Monday, December 27, 2010

The Greatest Album of All Time...

...is, obviously, a live original cast recording of a mime show.



This is not a joke, by the way; this album was actually released in 1978, while Mummenschanz was wowing them on Broadway.

Here's the track listing.

Side 1:

BLOB, CREEPY CRAWLY, WORM, GREEN MOUTH, SIX HEADS, SLINKY, FROG, INSECT, RABBIT, CAT, APE TO MAN

Side 2:

TOILET PAPER, GERRY CANS, NOTE PADS, CLAY MASKS
Uncredited bonus tracks include COUGHING, RUSTLING IN SEATS, and JEWISH WOMAN IN ROW C COMPLAINING ABOUT HER HAIRDRESSER BEFORE THE CURTAIN RISES.

I bring all this up because I have just learned that a certain person near and dear to me almost sprung for a copy of this on eBay, intended as a Christmas present, but at the last minute thought better of it.

If any of our faithful readers, however, should be so moved as to acquire it for me, you can find the LP -- apparantly still shrink-wrapped and unplayed -- over here.

I, of course, will immediately have the album transferred into the digital domain and then post mp3s of the best moments when appropriate.

Thank you in advance for your diligence in this regard.

5 comments:

Tierra Madre Horse Sanctuary said...

Why, Steven - Show tunes?!?

Faze said...

I saw that show on Broadway. It was great! Not all other Mummenschanz shows I've been to subsequent to that have been so great. You have to get the "A" cast, or Bunk no. 1, or whatever. These people aren't so much mimes, as dancers -- not that I remember the music in the slightest.

Anonymous said...

kind of like hearing a mime on radio.

AP

little field said...

"Six Heads" rocks like hell.

Anonymous said...

Hey! Your mother ashamed of you should be!

--- Jewish Woman in Row C