One can't help but feel both elated and sad when listening to this colossal overview of Richard Pryor's recorded work. Multiple sclerosis has silenced the greatest humorist of his generation, and that's tragic for Pryor. But it's also a heartbreaking loss for comedy, for, as these discs amply illustrate, the man who exploded the parameters of stage comedy in the '70s could have taken it in wild new directions. As it was, Pryor fleshed out Lenny Bruce's commitment to brutal honesty--and with a keener acting ability. This nine-CD set includes the comic's seven Warner Bros. LPs, plus a disc of previously unissued material and a rare 25-minute interview from 1983. Listening to the likes of 1974's That Nigger's Crazy and 1978's Live in Concert, it's obvious that while the man shaped comedy for decades to come, very few of those who've followed in his footsteps have anything near the talent, fearlessness, wisdom, or insight that Pryor possessed. Or the pain, for that matter. But as Pryor observed looking back at his peak years, "I was a drug-addicted, paranoid, frightened, lonely, sad, and frustrated comedian who had gotten too big for his britches." All those qualities come through loud and clear on these discs, but what he's left out is that, at the very same time, he was also very possibly the funniest man on the planet. --Steven Stolder
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Tracks:
- Super Nigger
- Girls
- Farting
- Prison Play
- T.V. Panel Show
- Smells
- Army Life
- Frankenstein
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- I Hope I'm Funny
- Nigger With A Seizure
- Have Your Ass Home By 11:00
- Black & White Life Styles
- Exorcist
- Wino Dealing With Dracula
- Flying Saucers
- The Back Down
- Black Man/White Woman
- Niggers Vs. The Police
- Wino & Junkie
Tracks:
- Eulogy
- Shortage Of White People
- New Niggers
- Cocaine
- Just Us
- Mudbone - Intro
- Mudbone - Little Feets
- When Your Woman Leaves You
- The Goodnight Kiss
- Women Are Beautiful
- Our Text For Today
- Ali
Tracks:
- Hillbilly
- Black & White Women
- Our Gang
- Bicentennial Prayer
- Black Hollywood
- Mudbone Goes To Hollywood
- Chinese Restaurant
- Acid
- Bicentennial Nigger
Tracks:
- New Year's Eve
- White And Black People
- Black Funerals
- Discipline
- Heart Attacks
- Ali
- Keeping In Shape
- Leon Spinks
Tracks:
- Dogs And Horses
- Jim Brown
- Monkeys
- Kids
- Nature
- Things In The Woods
- Deer Hunter
- Chinese Food
- Being Sensitive
Tracks:
- Women
- Prison
- Africa
- Mafia Club
- Mudbone
- Freebase
- Hospital
Tracks:
- Here And Now
- Southern Hospitality
- Slavery
- Motherland
- I Met The President
- Fire Exit
- Mudbone (Part One)
- Mudbone (Part Two)
- Inebriated
- One Night Stands
- One Day At A Time
- I Like Women
- Being Famous
- I Remember
- Interview
Tracks:
- Introduction
- Mudbone Goes To Hollywood (Alternate Version)
- Fame (Part One)
- Black Messiah
- Life
- Death
- My Funeral
- Acid (Alternate Version)
- Patty Hearst
- Fighting
- The Law
- History Lesson
- I Don't Give A Fuck
- Fame (Part Two)
- Therapy
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One can't help but feel both elated and sad when listening to this colossal overview of Richard Pryor's recorded work. Multiple sclerosis has silenced the greatest humorist of his generation, and that's tragic for Pryor. But it's also a heartbreaking loss for comedy, for, as these discs amply illustrate, the man who exploded the parameters of stage comedy in the '70s could have taken it in wild new directions. As it was, Pryor fleshed out Lenny Bruce's commitment to brutal honesty--and with a keener acting ability. This nine-CD set includes the comic's seven Warner Bros. LPs, plus a disc of previously unissued material and a rare 25-minute interview from 1983. Listening to the likes of 1974's That Nigger's Crazy and 1978's Live in Concert, it's obvious that while the man shaped comedy for decades to come, very few of those who've followed in his footsteps have anything near the talent, fearlessness, wisdom, or insight that Pryor possessed. Or the pain, for that matter. But as Pryor observed looking back at his peak years, "I was a drug-addicted, paranoid, frightened, lonely, sad, and frustrated comedian who had gotten too big for his britches." All those qualities come through loud and clear on these discs, but what he's left out is that, at the very same time, he was also very possibly the funniest man on the planet. --Steven StolderCustomer Reviews:
Simply put, the MOTHERLODE!.......2006-11-08
Aside from the material on EVOLUTION/REVOLUTION (containing much of the material recorded for Laff records and elsewhere), this is the complete above-ground recordings of Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor, and then some!
From the first Pryor Lp in 1968, we get the embyonic genius of PRISON PLAY (aka Black Ben The Blacksmith), and early classic on the theme of interracial sex during slavery in a play at a prison overseen by a racist warden-with Pryor voicing all the characters! TV PANEL SHOW is along similar lines, as our hero does all the voices of the said subject.
SUPERN(egro) aside, the other routines here are not so hot, but you get a good glimpse of what was to come.
On to THAT N(egro)'s CRAZY where our man does polished versions of the routines he had been doing for the past few years in LIVE & SMOKIN, WATTSTAX, and CRAPS AFTER HOURS regarding sex, the police, racism, etc. This is where he became a "ghetto superstar" on the verge of exploding into mainstream America.
IS IT SOMETHING I SAID (1975) is his best unified work (to me). Not only do we get the classic OUR TEXT FOR TODAY (his classic take on the ministry), we also get chapter 1 of the MUDBONE saga, Pryor's ingenius take on the old folklore-spouting tale-spinning wise black men once found on every street corner in America.
BICENTENNIAL N(egro) is largely forgotten today, but it shouldn't be. This is Pryor's magnum opus on being Black in America during the nation's 200th birthday. Like Brian Wilson's SMILE and Marvin Gaye's WHAT'S GOING ON, it should be heard in its entirety to be effective.
On to the live albums LIVE IN CONCERT, LIVE ON THE SUNSET STRIP, and HERE AND NOW. The first is considered a classic. Has its moments, but he's done things that I've liked better. In the second, he recounces the N-word which gets a standing-o from me and delivers part 2 of the MUDBONE saga. The latter is a lesser work, but he puts some racist hecklers in check, gets into a really cool improvised conversation with a fiddler crab that a fan puts onstage.
The previously unreleased bits are largely a treasure-BLACK MESSIAH and HISTORY LESSON are masterpieces that mix the profane and profound, with verbal nuclear bombs and breathtaking social observations that make you laugh and gasp at the same time. PATTY HEARST is a skewered but interesting take on the famous kidnapping (one of the few occasional bits that it would help to be a history buff or a 70s person to dig), but MS is a very sad piece, probably one of his last recordings, as he ruminates on the effects this disease has on him. It's not likely that you'll want to hear that one more than once.
Overall, this is an amazing collection well worth the price that works in both ways as laugh material you can bring your buddies over for beer and pizza for (as I did with a number of these albums during my college years)and something you can really meditate and think over. This set is the ultimate legacy that Richard Pryor left to the world. RIP.
HILARIOUS.......2006-11-06
Sets the Standard for Modern Stand-Up Comedy.......2006-11-02
Summing up--Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Bernie Mac, etc. all are great comedians--but once you hear Pryor, you know that he set the standard for all to come!
Greatness but now for the iPod issues with it.......2006-04-18
Worth Its Weight in Gold..........2005-10-22
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