How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You're Not Anywhere At All?

Artist: Firesign Theatre
Label: Sony
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 074640988424
EAN: 0074640988424
ASIN: B0000024UU

Release Date: 1995-07-18

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Tracks:

How Can You Be In Two Places At Once When You're Not Anywhere At All
The Further Adventures Of Nick Danger

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Customer Reviews:

It's the album everybody quotes from!.......2001-12-12

You can always spot a fellow Firesign Theatre fan in a crowd--they'll react to some sudden happening with quotes like: "Oh, he's no fun, he fell right over!" Or "What's the bird's eye lowdown on this caper--whatever that means?"

Both of the above come from this bizarre but always entertaining album.

Side 1: A poke at early '70s Television and a poor guy who gets a little TOO excited with a car ad, and ends up buying more than he's bargained for (his new car has a switch for "Climate Control," with options like "Tropical Paradise" and "Land of the Pharaohs"). By the end of the side, we're channel surfing past all the garbage that is usually on at 3 in the morning. Hilarious.

Side 2: A parody of 1940s radio shows; play this sometime for people who remember listening to the real thing and watch them fall off their chair. Lots of "inside" jokes here, too--Dylan and Beatles references abound.

You'll never get tired of this album; I've owned it for 26 years and I still play it often.

Video revival.......2001-12-05

After seeing the PBS special the other day, I had to run out and buy both this CD and "Don't Crush That Dwarf.........". It was great to sit in the easy chair and watch FT performing their work live - even if they did leave out the old same place joke (here's the key - it's in the back) and shorten Nick Danger so that it really ended nowhere (hopefully this was an edit, and the performance did continue until the end).

BTW, an earlier review I read spoke of the "inappropriateness" of the newsflash that is inserted during the end of Nick Danger. The reviewer thought that it was put there to show that it was a 1940's show - but if you listen closely, you will understand the reasoning. Right before the interruption, Nick and Nancy were caught in a predicament with no escape. Right after the interruption, Bradshaw says that he doesn't know how Nick got out of it. Remember, the FDR character says that after we surrendered to the Japanese, he and his family were going to sit back and relax and enjoy the end of Nick Danger, 3rd eye.

As always, shoes for industry, compadre.

The right place at the right time!.......2001-04-11

This insane drama serves as an apt soundtrack to the manystupid, silly and sublime events one might experience any day. The Firesign Theatre's robust mannerisms and corny elan root them firmly in the trenchant polylalia of improbable Americans like a disembodied Ziegfield's follies of the coney island of the mind of the radio the dog is listening to.

The right place at the right time!.......2001-04-11

This insane drama serves as an apt soundtrack to the many stupid, silly and sublime events one might experience any day. I have noticed that their back catalog (or perhaps I should say forward catalog) is available: http://home.bluemarble.net/~lodeston/firesign.html is a page about firesign that has info. The Firesign Theatre's robust mannerisms and corny elan root them firmly in the trenchant polylalia of improbable Americans like a disembodied Ziegfield's follies of the coney island of the mind of the radio the dog is listening to.

The President of the United States IS named Schickelgruber........2001-03-11

Comedy on record presents a problem. You hear the jokes through once, and you know them, and they aren't funny anymore.

The Firesign Theatre solves this problem by putting so much material into the background, that every time you listen to any of their extraordinary recordings you pick up on something you didn't know was there before.

This record is probably the friendliest of their classic recordings from the early seventies for the Firesign neophyte. The beginning is classic Firesign: a bizarre skit about a used-car lot, that moves to ancient Egypt, into a hilarious patriotic musical pageant, and from there to James Joyce. The second part is rather unusual for the Firesigns: an extended parody of a 1940's detective radio show, complete with organ music and reverb effects, the famous "Nick Danger" sketch.

I consider -I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus- to be the -best- record they made, but this one is perhaps the best introduction. I'd like to see all of their classics reissued as well.

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