. Al Yankovic) is Sandler's musicianship coupled with his originality. He handles several musical genres, including heavy metal, blues, and reggae with ease, and his Springsteen influenced "The Lonesome Kicker" is right on. The real question though is who else but Adam Sandler is insane enough to write a song about a field goal kicker from Europe, or a song about a sweatshirt? My personal favorite is "Voodoo", in which he synthesizes all elements perfectly, lyrics, music, and parody. Other favorites include "The Lonesome Kicker", "Bad Boyfriend", "Pickin' Daisies", "Corduroy Blues", and the Queen-like opera rock epic "The Goat Song". All in all, a hell of a lot of fun from an insane genius. Spending 45 minutes with this cd/cassette is guaranteed laugh therapy!

11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I'm sorry. I just don't get it., January 20, 2000

By A Customer

adam sandler is a very funny commedian. His movies are hilarious and his album, "they're Gonna Laugh at You is one of the funniest things I've ever heard in my life. "What's Your Name", however, is just not funny. I think sandler has always wanted to be a musician and he tries to be one on this album moreso than a commedian. "the Lonesome Kicker" is kind of funny and 'The Goat song" is absolutely hilarious, but the rest of the album is just plain boring. It's not funny and the songs aren't good enough musically to listen to despite the lack of humor. When Sandler does skits no one can touch him in the funny department and when he mixes one or two songs in with the skits they work very well, but I'm sorry, he's just not good enough a musician to make a cd with nothing, but songs on it, especially when the words aren't funny.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars out-dylans DYLAN, April 22, 2004

By	tom appleton (vienna, austria) - See all my reviews

let me start by saying that i live in vienna austria and i'd never heard of adam sandler the comedian when i bought this record. as a consequence, i didn't listen to it primarily expecting to be amused or in any comedy context. i realised that some of the songs were parodic -- LIKE parodies -- but not outright parodies -- THE LONESOME KICKER sounds like sandler walked inside the mind of bruce springsteen and infected it with some lunatic perspective, so that it's bruceian, all right, but entirely something else again, too. the comedy isn't the important aspect, the distortion of vision is. it doesn't matter if you find it outright laughable or risible or guffawable -- it has that dylanesque quality of giving you a strange world view. in fact my first reaction to this record was, this is HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED -- revisited again! THE BAD BOYFRIEND was like the WHO and any number of hysterical songstresses blended together in some demented pop song -- comedy if you like -- but i have since of course come across other sandler records and films which strike me as more blatantly intentional comedy of a kind -- also less amusing --whereas here, because the comedy element is perhaps held in check by the music, or superseded by it, the record becomes something else, something MORE than mere musical comedy. most musical parodies tend to be fairly vacuous affairs, and even THE RUTTLES are hard to listen to more than a couple of times. but this record really works as music, and just as dylan's classic was something like a short story collection in song, so here too you have different windows on the world, each affording a unique view and perspective. it may not be outdoing dylan but i would still rank this adam sandler record as one of the ten or twenty best POP records of the 1990s. i think people will re-appraise this cd in the fullnes of time -- maybe ten years down the road -- and acknowledge it as an overlooked classic. so get it now, be ahead of the times.