An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer

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An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer
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Artist: Tom Lehrer
Edition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 1990-04-12
Music Label: Reprise / Wea
Soundtracks:
  1. Poisoning Pigeons In The Park
  2. Bright College Days
  3. A Christmas Carol
  4. The Elements
  5. Oedipus Rex
  6. In Old Mexico
  7. Clementine
  8. It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier
  9. She's My Girl
  10. The Masochism Tango
  11. We Will All Go Together When We Go

Free Music Notes for An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer

Free Music Review: Soon We'll Be Sliding Down the Razor Blade of Life
Hit: 5 Stars

Hearts full of youth!
Hearts full of truth!
Six parts gin to one part vermouth!

Lehrer appeals to the perverse in all of us - I'm happy to say, because he does it so well! And this is the best of his recordings.

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"If, after hearing my songs," Lehrer says in this disc's liner notes, "just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while." Makes him sound like a modern punk, eh? Not so, though. Lehrer, ever the king of jolly vitriol, recorded these still potent parodies in the '50s--and the best of them, "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park," "The Masochism Tango," and "The Elements" (which joins science with Gilbert & Sullivan) remain both nasty and striking. Musically, Lehrer comes across like a demented Cole Porter, wrapping sophisticated, showy tunes around his acerbic jokes. Lyrically, he's a clear forebear to folks like Phil Ochs and Barry Crimmins, who also cloak their commentary in comedy. --Michael Ruby

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