There's No Bones in Ice Cream

Chris Rush | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 28, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sundazed Music Inc.
• ASIN: B000003H01
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #354,535 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Living In New York: Punk Pigeon/King Kong Blues

2. Insanity: Bungee Jumping/Meeting The Lion/Wacko, Texas

3. Murder Rate: Killer Apes/Natural Born Killers/Peeing On The Butt/Old Man River/Don Testosteroni

4. Macho: Dragonfly Love/Naked Hang Gliding/Sperm Whale's Peepee/Snakes

5. PMS: Estrogen's Gift/God's Sense Of Humor/Baboon's Ass

6. War On Drugs: Cigarettes & Booze/Twinkie Warehouse/Altered States/Cave Man Dreams...

7. Happiness & Shame: Earthquake Boogie/Bomba The Gorilla

8. Terror: The Big Stone Ball

9. Vegetarianism: Eating The Dumb

10. Aliens: Farting In The Tub/Einstein Meets E.T./The Intergalactic Fur Company

11. Reincarnation

12. The Killer Bees

13. Boogers

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Finally, A Chris Rush CD!, April 4, 2003

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Lawrence Alexander "Meebzorp the Jazzman" (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: There's No Bones in Ice Cream (Audio CD)

Well, quite honestly, it's not his best work--"First Rush" and "Beaming In" were better offerings. Of course, you could more easily find a case of "Billy Beer" than to find these old vinyl relics.

For those not familiar with Chris Rush, he's this guy who looks like a cue ball; big bald head and maybe a bit more handsome than Uncle Fester. But man, is he funny! He observes things with the perspective of a scientist on acid. This is probably because he was a former biologist. He can be sort of cerebral one minute and talking about a monkey's rear-end the next.

Anyway, I was surfing the net, and was at cdnow.com and did a search for Chris Rush. After years of no matches for this search anywhere, I actually got a result! I quickly ordered the CD "There's No Bones In Ice Cream" and it arrived on Friday. I've listened to this CD like a mental patient for the last two days.

Here's what I've concluded: A lot of this stuff is recycled material. That is, I have a bootleg from a club date in 1980 in Atlanta and some of the riffs are very similar, but if you've never heard Chris before, this is a gem! For old fans, it shows that Chris is still a true original.

This set is live from Bananas comedy club in upstate NY. The routine about his house break-in and the alarm system is new (to me) and brilliant. The insanity and serial killers bits are also worth the price of admission.

OK, and now the not so good stuff, from the perspective of a devout Rush fanatic. It says on the CD that Chris has toned down a bit, and this is true. The continued "dastardly" chuckling at the end of each joke gets a bit old. And there are enough rectal references to put Howard Stern to shame. And finally, for a CD with a 1997 date, some of the references must be 5 years older or more than even this date.

Best bits: "Insanity", "Murder Rate", "War on Drugs", "Terror", and "Aliens".

Out of 5 stars, I give this CD a 3.5. (As for the older albums, "First Rush" is a 5, and "Beaming In" is a 4.5)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Glimpse at a Mad Comic Genius, December 26, 2005

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Richard J. Godsil "therailroader" (Spokane, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: There's No Bones in Ice Cream (Audio CD)

Chris Rush is a superb comedian whose twisted NYC look at society is as funny as it gets. Having seen him 5-6 times and met him once on the LIRR in the late 70s/early 80s, his show was always a blast. "There's No Bones in Ice Cream" is a good but uneven snapshot of the comic genius at work. His first album, First Rush, spoiled me with its brilliance though some of it might be dated since it was recorded in the early 70s. Hopefully, this recording will be rereleased onto CD format someday so that all can really suffer "laughface". :)

5.0 out of 5 stars Still Funny!!!, October 26, 2009

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Rob - See all my reviews

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This review is from: There's No Bones in Ice Cream (Audio CD)

Being a huge Chris Rush fan I was thrilled to buy this album. I have his original LP'S First Rush and Beaming in from more than 30 years ago. With this album I was able to enjoy the type of comedy that is missing in today's comics, and would recommend any comedy fan to give this and his other albums a listen to.