Not Insane or Anything You Want To
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| Studio album by The Firesign Theatre | ||
| Released | 1972 | |
| Genre | Comedy | |
| Length | 43:24 | |
| Label | Columbia | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| The Firesign Theatre chronology | ||
| Dear Friends (1972) |
Not Insane or Anything You Want To (1972) |
A Firesign Chat With Papoon (1972) |
Not Insane or Anything You Want To is the sixth album released by The Firesign Theatre on Columbia Records. It was released in 1972 and includes some material that was recorded in the studio as well as some material that was recorded before a live audience.
Contents |
[edit] Track listing
[edit] Side one
- Not Insane – 19:58
[edit] Side two
- Not Responsible – 23:26
[edit] Critical Reception
Many fans and critics consider this album to be one of The Firesign Theatre’s worst.
The New Rolling Stone Record Guide only gives the album one star (out of a possible five), while The Goldmine Comedy Record Price Guide only gives it one and a half stars.
In the notes to the group’s 1993 greatest hits album, Shoes for Industry: The Best of the Firesign Theatre, Peter Bergman claims that the album was weak because "Not Insane was when the Firesign was splitting apart," while David Ossman says that the album “was incomprehensible, basically” and that “it was not the album it should have been and I think that caused us to slope off rapidly in sales."
[edit] Miscellanea
The full title of this album is listed on the spine of the record album as Not Insane or Anything You Want To. The title Not Insane appears on the front of the album while the title Or Anything You Want To appears on the back of the album. It is usually referred to simply as Not Insane.
Most of the live material on this album was recorded during the Martian Space Party live radio broadcast which was also filmed. That film footage will later become available on the VHS release Firesign Funnies.
This album records bits and pieces of the groups “Anything You Want To,” a Shakespeare parody, for the first time. It will be rerecorded and released later in more complete versions on both Shakespeare’s Lost Comedie and Anythynge You Want To.
This album also introduces George Papoon, the group’s choice to be the next President of the U.S.A.
Some of these bits about Papoon will be collected later on the album Papoon For President.
[edit] Issues and reissues
This album was originally released simultaneously on LP and 8 Track..
- LP - Columbia KC-31585
- 8 Track - Columbia 18C-158
It has been re-released on CD once
- Laugh.com LGH1075
[edit] References
- Firesign Theatre. Not Insane or Anything You Want To. Columbia Records, 1972.
- Firesign Theatre. Shoes for Industry: The Best of the Firesign Theatre. Sony/Legacy, 1993.
- Firesign Theatre. Firesign Theatre. 19 January 2006 <http://www.firesigntheatre.com/>.
- "FIREZINE: Linques!." Firesign Theatre FAQ. 20 January 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.
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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 |
