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The Remains of Tom Lehrer

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Tom Lehrer Format: Audio CD

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Rarish set of archive recordings

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This three-CD set collects many of Tom Lehrer's tunes, described by Time magazine as "brilliant and coruscating parodies," bringing back a bygone era when the "liberal consensus," as Lehrer calls them, knew who they were and could, therefore, laugh at both themselves and the well-defined enemy. Delivering clever, witty rhymes about topical subjects was Leher's strength. In "Wernher Von Braun" [the Nazi German scientist who later worked for NASA], Lerher sings: "I'll sing you a tale of Wernher Von Braun / A man whose allegiance is ruled by expedience / Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down / 'That's not my department,' says Wernher Von Braun." Using a rollicking piano as accompaniment, Lehrer will remind some of Mark Russell, the current political satirist, but Lehrer's more pointed humor and grating, nasal voice make him a much tougher listen. His Jimmy Durante-like delivery, however, doesn't completely trump his truly quick mind and clever use of language. --Wally Shoup

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
Product Dimensions : 5 x 5.5 x 1.75 inches; 1.1 Pounds
Manufacturer : Rhino / Warner Archives
Original Release Date : 2000
Date First Available : December 7, 2006
Label : Rhino / Warner Archives
ASIN : B00004SWBH
Number of discs : 3

Best Sellers Rank: #85,707 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #1,743 in Easy Listening (CDs & Vinyl)

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VAT

The Ultimate in Lehrer

Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2016

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There are many Tom Lehrer compilations available. This three disc box set is mastered from the best quality tapes of his material. And all of his songs are here.

Just to mention it - Lehrer did re-record a few songs from his debut album from 1953,Songs By Tom Lehrer. That album was a self funded effort an several of the songs were not recorded very well. As a result they have a flat, listless sound to them. Here he has revisited those songs with far, far better recordings.

This box set, The Remains of Tom Lehrer, achieves what it was meant to achieve. All of the elements used, from the look of the packaging, the commentaries in the booklet, to the sound of the discs themselves all add up to this being the definitive statement of his work.

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Airdale

Who doesn't like Lehrer? But many duplicate songs.

Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2021

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Disc 1 is pretty much classic Lehrer at the piano. Disc 2 is Lehrer live a the piano with a lot of talking. All the tracks are duplicates of piano tracks from Disc 1 but in a different order and much longer due to the talking. Disc 3 is more heavily produced songs, and has a few dupes from 1. For me, Disc 1 is the winner by far. Vintage Lehrer. YMMV.

Eliminating dupes, you get 48 songs. Not the 75 promised by the track lists.

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S. vaneck

Pretty much a complete collection of his works.....

Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2009

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Okay, I was also annoyed at some of the repetition, but if you look carefully (and check wiki), you will find that the repetition was the result of them adding on a couple of complete live albums. They put 5 of his albums on the CDs, and added a few of his more recent songs. It may seem like they are just randomly tossed on the CDs, but they are simply his complete albums in order followed by the more recent stuff. The albums include:

Songs By Tom Lehrer
More of Tom Lehrer
Tom Lehrer Revisited
An Evening Wasted with Tom lehrer
That was the Year that Was

Then they added the Richard Hayman Sessions from 1960 which are 4 songs from other albums, and they added 9 more recent songs that weren't on any of his albums.

So, it is about 4 albums worth of unique music. Plus 2 live albums playing the same music. Plus a cool book with lyrics and a case. Admittedly, I'd like to have the albums separated each on their own disks, but I wouldn't want to pay extra for it.

The amazing thing to me about Lehrer is that his work stands the test of time. 'That was the year that was' should have been dated after a decade, but the themes apply well to modern problems 40-50 years later.

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Todd Guthrie

Genuinely brilliant

Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2012

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If you don't already know Tom Lehrer, this may not be the set to buy, as it has become quite expensive and as other reviewers have noted the material overlaps on some of the discs. The reason for that is simply that the discs are re-issues of older records - this is not intended as a compilation.

That having been said, you owe it to your neurons to give Mr. Lehrer a listen, especially if you are old enough to get the wealth of cultural references in his songs. Quite simply, the man is a brilliant satirist; many of the songs remain relevant even 40 and 50 years after he wrote them, which is a testament to his grasp of the American condition. Truly funny stuff for those of us whose intellects have a sense of humor.

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Arthur Leonard

Reliving the glories of our youth

Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2000

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I'm one of those who discovered Tom Lehrer in the 1960's when I was in high school and listening to his sometimes racy, always irreverent humor had some of the quality of "forbidden delights." Well, here it all is, greatly cleaned up sonically in the case of the early live performance albums (which were almost unlistenable on LP due to the peculiar acoustics of the halls where he was recorded). I listened on headphones the first time around and found it to be an unalloyed pleasure. I've already given two copies of this set as gifts, and I'm about to order two more. What is so wonderful about Lehrer's work? The wit is sparkling, the tunes and rhythms are lively, and the performances are exuberant, if hardly high vocal art. Once you listen to some of these songs, you can't get them out of your head. So, before the genius of Tom Lehrer, genuflect, genuflect, genuflect!

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Karvin Spurgeon

Tom Lehrer! What else do I need to say.

Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2016

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This is an almost complete collection of everything written by Tom Lehrer (The Subway Song, at least, is missing).He only put out three albums, two in the 1950's and one in 1965. After all that time, they still sell well. His music is great!

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Siegfried Lenz

... if some of the cold war topics now seem like ancient history

Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2016

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Dark Humor presented with a mastery of language and music that makes it highly entertaining even if some of the cold war topics now seem like ancient history. Anyone who likes Monty Python will love this.

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Ross Smyth

Tom Lehrer is really funny

Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2015

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Arrived undamaged except the case was cracked on one of the disc cases, but mine was used and the discs were fine so it all good. Tom Lehrer is hilarious 10/10

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Dr. George Sik

A treasure-trove of historical depravity

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 3, 2007

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First of all, this really is all an old Tom Lehrer fan or a new initiate will need - absolutely everything he did is here. I say 'old' because, at a recent tribute show I attended, the average age of the audience was in its sixties...and that accentuates what was so remarkable - unique, in fact - about Lehrer's comic songs: in this case 'ahead of his time' doesn't even come close. Written when America was feeling most smug and satisfied with itself, Lehrer was the spectre at the feast.

I have to disagree with some of the reviewers here about there being no sex in his work: there was loads. It was simply put across differently. It FEELS very innocent by today's standards, but that made it all the more subversive. We are, after all, talking about a whole song on the clap (I Got It From Agnes) but you are not explicitly TOLD it's about the clap. We're talking about necrophilia jokes made in the nineteen fifties, a time when clearly most of his audience hadn't even heard the word - such humour still shocks when The League of Gentlemen does it today, some fifty years later!

One or two songs are a little dated because George Murphy and Hubert Humphrey are distant memories (though Arnold Schwarzenegger and Al Gore are more or less the modern equivalents) but actually it's amazing how little has changed. Send The Marines, Pollution and New Math could have been written yesterday (though I guess it would now be New New Math). The Old Dope Peddler might have lost some of its shock value, but when I saw it performed in the tribute by a singer made up to look like he was in the final throes of heroin addiction, its understatedness still disturbed. Some of the rare material is great, too. I can't believe Selling Out and (I'm Spending) Hanukkah in Santa Monica - a response to White Christmas - were never released.

Whether you have old Tom Lehrer LPs in your collection or are coming to know his work for the first time, this is a treasure trove - and the accompanying booklet containing all the lyrics, several interviews, reprints from old Mad magazines etc...well, it's beyond perfection.

And you know what? The old boy's still alive and will no doubt be spending the royalties!

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Je suis Charlie

Magnificent!!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 15, 2018

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Tom Lehrer is one of the wittiest and cleverest composers and lyricists ever. His work is a joy to hear and everybody should buy this great compilation supplied as a boxed set of 3 CDs plus a book! I’m really enjoying listening to the contents of this collection.....

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Mark Ponsford

Great service, great product!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 24, 2019

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Product arrived (much) earlier than the given date. CDs and booklet in excellent condition....and such great value for the asking price! Absolute bargain, even before I'd played them! The recordings are a joy. Many thanks!

Je suis Charlie

Great music from one of the finest musicians ever to have come from the USA!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 9, 2019

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So glad I found a copy of this boxed set. 3 CDs - each with 25 tracks and a brilliant book included, with lots of information about, and interviews with, the magnificent Tom Lehrer. Fabulous!

Helena Palmgren

American academic wittiness at its best

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 7, 2012

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Tom Lehrer, a math teacher at Harvard, was during the sixtieis one of the the funniest and most sarcastic critics of modern society. He played his own music (piano) and wrote his own texts and is a combination of stand-up comedian and musician.This CD box is collection of the majority of his performances.
So sit back and enjoy "Poisoning pigeons in the park", "Who's next", "New math", "The Vatican Rag" and other light classics.

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