The comedy cover album is a fickle beast. Where it can be endlessly entertaining to hear a song done in a new style, it has to be a really great cover to hold up for more than a few listens. Albums like Grunge Lite have come and gone with little fanfare because of this, and Sub Urban tries very hard to avoid this fate. Much like the Mike Flowers Pops (one of the few artists to pull off lasting comedy covers), Jaymz Bee and the Deep Lounge Coalition go the lounge route. Covers of Sisqo's "The Thong Song" and Shaggy's "It Wasn't Me" oddly sound right at home in this environment, and the various vocalists that shuffle through the album do their best to adapt the lyrics into a different style. Some songs are beyond this approach; for example, the Baha Men's "Who Let the Dogs Out" has such simplistic and benign lyrics that it just sounds stupid when removed from the dance environment, and covers of Ludacris and the Wu Tang Clan are near impossible to give a second listen to, if only because the lyrics are so inappropriate for this genre that even the initial joke wears quite thin. This is not a total failure, as several of the covers hold up to several listens. But the reason this doesn't work is a simple one: most of these songs are not timeless classics. The best comedy cover albums are the ones that cover songs that will be around 30 years from their release, and it is very hard to imagine children in 2032 listening to Shaggy and the Baha Men. For a quick laugh, give this a listen, but this isn't something that needs to join anyone's collection anytime soon. ~ Bradley Torreano