- Audio CD (3 Aug 2004)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Label: Tvt
- ASIN: B00000G1NH
- Other Editions: Audio CD
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 412,071 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Walk Tall |
| 2. Difficult Times |
| 3. On the Runway |
| 4. Telephones |
| 5. Too Many Magazines |
| 6. Courtney Love |
| 7. Beautiful Women in Hollywood |
| 8. Peanuts |
| 9. Lilith Fair |
| 10. Nightingale |
| 11. Designer Culture |
| 12. Romance & Drugs |
| 13. Mama's Getting Hot |
| 14. Jazzy Spider |
| 15. Fabulous Trip to Morocco/God Is Good |
| 16. Sandy's Taxi |
| 17. Hermino Is My House Painter |
| 18. That's My L.A |
| 19. Midnight Train to Georgia |
| 20. On the Runway [Remix] |
Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Sandra Bernhard's unclassifiable genius is on full display on this recording from her live performance at New York's off-off-Broadway Westbeth Theater. Not really a comedy album, this disc is an amalgam of song, cabaret, and cut-throat comedy. Her jokes do the usual job of skewering the vanity of celebrities ("Courtney [Love], baby, what plastic surgeon is going to go in there and fix all the scars in your heart?"), analyzing modern life ("Caller ID! For the ultimate in passive-aggressive behaviour!"), and observing the culture ("My favorite Spice Girl? The mother: Old Spice"). But it's Bernhard's ability to go from a tender story about an undemonstrative girlfriend to a scathing diatribe on designer perfume that makes her such an unpredictable, and unforgettable, comic artist. --Lois Maffeo
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Outrageous, unforgettable fun
18 Oct 2000
Format:Audio CD
Sandra's audio recording of her extremely successful Broadway show by the same name is markedly original set against comedy recordings by other artists of the 1990s. "I'm Still Here Damn It!", with its richness of references and deadpan subtleties, fairly demands multiple playings, and ones which Berhard's fans will be only too delighted to withstand.
Avid Sandra-watchers have observed the evolution of her theatrical persona from the hilariously degraded character she played in the Scorcese film "The King of Comedy" to her more recent, comparatively contented and confident incarnation. Naturally, Sandra continues to poke fun at New Age sophistries, yet her material reflects a new maturity and even moments of pure joy, as captured in her lovely song "God is Good", prompted by a recent, transformative visit to Morocco.
Always a master of ironic detachment from modern culture, which permits her familiar depraved juxtapositions of high- and low-brow material, Sandra asserts perhaps most strongly yet her very real avant-gardism. Staying a few steps ahead of the cynicism produced by the late 1990s decline of the supermodel, and of the designer grief prompted by the murder of Gianni Versace, Sandra is now healthily meta-ironic: ironic, that is, even about her use of irony.
Her singing voice has developed impressively, and her renditions of "Nightingale" and "Midnight Train to Georgia" are as lovely as her "tribute song" to Versace is utterly hilarious, particulary in its dance remix format.
If Sandra has a single fault, it is that she does not produce such a new show every year, given the ravenous appetite of her fans and her undoubted ability to toss off witty, literate monologues in the space of an hour. For all the laughter she produces, Sandra is a very serious artist.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
An underrated performer of the highest degree!
6 Jun 2000
Format:Audio CD
When we think of Sandra Bernhard we probably think of her publicity with Madonna or her lesbian character on Roseanne. I think her comedy comes third. But what people really don't know is her compelling, yet unequivocal, sense of theater.
I'm Still Here Damn It! shows audiences all across the land that damn it, Sandra is funny, no hilarious!
Her take on Elton John's Candle in the Wind is downright funny, her take on Courtney Love and Mariah Carey is ludicrously funny and true. And that is just it, Sandra is not afraid to voice her opinion, an opinion that most of us have but don't have the venue to voice it. I say go Sandra. Included in this CD is also a remix of one of her bits, On the Runway...funny funny funny!
Part comedy, part cabaret (like the reviewer said)this chanteneuse takes care of business. Buy it, you'll love it, it grows on you, it stays with you, the smile fades gradually instead of quickly! That is what comedy is all about!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Has she no decency????
28 Dec 1998
Format:Audio CD
No baBY and who the hell cares!!!!!! This CD is wonderful and makes you want to listen to it again and again and again.... This is the best comedy CD I've ever owned. On the Runway is hilarious. BUY IT BUY IT BUY!!!!!!!!
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