Tuesday, September 1, 2020

De-Tuning The Firesign Theatre Dept.

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A while back, I posted an edited version of Phil Austin's *cough* "solo album", Roller Maidens From Outer Space. For the following two reasons: 1) The songs stank up the album. Dull, inessential, pointless, they tainted the rest of what is fine ensemble piece.
B) It qualifies as a Firesign album, because they're all on it, and it sounds exactly like a Firesign album. Ergo - it is what it is.
4) It had the most barfworthy cover of any Firesign album, an !UN-SEE! exercise in wannabe rock star vanity that strengthens the argument for sanding off mens' nipples at birth.
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Four Or Five Guy© Hazy Dave recently requested a re-up (good to see somebody going through the crates in the crawlspace), and mentioned that the Proctor & Bergman *cough* "solo album" TV Or Not TV also suffers from tuneblight. Now, get this, subscribers - I'd already edited the songs out for my personal consumption. Mere chance? Coincidence? Or Dame Fate playing Whack-A-Mole with our souls? You be the judge.

 Anyways, here they both are, de-tuned for optimum performance. The shame and the tragedy of this is that you just don't care. Well, that's you for you, isn't it? Hazy Dave and me are cutting the soles off our shoes.
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14 comments:

  1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIISeptember 1, 2020 at 7:41 AM

    This is Hazy Dave's PRIVATE LINK. Anyone else clicking it will suffer from the KURSE OF FOAM™ (*mystic organ chord*), today manifesting as mild post-prandial dyspepsia.

    https://workupload.com/file/p4FfykHTuZW

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  2. jonderSeptember 1, 2020 at 8:14 AM

    I already gots dyspepsia from that furshlugginer Phil Austin album cover (looking like the junior VP of a small town Slade fanclub after downing a bottle of cough syrup). Don't care about the curse, but do care for hearing Firesignmen do what they do best, which is NOT singing.

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    1. jonderSeptember 1, 2020 at 8:17 AM

      PS - September 1st already? As I write this, there are almost three hours left in August.

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    2. Farquhar Throckmorton IIISeptember 1, 2020 at 8:21 AM

      My ability to see into the future has been wrongly attributed to supernatural ability - it's simply the result of being in a timezone ahead of yours.

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  3. Hazy DaveSeptember 1, 2020 at 9:01 AM

    Nice edit, thanks. Channel change sound effect is sure realistic, as Jeff Airplane used to say, and handily provided by the source material.

    Not far from the worst Firesign LP, but it has its moments, and now those moments are closer together.

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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIISeptember 1, 2020 at 9:07 AM

      I think it's better than any of their post-Bozos albums. Dark, weird, mysterious, and without the "contemporary satire" they got into to make themselves relevant to non-drug users.

      Has anyone ever managed to decode "Shakespeare's Lost Comedie"? I'd like some clues, if the Gemstone File is unavailable.

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  4. Hazy DaveSeptember 1, 2020 at 8:43 PM

    I have good recollections of the Lost Comedie LP, but haven't listened to it in a while. Expanding it into Anythynge You Want To for CD did it no favors. The bits that made up a good portion of Not Insane tell enough of the story with the rapid-fire puns and high culture allusions they could pull off live (with a well practiced script). Less is more? I hate to say it, but that's the second time I've said it this week.

    Further into NI (another worthy post-Bozos LP, IMHO), The National Surrealist Light Peoples Party convention had about the right amount of politics. Once Austin's Nixon voice became irrelevant, they didn't seem to have much clever to say on the subject. "Hey, let's do songs about Carter and Ray-gun!" And it wasn't the last album slapped together from scraps and leftovers, unfortunately.

    As for the remainder of the Columbia LPs... Well worth a dollar! I'd rate Giant Rat of Sumatra, EYKIW and ITNWYOYO, not forgetting Ossman's Mark Time opus How Time Flys as enjoyable, and complex enough to reward multiple plays. (The Detuned version of TV is appreciated, too.) And reassessing Roller Maidens - minus the tunes - definitely moves it up the rankings.

    Those new to the oeuvre can ignore the above and go with the conventional whiz-dumb, of course. Then, finding nothing of interest, return to today's comedy legends [redacted].

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  5. jonderSeptember 1, 2020 at 11:51 PM

    Everything You Know Is Wrong is solid stuff, despite trace elements of gas music from Jupiter. And I dig In The Next World You're On Your Own (sponsored by Bear Whiz Beer!)

    There's a wealth of Firesignia at notveryprettymusic.blogspot.com for those who want more audio and video.

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    1. Farquhar Throckmorton IIISeptember 3, 2020 at 8:06 AM

      My thorts re. th' Firesigns have been published antecedently. Let's just say I have everything - or as near as possible in a finite universe - on my hard drive. Some of which I slipped to Ed at notverypretty. (Hi, Ed!)

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  6. MrDaveSeptember 3, 2020 at 6:53 AM

    Anybody else's nipples sore? Geez, what an unpleasant thought to put in our heads at this hour! As if this post-prandial dyspepsia wasn't enough to sour the watery dregs of this late summer day. If it weren't for the sharks circling the island I'd give half a passing thought to .... um ...? Wait, what? N

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  7. oqueefSeptember 4, 2020 at 5:11 AM

    Pop quiz time! Which album: The St. Louis Aquarium Choir

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  8. notBobNovember 8, 2022 at 6:51 AM

    *If you dig a hole deep enough, sooner ore later everyone will ant to jump in

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