Stand-Up
Day 51 (315) – The Drew Shady LP
While I was rating some of my songs today (as I’m trying to do), I realized that there are a fair number of song titles that get repeated a lot – but not just by musicians. For example, in 1989, Biz Markie did a song called “Just a Friend” (also Mario in 2000). Alonzo Bodden does a bit called “Just a Friend” on his Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time comedy album from 2001.
And that got me thinking, what if I did an entire set based on the track titles of an entire album? Well I’ve decided to try. I don’t really have any bits about music already (not that the set will have to be about music), so it doesn’t really matter what album I choose to model the set after. So a quick look through my music collection, and I think an interesting (and challenging) one would be Eminem’s Slim Shady LP. It’s got diversity as far as titles goes, and it should be interesting to try to keep a rap album (from Eminem no less) relatively clean. Note: I thought about doing one of 2Pac’s albums, but I can’t due to language restrictions as to what I’m allowed to say.
So over the course of the next X days (I say X because some days I’ll write more than one “track”), I’ll be writing a joke/story/observation inspired by the titles from Eminem’s first LP (most of the jokes – if not all – will have no relation to what the song is actually about, I’m just using the titles. Also, at first glance a few of my existing bits may work well for some of the titles, in which case I’ll just use those). For those of you that aren’t familiar with the album, the songs are:
- Public Service Annoucement
- My Name Is
- Guilty Conscience
- Brain Damage
- Paul
- If I Had
- ’97 Bonnie & Clyde
- Bitch
- Role Model
- Lounge
- My Fault
- Ken Kaniff
- Come on Everybody
- Rock Bottom
- Just Don’t Give a %*#&
- Soap
- As the World Turns
- I’m Shady
- Bad Meets Evil
- Still Don’t Give a %*#&
So tomorrow will be the first track – something regarding “Public Service Announcement.” This should be fun.
