Bill Hicks - Flying Saucer Tour Vol 1 (2002)

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Flying Saucer Tour Vol 1 is the first in what will hopefully be an exhaustive series of archived Bill Hicks performances. This one, as the sleeve notes admit, is something of a cut-and-shut job: on this particular night in Pittsburgh in 1991, Hicks got carried away and went on for longer than his tape, so the closing stages of this routine are spliced from another show in the same run. The compilers are unnecessarily apologetic: there's no way any listener would notice the edit if they hadn't been told.
Flying Saucer Tour Vol 1 captures Hicks in magnificently combative form, spurred to spectacular heights by a crowd he takes exception to--"the worst audience I've ever faced", he jeers at them after 15 minutes, before going on to accuse them of responding to his routine like "a dog that's been shown a card trick". His hostility is strange--it certainly sounds like they're laughing--but it brings out the best in him. Many of the bits here will be familiar to Hicks fans--his ruminations on smoking, the Gulf War, drugs and pornography--but they were never delivered better than this

Format: MP3
bit rate: 128kbps

Track listing

1. "Intro " - 0:26
2. "Summertime" - 2:49
3. "The F Word" - 0:42
4. "Smoking" - 2:01
5. "Yul Brynner" - 1:25
6. "Trying to Quit" - 4:56
7. "The News" - 1:00
8. "The War" - 3:45
9. "Worst Audience Ever" - 1:03
10. "More War" - 2:14
11. "Are You Guys Drug Dealers?" - 1:50
12. "Praying for Nuclear Holocaust" - 1:10
13. "Girl of Your Dreams" - 2:16
14. "Young Lady" - 1:26
15. "Vs. the Audience 1" - 0:51
16. "What's Wrong?" - 1:53
17. "Vs. the Audience 2" - 4:40
18. "School Days" - 3:18
19. "Vs. the Audience 3" - 1:16
20. "Working" - 1:15
21. "Great Times on Drugs" - 7:11
22. "Mandatory Marijuana" - 4:49
23. "Penthouse Letters" - 2:48
24. "Talking Car" - 3:38
25. "Summer Trip" - 2:20
26. "Drugs Have Done Good Things" - 3:10
27. "Menu?" - 1:28
28. "Beelzebozo" - 1:36
29. "Cause of Sexual Thought" - 4:08
30. "Mechanics of Pornography" - 3:09
31. "Goodnight" - 0:44





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