Margaret Cho Discography
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 Margaret ChoCho Dependent Release Date 2010 08 24 Label Clownery Record Rating:  Margaret Cho is hardly the first comedian who has developed a sudden urge to sing, but unlike a great many of them -- Eddie Murphy, Sandra Bernhard, Adam Sandler, the list goes on -- Cho's music suggests that she might have been able to get by as a pop singer if her career in comedy hadn't worked out. Cho has released several albums of her stand-up material, but Cho Dependent is her first long player devoted to music, and while these songs are clearly meant to generate laughs, as it happens Cho is a better singer than most would expect. Cho doesn't have a tremendous vocal range, but she know what to do with what she has, and can conjure the sound and style of other artists with skill. &"Your Dick" suggests the throaty strength of Chrissie Hynde and &"Baby, I'm With the Band" recalls Debbie Harry's salad days, while any number of auto-tuned pop belters have been fused into the voice on &"Gimme Your Seed," &"Eat Shit And Die" finds her making like a sultry jazz diva and &"Lice" is sung in the voice of an earnest and passionate folkie. Songwriting doesn't come quite as easily to Cho as singing -- generating laugh lines while following rules of rhyme and meter isn't as simple as it might seem -- but when she's on, she's quite good, and &"Enemies" and &"Hey Big Dog" work well either as straightforward tunes or as jokes. And Cho certainly had good sense in inviting some talented friends to help her out -- Tegan & Sara, Brendan Benson, Andrew Bird, Jon Brion, Ani DiFranco, Grant Lee Phillips and Fiona Apple all contribute to the album, and it's the rare music album from a comedian that works as a listening experience even if you're not chuckling. And if this album mirrors most of Cho's comic obsessions -- sex, queer culture, getting high and wildly dysfunctional relationships -- the jokes, like those in her stand-up act, are generally pretty clever, and when Cho goes for simple bad taste on &"My Puss," she's still pretty damn funny. Cho Dependent isn't as much of a game changer as I'm the One That I Want, but like that album it reveals there's more to Cho than her previous work would expect, and she'd be well advised to keep songwriting on her "to-do" list. Mark Deming, Rovi |
Tracks:
| Title | Composer | Time | |
| 1 | Intervention | 4:42 | |
| 2 | Calling In Stoned | 2:52 | |
| 3 | Your Dick | 4:08 | |
| 4 | Baby I'm With the Band | 3:35 | |
| 5 | Hey Big Dog | 4:13 | |
| 6 | I'm Sorry | 3:18 | |
| 7 | Lice | 2:37 | |
| 8 | Enemies | 2:58 | |
| 9 | Asian Adjacent | 4:02 | |
| 10 | Gimme Your Seed | 3:43 | |
| 11 | Eat Shit and Die | 3:27 | |
| 12 | Captain Cameltoe | 2:58 | |
| 13 | My Puss | 3:26 | |
| 14 | Lesbian Escalation | 5:00 |
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