Al's second Michael Jackson parody and his third Grammy headline this album. At the time, this was Al's most sucessful album in sales, being his first to go Platinum.

Fat, a parody of Michael Jackson's "Bad", received its true blessing when Michael allowed Al to use Bad's subway set for Al's video. Al's concert performance of Fat is a real crowd pleaser.

While Fat gets all the recognition for being great, only about half of the rest of the album can stand up to its leader. While most of the album's songs are very clever indeed, there are a few that seem to 'pop up' in the middle of a 'winning streak.' While they do not necessarily take away from the album as a whole, they are unable to stand on their owm.

Some of the songs contained in this album include the science maybe-not-so-fiction I Think I'm A Clone Now, The cultural Lasagna, the Strange You Make Me and Stuck In A Closet With Vanna White, and a parody of a commercial, Twister.

This one is worth adding to your collection.

Compleat reviews for individual songs are listed here

[written in July 1999 especially for this site]