Hicks,Bill Rant In E-Minor: Variations CD

2016 two CD set. Rant In E-Minor: Variations is Bill Hicks' most brilliant album in it's raw form with no music interludes. The original release was compiled from multiple shows in Austin, Texas and other locations; this version is one of those Austin evenings, October 24th, 1993. It contains Hicks' classic material, never-before-heard bits, and some new twists on some of everyone's favorites. Bill Hicks was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist, and musician. His material, encompassing a wide range of social issues including religion, politics, and philosophy, was controversial, and often steeped in dark comedy. He criticized consumerism, superficiality and banality within the media and popular culture, which he characterized as oppressive tools of the ruling class that keep people "stupid and apathetic". Hicks died of pancreatic cancer on February 26, 1994 in Little Rock, Arkansas, at the age of 32. In subsequent years his work gained a significant measure of acclaim in creative circles-particularly after a series of posthumous album releases.

1. Bill Takes Stage 2. Fevered Egos 3. Dance Clubs 4. Homosexuality 5. People Suck 6. Pro-Lifers and Non-Smokers 7. Started Smoking Again 8. Hendrix Was An Alien 9. Let's Do Some Comedy 10. Keith Richards and the Ledge Beyond the Edge 11. Hendrix Language 12. Musicians Who Are Dead 13. La City of Hell 14. I've Smoked a Lot 15. Australia 16. Easter 17. Gideons 18. Gifts of Forgiveness 19. Riff on Comedy, Dick Jokes, and Plastic Plants 20. When Jesus Comes Back 21. Confession Time (Cops) 22. Wax Dart 23. I'm Talking to the Women Here 24. Pussywhipped Satan 25. Rebirthing 26. Rush Limbaugh 27. Glass of Water 28. Waco Koresh 29. One of the Boys (Clinton) 30. The Elite 31. Car Bombs and Cowards 32. Time to Evolve (More Dick Jokes Are Coming) 33. Deficit Jesse Helms 34. Alcohol Kills/Pot Is Better/A Job Has Been Created 35. A Better World (Are You Cool with That?) 36. Everything They Tell You About Pot Is a Lie (Play the Sitar) 37. Sacrifices 38. Carrot Top and Gallagher 39. Artistic Roll Call 40. Save Willie 41. Can't Breathe Out of My Right Lung 42. Bradley Tanks Knocking Down Catholic Churches 43. The Pope 44. Childbirth Is Not a Miracle 45. People Who Hate People 46. Philosophical Discussion with a Christian 47. Childbirth Is Not Natural (Back to the Garden) 48. It's Women (Women) 49. Guys Don't Want Children 50. Your Children Are Not Special (Grey Gym Sock) 51. Welcome to Comedy