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"Life Is Worth Losing [PA]" (01/10/2006) Comedy Carlin, George, Atlantic (USA)Personnel: George Carlin (spoken vocals). That George Carlin has been slinging his outrageous brand of biting social commentary and edgy humor since the early 1970s is amazing enough, but that he has even more ire, outrage, and incisiveness to sling in 2006 than when he started is all the more impressive. Like much of Carlin's work from the '80s and '90s, LIFE IS WORTH LOSING is the album companion to an HBO concert special, but Carlin is, fortunately, just as much fun to listen to as he is to watch. Topics covered on LIFE IS WORTH LOSING include such unfit-for-dinner fare as suicide, yeast infections, and the general stupidity of the American public. While the iconoclastic jester hasn't lost his penchant for schoolyard humor (he engages in a lengthy meditation on the word "cornhole"), his razor-sharp intelligence cuts even more precisely into the political and existential morass of early-21st-century life. In fact, America probably needs Carlin more than ever, and this release proves he's still around fighting the good fight.

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"Classic Gold" (11/24/1992) Comedy Carlin, George, Eardrum RecordsProducers: Monte Kay, Jack Lewis. Compilation producers: George Carlin, Yves Beauvais. Recorded at The Cellar Door, Washington D.C. Originally released as FM & AM on Little David (7214) in January 1972; The Celebrity Theatre, San Carlos, California. Originally released as OCCUPATION: FOOLE on Little David (1005) in October 1973; Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California. Originally released as CLASS CLOWN on Little Daivd (1004) in September 1972. Includes liner notes by Tony Hendra. All tracks have been digitally remastered. A box set version of George Carlin's first three albums in his (then new) guise as a young Lenny Bruce retooled for the counter-culture. Considering how topical some of Carlin's routines are (references to boxer Carmine Basilio, for example, are certain to baffle younger listeners), it's astonishing how funny most of this stuff remains, particularly when he's reminiscing about his Catholic childhood (an encounter with Sister Mary Discipline; wondering if anybody ever went to Purgatory for eating beef jerky). Other bits include a meditation on the effect of Scope mouthwash on borderline psychotics, and a hilarious imitation of other comics imitating TV host Ed Sullivan. There's also a comparison of Black and Irish consciousness--of the latter he remarks, "When they're conscious, they're great..."

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"George Carlin on Comedy" (05/01/2005) Comedy Carlin, George, Laugh.com

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"Toledo Window Box" (10/10/2000) Comedy Carlin, George, Atlantic (USA)

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"The Little David Years 1971-1977 [Box]" (10/19/1999) Comedy Carlin, George, Atlantic (USA)THE LITTLE DAVID YEARS 1971-1977 contains: FM & AM (1972)/CLASS CLOWN (1972)/OCCUPATION: FOOLE (1973)/TOLEDO WINDOW BOX (1974)/AN EVENING WITH WALLY LONDO FEATURING BILL SLASZO (1975)/ON THE ROAD (1977) plus a bonus CD of previously unreleased material. Includes liner notes by Michael Krugman. "Stand-up is not an art form that anyone aspires to as a career." George Carlin may have said that in a fit of pique, but no other comedian save Lenny Bruce has so supremely elevated the business of stand-up. This eight-disc box set collects all of Carlin's classic Little David/Atlantic recordings in one linguistically damaging package, punctuated by historical liner notes and (natch) a 3-D cover. Everything you always wanted to know about the man who once proclaimed "What am I doing in New Jersey?" found its way onto these eight sides of wax. Now it has been permanently preserved on anodized plastic for your enjoyment, enlightenment, and elucidation. Albums such as OCCUPATION FOOLE, FM/AM, and the groundbreaking TOLEDO WINDOW BOX virtually defined a generation. The famous "Seven Words You Can't Say on Television" can be found here, among many others. Carlin has persistently stated that the English language is his ultimate foil. Through his own pungent prism and sardonic wit, he eviscerates, re-examines, and allows us to revisit phraseology, clichTs, and sayings. His sage ruminations on marijuana, bodily functions, and our political affiliations are here, too. It just wouldn't be Carlinesque without them.

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"FM & AM" (09/12/2000) Comedy Carlin, George, Eardrum RecordsPersonnel: George Carlin (spoken vocals). Recording information: Cellar Door, Washington, D.C. Although George Carlin had recorded albums prior to FM & AM, including one with his original comedy partner Jack Burns, this 1972 release was the comedian's career-defining effort. While the second part of the record compiles (and puts to rest) the last of Carlin's mainstream lounge-act material, the first part consists of edgier counter-culture riffs like "Birth Control" and "Drugs." It also features the first of Carlin's language-based pieces, "Shoot," which sounds like a dry run for the epic "Seven Dirty Words You Can Never Say on Television" sketch that was soon to follow. Ironically, the older material, leading off with "Son of Wino," a lengthy revisit to Carlin's popular early routine, riffing on the cliches of manic AM-radio disc jockeys, is largely funnier and sharper than the less-rehearsed, meandering routines on the first side. Carlin had been doing this sort of semi-hip mainstream comedy, skewering the voyeuristic game show THE NEWLYWED GAME and local TV news, for years, and he reels off set-ups and punch lines with the timing and elan of a master. Soon he would be equally at ease with his new FM-oriented style; his next album, CLASS CLOWN, is probably his masterpiece, but FM & AM is a significant transitional effort.

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"Back in Town" (09/17/1996) Comedy Carlin, George, Eardrum RecordsPersonnel: George Carlin (spoken vocals); Klem Klimeck (saxophone). Recorded live at the Beacon Theater, New York, New York on March 30, 1996. Includes liner notes by George Carlin. This 1996 concert set is archetypal George Carlin; a comic barrage that alternates between increasingly cheesed-off rants about various aspects of American culture, and bemused observations about language. Among other subjects, he tackles abortion ("How come most people who are against abortion are people you wouldn't want to *!*@? in the first place?"), public flatulence (don't ask), the drug wars (his solution: execute the white Republican bankers who launder the drug money). The shallowness of the phrase "bad hair day" ("Put on a hat and go to work!") and capital punishment (he advocates a return to crucifixion, on the theory that it's a method that both American Jews and Christians can really relate to) are also dissected. Typically scabrous and extremely funny stuff.

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"Jammin' In New York" (12/08/1992) Comedy Carlin, George, Eardrum RecordsSolo performer: George Carlin (spoken vocals). Recorded at The Paramount Theater, New York on April 25, 1992. JAMMIN' IN NEW YORK won the 1994 Grammy Award for "Spoken Comedy Album." Originally released in 1992, JAMMIN' IN NEW YORK is the audio companion to the George Carlin HBO special of the same name. Featuring routines on Operation Desert Storm, the homeless, and the future of the planet, this collection showcases Carlin as fearless social commentator, guising his moral outrage in witty observations and cutting satire. Insightful and hilarious, JAMMIN' IN NEW YORK is one of Carlin's best works from the `90s.

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"What Am I Doing In New Jersey?" (1988) Comedy Carlin, George, Atlantic (USA)Solo performer: George Carlin (spoken vocals).

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"A Place For My Stuff" (03/20/2001) Comedy Carlin, George, Atlantic (USA)Released after his first flush of 1970s fame had died down but before his revival as curmudgeonly elder statesman, George Carlin's ingenious 1981 LP, A PLACE FOR MY STUFF, plays like a demented television program. Carlin's standup is broken up by bizarre and hilarious parodies of commercials, PSAs, game shows, and interviews. The title rant may be one of the noted diatribe artist's most genteel speeches, but its increasing delirium as he dissects our odd attachments to things elevates it into Carlin classic territory. The rest of the record switches off from delightfully mundane ("Fussy Eater") to rapid-fire absurd (see "Join the Book Club").

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"Class Clown" (09/12/2000) Comedy Carlin, George, Eardrum RecordsPersonnel: George Carlin (spoken vocals). Following soon after the scene-setting FM & AM, 1972's CLASS CLOWN fully introduced George Carlin's brand-new standup persona. The comedic voice of the post-Woodstock generation, in much the same way that Lenny Bruce had spoken to and for the Beats, Carlin seemed to emerge fully formed with this album, as if his earlier transitional efforts and his previous life as a mainstream Vegas-style comic had never existed. The difference this time out is that the material on CLASS CLOWN is far more personal and observational than anything he had previously attempted, not to mention much funnier. Although the epic, career-defining "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television" is the album's most famous routine by far, "Class Clown," riffing on Carlin's life in Catholic school, is one of his most consistently hilarious segments. Carlin continues the theme later in the record, meandering through other religious topics in a tone more gently questioning than openly antagonistic. Besides being a huge seller and a popular discovery for generations of misfit teenagers to come, CLASS CLOWN is one of the finest standup comedy albums of all time.

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"Complaints and Grievances [PA]" (12/11/2001) Comedy Carlin, George, Atlantic (USA)Solo performer: George Carlin (spoken vocals). Recorded live at The Beacon Theatre, New York, New York on November 17, 2001. COMPLAINTS AND GRIEVANCES was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Comedy Album.

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"You Are All Diseased" (05/18/1999) Comedy Carlin, George, Atlantic (USA)Solo performer: George Carlin. Recorded live at the Beacon Theatre, New York, New York on February 6, 1999. YOU ARE ALL DISEASED was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Comedy Album. Throughout the '70s, George Carlin reigned supreme as the hip comedian's comedian, skewering the inanity of modern life with detachment and stoned, articulate wit. Carlin's take has changed a bit over the years. Instead of slying sending up the little absurdities of life and language, the older Carlin has largely substituted rage for bemusement. This certainly changes the flavor of his comedy. But Carlin is still never less than feverishly inspired, and he's often extremely funny. Carlin is utterly unfettered by notions of political corrections. His humor is profane, scatological, and insulting to nearly everyone at some point or another. YOU'RE ALL DISEASED is a live recording of a 1998 cable TV special, and the disc captures Carlin at his apoplectic best. Whether he's decrying the idiocy of swabbing off prisoners' arms before they receive a lethal injection, bemoaning the popularity of angels, or lambasting parents for thinking their kids are cuter than they are, Carlin deftly mines the landscape of human annoyance.

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"Killer Carlin" (04/28/1995) Comedy Carlin, George, Uproar Entertainment

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"Playin' With Your Head [PA]" (03/20/2001) Comedy Carlin, George, Atlantic (USA)Recorded at Beverly Theatre, Beverly Hills, California.

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"Parental Advisory - Explicit Lyrics" (11/20/1990) Comedy Carlin, George, Atlantic (USA)George Carlin in a 1990 performance, angrier and funnier than ever. Here he takes on subjects as diverse as the idea that broccoli will somehow prevent you from getting cancer; concludes, more in sorrow than in anger, that some people are stupid; and wonders why we don't have a diet salad dressing called 500 Islands. He also imagines things we'll never hear, such as "Honey, let's sell the children, move to Zanzibar, and start taking opium rectally." As always, however, one of his most important subjects is language, whether it be the so-called "offensive" variety that got him in trouble with the FCC, or the culture's seemingly innocuous yet far more pernicious tendency toward euphemism, as, for instance, when the descriptive "shell shock" eventually morphed into the less honest "battle fatigue."

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"On the Road [PA]" (10/10/2000) Comedy Carlin, George, Atlantic (USA)

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"Occupation: Foole!" (09/12/2000) Comedy Carlin, George, Eardrum RecordsRecorded live at Circle Star Theatre, San Carlos, California in 1973.

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"FM & AM" (09/12/2000) Comedy Carlin, George, Eardrum RecordsPersonnel: George Carlin (spoken vocals). Recording information: Cellar Door, Washington, D.C. Although George Carlin had recorded albums prior to FM & AM, including one with his original comedy partner Jack Burns, this 1972 release was the comedian's career-defining effort. While the second part of the record compiles (and puts to rest) the last of Carlin's mainstream lounge-act material, the first part consists of edgier counter-culture riffs like "Birth Control" and "Drugs." It also features the first of Carlin's language-based pieces, "Shoot," which sounds like a dry run for the epic "Seven Dirty Words You Can Never Say on Television" sketch that was soon to follow. Ironically, the older material, leading off with "Son of Wino," a lengthy revisit to Carlin's popular early routine, riffing on the cliches of manic AM-radio disc jockeys, is largely funnier and sharper than the less-rehearsed, meandering routines on the first side. Carlin had been doing this sort of semi-hip mainstream comedy, skewering the voyeuristic game show THE NEWLYWED GAME and local TV news, for years, and he reels off set-ups and punch lines with the timing and elan of a master. Soon he would be equally at ease with his new FM-oriented style; his next album, CLASS CLOWN, is probably his masterpiece, but FM & AM is a significant transitional effort.

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"Class Clown" (09/12/2000) Comedy Carlin, George, Eardrum RecordsPersonnel: George Carlin (spoken vocals). Following soon after the scene-setting FM & AM, 1972's CLASS CLOWN fully introduced George Carlin's brand-new standup persona. The comedic voice of the post-Woodstock generation, in much the same way that Lenny Bruce had spoken to and for the Beats, Carlin seemed to emerge fully formed with this album, as if his earlier transitional efforts and his previous life as a mainstream Vegas-style comic had never existed. The difference this time out is that the material on CLASS CLOWN is far more personal and observational than anything he had previously attempted, not to mention much funnier. Although the epic, career-defining "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television" is the album's most famous routine by far, "Class Clown," riffing on Carlin's life in Catholic school, is one of his most consistently hilarious segments. Carlin continues the theme later in the record, meandering through other religious topics in a tone more gently questioning than openly antagonistic. Besides being a huge seller and a popular discovery for generations of misfit teenagers to come, CLASS CLOWN is one of the finest standup comedy albums of all time.

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"Complaints and Grievances [PA]" (12/11/2001) Comedy Carlin, George, Atlantic (USA)Solo performer: George Carlin (spoken vocals). Recorded live at The Beacon Theatre, New York, New York on November 17, 2001. COMPLAINTS AND GRIEVANCES was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Comedy Album.

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"You Are All Diseased" (05/18/1999) Comedy Carlin, George, Atlantic (USA)Solo performer: George Carlin. Recorded live at the Beacon Theatre, New York, New York on February 6, 1999. YOU ARE ALL DISEASED was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Comedy Album. Throughout the '70s, George Carlin reigned supreme as the hip comedian's comedian, skewering the inanity of modern life with detachment and stoned, articulate wit. Carlin's take has changed a bit over the years. Instead of slying sending up the little absurdities of life and language, the older Carlin has largely substituted rage for bemusement. This certainly changes the flavor of his comedy. But Carlin is still never less than feverishly inspired, and he's often extremely funny. Carlin is utterly unfettered by notions of political corrections. His humor is profane, scatological, and insulting to nearly everyone at some point or another. YOU'RE ALL DISEASED is a live recording of a 1998 cable TV special, and the disc captures Carlin at his apoplectic best. Whether he's decrying the idiocy of swabbing off prisoners' arms before they receive a lethal injection, bemoaning the popularity of angels, or lambasting parents for thinking their kids are cuter than they are, Carlin deftly mines the landscape of human annoyance.

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"What Am I Doing In New Jersey?" (1988) Comedy Carlin, George, Atlantic (USA)Solo performer: George Carlin (spoken vocals).

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"On the Road [PA]" (10/10/2000) Comedy Carlin, George, Atlantic (USA)

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"An Evening With Wally Lando [PA]" (10/10/2000) Comedy Carlin, George, Atlantic (USA)Solo performer: George Carlin (spoken vocals). Producers: Monte KayJack Lewis, George Carlin.

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"A Place For My Stuff" (03/20/2001) Comedy Carlin, George, Atlantic (USA)Released after his first flush of 1970s fame had died down but before his revival as curmudgeonly elder statesman, George Carlin's ingenious 1981 LP, A PLACE FOR MY STUFF, plays like a demented television program. Carlin's standup is broken up by bizarre and hilarious parodies of commercials, PSAs, game shows, and interviews. The title rant may be one of the noted diatribe artist's most genteel speeches, but its increasing delirium as he dissects our odd attachments to things elevates it into Carlin classic territory. The rest of the record switches off from delightfully mundane ("Fussy Eater") to rapid-fire absurd (see "Join the Book Club").

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"Playin' With Your Head [PA]" (03/20/2001) Comedy Carlin, George, Atlantic (USA)Recorded at Beverly Theatre, Beverly Hills, California.

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"Occupation: Foole!" (09/12/2000) Comedy Carlin, George, Eardrum RecordsRecorded live at Circle Star Theatre, San Carlos, California in 1973.

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"Parental Advisory - Explicit Lyrics" (11/20/1990) Comedy Carlin, George, Atlantic (USA)George Carlin in a 1990 performance, angrier and funnier than ever. Here he takes on subjects as diverse as the idea that broccoli will somehow prevent you from getting cancer; concludes, more in sorrow than in anger, that some people are stupid; and wonders why we don't have a diet salad dressing called 500 Islands. He also imagines things we'll never hear, such as "Honey, let's sell the children, move to Zanzibar, and start taking opium rectally." As always, however, one of his most important subjects is language, whether it be the so-called "offensive" variety that got him in trouble with the FCC, or the culture's seemingly innocuous yet far more pernicious tendency toward euphemism, as, for instance, when the descriptive "shell shock" eventually morphed into the less honest "battle fatigue."