The Remains of Tom Lehrer

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The Remains of Tom Lehrer
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Artist: Tom Lehrer
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 2000-05-23
Music Label: Rhino / Wea
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Fight Fiercely, Harvard
  2. Old Dope Peddler
  3. Be Prepared
  4. Wild West Is Where I Want to Be
  5. I Wanna Go Back to Dixie
  6. Lobachevsky
  7. Irish Ballad
  8. Hunting Song
  9. My Home Town
  10. When You Are Old and Gray
  11. I Hold Your Hand in Mine
  12. Wiener Schnitzel Waltz
  13. Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
  14. Bright College Days
  15. Christmas Carol
  16. Elements
  17. Oedipus Rex
  18. In Old Mexico
  19. Clementine
  20. It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier
  21. She's My Girl
  22. Masochism Tango
  23. We Will All Go Together When We Go
  24. I Got It from Agnes
  25. That's Mathematics
Music CD 2
  1. The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be
  2. Introduction
  3. I Wanna Go Back to Dixie
  4. Wild West Is Where I Want to Be
  5. Old Dope Peddler
  6. Fight Fiercely, Harvard
  7. Lobachevsky
  8. Irish Ballad
  9. Hunting Song
  10. My Home Town
  11. When You Are Old and Gray
  12. Wiener Schnitzel Waltz
  13. I Hold Your Hand in Mine
  14. Be Prepared
  15. Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
  16. Bright College Days
  17. Christmas Carol
  18. Elements
  19. Oedipus Rex
  20. In Old Mexico
  21. Clementine
  22. It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier
  23. She's My Girl
  24. Masochism Tango
  25. We Will All Go Together When We Go
Music CD 3
  1. National Brotherhood Week
  2. MLF Lullaby
  3. George Murphy
  4. Folk Song Army
  5. Smut
  6. Send the Marines
  7. Pollution
  8. So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III)
  9. Whatever Became of Hubert?
  10. New Math
  11. Alma
  12. Who's Next?
  13. Wernher Von Braun
  14. Vatican Rag
  15. Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
  16. Masochism Tango
  17. Hunting Song
  18. We Will All Go Together When We Go
  19. L-Y
  20. Silent E
  21. O-U (The Hound Song)
  22. S-N (Snore, Sniff, and Sneeze)
  23. N Apostrophe T
  24. Selling Out
  25. (I'm Spending) Hanukkah in Santa Monica

Music reviews of The Remains of Tom Lehrer

Music Review: Pretty much a complete collection of his works.....
Rating: 5 Stars

Okay, I was also annoyed at some of the repetition, but if you look carefully (and check wiki), you will find that the repetition was the result of them adding on a couple of complete live albums. They put 5 of his albums on the CDs, and added a few of his more recent songs. It may seem like they are just randomly tossed on the CDs, but they are simply his complete albums in order followed by the more recent stuff. The albums include:

Songs By Tom Lehrer
More of Tom Lehrer
Tom Lehrer Revisited
An Evening Wasted with Tom lehrer
That was the Year that Was

Then they added the Richard Hayman Sessions from 1960 which are 4 songs from other albums, and they added 9 more recent songs that weren't on any of his albums.

So, it is about 4 albums worth of unique music. Plus 2 live albums playing the same music. Plus a cool book with lyrics and a case. Admittedly, I'd like to have the albums separated each on their own disks, but I wouldn't want to pay extra for it.

The amazing thing to me about Lehrer is that his work stands the test of time. 'That was the year that was' should have been dated after a decade, but the themes apply well to modern problems 40-50 years later.

Description of The Remains of Tom Lehrer

This three-CD set collects many of Tom Lehrer's tunes, described by Time magazine as "brilliant and coruscating parodies," bringing back a bygone era when the "liberal consensus," as Lehrer calls them, knew who they were and could, therefore, laugh at both themselves and the well-defined enemy. Delivering clever, witty rhymes about topical subjects was Leher's strength. In "Wernher Von Braun" [the Nazi German scientist who later worked for NASA], Lerher sings: "I'll sing you a tale of Wernher Von Braun?/ A man whose allegiance is ruled by expedience?/ Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?/ 'That's not my department,' says Wernher Von Braun." Using a rollicking piano as accompaniment, Lehrer will remind some of Mark Russell, the current political satirist, but Lehrer's more pointed humor and grating, nasal voice make him a much tougher listen. His Jimmy Durante-like delivery, however, doesn't completely trump his truly quick mind and clever use of language. --Wally Shoup

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