Bill Hicks - Salvation (Oxford, November 11, 1992)
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Artist: Bill HicksEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-11-08
Music Label: Rykodisc
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Intro
- Ding Dong
- Puppet People
- Kennedy & The Warren Commission
- Smoking
- Polls
- Dick Jokes
- News/Movies/Religion
- Religion/Drugs
- Film
- Kids
- Fries
- Backed Up
- Sleep & The Message
Music reviews of Salvation (Oxford, November 11, 1992)
Music Review: The Raw Material for 'Rant in E Minor' (& 'Shock & Awe')
Rating: 5 Stars
It's funny with Bill Hicks how you go through phases of loving him & loathing him. At the moment, I'm just starting a love phase & this CD (which I thought was crude, puerile rubbish) has been overturned in my estimation.
Yes, there is a lot of Goat-Boy routines & his rather disturbing 'Satan's c.ck' routines, but these are mostly on the second CD & you can forgive the man (as he'd just given up cigarettes & hadn't been laid in 3 years).
The contents of the CD are very interesting as it is a full run-through of his entire act. Flying Saucer Tour Vol. 1 is the only thing comparable, but this is better as:
a) The audience is more lively & engaged.
b) The material is more advanced & wittier.
It includes the usual themes of drugs, pron, the LA riots, politics & Christianity, but has several interesting snippets that aren't available on the compilations he did later. For example, Bush being voted out is covered in great depth, along with material about the Gulf War (e.g. Saddam Hussein to the Arms Dealer who sold him Scuds: "I don't think you understood me when I said 'I need a weapon I can *aim*!'")
And the best thing is there is lots of material where he takes the rip out of England (which I always think is his best stuff). He takes on Snooker (on all 4 channels as it seemed in the 90's), our 'crime' ("Yesterday some Hooligans knocked over a Dustbin in Shaftesbury!") and the fact that we have Chips with everything ("I saw a Hooker offering "Head & Chips" in London; You haven't had good head unless you have a Piping-hot plate of fries with it!")
That being said, there are bits to avoid & Hicks seems to run out of steam in CD2. You also may get fed up with all the stuff you've heard before (e.g. Christians & Crosses), although thank God he spins the material slightly differently each time.
All in all, this CD is worth having & far from being a waste of time. It is one of only two CD's where the content hasn't been edited, abridged or played with and so offers the nearest approximation to a Bill Hicks gig outside of the DVD Totally Bill Hicks.
Incidentally, am I alone in hoping that Mr Hicks struck a 'cord' with some people at the concert?
Even now, I'm hoping that Bill's insistence that women should "f[] artists" bore fruit at this particular show & that maybe there is now a 17 year old novice-comedian playing Jongleurs in Oxford (who was born of a single mother & wears a curious goatee beard). Maybe Children aren't so bad after all...
P.S. Just to make it clear - this isn't the actual material for Rant in E-Minor (which was taken from several performances), but it is essentially the same routines you'd find on there.
Description of Salvation (Oxford, November 11, 1992)
More than 10 years after his death, Bill Hicks' brand of radical thought provoking, biting comedy has seeped into America's consciousness. Following his best selling DVD, BILL HICKS LIVE, OXFORD NOVEMBER 11, 1992 captures a legendary performance at Oxford University. This 2-CD set showcases Bill Hicks at the height of his comedic powers. Nearly two hours long and unedited, Oxford is pure, raw Bill Hicks!This two disc set affords a complete picture of one of the finest comedian/social commentators of the past quarter century. While portions have appeared previously (as Live at the Oxford Playhouse 11.11.1992), having the nearly two hour performance in its entirety gives a sense of the dramatic flow that Hicks built into his work. The pacing and variety is astounding. Carefully written and honed, each of the separate issues he turns his attention to seamlessly blends fully realized character voices, fearless attacks on inequities and injustices, and actual punchline payoff jokes. The utter honesty about himself lends powerful credence to his unshakable faith and hope for humanity. Fifteen months after this show he succumbed to cancer at the age of thirty-three. --David Greenberger
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