Everything You Know Is Wrong

Label: Laugh.com
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 801291107726
EAN: 0801291107726
ASIN: B00006BNDP

Release Date: 2003-01-21

Everything You Know Is Wrong

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Tracks:

Do The Right Thing

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Album Description

Everything You Know Is Wrong, sounds like the blueprint for The X-Files, Church of the Subgenius, and every other conspiracy theory you can think of. Listen to 'Army Training Film' and you will die laughing. Collector's Choice. 2001.

Customer Reviews:

Top drawer.......2007-02-20

Their best albums get better the more you listen & this one dosen't disapoint. I bought the vinyl when it first came out and upon listening the other day discovered another sub-plot that I'd never noticed and split a gut all over again. One thing though. Search out the movie version of this. Don't believe it's ever been out on DVD but I've seen the VHS (& beta) versions around.

favorite Firesign at home at last.......2007-02-10

Yea, now ye may be consumed by thee righteous truth: in book 5 Firesign, side one, hear ye, "everything you know is wrong". Amen

Dig a hole deeper enough and everybody will wanna jump in........2005-06-22

This 1974 outing predicted the whole UFO / Roswell interest that reached it's peak 20 years later on TV and many of the new-age concepts now considered common place. But it's the timing of the jokes, the expert delivery and the well fleshed out characters that make this one of the Firesign's best. A coherent, honestly conceived work that inspires repeated listenings and endless quoting.

Firesign explores Aliens.......2005-05-06

I'm going to be brutally honest about this album. Their other generally early efforts like HOW CAN YOU BE..., DON'T CRUSH THAT DWARF..., WAITING FOR ELECTRITIAN are the first albums you should get if you're new to the Firesign boys. Those were surreial multi-layered timeless classics, that were ahead of their time, and both those and the Bozos album told the future for some things.

For all I know there aren't extra-terrestrials, but maybe back in 1974 anything was possible.

The first 5 or so minutes of this album is absolutley hilarious, and draws the listener in to hear more. But by the time of the Civil War recording, they begin to overkill, the bits drag along and much of it is inaudible during unexplained thudding in the slavery bit. The album doesn't get better except maybe the phone conversations, and I love how Cox walks out and the TV remains on. But the album never really recovers, and I sit there wondering why I'm listening to nothing. It's not funny, it's not music, or a real story to follow, it's nothing. Minus one star. There is a really abrupt, anti-climaxed ending, and no sequel opportunities possible. Brilliant!

The thing that was most surprising was that this album doesn't grow on you. It basically gets less funny, because you know what they are gonna say. In an album like DWARF you hear something new in the backround, or find a connection everytime. This was just a weak album, and I heard it was a classic, but it wasn't. Minus another.

The greatest hits of Firesign album has included the Army Training Film which seems like the only thing out of context that would make sense, but not neccisairily the best of the album.

Maybe I'm wrong, because people seem to call it one of the great Firesign Theatre albums. I reccomend you buy the first four albums and listen in chronological order, as the albums even cleverly sound as if they fade in and out of eachother (more proof of Firesign's brilliance.)

This would be good as a 6th or 7th purchase as I find it's definatley not their best, but try it out anyway, because this is simply my opinion.

The movie is them lip-synching (unsucessfully for the most part) to the album. Nino's commentary on holes, Cox's conclusion to side one, and the two fore fathers in the middle of a trip are not included in the film. (We really needed to see the snake river and endless sea.) The only new bit was about 3 seconds of Gary hitching up Cox's trailor. Dis-a-ponit-ing. However, the waiting room style of the music of the end credits music is irresistable.

The perfect entry point for Firesign neophytes.......2004-12-27

Of all the Firesign Theater's essential recordings, "Everything You Know" is the most accessible. All the signature elements are here: savage wordplay, pitiless skewering of pop culture and political icons, and the pitch-perfect comic timing of the performances.

The TV shows and films within the radioplay are pure genius. The "Happy Hour News" with Pat Hat's interview of motorcycle daredemon Rebus Caneebus (hey, honey, y'ever heard of me?) plays like this evening's local news; the travelogue "The Golden Hind" features a weird alien encounter in the Arizona desert; and the "Army Training Film" with Genl. Curtis Goatheart (they think he is insane - yet he outranks them. His option: command!) is at once hilarious and as chilling as a Donald Rumsfeld press conference.

It sounds heavy, although it's anything but. The action jumps from scene to scene at breakneck speed, and the layers of subtext aren't always apparent - which is why the Firesign Theater's miniature epics demand repeated listenings. It's as absurd as Monty Python, as witty as Oscar Wilde, and as playful as James Joyce.

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