The Grouchy Gaijin's Thoughts on Music and Such

Its been a busy week at the Grouch's trash can.  My wife accepted a job in Sweden so we are moving.  I'm pretty excited to go, I think it will be a great place to raise our kids (the little Grouchlettes).   So after a stressful weekend of packing boxes and moving those boxes, labeling boxes and moving more boxes I thought "Hey this guy called Wild Wilson sent me his comedy CD to review."  I could go for a laugh right now.

This is a first, I've never written a review of a comedy album before.  My own collection of comedy albums consists of George Carlin and Cheech and Chong. (I did own a Mike Warnke record once, I think I won it at the Christian school I was sent to as a youth.)

Perhaps I set the bar too high?  Carlin as well as Cheech and Chong rocked when they were at the top of their game.

Wild Wilson bills himself as a comedian with a Polka twist.  When he first emailed me I though, "OK I grew up in a Polish / Lebanese  neighborhood in Detroit.  I can dig polka humor.  My neighbors even had the little statue of the Virgin Mary on their riding lawn mower.  My next door neighbors and their relatives had a really annoying custom of honking the car horn when ever they would leave someone's house.  I asked about this once and was told that the honk made sure any evil spirits you picked up along the way stayed with the people you were visiting.  The gift that keeps giving.

Bummer that Wild Wilson is not funny.

He sent me a CD with a couple of hundred tracks on it.  The first batch of tracks were all basically the same - armature zany radio promos telling the listener that they were listening to Wild Wilson and boy was it going to be Wild and funny.

Yawn.

Here is track three.

The joke on track six is typical.

The jokes are juvenal and the Polka music annoying.  He isn't funny enough to carry Weird Al's accordian.

Wild Wilson does not rate on the Grouch scale: 0 scowls.