(Part 3) Best comedy & spoken word music according to redditors
We found 473 Reddit comments discussing the best comedy & spoken word music. We ranked the 284 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 41-60. You can also go back to the previous section.
42. Like, Omigod! The '80s Pop Culture Box (Totally)
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Like, Omigod! The '80s Pop Culture Box
> "Mr. Murphy, want to come work out this problem on the board?"
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> "No, that's all right. I'll take the zero."
Ween - 12 Golden Country Greats
To those that don't know, Chris Morris is the director of this movie. He's a comedy genius that's been doing leftfield stuff in England for years now. His best stuff imho is The Day Today and Brass Eye, a fake daily news show and a fake investigative expose-style show, respectively. His Blue Jam radio show is great too.
Favorite author, favorite band. I so wanted to meet him, but never had the chance.
P.S. Is everyone hip to Spare Ass Annie? Not metal, oh so metal.
I haven't listened but my guess is it's track #7
https://www.amazon.com/Im-Gonna-Be-Dead-Someday/dp/B00004WF29
Track Listings
The ultimate Moxy Früvous song: Green Eggs and Ham.
Got to see them live back in the early 90's. These early recordings don't do justice to how great of singers they really are, but the writing definitely displays their intelligence.
If you have the chance to pick up their live/greatest hits cd I highly recommend it.
The long haired one, Jian Ghomeshi can be heard daily (mostly) on the CBC Radio show "Q" where he recently did an interview with Ice-T and had live performances by KD Lang
You may have seen his interview with Billy Bob Thorton posted on reddit some time ago.
Member Murray Foster now plays bass for the band Great Big Sea
Chocolate. Inspired by a Ween album I dipped nacho cheese Doritos into chocolate pudding and I've never looked back.
Dark chocolate + stinky bleu cheese = heaven.
The best true binaural recording I've ever heard is
Cyberorgasm. its basically phone-sex in different situations, but the recording of it is AMAZING.
There is a "skit" where you are in a chair and a dominatrix walks around you in heels. you hear her behind you on the hard wood floor and its like its really happening...Its freaky..and cool.
Listen to it with good headphones (Grado Sr60 myself) and you'll be feeling good or uncomfortable (depending on where you are) in moments.
I looked for it to link on amazon, its out of print - however I KNOW you can get it via torrents and such.
http://www.amazon.com/Cyborgasm-Lisa-Palac/dp/B000005HOV/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1253611812&sr=1-5
Definitely puts on a hell of a show. Has at least half a dozen costume changes, including the "fat" suit.
A very good dvd of what it's (mostly) like to see him in concert can be had here. I say mostly because during his costume changes you'll be entertained by all sorts of funny clips and celebrity "interviews" like what he used to do in his Al TV days. But those are left off the DVD.
Twisted Christmas
Mannheim Steamroller Christmas
Edit: typo
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00000DCHN/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1416238973&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SY200_QL40
The article probably helped you out with this already, but it was on Off the Deep End, one of the first two CDs I ever bought. The other (used) CD I bought with my $15 gift card was Alapalooza. I had my shit together as a six year old.
http://www.amazon.com/Twisted-Christmas-Bob-Rivers/dp/B000002JLV/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1324056340&sr=8-1 .. A must have!
In 1991 I was 11 and into classic rock. I was not allowed to go see Oliver Stone's movie The Doors. So, my parents seeing that I was pretty disappointed agreed to buy me the soundtrack.
After listening to this I went a did some research on 3 three songs from this album I wasn't all that familiar with. Tracks 9, 10 and 11
Heroin - Velvet Underground and Nico
Carmina Burana
Stoned Immaculate - Jim Morrison
Coincidentally My parents had a bunch of classical albums in the basement from my grandmother and they had Carmina Burana on vinyl and I gave that a listen. That didn't really do it for me so the next trip to the mall, I head to the book store and buy An American Prayer by Jim Morrison. I was was familiar with Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild side, but had never heard of The Velvet Underground. I head to the music shop and pick up Loaded by Velvet Underground
Loaded really touched me, 2 songs in particular
Who loves the Sun
I Found a Reason
All of this really coincided with the beginning of grunge and the sound that really defines me as a person. The next 3 years of my adolescence was defined by the music I listened to.
1991, 1992, 1993
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevermind
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rage_Against_the_Machine_(album)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undertow_(Tool_album)
The song Heroin was the impetus for the change in my opinion of what good music was. Thanks Lou.
Like, Omigod! The '80s Pop Culture Box (Totally)
I understand what you're saying. But I don't know if it's that their skills drop so much as they stop exploring new areas. Any artist in any field generally defines the areas of his/her interest and the language with which they will try to explore those interests relatively early in their careers. They then spend the rest of their lives exploring those areas. As they do, we become accustomed to their voices (by this I mean an artistic voice, not just how someone sounds) and begin to expect future art to build on what's already been said.
So to a public which had grown accustomed to those voices, those explorations may lose their freshness. But that doesn't necessarily mean that the artist has lost his/her power.
Beethoven, for instance, wrote his greatest symphony as his last. Since I'll presume that for some reason you may not consider a composer whose work has endured for centuries a musician, Paul Simon's [Graceland](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graceland_(album) and Johnny Cash's American IV arguably were as good as anything they ever did. And many think American IV was Cash's best album. But this was because on each the artists changed the topics of conversation that their work represented.
And I dunno but Hendrix's version of "Silent Night" probably would have kicked ass.
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Weird Al Live
I so wish he'd tour outside of the US... come to London Al!
I'm 25. Dunno if it counts since it came with a game, but my first cd was Killer Cuts. I listened to it constantly.
My second probably doesn't count either since I didn't buy it, but it was a mix tape of various Gwar songs my older brother made for me.
The first I actually bought was probably a Weird Al CD. Either Alapalooza or Greatest Hits Vol 1.
The CD that's probably gotten the most use though is probably CD 1 from Iron Maiden's Ed Hunter set.
If you want, you can get a cassette of these hits for the low price of $287.01.
Honestly, whenever I do something like this and it is an upbeat affair I start with 80s music. Even if they have a hard time admitting it, there is some 80s music that will make someone smile (and dance if that's the sort of thing you're after).
I got this collection ages ago and it's been super useful ever since: http://www.amazon.com/Like-Omigod-The-Culture-Totally/dp/B000068ZVP
You're lucky they stopped there. Back in the '60s, if you were the star of a hit TV series, they'd make you put out a record. Because if you loved watching them play Rowdy Yates or Doctor Kildare on TV, surely you'd love to hear them sing too!
Clint Eastwood, when he was Rowdy Yates on Rawhide
Richard Chamberlain, when he was Dr. Kildare
Adam West, when he was, well, Batman
And I probably don't need to remind you of the musical adventures of William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy.
Mind you, it could very well have happened. Joe Pesci did release an album as his character from My Cousin Vinny. It wouldn't have been hard to talk him into recording "Harry Lime Sings Songs of Love" or something.
Try:
https://www.amazon.com/Schoenberg-Von-Heute-auf-Morgen/dp/B000001S32/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1526654849&sr=1-1&keywords=schoenberg+von+heute+cpo
http://www.amazon.com/Spare-Ass-Annie-Other-Tales/dp/B000005HTW
i just got the mp3 album, the bass seems way high, but otherwise just as i remember it. easy listening. spare ass annie and the "this is insane" interlude are also quite good
I remember someone had put out a binaural erotic CD.
I thing it was called Cybergasm or something like that.
I used to have it and the effect was pretty good.
Particularity the French girl that was whispering in your ear.
You could almost feel her breath.
I remember there was a dominatrix scene, a lesbian scene and a few others.
Edit: The one I had was called CYBORGASM Vol 1
http://members.fortunecity.com/g7nnt/binaural.html
http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-media/product-gallery/B000005HOV/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_0?ie=UTF8&index=0
I can't stand Christmas music ever..lol. The only christmas music I like is everything off the Dr. Demento Christmas album. I used to work at the mall.. soo yeah. Although I was excited that they fucked up and threw Sevendust - X-mas Day in there... which has NOTHING to do with Christmas.lol
TL;DR: Screw christmas music
See the right Doctor.
http://www.amazon.com/Dr-Demento-20th-Anniversary-Collection/dp/B0000032MK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1279763004&sr=1-1
One of the first CD's I ever purchased.
http://www.amazon.com/Dr-Demento-20th-Anniversary-Collection/dp/B0000032MK
This one, Steve Martin -- I listened to it as a kid (it was my mom's). I love the French language, but still can hardly resist a chuckle every time I think of this LP.
You get my vote. I've listened to that album WAAAAAAY too much.
For those curious - it's from one of Steve Martin's albums - track #2 on A Wild and Crazy Guy.
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lemme know what you think!??!?! :)
This does, but I bet it tastes terrible.
https://smile.amazon.com/Comedian-Eddie-Murphy/dp/B0000025XB?sa-no-redirect=1
Maybe that one was just audio? Can't remember.
Dog reminds me of the cover art for one of my favourite things. Link.