Music Is My Weapon

Brad's porn music review will be a hard act to follow, so I'm not even going to try. Instead, I will talk about the opposite end of performance arts, and talk about the much neglected genre of Broadway musicals.

To this end I will focus on the recording of David Yazbek's Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. This is an original cast recording. Yazbek claim to fame is 2001's musical version of The Full Monty. Luckily for us, the score to The Full Monty made Yazbek catch the Broadway bug.

The real acheivement of this recording, is it's catchy, funny and witty catalog of lyrics. Yazbek gives us showstopper after showstopper. Most important in a Broadway cast recording is relistenable factor, which is through the roof in this album. Yazbek can be hysterically vulgar one lyric and then go into nun virginity mode the next. The music itself is very "Hollywood-ish" and it works perfectly for the show.