Boom Dot Bust

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For a bunch of old guys, the Firesign Theatre are sure on a roll. They've followed up 1998's Grammy-nominated Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death with Boom Dot Bust a mind-blowing comedy masterpiece set in the heartland town of Billville. The residents are all named Bill, and there's a long history of natural disasters and lynching politicians ("I am the mayor. Re-elect me or hang me! That's the will of Bill!"). The all-new cast of characters also includes the Elmers of Elmertown, lifestyle expert Martha Glueit, and global action-movie star Charlie Fatt. It's a CD-length story, told Citizen Kane-style through a hilarious labyrinth of infomercials, talk shows, flashbacks, specialty cable channels, and a sermon from Rev. Barnstormer of the First Reformed Church of Science Fiction. In other words, it is the Firesign Theatre doing what they do best. Those crazy guys have reached a new creative peak that will have people grinning with joy and laughing out loud. --John Sulak

Boom Dot Bust,Firesign Theatre,Rhino / Wea,Comedy,Pop,Sketch Comedy,Spoken / Comedy / Radio Shows,Spoken Word Comedy

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Average customer rating: Stop Making Sense Boom.Bust or "Billville Dot Bus" Technical note: NOT a movie Computer Novices They Ben Round Bill Ya! Thank you

Boom Dot Bust Firesign Theatre Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Comedy | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Rhino Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Bride of Firesign Give Me Immortality Or Give Me Death Waiting for the Electrician Or Someone Like Him I Think We're All Bozos on this Bus Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers! ASIN: B00001WRKQ Release Date: 1999-10-19

Tracks:

1. Just Jinkin' Ya!
2. We Heart Billville
3. Drink Global, Eat Local
4. The Mayor Is The Problem
5. Buy The Numbers
6. Dishnet Sports Wrap-Up
7. Gov. Bill Williams Tornado Preserve
8. That Billville Sound!
9. Bless Their Strange Names
10. 'Kane!'
11. Super Racearound II
12. Weather With An Edge
13. The Digging Of Elmertown
14. Boom Dot Bust
15. Back Room At The Ash 'N' Onion
16. The Glue-It-Yourself Show
17. Collision City
18. Doom Bot Dust
19. Inside The Money Bubble
20. Devilmaster By Infermco
21. The Good, The Fatt And The Ugly
22. Three Schnooks In A Boat

Amazon.com

For a bunch of old guys, the Firesign Theatre are sure on a roll. They've followed up 1998's Grammy-nominated Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death with Boom Dot Bust a mind-blowing comedy masterpiece set in the heartland town of Billville. The residents are all named Bill, and there's a long history of natural disasters and lynching politicians ("I am the mayor. Re-elect me or hang me! That's the will of Bill!"). The all-new cast of characters also includes the Elmers of Elmertown, lifestyle expert Martha Glueit, and global action-movie star Charlie Fatt. It's a CD-length story, told Citizen Kane-style through a hilarious labyrinth of infomercials, talk shows, flashbacks, specialty cable channels, and a sermon from Rev. Barnstormer of the First Reformed Church of Science Fiction. In other words, it is the Firesign Theatre doing what they do best. Those crazy guys have reached a new creative peak that will have people grinning with joy and laughing out loud. --John Sulak

Customer Reviews:

Stop Making Sense.......2005-08-18

Well, this one was not as good as the ones that came before it. Let's face it.

However, there are still brilliant moments here...I especially liked their depiction of Billville - it reminded me a lot of Frank Zappa's song "Society Pages." But the lyrics are so wonderful:

"Billville, Billville
The town that nature forgot to hate.
Billville, Billville,
You move to Billville because it's your fate."

Where else can you get this kind of insight than from the Brothers Firesign?

And when, oh when, will Garrison Keillor ever acknowledge his just debt to these men, almost his exact contemporaries in age and in worldview??

Boom.Bust or "Billville Dot Bus".......2001-04-23

Hiya, Stubbles Whiskbrenth again, Me and the Fightin Clones were just taking a look around reading the latest reviews at amazon.com and thought of what the reviewers were saying about the different approach Billville Dot Bus would make profit wise and classic Firesign Theatre wise if rereleased and retitled or not from Boom Dot Bust to a format that really points up what we have learned from our twenty or so years here in Sioux Falls South Dakota about dis place called the midwestern United American States of life in the now age of Aquarius. And so without further hair doo hear ye is what the proper order of listening you can get with your programblabble CD player ting der, dear friendlies, in da order prescribed by the Doc Feelgood sense of money making school of continuity and continuation of identity for da group. Chapters:1. "KANE" 2. WE HEART BILLVILLE 3. THAT BILLVILLE SOUND 4. BLESS THEIR STRANGE NAMES 5. DRINK GLOBAL, EAT LOCAL 6. SUPER RACEAROUND II 7. DISHNET SPORTS WRAPUP 8. DOOM BOT DUST 9. INSIDE THE MONEY BUBBLE 10. THE GLUE IT YOURSELF SHOW 11. WEATHER WITH AN EDGE 12. BOOM DOT BUSTrunning time about 21 minutes Chapters: 13. DEVILMASTER BY INFERMCO 14. BUY THE NUMBERS 15. GOV. BILL WILLIAMS TORNADO                     PRESERVE 16. BACK ROOM AT THE ASH AND ONION 17. THE GOOD THE FATT AND THE UGLY 18. THE DIGGING OF ELMERTOWN 19. COLLISION CITY 20. THE MAYOR IS THE PROBLEM 21. JUST JINKIN' YA 22. THREE SCHNOOKS IN A BOATrunning time about 25 minutes

Technical note: NOT a movie.......2001-04-20

They aren't pointing this out in advertising, howeverthe Boom Dot Bust DVD is NOT a filmed version of Boom Dot Bust. It IS an AUDIO DVD. That is a dvd with a video menu made for dvd players that display the DVD AUDIO label. It DOES play on a DVD VIDEO player with a video menu but with out a DVD AUDIO player it does not play the special interview pages. I recommend it as a DVD player demagnetiser that shows you care enough about your DVD/CD player, video or audio to buy it the best quality disc made for it, rather than continuing to play your CD collection on your DVD player without giving it a "special" treatment now and then. That is why as a DVD I can only give it a lower rating in regards to star percentage. If you were expecting a movie version of Boom Dot Bust, which, in my opinion should be retitled "Billville" and rereleased with the "tracks", and "titles", in another, more classically "Firesign" order, you will just have to wait until the guys have filmed the work as the parody of midwestern life that it obviously is. It is less a spoof of the computer world for which the Firesgn Theatre is so famous since the days of "I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus", yet does contain some extremely intelligent and technically helpful references to the web phenomenon that has moved in, so to speak, as a permanent resident of modern electronic life now that we are fully into the Age of Aquarius. I still think that as a representative of that epoch that will continue for the next 15,733 years the recording should be filmed by the "boys" no matter how old they now look because it has a chance of making it in film competition and even a ninety minute experience when coupled with "Nick Danger's Case of the Missing Yolks", or Everything You Know Is Wrong, which are two of the Firesign's videos we have yet to see as DVD VIDEO, and they are hilarious. As I said, however, sales advertising should be careful to include bolder mention of the fact that the Boom Dot Bust DVD is essentially an AUDIO experience with "no movie" as yet.

Computer Novices They Ben Round Bill Ya!.......2001-03-27

Nobody needs a reviewer sitting around making everybody paranoid about the recording they purchased and are about to play on their expensive equipment but you know the theme runners the Firesign are famous for now includes, "We're Doomed" What the FST lacks as far as I am concerned is a publicityrelease stating what exactly are they up to, what is their writer trying to accomplish as far as relevant social content, what bank are they trying to rob, and why of all things a town called Billvilleon a recording that comes on with a P.C. oriented title getting to the computer references only once or twice during the whole experience. No, Boom Dot Bust is no Bozos on this Bus, no tribute to the computer that was going to clone us all. Yet, it is an extension of Dear Friends and a continuation of Don't Crush That Dwarf, without Porgy though. Tirebyter has now become Mayor Bill of Billville and he's executed by hanging in the background fortunately as the recording begins. A tornado threatens the area on the radio and at the lounge. I live and hopefully will have lived long enough in the midwest and north of the town of Sioux Falls South Dakota where there are hundreds of little ElmerTowns, but the scientist Elmer Fudd is not mentioned. Perhaps another hunting accident due to wascally wabbits on another label. Yes, they go hunting in Billville and fishing, at the end of the script. The girls are back as Martha Glueit's Town Girls and the tribute to those fans in drag is well worth the wait. But, dear people, the undercurrent of tornados taking our serenity from us may need mental help. The summer time scares in the midwest are serious and we'll rescue you boys or we'll try, not from the Congeroo but from the radio world you've challenged with a parody on the head for the cellar phenomena that attacks summer life in Bill- ville all summer long. A real f.m.a.m. trauma if ever there was.But face it Boom Dot Bust is humor of this type at its funniest because with the skill of a brain surgeon the writer and the boys take on "Bill" himself, not just one Bill or the bills you have toupeez but Bill Clinton and Bill W.C. Fields and Bill Shakespeare and Bill Shatner and of course who could forget the most powerful Bill in the computer world at this time Bill Gates pursued Microsoft monopoly leader and would be crime boss Internet Browser Patent Holder. Yes Mayor Bill is hanged on ths album. Let us pray it doesn't happen to your favorite Bill, at least not without an exorcism.

Thank you.......2000-07-26

"Boom Dot Bust" is wonderful--and totally unexpected. After waiting 20 years for a new creation ("The Three Faces of Al" was good, but Nick Danger was not new) I felt let down by "Give Me Imortality..." which was funny but pretty shallow. I was thinking "you can't catch lightning in a bottle twice" when "BDB" arrived. It was like finding a Firesign record from 1975 that I hadn't heard before. It has everything I love about Firesign: layer-upon-layer of delightful word-play, satire, and verbal slapstick. Just like "Bozos" you can listen over and over, with repeated pleasures-of-discovery. The 4 or 5 have recaptured their old magic. I hope they sell enough copies to encourage more new releases. My wife and kids don't understand any of it, though I've tried and tried to explain my "Uh Clem" license plate. If you enjoyed any classic Firesign, you'll enjoy "Boom Dot Bust."

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