Bride Of Firesign, The

Firesign Theatre | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 28, 2011)
• Original Release Date: 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino Records
• ASIN: B00005NQK4
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #210,510 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Pulling It off as a Man

2. Whaz Reeaal!

3. Nick Danger's L-O-S-T-G-A-L-S

4. The Bride Stripped Bare

5. Low-Glow Land

6. Xeno's Paradise

7. The Haystack in the Needle

8. Dr. Fireside's Plastic Beauty Saloon

9. The Graverobber's Roadshow

Customer Reviews

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Funny, but their most self-referential recording yet., September 5, 2001

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This review is from: Bride Of Firesign, The (Audio CD)

Being a long-time Firesign fan, I thoroughly enjoyed this, their latest. However, it is by far their most self-referential work yet. Lines and characters from their early albums pop up in slightly new, modernized forms. They even make direct reference to themselves as a group! As amusing as this is for the "initiated," I can't imagine how someone who's never heard the Firesign Theatre before would react. The album sounds great, with fantastic FX work & music, and loads of energy in the performances. And now, with fans of the group sliding (much to my personal chagrin) towards "Rocky Horror"-dom in their eagerness to show their familiarity with certain classic jokes and situations through audience participation (in a live context, of course), it's nice to see the Boys playing around with the fans' expectations. Peorgie & Mudhead (David Ossman & Peter Bergman) are now Cyber-Truckers, Nick Danger (Phil Austin) now has a faithful canine companion, Relent (Philip Proctor), and Rocky Rococo & Lt. Bradshaw (Proctor & Bergman) are vying for a Bride (the namesake of the album, to be genetically engineered by Ossman's maniacal Dr. Firesign) to help them win the upcoming Mayoral race. Throw in the usual media parodies and lots of Internet humor, and you get a pretty good idea of what you're in store for. I'd elaborate further, but that would take another dozen listenings. Which, of course, means that this album is as dense and layered as their best work. I can't wait to see what they have in stre for us next...

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Their best ever! Or is it?, November 8, 2001

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Mark Cloud "Musician" (Murrieta, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bride Of Firesign, The (Audio CD)

Opening caveat: If you don't know these guys, don't start with this CD; you'll never get it. Buy as many of their CDs and/or vinyl records that you can find. After about a year, come back and try this one; you'll be glad you did. Now, for any Fireheads who haven't yet heard this one...buy it! It is easily their most accessible, obscure, sublime, stupid and funniest ever; and if all that seems self contradictory, you don't know the Firesign Theatre. Nick, Peorgie, Mudhead, Bradshaw, Rocky, BeBop, even Von Pederazzi (at least it sounds like him), and other characters from throughout their amazing career all come together for Regnad's most surreal adventure yet. Hearing Danny Vanilla swinging from speaker to speaker (and even out beyond them, I swear) is worth the price of admission alone. Or Blutwurst's adventures with the cattle prod...

My only real concern is that there seems to be an air of finality to this record (they even officially retire the brouhaha joke)...including the very interesting liner notes from the 4 or 5. Could this really be the end? Or is it only...well, I hope it's not, but if it is, what a GREAT note to end on. Thanks, guys! Whatever happens, you've given us all a lot to laugh and think about. Cheers.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best of the recent Firesign releases, September 5, 2001

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S. Gustafson "Holy Roman Emperor" (New Albany, IN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bride Of Firesign, The (Audio CD)

Over their thirty-year plus recording career, the Firesigns have managed to accumulate a large repertoire of in-jokes and self-referential material. That material is put to good use on this record, which is framed by an extended Nick Danger "story."

You have computerized truck drivers, driving on the information superhighway --- an updated version of the -Bozos On This Bus- imagery. You have a political campaign between Inspector Bradshaw and Rocky Rococo. And lots and lots of Canadians. This is perhaps their densest and most topical record of their last three, and goes the furthest, in what's left of my mind, towards recapturing the magic of their classic albums of the Seventies.