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October 19, 2005 7:57 AM

Werner Von Wallenrod's Fun Page of Novelty Rap Records [Warning: animated jellybeans & embedded audio] • Includes reviews of albums by: Joe Piscopo, Rich Little, Rappin' Granny, Rappin' Principal, Rappin' Rambo, Joe Pesci, 2 Live Jews, Rodney Dangerfield, Arsenio Hall aka 'Chunky A', The '85 Chicago Bears, Mel Brooks, Elvira & more.
posted by hall of robots (17 comments total)

I am so not going to click on this link. I can hear it in my head already and my vacation day is already 15% less wonderful.
posted by kozad at 8:20 AM on October 19, 2005

The ad at the bottom, for the Polytron, is the best part of the page.
"Only the Polytron reduces an entire mouse to a soup-like homogenate in 30 seconds."
posted by bashos_frog at 8:30 AM on October 19, 2005 [1 favorite]

"asd?"
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 8:35 AM on October 19, 2005

Amusing/horrifying. But where's Devastatin' Dave The Turntable Slave?
posted by you just lost the game at 8:35 AM on October 19, 2005

"asd?"

Sorry-I'd typed a couple nonsense keystrokes in the preview screen just to run the link and see if it was a double post. I forgot to go back and insert a proper title :P
posted by hall of robots at 8:41 AM on October 19, 2005

No list of novelty rap records is complete without a shout-out to Strawberry Rap.

"Say Strawwww...!"
"STRAWWW!!!"

Yeah, I've heard it.
posted by The Card Cheat at 8:44 AM on October 19, 2005

That's certainly the best round-up of novelty rap I've ever seen. Kudos.
posted by stinkycheese at 8:47 AM on October 19, 2005

Or perhaps I should say: respect.
posted by stinkycheese at 8:48 AM on October 19, 2005

Or: "bet"!
posted by hall of robots at 9:14 AM on October 19, 2005

The host of NowThatsFuckedUp.com goes to jail and yet the host of this web site is free to post the most tramatic and horrific images and sounds of the 80's. That's just wrong.
posted by StarForce5 at 9:43 AM on October 19, 2005

My eyes! What is this, 1993?

That said, I've heard several of the songs listed on this page, know of a number of others that aren't listed, and now have a burning desire to hear a couple that this page just taught me about. Can anybody hook me up with the tracks by Marvin the Paranoid Android and Bobby "Boris" Pickett? I need to own these.
posted by Faint of Butt at 10:56 AM on October 19, 2005

This is great. He's even got a pretty complete collection of the Rappin' Duke, rarities and all.

And who knew 2 Live Jews made four albums?
posted by First Post at 11:18 AM on October 19, 2005

What's the difference between an ordinary rap song and a "novelty" rap song? "Rappers Delight" was nothing more than a novelty song in its day, and by all rights, should have ended the whole rap thing right there. How did this novelty genre explode to devour the culture? How did a whole generation grow up to believe that a jabbering male voice over an electronically generated knocking sound constitutes entertainment?
posted by shambles at 12:00 PM on October 19, 2005

Oh, dear, shambles. What's the difference between an ordinary barbershop quartet song and a "novelty" barbershop quartet song? How did a whole generation grow up to believe that four male voices harmonizing a cappella constitutes entertainment?

(I should know better. I hope I have the self-control to leave this evident troll and probable racist alone in the future.)
posted by Faint of Butt at 12:40 PM on October 19, 2005

The same way a previous generation grew up believing that rock and roll - "the most brutal, ugly, degenerate, vicious form of expression — lewd, sly, in plain fact, dirty — a rancid-smelling aphrodisiac and the martial music of every side-burned delinquent on the face of the earth" - was entertaining, shambles.
posted by you just lost the game at 12:40 PM on October 19, 2005

I hope I have the self-control to leave this evident troll and probable racist alone in the future.

Evident troll? Probable racist?

Huh?
posted by dhoyt at 2:14 PM on October 19, 2005

Evident troll?

Who else but a troll would wander into a thread on novelty rap to insult the entire style of music? shambles was trying to derail the thread, and succeeded.

Probable racist?

I'm jumping to conclusions here, based solely on observation that most people (not all, mind you, but most) who make statements like shambles's about rap music aren't very fond of black people and/or black culture in general. I'll gladly retract that allegation given evidence to the contrary. It will be harder to make me retract the first, though.
posted by Faint of Butt at 4:36 PM on October 19, 2005