Name: Rant in E-Minor
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Rant in E-Minor

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Album: Rant in E-Minor
#	Song Title	Time
1)	You're Wrong Night
2)	Fevered Egos
3)	Easter
4)	Gideons
5)	People Suck
6)	Pro Life
7)	People Who Hate People
8)	Non-Smokers
9)	Gifts of Forgiveness
10)	Purple Vein Dick Joke
11)	Confession Time (Cops)
12)	Wax Dart
13)	I'm Talking to the Women Here
14)	New Flag, A (Patriotism)
15)	Gays in the Military
16)	I.R.S. Bust
17)	Politics in America
18)	Quiet Loner
19)	Artistic Roll Call
20)	Orange Drink
21)	Save Willie
22)	Deficit (Jesse Helms)
23)	Rush Limbaugh
24)	Time to Evolve
25)	Waco (Koresh)
26)	Pope, The
27)	Christianity
28)	Seven Seals
29)	One of the Boys (Clinton)
30)	Car Bomb Derby
31)	Elite, The
32)	Love List (No Future)
33)	Back to the Garden
34)	Your Children Aren't Special
35)	Wizards Have Landed
36)	Lift Me Lord

Album: Rant in E-Minor
#	Song Title	Time
1)	You're Wrong Night
2)	Fevered Egos
3)	Easter
4)	Gideons
5)	People Suck
6)	Pro Life
7)	People Who Hate People
8)	Non-Smokers
9)	Gifts of Forgiveness
10)	Purple Vein Dick Joke
11)	Confession Time (Cops)
12)	Wax Dart
13)	I'm Talking to the Women Here
14)	New Flag, A (Patriotism)
15)	Gays in the Military
16)	I.R.S. Bust
17)	Politics in America
18)	Quiet Loner
19)	Artistic Roll Call
20)	Orange Drink
21)	Save Willie
22)	Deficit (Jesse Helms)
23)	Rush Limbaugh
24)	Time to Evolve
25)	Waco (Koresh)
26)	Pope, The
27)	Christianity
28)	Seven Seals
29)	One of the Boys (Clinton)
30)	Car Bomb Derby
31)	Elite, The
32)	Love List (No Future)
33)	Back to the Garden
34)	Your Children Aren't Special
35)	Wizards Have Landed
36)	Lift Me Lord

Performer Notes

Personnel: Bill Hicks (vocals, guitar); Kevin Booth (keyboards, bass, percussion).
Recorded at Fossil Creek Studio, Austin, Texas from November 1992-June 1993; recorded live at Laff Stop (aka Capital City Comedy Club), Austin, Texas from March-October 1993; recorded live at Cobbs, San Francisco, California in July 1993. Includes liner notes by Kevin Booth.
Personnel: Bill Hicks (vocals, guitar).
Recording information: Cobb, San Francisco, CA (11/1992-10/1993); Fossil Creek Studio, Austin, TX (11/1992-10/1993); Laff Stop (Capital City Comedy Club), Austin, TX (11/1992-10/1993).
Photographers: David Johndrow; Dorothy Low.
Like his spiritual forefather, Lenny Bruce, the late Bill Hicks was a comedic visionary who used a profanity-laced approach in skewering societal sacred cows and made people simultaneously laugh and feel uncomfortable. Hicks' politically incorrect left-wing libertarian viewpoints saturate the posthumously released RANT IN E MINOR, where religious fundamentalism and politics are particular targets.
Delivered in an erudite twang, Hicks hilariously mocks Billy Ray Cyrus and Michael Bolton ("Fevered Egos"), PC extremists ("Non-smokers"), and wealthy celebrities (particularly Jay Leno) who deep-six their creative credibility by becoming corporate shills ("Artistic Roll Call"). The self-admitted "armchair psychologist" takes potshots at both the right ("Deficit [Jesse Helms], "Rush Limbaugh") and the left ("Waco," "One of the Boys [Clinton]) in a way that still reverberates years after the incendiary comic's passing. Although Hicks' inherent pessimism ("Love List [No Future]"), pro-drug stance ("Confession Time"), and borderline conspiracy theories ("Politics in America") often found him getting limited media exposure, his is a message especially relevant at a time when Noam Chomsky's predictions about corporate oligarchy seem increasingly accurate. Plus, the late Texan was a distinctly funny crank.

Professional Reviews

Musician (6/97, p.86) - "...As he learned his craft, he evolved into probably the best comedian of the late Eighties and early Nineties, working dangerous issues that kept him off television..."