Music : The Remains of Tom Lehrer (Import)

Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0081227983123
Format: Box set, Import
Label: Rhino
Manufacturer: Rhino
Number Of Discs: 3
Publisher: Rhino
Release Date: July 24, 2000
Studio: Rhino
Sales Rank: 2487
79831

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Disc 1:

1. Fight Fiercely, Harvard
2. Old Dope Peddler
3. Be Prepared
4. Wild West Is Where I Want to Be
5. I Wanna Go Back to Dixie
6. Lobachevsky
7. Irish Ballad
8. Hunting Song
9. My Home Town
10. When You Are Old and Gray
11. I Hold Your Hand in Mine
12. Wiener Schnitzel Waltz
13. Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
14. Bright College Days
15. Christmas Carol
16. Elements
17. Oedipus Rex
18. In Old Mexico
19. Clementine
20. It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier
21. She's My Girl
22. Masochism Tango
23. We Will All Go Together When We Go
24. I Got It from Agnes
25. That's Mathematics

Disc 2:

1. I wanna go back to Dixie
2. Wild West is where I want to be
3. Old dope peddler
4. Fight fiercely Harvard
5. Lobachevsky
6. Irish ballad
7. Hunting song
8. My home town
9. When you are old and grey
10. Wiener shnitzel waltz
11. I hold your hand in mine
12. Be prepared
13. Poisoning pigeons in the park
14. Bright college days
15. Christmas carol
16. Elements
17. Oedipus Rex
18. n old Mexico
19. Clementine
20. It makes a fellow proud to be a soldier
21. She's my girl
22. Masochism tango
23. We will all go together when we go
24. We Will All Go Together When We Go

Disc 3:

1. National brotherhood week
2. MLF lullaby
3. George Murphy
4. Folk song army
5. Smut
6. Send the marines
7. Pollution
8. So long Mom (a song for World War II)
9. Whatever became of Hubert
10. New math
11. Alma
12. Who's next
13. Wernher Von Braun
14. Vatican rag
15. Poisoning pigeons in the park
16. Masochism tango
17. Hunting song
18. L to Y
19. Silent E
20. O to U (the hound song)
21. S to N (snore sniff and sneeze)
22. N apostrophe T
23. Selling out
24. I'm spending Hannukkah in Santa Monica
25. (I'm Spending) Hanukkah in Santa Monica

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
Tom Lehrer was never a popular favourite in his native country: in the States, Lehrer was--and is--a cult artist, appealing to Ivy Leaguers and Wallace Shawn-era New York readers. Maybe it's due to the fact that Lehrer has a sense of humour--he's ironic, intelligent, literary and knowing--and not a sense of humor: this is not music for the masses that have made Adam Sandler a star. Lehrer's métier is to use classic song styles (waltzes, tangoes, traditional folk tunes) and twist them to his needs; he sings them (relatively) straight, but with vaudeville timing, taking pot shots at the left, right and centre.

The three-disc set The Remains of Tom Lehrer collects every album that Lehrer's ever released: the studio albums Songs by Tom Lehrer and More of Tom Lehrer, the live recordings Tom Lehrer Revisited and An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer, and That Was The Year That Was; they're joined by studio sessions with Richard Hayman, Joe Raposo and Rob Fisher. Amazing, then, that there are only 59 different songs here--31 appear here twice (in both studio and live versions), with a further four songs making three appearances (those reprised in the Hayman sessions). The real surprise is the inclusion of six previously unreleased songs--some old, some new; some witty but educational (recorded for a children's TV show), the others witty but cynical. --Randy Silver




Rating: - Fantastic
To be honest the studio versions of the classic songs such as Poisoning Pigeons.. etc do not stand up well in comparison to the live versions and are not really necessary. One of the stregths of the live Tom Lehrer is his ability to work the audience; his comedic timing is just brilliant. The That Was The Year That Was songs are just brilliant! So if you are on a tighter budget then buy Tom Lehrer in Concert (which contains his two classic albums) and That Was The Year That Was for the essential ... Read More

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Rating: - Genius
I had never heard of Tom Lehrer before this week and am just blown away with the degree of musicality and erudition that his form of satire delivers. Listening to this reinforces the notion of the paucity of quaility satire today. The topicality of most of the material is astonishing and most prescient.
Unlike most musical comedy or stand-up satire this does not jade or tire on re-listening.
Brillian and utterly recommended.

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Rating: - A treasure-trove of historical depravity
First of all, this really is all an old Tom Lehrer fan or a new initiate will need - absolutely everything he did is here. I say 'old' because, at a recent tribute show I attended, the average age of the audience was in its sixties...and that accentuates what was so remarkable - unique, in fact - about Lehrer's comic songs: in this case 'ahead of his time' doesn't even come close. Written when America was feeling most smug and satisfied with itself, Lehrer was the spectre at the feast.

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Rating: - It's all here
I totally agree with all the previous reviews - these discs really show how dark and "adult" humour can be without the use of expletives or rant. A brilliant showcase for irony, sarcasm and all the other attributes Americans are not supposed to have (and, ironically, do have, by the truckload).

One point to pick up from "Andy Millward"'s review - "I Got It From Agnes" IS here, near the end of Disc 1, making the collection complete. And yes, it is one of his very best...

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Rating: - A small omission but a great work
Only one thing to add to previous reviews: in such a comprehensive selection, how on earth did they omit the majestic I Gave It To Agnes, a song deemed too offensive in the early 60s and therefore suppressed until the mid-80s revival on the London stage? It really ought to be here.

Otherwise, what can you say about this man? That he gave up and returned to mathematics when Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace prize. Satire died that day, said Lehrer. All the more reason to celebrate ... Read More

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