Firesign Theatre — In the Next World, You’re On Your Own
This one’s an interesting attempt at hardboiled police drama with elements of soap opera and game shows — full-on surrealist media satire with a healthy dose of progressive politics. It […]
This one’s an interesting attempt at hardboiled police drama with elements of soap opera and game shows — full-on surrealist media satire with a healthy dose of progressive politics. It […]
The Firesign Theatre’s seventh album is a real immersive experience. Atypical for Firesign, this one is narrated directly to the listener by Happy Harry Cox, a somewhat harmless believer in […]
The Firesign Theatre got back together in 1973 after a not-terribly long breakup, to put together this absolutely brilliant Sherlock Holmes parody, their seventh album, released in January 1974. Less […]
If anyone thought that the Firesigns had completely come apart based on “Not Insane,” this 1973 release should have provided comfort that they did in fact still know how to […]
Their sixth album could well have been their last. The group was splintering apart. Boy, does this sound like it. This is, and Firesign Theatre acknowledges it, a complete mess. […]
Dear Friends was Firesign Theatre’s fifth album, and by pure coincidence, it was also the fifth album of theirs that I procured. Instead of the surreal “theatre of the mind” […]
This was the album that was my introduction to The Firesign Theatre. On the emphatic recommendation of my friend Dan, who somehow knew about things other high schoolers did not […]
This was the third album from the Firesign Theatre, released in 1970, and it was probably the fourth of their records that I bought. I remember buying it when I […]
I was a weird kid. One of those weirdness was that, although I loved TV and movies, I had a deep nostalgia for a time I had never lived in. […]
It had been my intent to go through my records in pretty much the same order I file them, meaning that some things — most soundtracks, classical, and comedy — […]