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The Golden Age of American Rock'n'Roll - Special Novelty Edition

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by: Various Artists

Release Date November 03, 2003
I bought it for Delicious - a rare enough track anywhere, and The Mummy, an early recording by Rod McKuen (yes, the same).
The rest, as other reviewers have said, are available elsewhere.

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Brand New

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by: Jackie Mason

Release Date March 01, 2008
I bought it for Delicious - a rare enough track anywhere, and The Mummy, an early recording by Rod McKuen (yes, the same).
The rest, as other reviewers have said, are available elsewhere.

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Barefaced Chic

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by: Fascinating Aida

Release Date May 24, 1999
FA are sharp as scalpels, and this is their cutting edge. From a glorious start with Painting on the Glitz, they glittered throughout this wonderful evening at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket - the pace never lets up. Everywhere you look the songs are barbed and juicy, viciously funny, sometimes silly and occasionally moving (Don't Come Back could almost be an English answer to Jacques Brel's classic Ne Me Quitte Pas.)

Listen out for brilliant send-ups of Jerry Springer, formulaic paperback writing, amoral dalliances (including references to Bill Clinton's hobbies!), apres-ski among the rich and brain-dead, mix-and-match spirituality, and the virtues or otherwise of Viagra, among many others. As the song says, who could ask for anything ... Read More:

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Spiking the Classics

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by: Spike Jones

Release Date November 28, 2005
FA are sharp as scalpels, and this is their cutting edge. From a glorious start with Painting on the Glitz, they glittered throughout this wonderful evening at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket - the pace never lets up. Everywhere you look the songs are barbed and juicy, viciously funny, sometimes silly and occasionally moving (Don't Come Back could almost be an English answer to Jacques Brel's classic Ne Me Quitte Pas.)

Listen out for brilliant send-ups of Jerry Springer, formulaic paperback writing, amoral dalliances (including references to Bill Clinton's hobbies!), apres-ski among the rich and brain-dead, mix-and-match spirituality, and the virtues or otherwise of Viagra, among many others. As the song says, who could ask for anything ... Read More:

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Flight of the Conchords

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I had never heard of these but my boyfriend put this onto my ipod. I just could not stop laughing. "Can someone please remove these cutleries from my knees?" I laughed out loud on the tube.

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You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore Vol.1

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by: Frank Zappa

Release Date May 15, 1995
The first volume of this now-notorious series is pretty much a perfect overview of Zappa - at least as far as his live band is concerned (there are no synclavier or orchestral pieces). Not all of the material here rates as classic, but overall the programme is so enjoyable and so varied - skipping easily from era to era in a way that the later volumes couldn't always manage to do - that anyone with an interest in FZ can gauge from their response to this album whether or not it's worth pursuing that interest further.

There are plenty of highlights on this collection. The '71 band's "Once Upon a Time"/"Sofa #1" is a great way to kick the series off, and the segue into the gorgeous heavy metal-style meltdown of "The Mammy Anthem" (from 1982) works superbly. ... Read More:

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Ahead of Their Time

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by: Frank Zappa

Release Date April 01, 2002
As mentioned in the other review, this disc is in two halves - a "cheesy little psychodrama" called "Progress?" and a standard Mothers rock show. Some of this material turned up on "Weasels Ripped my Flesh" (about six minutes of it), but it's great to hear the whole thing in sequence. "Progress?" doubtless loses some of its impact without visuals, but it's the second half that's the real highlight here - tight, mostly instrumental workouts of the Mothers' "hits" knocked out one after the other. It kicks off with what I believe to be the finest rendition of "King Kong" in Zappa's catalogue and finishes with a storming guitar solo during "The Orange County Lumber Truck". If you're a fan of the early Mothers you'll be amazed at the playing on this disc.

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His All-Time Greatest Comic Hits

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by: Ray Stevens

Release Date June 12, 1990
As mentioned in the other review, this disc is in two halves - a "cheesy little psychodrama" called "Progress?" and a standard Mothers rock show. Some of this material turned up on "Weasels Ripped my Flesh" (about six minutes of it), but it's great to hear the whole thing in sequence. "Progress?" doubtless loses some of its impact without visuals, but it's the second half that's the real highlight here - tight, mostly instrumental workouts of the Mothers' "hits" knocked out one after the other. It kicks off with what I believe to be the finest rendition of "King Kong" in Zappa's catalogue and finishes with a storming guitar solo during "The Orange County Lumber Truck". If you're a fan of the early Mothers you'll be amazed at the playing on this disc.

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Let's Get Small

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by: Steve Martin

Release Date May 20, 2008
Fantastic, the best the three Steve Martin stand up CDs in my opinion; but then who the hell am I?

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The Incredible Shrinking Dickies

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by: Dickies

Release Date September 25, 2000
Fun all the way at full speed.Having got this on L.P. all that time ago,iv got into load's of band's,from soul,ska,rock,you name it & I will have a go."Incredible Shrinking Dickies" is one of the best c.d.s I have ever got my hand,s on.Come to think of it the "Dickies" are the dog ****.Hope they rip some more number's for us all,& soon.