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Word to the wise: TFA overlooks this, but Firesign Theatre's humor didn't end in the seventies. Probably my FT favorite album is Give Me Immortality or Give Me
by fenomas 5y ago
Word to the wise: TFA overlooks this, but Firesign Theatre's humor didn't end in the seventies. Probably my FT favorite album is Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death, which came out in 1998 and is their darkly optimistic take on the millennium. It's just as profound and multilayered as their earlier work, and to someone not of the hippie generation it's waaay more relevant.
Another standout is Eat or Be Eaten, which is from 1985 and is entirely about video games. FT didn't milk their hippie/pothead schtick, they changed a lot with the times and their later work is still very much worth checking out.
"Hi friends, Ralph Spoilsport here to tell you that everybody must die, but you don't have to be there when it happens!"
- schwartzworld 5y agoI had mixed feelings about GMIOGMD when it was released. I didn't like how self-referential it was, the reintroduction of Ralph Spoilsport being a great example. The album eventually grew on me, but it lacks the timeless charm of their 70s efforts.
- fenomas 5y agoThere is some self-reference, but I suppose I always saw that as fan service. Later in their careers FT did a lot of live shows, where die-hard audiences would call-and-response the famous lines, so to me the presence of self-referential gags always felt like a big part of the FT experience. But to each his own - quid malmborg in plano as they say.