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  • Audio CD (24 July 2000)
  • Number of Discs: 3
  • Format: Box set, Original recording remastered, Import
  • Label: Warner Archives/Rhino/Reprise
  • ASIN: B00004SWBH
  • Other Editions: Audio CD
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 31,765 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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
  7. Irish Ballad
  8. Hunting Song
  9. My Home Town
  10. When You Are Old and Gray
  11. I Hold Your Hand in Mine
  12. Wiener Schnitzel Waltz
  13. Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
  14. Bright College Days
  15. Christmas Carol
  16. Elements
  17. Oedipus Rex
  18. In Old Mexico
  19. Clementine
  20. It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier
  21. She's My Girl
  22. Masochism Tango
  23. We Will All Go Together When We Go
  24. I Got It from Agnes
  25. That's Mathematics

Disc: 2

  1. Introduction
  2. I Wanna Go Back to Dixie
  3. Wild West Is Where I Want to Be
  4. Old Dope Peddler
  5. Fight Fiercely, Harvard
  6. Lobachevsky
  7. Irish Ballad
  8. Hunting Song
  9. My Home Town
  10. When You Are Old and Gray
  11. Wiener Schnitzel Waltz
  12. I Hold Your Hand in Mine
  13. Be Prepared
  14. Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
  15. Bright College Days
  16. Christmas Carol
  17. Elements
  18. Oedipus Rex
  19. In Old Mexico
  20. Clementine
  21. It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier
  22. She's My Girl
  23. Masochism Tango
  24. We Will All Go Together When We Go

Disc: 3

  1. National Brotherhood Week
  2. MLF Lullaby
  3. George Murphy
  4. Folk Song Army
  5. Smut
  6. Send the Marines
  7. Pollution
  8. So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III)
  9. Whatever Became of Hubert?
  10. New Math
  11. Alma
  12. Who's Next?
  13. Wernher Von Braun
  14. Vatican Rag
  15. Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
  16. Masochism Tango
  17. Hunting Song
  18. We Will All Go Together When We Go
  19. L-Y
  20. Silent E
  21. O-U (The Hound Song)
  22. S-N (Snore, Sniff, and Sneeze)
  23. N Apostrophe T
  24. Selling Out
  25. (I'm Spending) Hanukkah in Santa Monica

Product Description

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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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...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?"
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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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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. He can be serious & funny, silly & funny, political & funny, you name it. This box set also includes a book which contains a lengthy biography with plenty of comments from the man himself - making it worth buying even if you have most of the songs already.
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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. The only downside is that it's got multiple versions (often two and occasionally even three) of everything, so listening to the whole thing back-to-back can be slightly heavier going. But, when you need a Lehrer fix, you know it's all here!
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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.
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