Big Daddy - Best of Big Daddy (CD)

All Music Guide

Somewhere among the Golden Throats albums, Sha-Na-Na,Richard Cheese, and Weird Al lies Big Daddy. Taking some of the digital age's greatest pop songs and flattening them onto 45s, Big Daddy add new super-retro sides to some of your retro dance-party favorites. Combining a live "Little Red Corvette" with "Beep Beep (Nash Rambler)," "Once in a Lifetime" with "Day-O," and "Help Me Make It Through the Night" with "Charlie Brown" and "Yakkity-Yak," Big Daddy slams Rick James in the same jukebox as the Everly Brothers, mashes Cyndi Lauper with Gene Chandler, and swirls Lennon and McCartney with a whole mess of folks, including Johnny Mathis and Buddy Holly. Sting also gets stung not once, but twice with a doo wop of "Every Breath You Take" and a noiry swing through "Money for Nothing." Fortunately, Big Daddy has the good taste to use the King himself to make fun of Celine's sinking ship theme. Even more fortunate is the fact that, as long as you have a good (and slightly twisted) sense of hu...mor, few of these tracks are sinkers themselves. In fact, these valiant efforts at genre-bending may lead you to reexamine your old faves and even your taste in music. - Matthew Robinson, All Music Guide Read more Less