Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Mind: The Rise & Reckless Fall of Lenny Bruce

Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Mind: The Rise & Reckless Fall of Lenny Bruce Artist: Lenny Bruce
Label: Chrome Dreams
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 766486824522
EAN: 5037320900722
ASIN: B000059Z93


Release Date: 2003-06-17

Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Mind: The Rise & Reckless Fall of Lenny Bruce


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Tracks:

  1. Story of a Boy and His Father Who Spoiled Him
  2. Funniest Man in the World
  3. Honey
  4. So Sick and Dirty
  5. Busted!
  6. Trials and Tribulations
  7. Who Are the Thought Police?

Album Description

Full title 'Shut Your Mouth And Open Your Mind The Rise & Reckless Fall Of Lenny Bruce'. From Chrome Dreams 'Enlightenment Series'. Package includes CD detailing the controversial comedian's short life, excerpts from his performances, interviews with himself and those that knew him. Includes 15 page booklet containing further info and many previously unpublished photographs, all housed together in an elegant digipak wallet. 70 mins. approx..

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Previous reviewer had skewed expectations.......2006-12-13

This CD is obviously billed as a biography. One look at, I don't know, anywhere on the jacket would clue you in. The first reviewer was looking for a comedy album and didn't find it and so of course he was disappointed. However, as a biography goes this was concise and well thought out with many excerpts from interviews with friends and family, and excerpts from Bruce's performances as well. The narration can be bit muggy at parts and they don't always identify who is talking, but overall it is a speedy and easy way to get to know the life of Lenny Bruce with some comedy mixed in as well.

2 out of 5 stars Ick........2002-07-20

Well, this was a real disappointment.

What we have here is a cd that is mostly a gentleman reading a fair-quality essay about Lenny Bruce, interspersed with some recordings of Lenny and recordings of interviews with others about Lenny.

The recordings are all OBVIOUSLY taken from old vinyl records, with lots of scratches. That's right, that means that there is no new material to be found here. I also wonder if all the rights for these recordings were arranged.

The brief Lenny snippets don't often even go with the essay being read, and the whole pile of slop has some attempted important-sounding synth music added in.

Music Album:

  1. Soap Opera's Greatest Love Themes, Vol. 3 ~ Various Artists
  2. Dead Man's Curve ~ Original Soundtrack
  3. The Opposite of Sex (1998 Film) ~ Mason Daring
  4. Negima! Mahoragakuen Chutobu 2-a: Itazura 3n ~ Japanimation
  5. Phantasm/Phantasm II ~ Fred Myrow & Malcolm Seagrave
  6. Trippin' ~ Original Soundtrack
  7. Flashback Flix ~ Various Artists
  8. Music from War Movies ~ Various Artists
  9. Dante's Peak: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack ~ John Frizzell , and James Newton Howard
  10. Hunchback of Notre Dame ~ Paris Cast Recording

Music Album

Music Album

Music

Agony, Pt. 1 ~ Delarosa and Asora

Wishing Well ~ Sim Redmond Band

Supercharger ~ Machine Head

Stonefield of a Lifetime ~ Corporal Punishment

No Frills ~ Reckless

Zydeco Giant ~ Beau Jocque

En Solitaire ~ William Sheller

Legacy

Something to Remember ~ Danny Couch

Cape Town Songs ~ Abdullah Ibrahim