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Classic Album Review: Flabby | Modern Tunes For Everybody

The Italian kitsch-pop trio pick up where OMC left off. How bizarre.

This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):

 


Fire up the bubble machine in your space-age bachelor pad: Italian kitsch-pop trio Flabby are the new soundtrack to your cocktail party.

With a bent elbow, a raised eyebrow and tongue firmly planted in cheek, these lads dish up course after course of appetizing go-go lounge fare like so many musical canapes; Cheek-A-Boom, whose title pretty much describes this CD’s rhythm-machine backbeat; Blue Song, whose lyrics, in total, are “F-L-A-Double-B-Y;” and the classic Mambo Italiano. With novelty tunes full of goofball lyrics suavely crooned, waxy keyboards cheesily played and Latin rhythms chintzily replicated, Flabby are this year’s OMC. How bizarre.