One song didn't sit well with me: "Tonight, I'm a Parrothead," only for the shallow reason that one of the singers, in a song about Jimmy Buffett, sounded way too much like James Taylor to get me confused.

The disc wraps up with a theme from their "Cookie Dough" offering: audio commentary of selected tracks. With any non-mainstream band, additional knowledge about the songs becomes a pleasant and deepening experience ... or at least it's neat to know about stuff. Plus, they wrap up with track No. 32 with a commentary on one of their commentary tracks.

These guys have written a number of different songs and hopefully everyone who listens will have a different favorite. That is a sign of a healthy comedy album. If one awesome track has to carry the entire disc, it will develop over time a hernia and be stuck in tiny comedy bandages for the rest of its comedy career. Which isn't very comedic.

I still think they have better days ahead of them. Having followed these dudes since their involvement with DVN, right around when "Brontosaurus" came out, they've never ceased to conjure up new creative ways to make fun of the outside world and themselves. As a former humor columnist I know the rigor of making people laugh consistently. I never did it. Hence the "former." These guys do that. And with so many brands of cheesy pop songs rolling out from the factory each week on MTV, Paul and Storm have a vast world of prime targets to shoot with their military assault rifles of happiness.

But if you want the real Randy Newman, well I linked to that too.