Name: Rant In E-Minor: Variations
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Rant In E-Minor: Variations

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Album: Rant In E-Minor: Variations
#	Song Title		Time
	Disc 1
1)	Bill Takes Stage	More Info...
2)	Fevered Egos	More Info...
3)	Dance Clubs	More Info...
4)	Homosexuality	More Info...
5)	People Suck	More Info...
6)	Pro-lifers and Non-smokers	More Info...
7)	Started Smoking Again	More Info...
8)	Hendrix Was an Alien	More Info...
9)	Let's Do Some Comedy	More Info...
10)	Keith Richards and the Ledge Beyond the Edge	More Info...
11)	Hendrix Language	More Info...
12)	Musicians Who Are Dead	More Info...
13)	LA City of Hell	More Info...
14)	I've Smoked a Lot	More Info...
15)	Australia	More Info...
16)	Easter	More Info...
17)	Gideons	More Info...
18)	Gifts of Forgiveness	More Info...
19)	Riff On Comedy, Dick Jokes and Plastic Plants	More Info...
20)	When Jesus Comes Back	More Info...
21)	Confession Time (Cops)	More Info...
22)	Wax Dart	More Info...
23)	I'm Talking to the Women Here	More Info...
24)	Pussywhipped Satan	More Info...
25)	Rebirthing	More Info...
26)	Rush Limbaugh	More Info...

Album: Rant In E-Minor: Variations
#	Song Title		Time
	Disc 1
1)	Bill Takes Stage	More Info...
2)	Fevered Egos	More Info...
3)	Dance Clubs	More Info...
4)	Homosexuality	More Info...
5)	People Suck	More Info...
6)	Pro-lifers and Non-smokers	More Info...
7)	Started Smoking Again	More Info...
8)	Hendrix Was an Alien	More Info...
9)	Let's Do Some Comedy	More Info...
10)	Keith Richards and the Ledge Beyond the Edge	More Info...
11)	Hendrix Language	More Info...
12)	Musicians Who Are Dead	More Info...
13)	LA City of Hell	More Info...
14)	I've Smoked a Lot	More Info...
15)	Australia	More Info...
16)	Easter	More Info...
17)	Gideons	More Info...
18)	Gifts of Forgiveness	More Info...
19)	Riff On Comedy, Dick Jokes and Plastic Plants	More Info...
20)	When Jesus Comes Back	More Info...
21)	Confession Time (Cops)	More Info...
22)	Wax Dart	More Info...
23)	I'm Talking to the Women Here	More Info...
24)	Pussywhipped Satan	More Info...
25)	Rebirthing	More Info...
26)	Rush Limbaugh	More Info...

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.
Recording information: The Laff Stop.
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..."