If calling oneself Richard Cheese and offering lounge versions of contemporary popular songs strikes one as funny, that's probably because it's supposed to be.
In a sense, Cheese, along with bandmembers with last names like Gouda and Brie, is an extended joke, and Aperitif for Destruction is a sophisticated version of Pat Boone's In a Metal Mood.
While Cheese's taste in music occasionally crosses with Boone's (both cover Guns N' Roses; and both cover "Enter Sandman"), he prefers more scandalous material, opening Aperitif with 2 Live Crew's "Me So Horny" and Slipknot's "People Equal S***." Lounge style, these songs are both tuneful and totally absurd, a mixture of bad taste performed in a tacky style.
The problem with Aperitif for Destruction, though, is that it's a one-note joke best taken one song at a time.
Cheese does attempt to move beyond the collection's surface quality on occasion, but these attempts never quite bloom into full ideas.
On "Enter Sandman," for instance, '50s background vocals draw a link between the song and "Mr.
Sandman," but the odd mixture is more quirky than funny, and never really melds.
A song or two from Aperitif will probably liven up a slow moving party or give one's friends a good belly laugh, but taken as a whole, it begins to sound a lot like what it makes fun of.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Welcome to the Jungle | Richard Cheese | Play | 02:41 | 6 MB | 17 MB |
| 2 | Brass Monkey | Richard Cheese | Play | 02:13 | 5 MB | 14 MB |
| 3 | Let's Get It Started | Richard Cheese | Play | 01:58 | 4 MB | 12 MB |
| 4 | Man in the Box | Richard Cheese | Play | 02:23 | 5 MB | 15 MB |
| 5 | Been Caught Stealing | Richard Cheese | Play | 01:55 | 4 MB | 12 MB |
| 6 | The Girl Is Mine | Richard Cheese | Play | 02:15 | 5 MB | 14 MB |
| 7 | You Oughta Know | Richard Cheese | Play | 02:11 | 5 MB | 14 MB |
| 8 | Enter Sandman | Richard Cheese | Play | 01:50 | 4 MB | 11 MB |
| 9 | Sunday Bloody Sunday | Richard Cheese | Play | 01:36 | 3 MB | 10 MB |
| 10 | We Are the World | Richard Cheese | Play | 01:46 | 4 MB | 11 MB |
| 11 | Do Me | Richard Cheese | Play | 01:31 | 3 MB | 6 MB |
| 12 | American Idiot | Richard Cheese | Play | 01:35 | 3 MB | 10 MB |
| 13 | Add It Up | Richard Cheese | Play | 01:46 | 4 MB | 9 MB |
| 14 | Somebody Told Me | Richard Cheese | Play | 02:56 | 6 MB | 13 MB |
| 15 | Me So Horny | Richard Cheese | Play | 02:15 | 5 MB | 14 MB |
| 16 | People = Shit | Richard Cheese | Play | 02:03 | 4 MB | 12 MB |
| 33 mins | 75 MB | |||||
| 33 mins | 200 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Richard Cheese | Primary Artist |
| 2 | Will Lee | Guest Artist |
| 3 | Jimmy Vivino | Guest Artist |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |