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The Remains of Tom Lehrer (Import) | 
 enlarge | Artist: Tom Lehrer
Label: Rhino
Category: Music
List Price: £57.99
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 3407
Format: Box Set, Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 5.8 x 5 x 2.1
MPN: 79831
UPC: 081227983123
EAN: 0081227983123
ASIN: B00004SWBH
Release Date: July 24, 2000
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Condition: Brand New. Ships direct from Australia via Airmail. Please allow approx. 14 days for delivery. Please Note: Not all items from Australia are factory-sealed.
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Disc 1
| • | Fight Fiercely, Harvard | | • | Old Dope Peddler | | • | Be Prepared | | • | Wild West Is Where I Want to Be | | • | I Wanna Go Back to Dixie | | • | Lobachevsky | | • | Irish Ballad | | • | Hunting Song | | • | My Home Town | | • | When You Are Old and Gray | | • | I Hold Your Hand in Mine | | • | Wiener Schnitzel Waltz | | • | Poisoning Pigeons in the Park | | • | Bright College Days | | • | Christmas Carol | | • | Elements | | • | Oedipus Rex | | • | In Old Mexico | | • | Clementine | | • | It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier | | • | She's My Girl | | • | Masochism Tango | | • | We Will All Go Together When We Go | | • | I Got It from Agnes | | • | That's Mathematics |
Disc 2
| • | I wanna go back to Dixie | | • | Wild West is where I want to be | | • | Old dope peddler | | • | Fight fiercely Harvard | | • | Lobachevsky | | • | Irish ballad | | • | Hunting song | | • | My home town | | • | When you are old and grey | | • | Wiener shnitzel waltz | | • | I hold your hand in mine | | • | Be prepared | | • | Poisoning pigeons in the park | | • | Bright college days | | • | Christmas carol | | • | Elements | | • | Oedipus Rex | | • | n old Mexico | | • | Clementine | | • | It makes a fellow proud to be a soldier | | • | She's my girl | | • | Masochism tango | | • | We will all go together when we go | | • | We Will All Go Together When We Go |
Disc 3
| • | National brotherhood week | | • | MLF lullaby | | • | George Murphy | | • | Folk song army | | • | Smut | | • | Send the marines | | • | Pollution | | • | So long Mom (a song for World War II) | | • | Whatever became of Hubert | | • | New math | | • | Alma | | • | Who's next | | • | Wernher Von Braun | | • | Vatican rag | | • | Poisoning pigeons in the park | | • | Masochism tango | | • | Hunting song | | • | L to Y | | • | Silent E | | • | O to U (the hound song) | | • | S to N (snore sniff and sneeze) | | • | N apostrophe T | | • | Selling out | | • | I'm spending Hannukkah in Santa Monica | | • | (I'm Spending) Hanukkah in Santa Monica |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
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 metier 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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Fantastic June 16, 2008
Softugo (Edinburgh)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
To be honest the studio versions of the classic songs such as Poisoning Pigeons.. etc do not stand up well in comparison to the live versions and are not really necessary. One of the stregths of the live Tom Lehrer is his ability to work the audience; his comedic timing is just brilliant. The That Was The Year That Was songs are just brilliant! So if you are on a tighter budget then buy Tom Lehrer in Concert (which contains his two classic albums) and That Was The Year That Was for the essential Tom Lehrer. Who would have thought that topical satire, such as Send the Marines, could remain topical 40 years later? Pure genius!
Genius April 13, 2008
GeeJayBee (Cardiff)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I had never heard of Tom Lehrer before this week and am just blown away with the degree of musicality and erudition that his form of satire delivers. Listening to this reinforces the notion of the paucity of quaility satire today. The topicality of most of the material is astonishing and most prescient.
Unlike most musical comedy or stand-up satire this does not jade or tire on re-listening.
Brillian and utterly recommended.
A treasure-trove of historical depravity March 3, 2007
Dr. George L. Sik (Epsom, Surrey)
20 out of 20 found this review helpful
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. I can't believe Selling Out and (I'm Spending) Hanukkah in Santa Monica - a response to White Christmas - were never released.
Whether you have old Tom Lehrer LPs in your collection or are coming to know his work for the first time, this is a treasure trove - and the accompanying booklet containing all the lyrics, several interviews, reprints from old Mad magazines etc...well, it's beyond perfection.
And you know what? The old boy's still alive and will no doubt be spending the royalties!
It's all here August 24, 2006
Simon Jones (London, UK)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I totally agree with all the previous reviews - these discs really show how dark and "adult" humour can be without the use of expletives or rant. A brilliant showcase for irony, sarcasm and all the other attributes Americans are not supposed to have (and, ironically, do have, by the truckload).
One point to pick up from "Andy Millward"'s review - "I Got It From Agnes" IS here, near the end of Disc 1, making the collection complete. And yes, it is one of his very best...
A small omission but a great work May 8, 2006
Andy Millward (Broxbourne, Herts, UK)
13 out of 17 found this review helpful
Only one thing to add to previous reviews: in such a comprehensive selection, how on earth did they omit the majestic I Gave It To Agnes, a song deemed too offensive in the early 60s and therefore suppressed until the mid-80s revival on the London stage? It really ought to be here.
Otherwise, what can you say about this man? That he gave up and returned to mathematics when Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace prize. Satire died that day, said Lehrer. All the more reason to celebrate what at the time was biting satire, but done with great affection.
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