The Sunny Side Of The Moon - Richard Cheese

Richard Cheese is an artist who parodies well known tunes by playing tem in a lounge music style. This means first off that if you are not open to parodies then you simply will not this album or the legend that is Richard Cheese. If on the other hand you are partial to the odd parody then I think you will love this album. Particularly good tracks are Rock The Casbah and the masterful People = Shit, which is absolutely fantastic. Unfortunately, like most parody acts, Cheese is not brilliantly consistent, and some of the tracks on this album are less good and feel pretty arduous to listen to. Probably the best thing, is to try this out on either Deezer or ...  Read the complete review

Many a dark moon ago I found myself listening to a lot of parody artists, be they modern or more classical I must have went through most of the good ones. Such as the fun lyrical parody's of the likes of "Weird" Al Yankovic, The Amateur Transplants, Mark and Lard's "The Shirehorses" and even current Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles. The "lets stick random swear words in love songs" parody of The Dan Band (famously from the movies "Starsky and Hutch" and "Old Skool"); theres also the "Lets put words to famous musical pieces" an as done notably by Tom Lehrer (who often used Gilbert and Sullivan music for his songs, theres ...  Read the complete review

Sunny Side of the Moon Released on the 7th February 2006 "The Sunny Side of The Moon" marks Richard Cheese and his band Lounge Against the Machines' fifth studio album. The album consists of the best songs from the bands previous four albums and includes a couple of new tracks as well. Brief History of the band "Richard Cheese and Lounge against the Machine" is a spoof cover band in the style of a Las Vegas lounge act similar in ways to the likes of people like Frank Sinatra or Dean Martin. However there is one big difference instead of the usual lounge style songs these guys choose to cover various modern songs which ...  Read the complete review