Shut Up You F*cking Baby (Explicit Version) (2002) (Enhanced Cd)

Product Summary Label: Subpop Records UPC: 00098787059021 Release Date: 11/5/2002 Buy.com Sku: 60579835 Item#: MX6J22 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Lunch With Frankenstein ~ David Cross (Comedy) 2. Austin Power Saying Yeah Baby ~ David Cross (Comedy) 3. "You Go Girl"! ~ David Cross (Comedy) 4. Phone Call From A Cranky Terrorist ~ David Cross (Comedy) 5. Sex On The Internet!? ~ David Cross (Comedy) 6. Spiderman Vs. Batman Vs. Wonder Woman On The Rag ~ David Cross (Comedy) 7. Shaving The Pope's Pussy ~ David Cross (Comedy) 8. Monica Lewinsky & The Three Bears ~ David Cross (Comedy) 9. Fake Tits/Real Beer ~ David Cross (Comedy) Disc 2 Song Title Sample 1. My Wife's Crazy! ~ David Cross (Comedy) 2. Flying On A Mexican Plane ~ David Cross (Comedy) 3. Abortion Doctor From Hell! ~ David Cross (Comedy) 4. Socks And Shoes ~ David Cross (Comedy) 5. My Daughter's First Date ~ David Cross (Comedy) 6. Diarrhea Moustache ~ David Cross (Comedy) 7. If Baseballs Had AIDS On Them ~ David Cross (Comedy) 8. Goodnight Assholes! ~ David Cross (Comedy)   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular aiudio tracks and multimedia computer files. Recorded live in Portland, Oregon and Altanta, Georgia in Spring 2002. SHUT UP YOU FUCKING BABY was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album. CMJ (12/02, p.58) - "...Cross swims upstream...to confront the emptiness and crass commercialism of flag waving....Pointed and side-splitting at the same time while never sounding like he's doing a 'bit'..." This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. Audio Mixers: Kip Beelman; Scott Crane. Recording information: Atlanta, GA (2002); Portland, OR (2002). Photographer: Marina Chavez. Unknown Contributor Roles: Jody; Shonalli Bhowmik; Michelle Dubois; Jeff Sullivan; Arlo; The Forty-Fives; Nick Swardson. Comedy is hard, as many a hack has said, but comedy albums are even harder. Consider this: there was an explosion of comedians in the '80s and '90s, yet there hadn't been a classic comedy album since Bill Hicks. Both the standard-bearer of '90s standup, Jerry Seinfeld, and Los Angeles' vital alternative comedy scene of the '90s failed to produce an album of note, so it then seemed like the comedy album was dead and buried in 2002. Then, David Cross -- best known as the "David" of the brilliant Mr. Show With Bob & David, the greatest sketch comedy show in history -- did a whirlwind tour of rock clubs in the spring of 2002, releasing highlights from the tour (culled mainly from Portland and Atlanta dates) as the Shut Up, You Fucking Baby! album on Sub Pop that fall. It would be hyperbole to say that it revitalizes the genre -- one album can't do that, and it's doubtful that anybody else would be given the freedom Cross was accorded here -- but it is no stretch to say that it's one of the greatest albums in recorded comedy history. Cross' genius is that he not only fearlessly tackles political, social, and religious issues that his contemporaries dance around, he also eases from stinging satire to absurdity during the course of narratives that seemingly ramble but always wind back to their main theme. When everybody else treats George W. Bush with kid gloves, Cross tears into him with savage humor and logic, dissecting everything from the war on terrorism and Bush's reaction to 9-11 ("Nader would have f*cking bombed Afghanistan...What did we expect he was gonna do? The planes hit and he's gonna hole up in a Motel 8 with a bottle of Jack, just crying in a corner?") to his family history, the 300 dollar tax refund, and position on SDI, not just cracking jokes, but cutting to the political quick the way no pundit has had the guts to do. The Catholic Church and John Ashcroft are subject to similar rants, but the key isn't that Cross is preaching to the converted or just reciting "liberal" lines -- he offers biting, informed criticism that only a comedian could possibly deliver. It's not all religion and politics, though: just as funny are Cross' reading of a story from the Promise Keepers handbook, recounting a night of debauchery with Harlow, and exposing the absurdities in Cosi's marketing plan for Squaggels, their square bagel. It's standup at its finest -- fierce, angry, freewheeling, and hysterically funny. The recording is so good it's just icing on the cake that the packaging is a wonderful knowing parody: none of the song titles have anything to do with the routine at hand, they're either send-ups of comedy warhorses ("Sex on the Internet!?," "My Wife's Crazy!") or cheerfully vulgar parodies ("Shaving the Pope's Pussy," "Abortion Doctor From Hell!"), while the acknowledgements include "First of all thanks to God, for giving me a voice with which to sing. God, you are brave, bold and beautiful and, I don't even believe in you! Your ways truly are mysterious." It all adds up to a wonderful comedy record, the best in years, and one of the best showcases of a genius comic at the top of his game. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine Engineer: Chris Walla; John Byrd; Phil Ek   Artist Overview David Cross delivers the indie-rock version of stand-up comedy, and if he heard that description he'd probably make fun of it mercilessly. The bald, glasses-sporting hipster tyrant, who created and starred in the highly influential sketch comedy program MR. SHOW, has released two hilarious albums filled with incisive rants about the relative stupidity of the American people. In the aftermath of 9/11 and in the midst of the Iraq war, Cross's comedy took a serious political turn, offering a somewhat crude yet highly penetrating critique of the George W. Bush administration. His second comedy album, IT'S NOT FUNNY, was released on venerable indie label Sub Pop Records in 2004. Artist Influences Bill Hicks | Bill Maher | Denis Leary | Dennis Miller | George Carlin | Jerry Seinfeld | Lenny Bruce | Mort Sahl | Richard Pryor | Sam Kinison Artist Contemporaries Brian Posehn | Dane Cook | Dave Attell | Denis Leary | Dennis Miller | Eugene Mirman | Jim Gaffigan | Maria Bamford | Mitch Hedberg | Patton Oswalt | Sarah Silverman | Tenacious D   Technical Info Release Date : 11/05/2002 Original Release Date : 2002 Catalog ID : 590 Label : Sub Pop Records (USA) Number of Discs : 2 Studio/Live : Live Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00098787059021    Product Image