TD's Jack Black contributes to a duet here, and Ringo Starr even plays drums on 'Cuz You Do'.īut the oblique MTV sock-puppets skits (Sifl and Olly) that made Lynch's name are a lot better than Fake Songs ' lightweight spoofs. Nothing here matches the frenzied appeal of their debut single, 'Danger! High Voltage!'įellow American Liam Lynch, meanwhile, is a Tenacious D affiliate and alumnus of Paul McCartney's Liverpool pop academy.
One can only assume that the cool members of the group were utterly mortified when the United Kingdom actually gave their joke band a career.Īnd so the remainder of E6's debut caricatures garage rock and disco in fairly obvious ways - 'Synthesizer' is a Teutonic club piss-take much of the rest recalls Whitesnake crashing around the set of Boogie Nights.
Three of their number have now left the band, including Steve 'Disco' Nawara, who briefly (one gig) played bass for The White Stripes. Is going to a gay bar really such a wheeze? Does singing 'Gay bar! Gay bar! Gay bar!' in a cod-British silly voice make it more droll? Apparently so.Įlectric Six, incidentally, have been part of the Detroit underground for years. Take 'Gay Bar', Electric Six's recent cheese-rock hit, a song whose magic rests on the hilarious notion of taking a girl to a gay bar. Not only are these novelty records not terribly good, they are also not funny. Now there are albums by comedy/music polymath Liam Lynch, who scored a No 1 hit with 'United States of Whatever' last year, and Detroit's Electric Six, whose last two singles ('Danger! High Voltage!' and 'Gay Bar') have charted high. There has been a glut of allegedly amusing records in recent months, beginning with Tenacious D and taking in the lesser-known Turbonegro (a Swedish heavy metal band who pretend to be gay) and Har Mar Superstar (a fat, white man who pretends to be an R&B star). Anyone who cannot see the mirth in Girls Aloud or So Solid Crew is missing a vital bone in their arm.Ĭomedy rock, however, is the worst music in the world. Pop music is no less sidesplitting, of course. Consider it a penance, Liam.Nineteen years on, This is Spinal Tap continues to be extremely funny, because rock'n'roll continues to be absurd and - crucially - because the film's writers were supremely observant comics. Is it just me, or does it feel like they could hit it big this time? Either way, I’m just glad I have the opportunity to try to help the show succeed.
SIFL AND OLLY BJORK FULL
Now he’s come full circle, bringing Sifl and Olly back to the world of the living… as videogame reviewers. He spent most of the time talking about how lucky he was to be there, how his show was born from missing his best friend (who had moved to England), and how Björk and Winona Ryder are the two greatest people on the planet.Īfter Sifl and Olly came to an end, Liam would go on to get famous for The United States of Whatever, and strike out with the commercially unsuccessful film Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny.
I met him at the MTV VMAs back in 1998, and he was totally humble and shy. That feeling of responsibility has only been amplified by the fact that I really like Liam Lynch, the creator of the show. As an former cast member of Road Rules (one of MTV’s first reality shows), I’ll always feel partially responsible for the cancellation of Sifl and Olly. Without meaning to, I helped transform MTV from a home for new music and surreal comedy, to a haven for horrid soap operas and reality television.
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