There's No Bones in Ice Cream

Artist: Chris Rush
Label: Sundazed Music Inc.
Category: Music

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Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 090771613424
EAN: 0090771613424
ASIN: B000003H01

Release Date: 1997-10-28

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Tracks:

Living In New York: Punk Pigeon/King Kong Blues
Insanity: Bungee Jumping/Meeting The Lion/Wacko, Texas
Murder Rate: Killer Apes/Natural Born Killers/Peeing On The Butt/Old Man River/Don Testosteroni
Macho: Dragonfly Love/Naked Hang Gliding/Sperm Whale's Peepee/Snakes
PMS: Estrogen's Gift/God's Sense Of Humor/Baboon's Ass
War On Drugs: Cigarettes & Booze/Twinkie Warehouse/Altered States/Cave Man Dreams...
Happiness & Shame: Earthquake Boogie/Bomba The Gorilla
Terror: The Big Stone Ball
Vegetarianism: Eating The Dumb
Aliens: Farting In The Tub/Einstein Meets E.T./The Intergalactic Fur Company
Reincarnation
The Killer Bees
Boogers

Customer Reviews:

A Glimpse at a Mad Comic Genius.......2005-12-27

Chris Rush is a superb comedian whose twisted NYC look at society is as funny as it gets. Having seen him 5-6 times and met him once on the LIRR in the late 70s/early 80s, his show was always a blast. "There's No Bones in Ice Cream" is a good but uneven snapshot of the comic genius at work. His first album, First Rush, spoiled me with its brilliance though some of it might be dated since it was recorded in the early 70s. Hopefully, this recording will be rereleased onto CD format someday so that all can really suffer "laughface". :)

Finally, A Chris Rush CD!.......2003-04-05

Well, quite honestly, it's not his best work--"First Rush" and "Beaming In" were better offerings. Of course, you could more easily find a case of "Billy Beer" than to find these old vinyl relics.

For those not familiar with Chris Rush, he's this guy who looks like a cue ball; big bald head and maybe a bit more handsome than Uncle Fester. But man, is he funny! He observes things with the perspective of a scientist on acid. This is probably because he was a former biologist. He can be sort of cerebral one minute and talking about a monkey's rear-end the next.

Anyway, I was surfing the net, and was at cdnow.com and did a search for Chris Rush. After years of no matches for this search anywhere, I actually got a result! I quickly ordered the CD "There's No Bones In Ice Cream" and it arrived on Friday. I've listened to this CD like a mental patient for the last two days.

Here's what I've concluded: A lot of this stuff is recycled material. That is, I have a bootleg from a club date in 1980 in Atlanta and some of the riffs are very similar, but if you've never heard Chris before, this is a gem! For old fans, it shows that Chris is still a true original.

This set is live from Bananas comedy club in upstate NY. The routine about his house break-in and the alarm system is new (to me) and brilliant. The insanity and serial killers bits are also worth the price of admission.

OK, and now the not so good stuff, from the perspective of a devout Rush fanatic. It says on the CD that Chris has toned down a bit, and this is true. The continued "dastardly" chuckling at the end of each joke gets a bit old. And there are enough rectal references to put Howard Stern to shame. And finally, for a CD with a 1997 date, some of the references must be 5 years older or more than even this date.

Best bits: "Insanity", "Murder Rate", "War on Drugs", "Terror", and "Aliens".

Out of 5 stars, I give this CD a 3.5. (As for the older albums, "First Rush" is a 5, and "Beaming In" is a 4.5)

Laughs.......2000-12-23