There is so much that could be said regarding Flight of the\nConchords. How they hail from New Zealand, the island nation with\nmultiple postal services. Or that, after winning a Best Comedy\nAlbum Grammy for The Distant Future in 2007, they were nominated\nfor a second Best Comedy Album Grammy in 2008, but were actually\nrelieved not to win again—-because meaningless trophies really do\nseem important when you only have one, and have to fight over who\ngets to keep it. And that during the recently-completed second\nseason of their popular HBO television series, fans could download\nnew songs immediately after they debuted on-air. Or that this same\npopular HBO television series (conveniently also called Flight of\nthe Conchords) was recently nominated for\nwhat-sure-seems-like-a-record-breaking 6 Emmys.

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But all that is mere background, fact-based information that,\nwhile, granted, is largely true, impressive, and odd, doesn’t\nreally allow us to serve up the steaming plate of rich, delicious\nand hopefully irresistibly persuasive description for which we (or\nour hired writers) are somewhat known in certain circles. And so:\nWhile Flight of the Conchords hammered out their reputation from\nbehind the relative safety of acoustic guitars, blithely billed as\na “folk comedy” act, nowadays their musical style runs rampant,\nunchecked. Judging from the range displayed here on I Told You I\nWas Freaky, Flight of the Conchords have yet to unearth a genre\nwhich can withstand their artistry. Unflinching in their lyrical\nstance, sophisticated with their arrangements, crafting melodies\nwhich always lodge firmly in the frontal lobe: Flight of the\nConchords have created 13 best-selling ringtones, humbly\nmasquerading as songs. Their rhymes are fearless, their thesauruses\ndog-eared. Only cool, confident specimens of manhood such as these\ncould drop three-dollar vocabulary busters like “dungarees” and\n“pantaloons” while still mesmerizing the ladies with their\nundulating “Sugalumps.” Vivid imagery? Check: The ardent “Angels”\nshould spur listeners to think twice the next time they consider\ncatching a snowflake on their tongues. Better still, the amorous\nodyssey of the album’s zenith, “We’re Both in Love with a Sexy\nLady,” unfolds before the listener’s very ears in real time; Flight\nof the Conchords are making history, and You! Are! There!

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I Told You I Was Freaky is, among a great many other things, a\ngenre-tripping tour de force and includes three songs from the\nsecond series of the show which are otherwise as yet unreleased\n(“Rambling Through the Avenues of Time,” “Too Many Dicks (On the\nDance Floor)” and “You Don’t Have to Be a Prostitute”).

\n\n1. Hurt Feelings\n2. Sugalumps\n3. We’re Both in Love with a Sexy Lady\n4. I Told You I Was Freaky\n5. Demon Woman\n6. Rambling Through the Avenues of Time\n7. Fashion Is Danger\n8. Petrov, Yelyena and Me\n9. Too Many Dicks (On the Dance Floor)\n10. You Don’t Have to Be a Prostitute\n11. Friends\n12. Carol Brown\n13. Angels\n\n\n