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Not Insane 1980! Campaign Chronicles

by The Firesign Theatre

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about

Elections! They're fun, right? RIGHT!? You'll have to speak up, we can't hear over your hysterical sobbing!! Yes, in 1980 Americans gathered in the public square of their minds and considered the many candidates for President. Boy, were they garbage. So obviously it was time for the Firesign Theatre, a group more interested in American trash than any other American artists, to come haul it away in the form of their weekly commentaries for NPR, "Campaign Chronicles"!

Broadcasting weekly on "Morning Edition", Firesign provided useful thumbnails of every Presidential candidate, offered helpful summaries of the big campaign issues, did vox pops with a variety of real, totally not fake average citizens, and—in an exclusive that somehow no other network ever followed—gave regular updates on the star-crossed campaign of Republican candidate Daffy Duck.

Originally released in a limited mail-order set of six cassettes by Rhino Records, this never-reissued series finally returns as a deluxe remastered download with bonus tracks and a supplemental PDF (featuring a complete ballot that you can print out and throw away!).

Will you laugh? Will you chortle? Is this merely more of the typical light-hearted, gentle ribbing of Great Men by media "satirists" who'd rather be some powerful politico's lapdog? Listen to the end and find out, as Firesign delivers a post-election wrap-up so full of obscenities and actionable slander it COULDN'T BE AIRED.

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released July 17, 2024

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The Firesign Theatre Los Angeles, California

The Firesign Theatre emerged from Radio Free Oz, a Los Angeles underground radio program, in 1966. Over five decades they released over two dozen comedy albums and ten books of plays. Their album "Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers" was inducted into the Library of Congress recording registry in 2005. ... more

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