The best Comedy & Spoken Word albums: Reddit reviews

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I assume most people on here know that Rick Moranis is an absolutely amazing human being who quit the industry to raise his kids after his wife died. One of the only things he has done since then as an entertainer is put out a really fun album of cowboy country music. You should check it out: https://www.amazon.com/Agoraphobic-Cowboy-Rick-Moranis/dp/B000E115CC

Remember to suggest for next week. Also who would like a RMVF Playlist? And for those Weird Al fans like myself out there his new Album "Mandatory Fun" just came out, you can pick up a Physical Copy on Amazon or a Digital Copy on iTunes.

My sister got me a cd years ago, it's a compilation of some of the schoolhouse rock songs done by some pretty good bands. Must be put of print since Amazon shows it at $45 now: https://www.amazon.com/Schoolhouse-Rock-Rocks-Various-Artists/dp/B000005J80 It is absolutely awesome.

Looked around but it'd not on any immediate streams I could find, but here is the set on Amazon. Worth every penny for a fan, and I paid more upon it's initial release...

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There's a DVD you can get of the originals, and there are a bunch of pop stars who have done covers. The R&B version of "Mr. Morton" is really good (and I'm not a big fan of hip-hop or R&B).

Found it. Rock it, Skee-Lo.

Edit: Found where these come from: Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks from Atlantic Records. Most of the tracks have been put together with the original cartoons on YouTube as well. I'm so impressed with how well some of these were done.

I totally own this DVD. And a book with the lyrics and some behind-the-scenes stuff. And the Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks CD from the 90s.

And I'm not even a teacher or a parent! Yet still, no shame. SHR is awesome!

I was quoting a brief history of rhyme, by MC Hawking -- from "e=MC Hawking"...

http://www.amazon.com/Brief-History-Rhyme-Greatest-Hits/dp/B00069YE70/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323369703&sr=8-1

EDIT: Thought it was Quakemaster, I was solid gold WRONG!

I have a CD entitled Closed on Account of Rabies that has Gabriel Byrne reading Poe's short fantasy-horror piece, "The Masque of the Red Death." Byrne has a great voice for that sort of thing. His rendition is positively chilling.

The Amazon page for the CD has a brief sample.

Dude, I heard "Dirty Love" on a classic rock station, and when I bought the CD I found it on, it was a compilation CD that was put out in the mid 90's called "Strictly Commercial". I listened to the CD once, broke out in a cold sweat, nearly came, and dropped to my knees babbling like a southern baptist preacher in the midst of a well rehearsed glossolalia, as the inward parts of my brain convulsed in ecstasy. It really runs the Zappa gambit of some of his most hook laden works, and isn't burdened by all the jazz fusion stuff that you may or may not like later.

>Frank Zappa 101. As close as anyone has come to a definitive greatest hits set, Strictly Commercial manages to encapsulate much, if not most, of a career that deliberately defied any such attempts. This is the most accessible single collection of Zappa's music available, containing familiar ditties such as "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow," "Joe's Garage," and the radio hit, "Valley Girl." Those skeptical of his guitar work will most certainly find the included selections, "Sexual Harassment in the Workplace," "I'm the Slime," and "Muffin Man" to be educational. Excellent for whetting the appetites of potential Zappa fanatics. --Andrew Boscardin