I Wish Paris Hilton Was Blind

I'll make this short and sweet as I'm low on time. To be topical I will upload a song sung by none other than Paris Hilton. Yes, believe me, I'm one of the millions around the world who celebrated together and almost cried tears of joy as we watched her cry tears of agony and cry for her mommy and act like an 8 year old when she got sent back to the slammer, when she never should've been let out in the first place.

I will now post another song I got from the Ministry of Sound 2007 Annual album. This time it's a remix of the main song from Paris's sole album. Yes, it's "Stars Are Blind", and this particular dance remix was also included on the CD single to the song. It is known as the "Tracy Does Paris" remix, the Tracy in question being DJ Tracy Young. Trace does a nice job with the song; I mean, the original wasn't that bad, believe it or not (it certainly beat anything done by Lindsay Lohan) but Paris's vapid vocals (which are a perfect match for her entire persona) are great for dance songs, so it works.

Paris Hilton-Stars Are Blind (Tracy Does Paris Club Mix) (6.67 MB, 192Kbits/second)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7WGQDK0A

I'll be back in 24 hours time with an 80's cover of a familiar classic rock radio station staple.

One Misanthrope Discussing Another

In today's comedy upload (the last one I'll do for awhile; I'll return on Sunday night with new song uploads) I will discuss the comedian that is ranked by many as being at or near the top alongside Pryor-of course I'm referring to George Carlin.

I realize that George is more hit and miss than Richard (especially when you talk about the contents of his books) but when he's on, he's great. I was privileged to see George perform at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas when I was there on Spring Break in 2002. I wanted to see a famous comedian perform in Las Vegas while I had the opportunity, and fortunately Carlin was there at the time. He mainly did the material from his HBO special Complaints & Grievances (which I saw a lot of while at a friend's house one night in late 2001), but I didn't mind hearing it again. In concert, he also bashed Las Vegas and how corporate and tourist it was.

Here is an entire album of his work. Now, it is hard to find his older album material or even any tracks from it (I have a cassette of his 70's work, including the famed Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television). This album I put up is great all around. It's 1992's "Jammin' In New York". The opening track discusses Bush & Iraq and how it was covered by the media; in 2007 it's just as relevant as it was 15 years ago. The rest of it is also great. Hopefully you won't have any problem d/l'ing the link, as I know that for some reason it's down at this moment.

George Carlin-Jammin' In New York (full album) (53.1 MB, 128Kbits/second)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2P0M2RFE

Now here are some tracks (combined together under the name "Things That Piss Me Off" that I believe were recorded from the HBO special rather than the album "You're All Diseased", but in any matter, it's almost 15 minutes of George griping (no, I don't like him just because he gripes even more often than I do!) about cigars, angels, Harley-Davidson, and more.

George Carlin-Cigars, Angels, Harley Davidson, and House of Blues (9.53 MB, 96Kbits/second)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YCHI0ZN7

Like I said, I'll be back Sunday night, and the Blair that puts up songs will return.

Richard Pryor + Black Eyed Peas = Interesting Post

Instead of what I had planned on uploading, here is something else, which is audio from an 80's VHS of a concert that Richard did in 1971. The video is called "Richard Pryor Live & Smokin'". Here is 42 minutes of audio taken from the DVD.

Richard Pryor-Live & Smokin' (38.97 MB, 128 Kbits/second)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2MI7YTGX

Tomorrow I will do the final comedy uploads for now; they will be stuff from George Carlin. After tomorrow I will get back to uploading songs.

Speaking of songs, I found out that there is a tribute album being released of John Lennon songs done as a way to raise money for the Darfur situation. As you can see, many major artists are involved, but some of them are people you'd rather not hear sing Lennon's solo tunes-for example, Avril Lavigne and the Black Eyed Peas! Thankfully they have sound samples up, and yeah, their covers sound terrible. If I can find the full songs online, I'll have to upload them on here. Like I said, I will be back on Friday with my final comedy uploads.

Video of A Comedy Legend

Unfortunately I ran into a problem with the album I downloaded that I hoped to upload, so instead , I will first post some links (remember to click on them to see the videos) to some visual evidence of Richard Pryor's talents. Comedy is an audio AND visual art. I mean, listening to albums is great but you lose out on things like facials. gestures, expressions, and overall body movement.

First, here is a video from the "Live on the Sunset Strip" movie. He talks about how he once worked for the Mafia.

Here is a clip from the "Live in Concert" movie. He talks about his run-in with the police.

In an educational vein, here is Part 1 of 6 of a British documentary on the man. The other volumes can be found in the list of similar videos to the right of the video.

I'll be back on Thursday with a posting of the new audio I'm still in the midst of downloading of Mr. Pryor, plus I will discuss an album I heard about just last night, and it's an album that appears to have some very horrifying tracks on it that of course I'll have to upload on here in the future just so I can mock them!

I'll Be Back Wednesday Evening

Unfortunately I ran out of time to do my planned post today so instead it will be up Wednesday night. That is all.

I Said, B*tch You Ain't Gonna P*ss In The Car!

Believe me, it's tough to pick out the "best" Richard Pryor tracks to upload, as many of the stuff I have is so good it's rough having to decide which ones would be the most apposite for uploadage.

Today I decided to go with a trio of tracks from the "Wanted: Live In Concert" album, which was an album of material that was based off of stuff said in the Live in Concert movie, but the movie and album were recorded in different places on different nights. I know this as I have recently seen the movie. Admittedly, it wasn't bought but instead downloaded, but… The three tracks are all related to each other and it's a topic that may sound surprising, but it deals with nature and the woods. Richard ends up talking about going into the woods with his pops as a kid and it led to him going off on several different tangents; from an unlikely source of humor, Pryor, as typical, gave a raucous performance. Enjoy all the three tracks (presented in proper order).

Richard Pryor-Nature (3.22 MB, 128Kbits/second)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=D2HYKM11

Richard Pryor-Things In The Woods (2.95 MB, 128Kbits/second)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6NCVHGQC

Richard Pryor-Deer Hunter (2.78 MB, 128Kbits/second)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=U8OT75WQ

Tuesday I'll be back, but this time I will upload a hard to find Richard Pryor album, along with some streaming video links.

...And It's Deep, Too!

I decided to do something a little different for the next week or two; instead of uploading songs, I will instead put up either albums or sketches from albums from some comedy legends. I know, it's not exactly music, even though at places like Amazon.com, spoken word albums are grouped in with music and more importantly, in the past you used to have musical artists perform either before or after a comedy routine. For example, in the movie "Richard Pryor: Live In Concert," Patti LaBele performed before Richard's set. You don't see her in the movie but the producers acknowledged her in the beginning of the film.

Ever since Richard Pryor passed away in late 2005, I have been looking for albums of his to buy, but except for "… Is It Something I Said?", the only ones you can find are compilation albums, which is great and all and they are rather comprehensive, but if you don't want to buy a 9 CD box set, then the best bet for you who want to start off with much of his best material right away is "The Anthology (1968-1992)", a 2 CD set of 26 tracks. It's what I bought; it's a great deal. There are also live concert movies out there to get. Awhile back I got a 2 DVD set of his concert movies "Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip" and "Richard Pryor: Here And Now". The former was marred by obvious editing throughout where you see people laugh but it's obvious that they aren't laughing at the joke or comment that you just saw seconds earlier; it's so jarring and unneeded that it's distracting, although the material was still great; the latter was marred by asshole hecklers, but there was still some classic material.

But, there is a whole world of material out there that you can get via P2P services like Kazaa or MP3 Rocket, which is what I used to find a lot of tracks.

I'll start off, though, by posting a track from the aforementioned Anthology set, as an enticement for you to purchase it, as it's a must-have; Pryor just may be the funniest comedian of all time. He certainly wipes the floor with many of the current "popular" comedians out there, such as Dane Cook, Jim Norton, or David Cross.

Picking just one track is difficult but I decided to go with one where you can easily see his genius, so I went with a track from the record album version of "Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip." This is "Hospital," where he talks about the infamous incident where he burned himself after a night of freebasing. He doesn't say it in the track, but later it was made clear that the incident was a failed suicide attempt. Obviously, it's a sad and tragic moment, and yet he made it hilarious in a 10 minute dialogue where he talked humorously of the incident and his long recovery process.

Richard Pryor-Hospital (9.38 MB, 128Kbits/second)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VY5NRTYW

On Sunday I'll upload some harder to find tracks for y'all.