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  • Audio CD (24 Jul 2000)
  • Number of Discs: 3
  • Format: Box set, Import
  • Label: Rhino
  • ASIN: B00004SWBH
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 42,455 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

Disc: 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
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Disc: 2
1. I wanna go back to Dixie
2. Wild West is where I want to be
3. Old dope peddler
4. Fight fiercely Harvard
5. Lobachevsky
6. Irish ballad
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Disc: 3
1. National brotherhood week
2. MLF lullaby
3. George Murphy
4. Folk song army
5. Smut
6. Send the marines
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Product Description

Amazon.co.uk Review
Tom Lehrer was never a popular favourite in his native country: in the States, Lehrer was--and is--a cult artist, appealing to Ivy Leaguers and Wallace Shawn-era New York readers. Maybe it's due to the fact that Lehrer has a sense of humour--he's ironic, intelligent, literary and knowing--and not a sense of humor: this is not music for the masses that have made Adam Sandler a star. Lehrer's métier is to use classic song styles (waltzes, tangoes, traditional folk tunes) and twist them to his needs; he sings them (relatively) straight, but with vaudeville timing, taking pot shots at the left, right and centre.

The three-disc set The Remains of Tom Lehrer collects every album that Lehrer's ever released: the studio albums Songs by Tom Lehrer and More of Tom Lehrer, the live recordings Tom Lehrer Revisited and An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer, and That Was The Year That Was; they're joined by studio sessions with Richard Hayman, Joe Raposo and Rob Fisher. Amazing, then, that there are only 59 different songs here--31 appear here twice (in both studio and live versions), with a further four songs making three appearances (those reprised in the Hayman sessions). The real surprise is the inclusion of six previously unreleased songs--some old, some new; some witty but educational (recorded for a children's TV show), the others witty but cynical. --Randy Silver

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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars from the bible to the popular song......, 20 April 2004
everything is ridiculed, picked on, laughed at and generally sung about.From nuclear war to nuclear families sleeping together, every idea everwrote about is to be found somewhere in here. This is simply a fantasticcollection of some of the funniest, most hilarious, timeless pieces ofcomedy ever written. Any one interested in music, politics, war,americans, sleeping with or killing various members of their families,murdering various small animals or remembering their college years, thereis a song here for you. But dont just buy this collection for the songsand extremely funny interludes, which will have you rolling with laughter,but also for the book which comes with the box set. Which contains manyinsights in to the life of lehrer and what made him the way he is today (amaths lecturer who needed to get out and sing hilariously daft songs).
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133 of 138 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Prepare to be disillusioned..., 13 Nov 2004
By D. Penn (UK) - See all my reviews
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...with today's comedy. After having listened to Tom Lehrer, you'll find it difficult to be so entertained by comedians today, many of whom seem to think standing on stage and swearing is funny.

No, there's not a single swear word on these CDs. No reference to sex either (unless, of course, you count Oedipus Rex) or any of the other topics today's entertainers fall back on. Mr. Lehrer is, however, one of funniest people to ever get up on stage.

He covers issues which would appear completely devoid of humour brilliantly. The theme of nuclear fallout, for example, is taken and turned into a ballad entitled 'We Will All Go Together When We Go' (which includes the great rhyme of "sooner'll" with "funeral").

What's amazing is how much of the material here could have been written yesterday. 'Send the Marines' is a case in point, and could easily have been written about the recent war in Iraq. Some, of course, - particularly some of the songs on disc 3, which were recorded for a current affairs show - are obviously dated, but even when this is the case, the songs are still enjoyable in their own right. You might even learn a bit about '60s American politics...

Personally I prefer the live records to the studio ones, and rarely listen to the latter.

Yes, as others have mentioned, quite a lot of the material is very similar, but for just over £20, you get 2 concerts, and a book, as well as the duplicate songs for completeness. Is it worth the money? Yes. Definately. 100%. Just do yourself a favour and buy it.

To close, a quote from the liner notes:

"Any ideas expressed on this record should not be taken as representing Mr. Lehrer's true convictions, for indeed he has none. 'If anyone objects to any statement I make,' he has said, 'I am quite prepared not only to retract it, but also to deny under oath that I ever made it.' So don't write in, Okay?"

Please don't forget to vote for this review if you found it helpful. Thanks.

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A treasure-trove of historical depravity, 3 Mar 2007
By Dr. George L. Sik (Epsom, Surrey) - See all my reviews
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First of all, this really is all an old Tom Lehrer fan or a new initiate will need - absolutely everything he did is here. I say 'old' because, at a recent tribute show I attended, the average age of the audience was in its sixties...and that accentuates what was so remarkable - unique, in fact - about Lehrer's comic songs: in this case 'ahead of his time' doesn't even come close. Written when America was feeling most smug and satisfied with itself, Lehrer was the spectre at the feast.

I have to disagree with some of the reviewers here about there being no sex in his work: there was loads. It was simply put across differently. It FEELS very innocent by today's standards, but that made it all the more subversive. We are, after all, talking about a whole song on the clap (I Got It From Agnes) but you are not explicitly TOLD it's about the clap. We're talking about necrophilia jokes made in the nineteen fifties, a time when clearly most of his audience hadn't even heard the word - such humour still shocks when The League of Gentlemen does it today, some fifty years later!

One or two songs are a little dated because George Murphy and Hubert Humphrey are distant memories (though Arnold Schwarzenegger and Al Gore are more or less the modern equivalents) but actually it's amazing how little has changed. Send The Marines, Pollution and New Math could have been written yesterday (though I guess it would now be New New Math). The Old Dope Peddler might have lost some of its shock value, but when I saw it performed in the tribute by a singer made up to look like he was in the final throes of heroin addiction, its understatedness still disturbed. Some of the rare material is great, too. I can't believe Selling Out and (I'm Spending) Hanukkah in Santa Monica - a response to White Christmas - were never released.

Whether you have old Tom Lehrer LPs in your collection or are coming to know his work for the first time, this is a treasure trove - and the accompanying booklet containing all the lyrics, several interviews, reprints from old Mad magazines etc...well, it's beyond perfection.

And you know what? The old boy's still alive and will no doubt be spending the royalties!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic
To be honest the studio versions of the classic songs such as Poisoning Pigeons.. etc do not stand up well in comparison to the live versions and are not really necessary. Read more
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I had never heard of Tom Lehrer before this week and am just blown away with the degree of musicality and erudition that his form of satire delivers. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars It's all here
I totally agree with all the previous reviews - these discs really show how dark and "adult" humour can be without the use of expletives or rant. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars A small omission but a great work
Only one thing to add to previous reviews: in such a comprehensive selection, how on earth did they omit the majestic I Gave It To Agnes, a song deemed too offensive in the early... Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Everything Lehrer ever wrote - several times over!
The great advantage of this beautifully-produced box-set is that it's got every song Lehrer ever wrote in it, and some excellent sleeve notes. Read more
Published on 24 Jan 2002 by Peter Fenelon

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant - caustically satirical and laugh-out-loud funny
Tom Lehrer is one of the great satirists - you will see him quoted in collections of wit and hear modern humourists claim him as an influence. Read more
Published on 31 Aug 2001 by dcopelan@globalnet.co.uk

5.0 out of 5 stars please let me remove your doubts.
Some of the funniest songs I have ever met
can be found on this wonderful box set
containing all of Tom Lehrer's lyrics. Read more
Published on 27 Jul 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars I have never enjoyed a recording so much
Tom Lehrer's sparkling wit and verbal and musical brilliance make this recording a must for anyone who has a sense of humour, and who doesn't take offence.
Published on 6 Nov 2000

5.0 out of 5 stars The complete works of Lehrer
The collection contains what is probably every recorded song Lehrer has done and also a detailed book. I will deal with the recordings first. Read more
Published on 12 Jul 2000 by Michael Dnes

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