Give Me Immortality Or Give Me Death

Artist: Firesign Theatre
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 081227550929
EAN: 0081227550929
ASIN: B00000AG7T

Release Date: 1998-09-08

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Tracks:

Unconscious Village: Wake up
Eyeballs In The Sky
Us Plus: Pork
The Celebrity Stalker
Sports In Your Shorts
Ralph Spoilsport's Going Out Of Body Sale
The News Drought Continues
Goddess Air Presents 'Hullo, Don't Worry!'
A Developing Chase Situation
Pull My String
Princess Goddess Escapes The Celebrazzis
Chump Takes Some Hits
Polar Pro: Texas Trots
Miss Shelob's Feelin' Poorly
Unconscious Village: Last Days Sale
Mr. Coffee Comes Up Zeros
Glacier
Gridlock At Homeless Stadium
Polar Ice: Party Vertical
Going, Going, Gone A La Blonde
Sex With My Hat
Trippple Rippoff
Night Whispers
Bebop And Dwayne Feel No Pain
Smokin' Joe Says Farewell
Us Plus: Zeros And Ones
Chump Makes A Resolution
The Doll Drop
Radionow Says Good-By And Hello

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Customer Reviews:

If you like Firesign Theatre you will like this..........2006-07-17

It took me a while to get used to this group. Once I got them, I find them very funny. There humor is very intellegent and layered. This is not the best first album to hear, but it compliments one's Firesign collection for sure.
For me there are many great skits and lines in this one. Plus it is very well edited for comedic timing and music.

Nihilism.......2005-08-18

Making people laugh is the lowest form of humor, according to the late Michael O'Donoghue.

Well, Firesign is heading in that direction with this album. They try to maintain a dark atmosphere for effect's sake, but largely this album is only untraceable puns and retreaded jokes. The new characters created here are not funny or even amusing as stereotypes.

The fellows are old, and they don't like the era in which we live. They've gone from social commentators to borscht belt humor in this one...good thing Boom Dot Bust was better!

Back in the shadows again.......2003-07-16

This is easily the masterpiece of the recent batch of Firesign reunion discs, and where the others have an easygoing feel that's downright likable, this one is dark and scary enough to take you right back to those Altamont Gram Parsons-dying-in-the-desert LA-sliding-into-the-Helter Skelter 70s. The difference is that it's all in bite-sized bits-- if the best older albums were like an LP-long guitar solo (brilliant or self-indulgent, as the case may be), this one is as slick, disciplined and hooky as a Clapton comeback album.

Still Tops In The Satire Game.......2001-08-10

They're back with a passion. In their first new release in what seems like forever, Firesign Theatre shows that they still got it in spades. From old faves like Ralph Spoilsport to new characters like Bebop Loco and Chump Threads, the boys serve up a nonstop megamix of their rip-roaring comedy with "Give Me Immortality, Or Give Me Death". For those not familiar with these guys, Firesign Theatre began in the late sixties as an unorthodox comedy improv group, lambasting virtually everyone and everything, thus becoming a mainstay of late night progressive radio. A whole generation became so familiar with their material that they could quote most of the sketches from memory. Before Saturday Night Live, they were the reigning gods of humor with such classic albums as "Don't Crush That Dwarf...Hand Me The Pliers" and "How Can You Be In Two Places At Once, When You're Not Anywhere At All?". In their heyday they actually inspired a few knock offs like the Credibility Gap and the Conception Corporation who were quite good in their own right, but couldn't keep up with Firesign' prodidgious and prolific output.They inspired the National Lampoon Radio Hour as well. As the seventies dragged along, the albums diminished in quality a bit in my opinion.But this new one is better than all but the first three, no mean feat. Masters of aural disguise, they seem to have every accent down pat.The production, with myriad sound effects and original music, is nothing short of visionary. And their satire is right up to date in the hiphop era. A few years back they performed at U. Mass. to support their excellent double retrospective "Shoes For Industry" and made a couple of stopovers to local FM stations to leave their much sought after station IDs. It is a tribute to their longevity that the only spoken word material in so many collections then and now are their unique productions. If you posess even the bare rudiments of a sense of humor, you won't be dissapointed with this one. Forty seven minutes and a cavalcade of hiarious album photos as well.

Hello to the Future.......2000-10-04

This is a great CD. As a fan of the original FT, I was worried that new work would not live up to my expectations. Needless concern! This new disc is "weirdly cool" (one of the repeated phrases on the CD, soon to become another FT idiom in our house). Cloned body parts, anyone? Also, nice to hear from Ralph Spoilsport again.

Firesign Theater has brought their piercing commentary into our age. Despite the GREAT and manic layered humor of the disc, one of my favorite sections is the last cut, during which the radionow staff says goodbye to the past ("goodbye Death, goodbye Lincoln Towncars") and says hello to the future ("hello global warming, hello aluminum radio hats"). Comedy for our time.

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Funky Business ~ 3-2 Get Funky

Nortenas a la Mexicana ~ Various Artists

Give Me Immortality Or Give Me Death ~ Firesign Theatre

Sounds of Today/Today's Greatest Movie Hits ~ Andr%C3%A9 Kostelanetz

Puccini: Tosca

Renegades of Funk ~ Cymande

Diez Años De Rock En Tu Idioma ~ Caifanes, Radio Futura, Miguel Mateos, Los Amantes De Lola

20 Temas de la Nueva Onda Nortena ~ Solido vs. Alazzan

Cambio El Paso ~ Orquesta Riverside

Una Nueva Relacion ~ Tumbao