George Carlin - Class Clown
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Artist: George CarlinEdition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics, Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 2000-09-12
Music Label: Atlantic / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Class Clown: Bi-Labial Fricative/Attracting Attention/Squeamish
- Wasted Time - Sharing A Swallow
- Values (How Much Is That Dog Crap in The Window?)
- I Used To Be Irish Catholic
- The Confessional
- Special Dispensation - Heaven, Hell, Purgatory And Limbo
- Heavy Mysteries
- Muhammad Ali - America The Beautiful
- Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television
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Free Music Review: "I wanna tell you something about words..."
Hit: 5 Stars
If you're only familiar with George Carlin through his aggressive, vitriolic, and occasionally vicious latter-day material, early work like Class Clown may come as something as a surprise. On first listen, the album seems almost mild mannered. Not only is it free of the machine gun profanity that would come to mark the comedian's style, but the material itself is a far cry from the raw cynicism that would inform You Are All Diseased and Brain Droppings: The first track, for example, is an epic recollection of Carlin's schoolboy antics, full of cheeky observations on knuckle cracking, funny voices, and armpit noises. The whole thing captures him in a seemingly friendly, genial mood. Of course, Carlin was never innocent. He always had a dirty mind and a darkly sarcastic sort of charisma. Class Clown is every bit as subversive as the guy's later stuff. It's just a bit more subtle: "Muhammad Ali/ America The Beautiful," for example, is an an engaging, hilarious, and absolutely scathing indictment of the Vietnam war, while "Values (How Much Is That Dog Crap In The Window?)" is an early jab at what Carlin would go on to call America's "over-the-counter culture." Tracks 4-7 comprise a cheekily innocent stab at organized religion. And that goofy opening track I mentioned? Well, listen to it a couple times, and you'll find a gut-bustingly funny celebration of the joys of resisting authority. And then, of course, there's the masterful "Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television," a gloriously perverse assault on politically correct language. Rarely has the counterculture been as hilarious, as playful, and as quietly edgy. Gotta love it.
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