Roller Maidens From Outer Space

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Roller Maidens from Outer Space
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Studio album by Phil Austin
Released 1974
Genre Comedy
Label Epic
Producer(s) Phil Austin

Roller Maidens From Outer Space is a 1974 comedy album by Phil Austin, one of the members of the comedy group Firesign Theatre. Although the record is considered to be Austin's "Solo" album, the other three Firesigns make vocal contributions throughout, and are thanked by Austin in the liner notes. A complex lampoon on television and society, Austin's record is much in the same vein as Don't Crush That Dwarf and Proctor and Bergman's TV or not TV; the channel-switching technique of editing between tracks pioneered by the former is in evidence here as well. The television theme is carried over into the record sleeve, which features liner information displayed as if it were a television listing, complete with stylized channel numbers and little blurbs of content.


[edit] Track listing

[edit] Side One

  1. "Lord Jim Crappington - 1:49"
  2. "C'Mon Jesus - 3:40"
  3. "Carhook - 3:34"
  4. "The Regular and Ethyl Show - 1:28"
  5. "Switchblade Pitchforks - 2:21"
  6. "The John Fresno Story - 10:15"

[edit] Side Two

  1. "The Bad News - 4:12"
  2. "T.V. - 1:03"
  3. "Celebrity Roller Rassling - 2:56"
  4. "A Square Dance - 2:19"
  5. "Dick Private's Personal Peril - 3:38"
  6. "The Thrilling End - 8:35"
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Like Firesign's Nick Danger, the hero and narrator of this album is a hard-boiled detective. Normally he is the hero of a television detective show, but he finds he has crossed channels, and is now on a show that is a parody of I Love Lucy -- named The Fred and Ethel Regular Show.

He aids Fred, his neighbor Tricky Retardo, and Tricky's ne'er do well brother Jesus, who want to know what Lucy and Ethel are doing at the weekly meetings of their club, the Roller Maidens From Outer Space.

In fact the Roller Maidens have been subverted by a plot that involves both malevolent aliens, and a wicked devilish character, who might actually be the devil.

The album is busy, with contemporary drug references, clever references to pop culture, and songs in a variety of genres that advance the plot. The album finishes up with an apocalyptic battle -- the ultimate big finale.

v • d • e
The Firesign Theatre
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
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