And It's Deep Too: The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings

And It's Deep Too: The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings Artist: Richard Pryor
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Box set
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 9


UPC: 081227665524
EAN: 0081227665524
ASIN: B00004YR3M


Release Date: 2000-10-17

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Tracks:

  1. Super Nigger
  2. Girls
  3. Farting
  4. Prison Play
  5. T.V. Panel Show
  6. Smells
  7. Army Life
  8. Frankenstein

Tracks:

  1. I Hope I'm Funny
  2. Nigger With A Seizure
  3. Have Your Ass Home By 11:00
  4. Black & White Life Styles
  5. Exorcist
  6. Wino Dealing With Dracula
  7. Flying Saucers
  8. The Back Down
  9. Black Man/White Woman
  10. Niggers Vs. The Police
  11. Wino & Junkie

Tracks:

  1. Eulogy
  2. Shortage Of White People
  3. New Niggers
  4. Cocaine
  5. Just Us
  6. Mudbone - Intro
  7. Mudbone - Little Feets
  8. When Your Woman Leaves You
  9. The Goodnight Kiss
  10. Women Are Beautiful
  11. Our Text For Today
  12. Ali

Tracks:

  1. Hillbilly
  2. Black & White Women
  3. Our Gang
  4. Bicentennial Prayer
  5. Black Hollywood
  6. Mudbone Goes To Hollywood
  7. Chinese Restaurant
  8. Acid
  9. Bicentennial Nigger

Tracks:

  1. New Year's Eve
  2. White And Black People
  3. Black Funerals
  4. Discipline
  5. Heart Attacks
  6. Ali
  7. Keeping In Shape
  8. Leon Spinks

Tracks:

  1. Dogs And Horses
  2. Jim Brown
  3. Monkeys
  4. Kids
  5. Nature
  6. Things In The Woods
  7. Deer Hunter
  8. Chinese Food
  9. Being Sensitive

Tracks:

  1. Women
  2. Prison
  3. Africa
  4. Mafia Club
  5. Mudbone
  6. Freebase
  7. Hospital

Tracks:

  1. Here And Now
  2. Southern Hospitality
  3. Slavery
  4. Motherland
  5. I Met The President
  6. Fire Exit
  7. Mudbone (Part One)
  8. Mudbone (Part Two)
  9. Inebriated
  10. One Night Stands
  11. One Day At A Time
  12. I Like Women
  13. Being Famous
  14. I Remember
  15. Interview

Tracks:

  1. Introduction
  2. Mudbone Goes To Hollywood (Alternate Version)
  3. Fame (Part One)
  4. Black Messiah
  5. Life
  6. Death
  7. My Funeral
  8. Acid (Alternate Version)
  9. Patty Hearst
  10. Fighting
  11. The Law
  12. History Lesson
  13. I Don't Give A Fuck
  14. Fame (Part Two)
  15. Therapy
  16. W.A.S.P.'s
  17. Getting Older
  18. God
  19. Dog
  20. M.S.

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Simply put, the MOTHERLODE!.......2006-11-08

Pryorites and fans of comedy, folklore, storytelling, whatever you want to call it, simply put, this CD set is worth it.

Aside from the material on EVOLUTION/REVOLUTION (containing much of the material recorded for Laff records and elsewhere), this is the complete above-ground recordings of Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor, and then some!

From the first Pryor Lp in 1968, we get the embyonic genius of PRISON PLAY (aka Black Ben The Blacksmith), and early classic on the theme of interracial sex during slavery in a play at a prison overseen by a racist warden-with Pryor voicing all the characters! TV PANEL SHOW is along similar lines, as our hero does all the voices of the said subject.
SUPERN(egro) aside, the other routines here are not so hot, but you get a good glimpse of what was to come.

On to THAT N(egro)'s CRAZY where our man does polished versions of the routines he had been doing for the past few years in LIVE & SMOKIN, WATTSTAX, and CRAPS AFTER HOURS regarding sex, the police, racism, etc. This is where he became a "ghetto superstar" on the verge of exploding into mainstream America.

IS IT SOMETHING I SAID (1975) is his best unified work (to me). Not only do we get the classic OUR TEXT FOR TODAY (his classic take on the ministry), we also get chapter 1 of the MUDBONE saga, Pryor's ingenius take on the old folklore-spouting tale-spinning wise black men once found on every street corner in America.

BICENTENNIAL N(egro) is largely forgotten today, but it shouldn't be. This is Pryor's magnum opus on being Black in America during the nation's 200th birthday. Like Brian Wilson's SMILE and Marvin Gaye's WHAT'S GOING ON, it should be heard in its entirety to be effective.

On to the live albums LIVE IN CONCERT, LIVE ON THE SUNSET STRIP, and HERE AND NOW. The first is considered a classic. Has its moments, but he's done things that I've liked better. In the second, he recounces the N-word which gets a standing-o from me and delivers part 2 of the MUDBONE saga. The latter is a lesser work, but he puts some racist hecklers in check, gets into a really cool improvised conversation with a fiddler crab that a fan puts onstage.

The previously unreleased bits are largely a treasure-BLACK MESSIAH and HISTORY LESSON are masterpieces that mix the profane and profound, with verbal nuclear bombs and breathtaking social observations that make you laugh and gasp at the same time. PATTY HEARST is a skewered but interesting take on the famous kidnapping (one of the few occasional bits that it would help to be a history buff or a 70s person to dig), but MS is a very sad piece, probably one of his last recordings, as he ruminates on the effects this disease has on him. It's not likely that you'll want to hear that one more than once.

Overall, this is an amazing collection well worth the price that works in both ways as laugh material you can bring your buddies over for beer and pizza for (as I did with a number of these albums during my college years)and something you can really meditate and think over. This set is the ultimate legacy that Richard Pryor left to the world. RIP.

5 out of 5 stars HILARIOUS.......2006-11-06

Complete works of Richard Pryor.....what more needs to be said. The man was a genius. I had been casually searching for a definitive compilation, and when I saw this I had to get it. I was not disappointed.

5 out of 5 stars Sets the Standard for Modern Stand-Up Comedy.......2006-11-02

Any fan of stand-up comedy should be ashamed if they don't already own this amazing box set by Richard Pryor. This wonderful box set is crammed with features--CDs that trace his stand-up career from his early days straight through his mega-stardom at his peak, and then to his struggles with MS (which if you think is maudlin, wait until you hear how he savages it in only the way that Richard Pryor could). A descriptive book loaded with pictures and historical info on Richard that gives you an even deeper appreciation for the man and his works!

Summing up--Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Bernie Mac, etc. all are great comedians--but once you hear Pryor, you know that he set the standard for all to come!

5 out of 5 stars Greatness but now for the iPod issues with it.......2006-04-18

iTunes won't recognize the track #'s. Every album is broken down in alphabetical order. Kinda sucks to listen to a live show in some crazy broken order. It's cool though if you just pop them on at home but if you are getting them for your iPod, be prepared.

5 out of 5 stars Worth Its Weight in Gold..........2005-10-22

This boxed set contains every album released by Richard Pryor on the Warner Brothers record label. Only one of these is currently in print, "Is It Something I Said?", which is a shame. However, the fact that all his work is finally available in one place is a blessing. Richard Pryor was more than just a stand up comic. I don't doubt that he was (and is) the greatest stand up comedian of all time and the funniest man on the planet, but there was so much more to him than that. The first time I heard the track "God" off the rarities disc in this collection, I was blown away. In it, Richard describes God returning to Earth and one by one asking to see Martin Luther King Jr., Bobby Kennedy, Emmett Till, and finally his Son, only to find out that each one had been killed. The message he delivers at the end was needed then as much as now: LOVE IS ALL WE'VE GOT. The delivery was so amazing that it left the crowd hushed and obviously taken aback...this STILL isn't standard fare at any comedy club I've ever been to. And then as only Richard could, he apologizes for getting serious on everybody and offers to tell a dirty joke. This collection is full of the humanity, wit, and wisdom of Richard Pryor, and nothing has ever made me laugh so hard. Thank you Richard, for rubbing some sunshine on my face!

Music CD:

  1. The Rutles ~ The Rutles
  2. Weird Al Yankovic - Greatest Hits, Volume 1 ~ %22Weird Al%22 Yankovic
  3. The Very Best of Orson Welles ~ Orson Welles
  4. Rant in E-Minor ~ Bill Hicks
  5. Jerky Boys 2 ~ The Jerky Boys
  6. Peaches & Possums ~ Jerry Clower
  7. The Jerky Boys ~ The Jerky Boys
  8. Bill Cosby: Himself ~ Bill Cosby
  9. Have You Seen Me Lately? ~ Sam Kinison
  10. The Very Best of Stan Freberg ~ Stan Freberg

Music CD

Music CD

Music CD

Me Voy Aventar Del Puente ~ Oscar Hernandez

Encanto ~ Nicola Di Bari

And It's Deep Too: The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings ~ Richard Pryor

Running with Modern Military Cadence Volume 2

Verdi: Rigoletto

The Glow of Love ~ Change

Reunion ~ Latin Breed

Tejano Golden Hits ~ Various Artists

El Duque de la Salsa ~ Herb Flores

Corridos Legendarios ~ Pepe Tovar y los Chacales