Little David Years 1971-1977

George Carlin - Little David Years 1971-1977

Little David Years 1971-1977
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Artist: George Carlin
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 1999-10-19
Music Label: Atlantic / Wea
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Shoot
  2. The Hair Piece
  3. Sex In Commercials
  4. Drugs
  5. Birth Control
  6. Son Of Wino
  7. Divorce Game
  8. Ed Sullivan Self Taught
  9. Let's Make A Deal
  10. The 11 O'Clock News
Music CD 2
  1. Class Clown: Bi-Labial Fricative/Attracting Attention/Squeamish
  2. Wasted Time-Sharing A Swallow
  3. Values (How Much Is That Dog Crap In The Window?)
  4. I Used To Be Irish Catholic
  5. The Confessional
  6. Special Dispensation: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory And Limbo
  7. Heavy Mysteries
  8. Muhammad Ali-America The Beautiful
  9. Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television
Music CD 3
  1. Welcome To My Job
  2. Occupation: Foole
  3. White Harlem
  4. The Hallway Groups
  5. Black Consciousness
  6. New York Voices
  7. Grass Swept The Neighborhood
  8. Childhood Cliches
  9. Cute Little Farts
  10. Raisin Rhetoric
  11. Filthy Words
Music CD 4
  1. Goofy Shit
  2. Toledo Window Box
  3. Nursery Rhymes
  4. Some Werds
  5. Water Sez
  6. The Metric System
  7. God
  8. Gay Lib
  9. Snot, The Original Rubber Cement
  10. Urinals Are 50 Percent Universal
  11. A Few More Farts
Music CD 5
  1. New News
  2. Teenage Masturbation
  3. Mental Hot Foots
  4. High On The Plane
  5. Bodily Functions
  6. Wurds
  7. For Names' Sake
  8. Baseball-Football
  9. Good Sports
  10. Flesh Colored Band-Aids
  11. Religious Lift
  12. Radio Dial
  13. Y'ever
  14. Unrelated Things
Music CD 6
  1. On The Road
  2. Death And Dying
  3. Headlines
  4. Kids Are Too Small
  5. Rules, Rules, Rules!
  6. Parents' Cliches And Childrens' Secret Answers
  7. Words We Leave Behind
  8. How's Your Dog?
  9. Supermarkets
Music CD 7
  1. George's Disc Jockey Theme And Show Opening
  2. Tattoos
  3. Hitchhiking (Short Version)
  4. Clerks, Hankies & Emma
  5. Elmo's Song-Johnny Badcheck
  6. Monopoly
  7. New Sports
  8. Hitchhiking (Long Version)
  9. Guacamole
  10. Nuts In Cake & Toenail Clipping
  11. 400,000 American Musical Favorites
  12. Peas
  13. Losing Your Placce
  14. I'm Musical
  15. Lost & Found
  16. Public Affairs
  17. Snapper Lawn Mowers
  18. How To Handle A Heckler
  19. Closing
  20. Bonus Track 1

Music reviews of Little David Years 1971-1977

Music Review: This would be a 5 star review, if only...
Rating: 4 Stars

...the sound quality was a little better.

"The Little David Years" is an all-at-once presentation of George Carlin's best-known pre-HBO work. It was after his TV-friendly suit-and-tie days, and before his openly hostile, gruff, bitter-sounding later work. None of it was bad, of course, but the material here is vastly calmer sounding than what we get from the balding, grey-bearded misanthrope who appeared on HBO every two or three years after.

I titled an early Amazon review of mine ("Ahead Of Their Time" by Frank Zappa with the Mothers Of Invention) "Sound Quality Isn't Everything," and where it's true, something that's really good doesn't always suffer when the sound isn't mixed up to snuff, the sound in "The Little David Years" is consistently muffled and far too quiet. Play any one of the discs from this box, let's say, "Class Clown" from 1972, for instance, then listen to, say, "You Are All Diseased," from 2001, and the difference in the sound is astonishing. It's mixed WAY too low, especially if you listen to any of this in tandem with something that has a better production. The better recording will be far too loud, because the "Little David" box is too quiet.

Contents:

Disc One: "FM & Am" (1972) - Carlin is still fleshing out his new outsider image: shoulder-length hair, full beard and casual attire; a radical transformation from the image he had in his not-so-distant past. If you see a photo or film clip from those days (the 1960's, when he worked with Jack Burns), you'll notice he actually looked a lot like TV's Tim Allen ("Home Improvement," "The Santa Clause"). Here, with his new hippie persona, he is soft-spoken, mellow, and fairly clean in his language (save for the opener, called "Shoot.") There are some expletives contained, of course, but most of this material has been played on the radio, with no problem from watchdog groups of the day. Pretty mild stuff, actually.

Disc Two: "Class Clown" (also 1972) - This is George Carlin the story teller recalling his days from Parochial School, ironically, with affection. And despite his admitted history of drug abuse (pot and cocaine), he recorded this 100% straight, and it shows. His voice is bright and sunny, he is talking with a soft enthusiasm, and apart from the last track, it is all very tame. It's a little dated, with references to 'Nam and Muhammed Ali, which are now on history's trash heap, but well-delivered nonetheless. And of course, it ends with his notorious "Seven Words" routine, resulting in a Supreme Court decision and several Lenny Bruce-style arrests for obscenity on stage. All over words.

Disc Three: "Occupation Foole" (1973) - By now a full-blown coke-head (obviously), Carlin is again talking about his days as a young boy in New York; more reminiscing about attending Catholic school and hanging out with the black kids in his neighborhood, and yet more about objectionable language and certain "filthy words." He goes on at length about the big ones, the four-letter words which are used as adjectives, verbs, nouns, compliments, insults, and so on. And despite being wired for this show, he pulls it off. His imitations of the people from that time in his life are spot-on. He was a gifted mimic.

Disc Four: "Toledo Window Box" (1974) - Carlin's "stoner" record, it was very popular in the day, and the material holds up very well today, despite this premise. By now, he had a very loyal, appreciative fan base, and he is definitely in his element. He jokes about drugs, the body, odd situations, God, his issues with faith in God, and of course words and the language. High or not, this is an excellent performance.

Disc Five: "An Evening With Wally Londo featuring Bill Slaszo" (1975) - Very similar to "Window Box," it is a very good follow-up; these two could have been together as a double set. His observational humor is so off-the-wall, but everyone still identifies with it. And of course, this one contains the debut of "Baseball--Football," one of his most famous bits. He obviously preferred football over baseball, and it was a mainstay of his act for a long time to come.

Disc Six: "On The Road" (1977) - This is overall the worst sounding disc in the box, but he is still in fine form. And, as in "Class Clown," there are some moments of audience participation, something absent from the later grey hair performances. Here he's still interacting with his audience, instead of venting on them. Again, he used to be conversational; in later years, he was on a continued rant. This disc is a young kid's primer on how to be a smart-alec with their parents; if you want to have a sassy attitude, why not do it right? Again, abominable quality.

Disc Seven: "Free Complimentary Extra Bonus Disc Not For Sale Anywhere" (1999) - This is a collage of odds and ends from different points in Carlin's journey from a young unknown amateur, on through the years to "On The Road," all previously unreleased. Some material did see the light of day, but not in this form.

You can call it a high point, or a nadir, but on the track called "How To Handle A Heckler," he unloads on someone in the audience who obviously doesn't know how to behave while in an audience. It's a very harsh, profanity-driven diatribe, intended to provoke this loser into revealing himself to the more vigilant members of the audience for some vigilante justice, or to just humiliate him into shutting up. Every crowd has one.

Again, if the sound quality didn't stink, this would be a flawless document of George Carlin at his finest.
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