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Bill Hicks - Rant in E-Minor (CD)

Rant in E-Minor
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Album Details: Rant in E-Minor

Release Date:02/25/1997
Label:Rykodisc
UPC:014431035326

User Reviews: Rant in E-Minor

  • Overall:

    Re: Hilarious social critism

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Oct 22, 2001

    Looks like somebody was seriously offended, "phylbaker"! This is Hicks at his most darkest and funniest. By the way droog, Hicks leaves Rollins and Leary for dead, he is far funnier.

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    Not only a Comedian, but a social visionary.

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jun 15, 2001

    Bill Hicks is a very funny comedian, but also has some amazing views that may one day pick the human race out of this rudiment we're currently in.

Pro Reviews: Rant in E-Minor

  • All Music Guide

    Rant in E-Minor is the comedy equivalent of an Ingmar Bergman film. This posthumously released CD is so brutal, bitter, pessimistic and honest that it is a very difficult task indeed to listen to it. Recorded most likely while he was going through chemotheraphy for pancreatic cancer in 1993, Hicks must have sensed the end was near for him. Like John Coltrane's wailing saxophone on "Interstellar Space," Rant in E-Minor seems to exorcise the burden of life from Bill Hicks' body, while simultaneously reaching a level of passionate intensity rarely matched. That being said, Hicks spits out words like shards of glass, bound to lacerate anybody in his audience. While some may laugh, his bits about Jay Leno ("Artistic Roll Call"), Jesse Helms ("Deficit") and Rush Limbaugh are sadistically cruel. His bleak notions include totalitarian world rule ("The Elite") and the loss of artistic integrity in American pop culture ("Fevered Egos"). Anybody who is anti-abortion, Catholic or Republican is bou...nd to be offended by this spitefully honest and slanted material. In listening to this disc, you will laugh as Hicks takes comedy to its most extreme boundaries, but you will also be saddened at the lack of optimism in his life at the time it was cut short. While listening to this man, who was so filled with bitterness, loneliness and pessimism, one must realize that he was quite unlike any other comedian, because night after night he unleashed his convincing, but idealistic vision of the world on his audience. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem that he ever got to live in it. - Brian Flota, All Music Guide Read more Less

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Biography

Bill Hicks

Bill Hicks was the last great social satirist, the true descendent of comedians like Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor and Mort Sahl. The self-described "Prince of Darkness," his work confronted the hypocrises of late-20th century American life, divining comedy from the more evil impulses of the government and the mass media while assaulting the soullessness of mainstream cult... Read more