Richard Pryor - Anthology 1968-1992
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Artist: Richard PryorEdition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2002-01-15
Music Label: Rhino
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Super Nigger
- Prison Play
- Nigger With A Seizure
- Have Your Ass Home By 11:00
- Black & White Lifestyles
- Exorcist
- Niggers Vs. The Police
- Wino Dealing With Dracula
- Wino & Junkie
- Mudbone-Intro
- Mudbine-Little Feets
- When Your Woman Leaves You
- Cocaine
- Acid
- Bicentennial Prayer
- Bicentennial Nigger
- New Year's Eve
- Discipline
- Heart Attacks
- Monkeys
- Being Sensitive
- Africa
- Freebase
- Hospital
- I Like Women
- M.S.
Music reviews of Anthology 1968-1992
Music Review: Good collection
Rating: 5 Stars
This is a good intro to Pryor's work and a fine companion piece to EVOLUTION/REVOLUTION, which contains "Craps After Hours" and other early and (mostly) unreleased material.
The CD starts off with two early Pryor routines SUPERN----R and the mesmorising PRISON PLAY from his self titiled 1968 debut album. The former is so-so, but PRISON PLAY is an early classic. PP is best heard as it is on EVOLUTION REVOLTION, as part of a longer prison monologue. The TV PANEL routine from that debut album would have fit well here, but space forbade.
We jump a few years to some choice cuts from THAT N(egro's)CRAZY (1974) which features Pryor classics such as N(egroes) AND THE POLICE "I am reaching for my driver's license." and THE WINO AND THE JUNKIE. Comedy's answer to the blues as Pryor uses his one-man theatrical style to expose the unarticulated realities of ghetto life.
After a few Mudbone set pieces from what I consider to be his best work IS IT SOMETHING I SAID which should be heard on its own in its entirety, we get some of Pryor's deepest work from BICENTENNIAL N(egro), which inclues the hilariously un-PC BICENTENNIAL PRAYER, which as a teenager in the late 70s, my peers would memorize in the same way that we would with the early rap records a few years later. But the title cut of that album is amazing, as the title character, a 200 year old black man in blackface (influence of the great BERT WILLIAMS, perchance?) gives an poignant and sardonic look at the black man's plight in America to the tune of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic." You'll never forget this once you hear it.
A few cuts from succeeding albums follow (including the cut from "Live on the Sunset Strip where he famously renounces the word N----r) and it concludes with a too-heartbreaking to be as funny as Pryor intended cut of Pryor talking about being stricken with MS. It's profound, but so sad that you are not likely to want to hear this more than once. But it's historically important as what was probably Pryor's last performance.
If you want the whole enchilada, plunk down the bux for the complete WB recordings "And It's deep too." With that and EVOLUTION REVOLUTION, your Pryor catalog will be complete.
(Oh yeah, when the first season of Partridge family DVD set comes out, check out the 1970 episode with Richard Pryor. Trust me, it's a mind-boggling juxtaposition to imagine the man who did this CD interacting with David Cassidy and co).
Description of Anthology 1968-1992
Listening to this two-disc collection, you get a vivid picture of how Richard Pryor's comic genius evolved. He went from the early Cosby-esque style of "Super Nigger" and "Prison Play" to the 'hood humor of "Have Your Ass Home By 11:00" and "Wino & Junkie." Then came his razor-sharp socio-political observations in "Bicentennial Nigger" and "Africa," and the intensely personal, highly publicized travails recounted in "New Year's Eve," "Freebase," and "M.S." Every comic working today owes a debt to this profane-yet-profound genius. Rhino's two-disc Richard Pryor: The Anthology (1968-1992) is jam-packed with 26 of Pryor's most outrageous routines gathered from his seven Warner albums and the Pryor archives. Over 2-hours of hilarity!Miscellaneous CDs
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