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Flying Saucer Tour, Vol.1: Pittsburgh 6/20/91,Bill Hicks

- Flying Saucer Tour, Vol.1: Pittsburgh 6/20/91
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Bill Hicks
Released 2002

Smoking
02:01
1,687 plays

Summertime
02:49
1,653 plays

Yul Brynner
01:25
1,630 plays

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- 1
- Intro
- 00:26
- 1,458 plays

- 2
- Summertime
- 02:49
- 1,653 plays

- 3
- The F Word
- 00:42
- 1,627 plays

- 4
- Smoking
- 02:01
- 1,687 plays

- 5
- Yul Brynner
- 01:25
- 1,630 plays

- 6
- Trying To Quit
- 04:56
- 1,621 plays

- 7
- The News
- 01:00
- 1,501 plays

- 8
- The War
- 03:45
- 1,556 plays

- 9
- Worst Audience Ever
- 01:03
- 1,495 plays

- 10
- More War
- 02:14
- 1,446 plays

- 11
- Are You Guys Drug Dealers?
- 01:50
- 1,604 plays

- 12
- Praying For Nuclear Holocaust
- 01:10
- 1,502 plays

- 13
- Girl Of Your Dreams
- 02:16
- 1,449 plays

- 14
- Young Lady
- 01:26
- 1,420 plays

- 15
- Vs. The Audience 1
- 00:51
- 1,393 plays

- 16
- What's Wrong?
- 01:53
- 1,483 plays

- 17
- Vs. The Audience 2
- 04:40
- 1,424 plays

- 18
- School Days
- 03:18
- 1,401 plays

- 19
- Vs. The Audience 3
- 01:16
- 1,350 plays

- 20
- Working
- 01:15
- 1,424 plays

- 21
- Great Times On Drugs
- 07:11
- 1,504 plays

- 22
- Mandatory Marijuana
- 04:49
- 1,521 plays

- 23
- Penthouse Letters
- 02:48
- 1,353 plays

- 24
- Talking Car
- 03:38
- 1,315 plays

- 25
- Summer Trip
- 02:20
- 1,288 plays

- 26
- Drugs Have Done Good Things
- 03:10
- 1,314 plays

- 27
- Menu?
- 01:28
- 1,317 plays

- 28
- Beelzebozo
- 01:36
- 1,281 plays

- 29
- Cause Of Sexual Thought
- 04:08
- 1,287 plays

- 30
- Mechanics Of Pornography
- 03:09
- 1,373 plays

- 31
- Goodnight
- 00:44
- 1,155 plays

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album review

If to be great is to be misunderstood, then Bill Hicks certainly must have had plenty of evenings such as the one documented on Flying Saucer Tour, Vol. 1 during his too-brief life. With track titles such as "Worst Audience Ever" and "Vs. the Audience" offering a hint of the material contained on this album, Hicks finds himself facing a Pittsburgh audience that seems thoroughly unprepared to digest his scathing (and yet hilarious) opinions and social commentary. Never one to back down, Hicks decides to really let it fly, playing for well over an hour and using every trick in his repertoire to slowly rope the crowd in. In some ways, it's hard to blame the audience for their initial reaction -- although Hicks died in 1994, his comedy still sounds far ahead of its time even heard a decade later. Hicks himself even seems to realize this, at one point telling the audience, "I stand alone with these theories; you know how lonely it is being me?" Later in the evening, he impersonates the crowd's languid response towards his humor by asking himself, "Why do you have to try and change people's minds and beliefs? They don't want to stand out; they want to be in the crowd. They don't want to have beliefs. They don't want to rock the boat. They just want to hear dick jokes and go home." And although Hicks does occasionally throw the audience a bone with brief descents into prurient humor, he holds fast to his own muse, focusing mostly on philosophical terrain that lesser comedians would fear to tread. As the first in an anticipated series of complete Bill Hicks performances to be released by Rykodisc, Flying Saucer Tour, Vol. 1 is a wonderful testament to the brilliance of one of the great liberal thinkers and comedic minds of the last 20 years. ~ Steve Bekkala, All Music Guide