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The Lonely Island

★★★1/2 Turtleneck & Chain Universal Republic

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Five years since ”˜Dick in a Box’ forever changed our idea of dicks, boxes and Justin Timberlake, SNL’s pop-parody trio show no sign of running out of impossibly brilliant half-jokes. Their consistently great second disc combines songs you’ve YouTubed to death (”˜I Just Had Sex,’ ”˜Motherlover’) with top-shelf new material featuring good sports from Michael Bolton to Snoop Dogg (they also throw in a DVD of their Web shorts). The best parody is ”˜No Homo’ (“Eh, yo, no homo, but I wanna dress up like Dorothy and butt-fuck a dude while he 69s Morrissey”). But there’s quality pop too: The Beck-abetted ”˜Attracted to Us’ is both a hilarious shy guy’s anthem and a fine summer jam.

Key Tracks: ”˜No Homo,’ ”˜Attracted to Us,’ ”˜I Just Had Sex’

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