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Chef Aid: The South Park Album

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Released
  
November 24, 1998

Release date
  
24 November 1998

TV show
  
South Park

Length
  
76:42

Label
  
American Recordings

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Producer
  
Rick Rubin (exec.), Matt Stone (exec.), Trey Parker (exec.)

Chef Aid The South Park Album (1998)
  
Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)

Genres
  
Rock music, Hip hop music, Heavy metal, Punk rock, Alternative rock, Funk, Alternative metal, Comedy rock

Similar
  
South Park: Bigger - Longer, Loud Rocks, Presenting Isaac Hayes, Love Attack, Lifetime Thing

Chef Aid: The South Park Album is a 1998 soundtrack/compilation album based on the American animated comedy series South Park. Several well-known artists perform on the record, which was mainly produced by Rick Rubin. Chef Aid contains a number of songs from and inspired by the show, while other songs are largely independent from South Park. The album was released during the show's second season, shortly after the broadcast of the episode called "Chef Aid", which features many of the stars and songs that appear on the recording. Soul singer Isaac Hayes appears in character as Chef throughout the album, which mimicks a live concert.

Contents

Chef Aid: The South Park Album was made available with two collectible covers and in three different versions – "Clean", "Explicit", and "Extreme". The Explicit version contains profanities (including "fuck") and carries a Parental Advisory sticker, but it is still censored, even for lesser profanities, such as "goose shit". The Extreme version is completely uncensored.

Songs and concept

There are a several kinds of songs that appear on Chef Aid: The South Park Album. These include songs featured in the series, and sung by South Park characters or various artists. Other songs have been inspired by the series, with some written by the song's performer artist. The remainder of the songs are largely unrelated to South Park, although some of them have appeared on the corresponding "Chef Aid" episode.

Many of the South Park-related tracks on the album were written by show co-creator Trey Parker, and are extended versions of original songs from the series. A large portion of these, such as "Chocolate Salty Balls", are sung by soul singer Isaac Hayes, in character as Chef, the school cafeteria worker who often breaks into soul songs on the show. Other characters that appear on the record include the main boys—Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny—as well as Ned Gerblansky. As on the show, the characters are voiced by the two creators; Stan, Cartman and Ned are voiced by Trey Parker, whereas Kyle and Kenny are voiced by Matt Stone.

A dramatization performed during the song Horny indicates that the song was included under protest.

The album is presented as a live concert. Chef performs most of the show's original songs, and also sings some lines on most of the other tracks, as well as acting as announcer between songs.

Singles

  • "Chocolate Salty Balls (P.S. I Love You)"
    • CD1
    1. "Chocolate Salty Balls (P.S. I Love You)" – Performed By Chef
    2. "Oh Holy Night" (Snippet) – Performed By Eric Cartman
    3. "Oh Little Town Of Bethlehem" (Snippet) – Performed By Ned Gerblanksy
    CD2
    1. "Chocolate Salty Balls (P.S. I Love You)" – Performed By Chef
    2. "Come Sail Away" – Performed By Eric Cartman
    3. "Mentally Dull" (Think Tank Remix) – Performed By Vitro
  • "Kenny's Dead"
    1. "Kenny's Dead" – Performed By Master P
    2. "Come Sail Away" – Performed By Eric Cartman
    3. "Tonight Is Right For Love" – Performed By Chef and Meat Loaf
  • "Simultaneous"
    • CD1
    1. "Simultaneous" – Performed By Chef
    2. "Kyle's Mom's A Big Fat Bitch" (In D Minor) – Performed By Eric Cartman
    CD2
    1. "Simultaneous" – Performed By Chef
    2. "Cheesy Poofs" (Theme) – Performed By Eric Cartman
    3. "Come Sail Away" – Performed By Eric Cartman
    4. "My Best Friends" (Snippet) – Performed By Eric Cartman
    5. "Stinky Britches" (Snippet) – Performed By Chef
  • "Bubblegoose"
    1. "Bubblegoose" (Remix) – Performed By Wyclef Jean, Cartman, Kenny, Stan & Kyle
    2. "Come Sail Away" – Performed By Eric Cartman
    3. "No Substitute" – Performed By Chef
  • "Nowhere To Run"
    1. "Nowhere To Run" (Vapour Trail) – Performed By Ozzy Osbourne & DMX
    2. "Will They Die 4 You?" – Performed By P Diddy & Lil' Kim & System Of A Down

    Chart performance

    The album spent two weeks at number 2 on the UK Compilation Chart, held off by Now 41.

    Songs

    1South Park ThemePrimus0:40
    2Nowhere to Run (Vapor Trail)Ozzy Osbourne - DMX - Ol' Dirty Bastard - 4:40
    3Chocolate Salty Balls (PS I Love You)Isaac Hayes3:56

    References

    Chef Aid: The South Park Album Wikipedia
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