In the Next World, You're on Your Own
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| ''In the Next World, You're on Your Own'' | ||
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| Studio album by The Firesign Theatre | ||
| Released | 1975 | |
| Genre | Comedy | |
| Length | 44:00 | |
| Label | Columbia | |
| Producer(s) | Phil Austin and David Ossman | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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 The Goldmine Comedy Record Price Guide  |
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| The Firesign Theatre chronology | ||
| Everything You Know Is Wrong (1974) |
In the Next World, You're on Your Own (1975) |
Forward Into The Past (1976) |
In the Next World, You're on Your Own was the last comedy album recorded by The Firesign Theatre for Columbia Records. It was released in 1975.
Contents |
[edit] Track listing
[edit] Side one
- "Police Street" – 21:30
[edit] Side two
- "We've Lost Our Big Kabloona" – 22:30
[edit] Detailed track information and commentary
The first side of the album, "Police Street", features a group of sketches interconnected by the kind of police log that is typical of Austin's detective writing (Austin being best known as the detective character Nick Danger). The highlight sketch is "Give It Back," a mock game show in which losing contestants have to surrender their parents' material possessions to the Native Americans.
The second side of the album, "We've Lost Our Big Kabloona", culminates in a hostage situation at gunpoint occurring at the Academy Awards. In this sketch, the hostage-taker was the loser/winner of the "Give It Back" sketch on the first side of the album. This sketch was inspired by Sacheen Littlefeather's appearance at the 1973 Academy Awards.
[edit] Issues and reissues
This album was originally released simultaneously on LP and 8 Track.
- LP - Columbia PC-33475
- 8 Track - Columbia PCA-33475
It has been re-released on CD at least once
- 2001 - Laugh.com LGH1078
[edit] Miscellanea
This album was the only commercial album during the group's Columbia Records period that was released under the group name but not crediting all four members as writers. The script is formally credited only to Phil Austin and David Ossman, although the other two members, Peter Bergman and Philip Proctor, honed their parts further during recording. The result, while highly polished as always, did not sell well, and the label declined to renew the group's contract.
This album was recorded in the same Warner Brothers studio in Burbank where John Lennon and Harry Nilsson recorded "Pussy Cats." (Also same engineer at the boards).
[edit] Memorable quotes
- Skip Coolzip
- "Eat flaming death, fascist media pigs!"
[edit] Cover art
The album cover references many of Firesign Theatre's previous albums.
- Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers
- Morse Science High.
- Groat Cakes
- Pico & Alvarado
- Dear Friends
- Adult Bookstore Motel
- Old Oildale Highway
[edit] External sources
- Firesign Theatre. In the Next World, You're on Your Own. Columbia Records, 1975.
- Firesign Theatre. Firesign Theatre. 9 February 2006 <http://www.firesigntheatre.com/>.
- "FIREZINE: Linques!." Firesign Theatre FAQ. 10 February 2006 <http://firezine.net/faq/>.
- Marsh, Dave, and Greil Marcus. "The Firesign Theatre." The New Rolling Stone Record Guide. Ed. Dave Marsh and John Swenson. New York: Random House, 1983. 175-176.
- Smith, Ronald L. The Goldmine Comedy Record Price Guide. Iola: Krause, 1996. 124-127.
[edit] Citations
- ↑ Marsh, Dave, and Greil Marcus. "The Firesign Theatre." The New Rolling Stone Record Guide. Ed. Dave Marsh and John Swenson. New York: Random House, 1983. 175-176.
- ↑ Smith, Ronald L. The Goldmine Comedy Record Price Guide. Iola: Krause, 1996. 124-127.
- ↑ Firesign Theatre. In the Next World, You're on Your Own. Columbia Records, 1975.
- ↑ "FIREZINE: Linques!." Firesign Theatre FAQ. 10 February 2006<http://firezine.net/faq/>.
- ↑ "Firesign Theatre - In The Next World You're On Your Own CD - AUDIO ONLY." Laugh.com. Laugh.com. 11 February 2006 <http://store.yahoo.com/laughstore/firtheatinne.html>
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| Performers |
| Phil Austin • Peter Bergman • David Ossman • Philip Proctor |
| Albums |
| Commercial |
| Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him • How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All • Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers • I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus • Dear Friends • Not Insane or Anything You Want To • The Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra • Everything You Know Is Wrong • In the Next World, You're on Your Own • Forward into the Past • Just Folks . . . A Firesign Chat • Nick Danger: The Case of the Missing Shoe • Fighting Clowns • Lawyer's Hospital • Shakespeare's Lost Comedie • The Three Faces of Al • Eat or Be Eaten • Shoes for Industry: The Best of Firesign Theatre • Anythynge You Want To • Back from the Shadows • Pink Hotel Burns Down • Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death • Boom Dot Bust • Bride of Firesign • Radio Now Live! • Papoon For President • All Things Firesign |
| Non-commercial |
| Dear Friends - Syndicated Radio Program • A Firesign Chat with Papoon • Let’s Eat - Syndicated Radio Program • The Proctor-Bergman Report • The Cassette Chronichles |
| Related to Firesign Theatre |
| TV or not TV • How Time Flys • Roller Maidens From Outer Space • What This Country Needs • Give Us A Break • Daily Feed 1988 Newsreel - The Daily Feed • The George Tirebiter Story Chapter 1: Another Christmas Carol • George Tirebiter's Radiodaze • The George Tirebiter Story Pt.2 Mexican Overdrive / Radiodaze • A Capital Decade Daily Feed 1989 Newsreel - The Daily Feed • The George Tirebiter Story Pt.3 The Ronald Reagan Murder Case • Down Under Danger • Tales Of The Old Detective And Other Big Fat Lies • David Ossman's Time Capsules |
| Bibliography |
| The Firesign Theatre's Big Book Of Plays • The Firesign Theatre's Big Mystery Joke Book • The Apocalypse Papers, a Fiction by The Firesign Theatre • Backwards Into The Future: The Recorded History of the Firesign Theatre |
