Blue Jam [Import]

Chris Morris | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 30, 2000)
• Original Release Date: 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Warp
• ASIN: B00004YL1M
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #82,034 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Blue Jam Intro

2. Doc Phone

3. Lamac Qsting

4. 4ft Car

5. Suicide Journalist

6. Acupuncture

7. Bad Sex 2

8. Mayo Sting

9. Unflustered Parents

10. Moyles Sting

11. Tv Lizards

12. Doc Cock

13. Hobbs Sting

14. Morton Interview

15. Fix It Girl

16. Porn

17. Kids Party

18. Club News

19. Whiley Sting

20. Little Girl Balls

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Waking Nightmare, December 12, 2000

By 

Peter Evans - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blue Jam (Audio CD)

Be warned, this is serious stuff. Often misdiagnosed as comedy Blue Jam is a chilling but sometimes funny probe into the darkest corners of the human mind. Chris Morris blends surreal sketches designed to haunt, amuse and terrify with an excellent blend of ambient music from the likes of Aphex Twin and Brian Eno. Highlight sketches are as follows:

'Unflustered Parents' deals with two parents who are entirely undisturbed by the fact that their six year old son has gone missing and is probably lying dead in the woods somewhere. Eerie sound effects of rustling leaves and cawing birds conjure up images of a cold winter's wood whilst the actors convey mild annoyance at the interuption of their lives by this unwelcome event.

'Acupuncture' is my personal fave. A dispassionate and mentally detached woman comments on her acupuncture services whilst a hapless man endures the treatment in the background. She is admirably dedicated to the welfare of others, unfortunatly she uses six inch nails and a hammer.

'Lizards' is about a television repair man who arrives to help a couple whose television is pouring out lizards. His helpful comments range from, "Use windscreen wipers to wipe them off" to "Have you checked with the cable company sir?"

'Suicide Journalist' is a scathing satire of personality driven journalism, art house pretension and the need for a new gimmick. The story is narrated by a man who is so detached from common sense that he must have the life expectency of a [slow] may-fly.

'Fix-it Girl' Remember Harvey Keitel in his role as clean-up man in Pulp Fiction? Imagine if Jules and Vincent opened the door to find that their boss had sent them a four year old girl to do the job. A remorselessly evil girl.

Blue Jam is not for the faint hearted. It will offend many. But those who condemn it will be missing the entire point of the excercise. Real life is constantly subject to murder, abuse and terror. Chris Morris using a light coating of acid-jazz and ambience, combined with comedy that sometimes (though rarely) achieves laugh-ou-loud status, exposes all the dark crevices of the mind and the harsh world in the newspaper headline that we prefer to detach ourselves from. Some of the sketches are just plain funny-surreal with beyond nightmarish unreality little chilling content. Others will be akin to being whacked round the back of the head with a baseball bat. Marily Manson would recoil in horror. Easily the most inventive and thought provoking work to come out of British radio in the last decade. It has a horrible fascination.

To be listened to with the lights off.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant!, March 25, 2002

By 

Mikal Reich - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blue Jam (Audio CD)

This is the highest level humor going. People that do not get it do not deserve to be on the streets. These are people who do not understand understand irony and for that matter do not understand the difference between art and reality. These are the people who write letters to soap opera characters and address them as the real characters. Screw the litteral.
On perhaps the finest track on the CD, "Unflustered Parents," the title states the point. It's not about pedophilia, it is about parents' apathy to what's going on in their kids' lives. This is a global problem, bigger than child molesting. Highly deserving to be satirized. Thank you Chris Morris.
Oh, and it's really funny.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ahh Mr Morris does it again, June 23, 2003

By 

Liam Maloney (Gtr Manchester, Lancashire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blue Jam (Audio CD)

Wonderfully sick and twisted making satire a treat to listen to.