The Bride of Firesign: the Firesign Theatre: Amazon.ca: Music

1. Pulling It Off As A Man

2. Whaz Reeaal!

3. Nick Danger's 'L-O-S-T G-A-L-S'

4. The Bride Stripped Bare

5. Low-Glow Land

6. Xeno's Paradise

7. The Haystack In The Needle

8. Dr. Fireside's Plastic Beauty Saloon

9. The Graverobber's Roadshow

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During the freewheeling 1960s, the Firesign Theatre's brand of surreal, stream-of-consciousness humor was as much a part of the psychedelic landscape as acid rock. Blending puns, non sequiturs, and literary allusions, the heady and often absurd narratives were rife with multiple interpretations, depending on the listener's degree of altered consciousness. Bride of Firesign reunites the original members--Phillip Austin, Phillip Proctor, David Ossman, and Peter Bergman--in a program equally divided between "Something Old, Something Nude" and "Something Buried, Something Rude." The first section brings back Firesign Theatre stalwart Nick Danger in a noirish, tongue-in-cheek "L-O-S- T G-A-L-S" and opens with a lengthy paean to the male appendage, entitled "Pulling It Off As a Man," which accounts for the parental advisory warning. The second section takes on contemporary subjects like biogenetics and stem-cell research, giving them an appropriately ghoulish and paranoid spin on "Dr. Fireside's Plastic Beauty Saloon" and "Low-Glow Land." The Firesign Theatre's gift for creating offbeat characters expounding absurdist points-of-view is as evident as ever, though their radio-show format necessarily relegates them to another era. --Wally Shoup

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4.0 out of 5 stars A postmodern return to classic (and yet new) material, Jan 14 2002

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John Smith (Wilmington, DE USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Bride of Firesign (Audio CD)

Very aptly named. This one is a real treat for the serious die-hard FST fans in particular, as this album references many of their earlier works, often in amazingly subtle ways (i.e. sometimes a single word or phrase said just the right way, etc). Especially impressive to me is how characters from previous albums are revivied and synthezied into new characters. For example, Bebop Loco from "Give Me Immortality" merges with Laura from "Eat or Be Eaten," a trick that is possible only in FST-land, where characters are defined by their rhetoric rather than by their inner nature. A dizzying ride overall, but probably not the best one to listen to before you check out their earlier works.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Buy This Record Or We'll Shoot This Dog!, Mar 17 2002

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Alan K. Stout (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Bride of Firesign (Audio CD)

...So here's the deal. Yes, they basically take existing characters and put them in new situations. Yes, the first segment (a satire of the Men's Movement, by the way) was a surprise the first time. And... it all works! It's freakin' hilarious!

They obviously knew what they were doing when not creating all brand new characters, and don't be concerned about them reaching a creative dead-end, as opined by some reviewers herein. Remember, Give Me Immortality introduced a whole new set of folks in a format that is extremely flexible (yes, I know Ralph Spoilsport isn't new...), and that was just 2 years ago.

You'll love things like the Mobius Strip, Unca Pharoah's, a club called The Haystack in a building called The Needle (666 stories tall? Interesting reference). Porge and Mud are at it again, but they aren't the main thrust here.

Very well done. And, nice liner notes from the troup.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Firesign Eats Itself, Dec 5 2001

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This review is from: The Bride of Firesign (Audio CD)

Let me start out by saying that I really love these guys and when they're at their best there is no better audio comedy. This album just isn't at that exalted and sublime level.

The problem with this album is that it relies so much on references to their previous work, but not (in my view) in a constructive, take-it-one-step-further way, but in a more parasitic or cannibalistic way. They've always been self-referential (which can be good) but in this case it seems as though the jokes are ONLY funny if you know their earlier material - they're preaching to the converted, playing the nostalgia card. This is disappointing.

There ARE some good moments - I like the opening bits (Peorgie and Mudhead as cybertruckers), but once Nick Danger comes into the picture it seems like a bad parody. The "check out our website" messages seem completely out of place too somehow.

Maybe it will grow on me, but it's not nearly as good as "Give Me Immortality..." which is up there with their best work.

Neophytes should start with the old stuff (Dwarf, Bozos, How Can You Be...?) and move on to Immortality and Anythynge.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as their old stuff
I found it tough to listen to this cd. Maybe it's because I'm older, but it sure seems like time has not been kind to the creativity of the Firesign group. Sorry.

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