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Summary: Bench Mark
Comment: Zoot Suit Riot: The Swingin' Hits of the Cherry Poppin' Daddies
They set the bench mark back in the day when this came out, this is a great CD, and if you love swing, buy it.
Their new stuff that they are doing on their tours this spring [2008] just don't cut it, it aint swing baby, its SKA...YUCK!
Hope this review helps others...
Customer Rating: 
Summary: This was obscene
Comment: I didn't pay attention to the reviews, sigh. I tossed the cd. The music may be good, but the concept is creepy. I glad for my naivete, this isn't the sophistication that I want to embrace.
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Summary: Hooray for dirty Swing
Comment: Swing was well before my time, but damnit if it wasn't good music. I am glad a modern band came along to play some swing without treating it like some sappy background music for a church party.
"Zoot Suit Riot" includes some fast-paced swinging (!) tunes about fights with sailors, bady guys, getting drunk, and of course some good old-fashioned questionable romantic pursuits.
The lead singer doesn't have the best voice of the decade, or even the year, but he is good enough and he sings like he has something to say. The music backs this up, and the result is an album with the energy we should expect from a dance genre.
If anyone is bothered by songs about fightin' and philanderin' and dirty dancin', maybe they should pass on this and go listen to one of those nice wholesome 16th-century operas about rape and murder.
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Summary: Offensive Content and Language
Comment: I love swing revival music, but my exposure to various groups has been limited. I bought this as a "buy it together" with another CD, listened to four songs, and turned it off. I won't listen to it again. The themes of the songs are sex-charged and the language vulgar. I guess I should have known by the title, "Cherry Poppin' Daddies," but I was thinking more along the lines "poppin' = jivin'" rather than it having a sexual connotation. Shows how out of the loop I am, I guess. Some people would probably love this CD, but as a Christian, I'm offended by the themes and the language. There was a low-class knock on God, too, and that was the end of the CD for me.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Zoot Suit Riot
Comment: I postively love this cd. It so entertaining to listen to and if you are into swing dancing this is the music for you. The quality is like having Cherry Poppin Daddies right there with you performing it, it's that good. Zoot Suit Riot is a very up beat and fun cd for everyone to enjoy .
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![Zoot Suit Riot. Cherry Poppin' Daddies Tracks: Zoot Suit Riot [#], Ding-Dong Daddy of the D-Car Line, When I Change Your Mind, Here Comes the Snake, Mister White Keys, Come Back to Me, Brown Derby Jump [#], Dr. Bones, Pink Elephant, Master and Slave, Drunk Daddy, No Mercy for Swine [#], Cherry Poppin' Daddy Strut, Shake Your Lovemaker](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31EKQM4JNCL._SL160_.jpg)
