Dare To Be Wicked Good

Pardon me for a moment. I'm about to slip into a foreign dialect for this little review. Anyone not from Maine (or who doesn't have a sense of humor) should move along.

I was gettin' ready to go ta work this mornin' when I spied one a them theah cassette tapes on the kitchen countah. The label said it was "Wicked Good." And, acourse, you know me, if it ain't nailed down to a cement block, I'm just liable ta pick it up an' check her out. You nevah know. Might be somethin' interestin'. Maybe one a them theah self-help tapes what'll raise your IQ whilst you sleep. I sez to myself, "Wouldn't that be nice. Ayuh. I oughta try somethin' like that out, don'tcha know."

Turns out it were a tape of a record alblum from 1985 - back when they was still called "alblums" - by some group a yahoos called The Wicked Good Band. I seem ta recall that theah group was pretty dahn decent, so I shoved it in the tape playah and give it a listen. Tweren't half bad, considerin'.

First up was an introduction sorta piece called "Dare to be Wicked Good." It give me some idea of what they was up to when they talked about creatin' a "Dare to be Wicked Good Maine Conversion Kit" to help people from away learn how to look like Mainahs. That were followed by the "Wicked Good" theme song:

A commercial for "Old Lewiston Beer" (Lewiston, Lewiston, vous et ma maison.) and an ode to baked bean suppahs - "Baked Bean Boogie" - came next, followed by the politically incorrect "She's So Massive":

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