What? And Give Up Show Biz?, by Asylum Street Spankers

What? And Give Up Show Biz?

by Asylum Street Spankers

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1.	"Ladies and Gentlemen... I've Wasted My Life" 02:02	download
2.	Everybody Loves My Baby 03:20	download
3.	"Nice Theater" 00:16	download
4.	"My Country's Calling Me" 00:48	download
5.	Winning the War on Drugs 04:16	download
6.	Blue Prelude 05:40	download
7.	"It's good to be here in, uh...." 00:50	download
8.	Why Do It Right? 03:41	download
9.	"Stanley and Wammo" 01:49	download
10.	Since I Met You Baby 06:25	download
11.	"Gig from Hell" 01:09	download
12.	Monkey Rag 03:42	download
13.	"The Morning Moron Mob" 01:01	download
14.	Medley of Burned Out Songs 02:45	download
15.	Beer 03:50	download
16.	"Strange Talents" 01:38	download
17.	Leaf Blower 03:55	download
18.	"The Bus Story" 07:10	download
19.	Think About Your Troubles 03:15	download
20.	"Daddy Drinks Because You Cry" 00:57	download
21.	You Only Love Me For My Lunchbox 06:27	download
22.	"Y'all like love songs?" 01:36	download
23.	My Baby in the CIA 05:39	download
24.	"Read thinner books." 01:07	download
25.	Asylum Street Blues 05:15	download
26.	Breathin' 03:07	download
27.	"bathroom break" 00:40	download
28.	Big Noise From Winnetka 04:10	download
29.	Hick Hop 04:56	download
30.	Got My Mojo Workin' 04:04	download
31.	"take a good look..." 01:21	download
32.	My Favorite Record 05:47	download
33.	"Encore!" 01:12	download
34.	Blade of Grass 04:21	download
35.	"Requests?" 00:47	download
36.	Pakalolo Baby 04:10	download
37.	Tight Like That 05:10	download
38.	Wake and Bake 03:22	download
39.	TV Party 04:14	download
40.	"goodnight" 00:36	download
41.	Stick Magnetic Ribbons on Your SUV 03:30	download

about

A man works long hours at the circus, cleaning up after the animals and giving enemas to constipated elephants. A friend, observing the menial nature of the work, offers to help the man find another job. The man replies, "What? And give up show biz?"

The punch line to that worn-out vaudeville joke served as the title when the Asylum Street Spankers set up shop for two weeks in January 2008 at New York's Barrow Street Theatre to look back on their underwhelming career and complain about their place in the music world. Juicing their acclaimed live show with a double shot of theatricality, the Spankers presented a musical revue and memoir of the troupe's fourteen year history. Featuring many of the most popular songs in their large repertoire along with tales of the ups and downs of life on the road, the show ran for fourteen performances, garnering good critical response, strong ticket sales and many free drinks for the band.

All fourteen shows were recorded, then edited to make this album.

"What? And Give Up Show Biz?" contains adult humor, including frank discussions of sexuality, drug use and/or rock and roll. It also contains four-part harmonies, blues, country, pop, jazz, rock and hip-hop songs, inventively clever arrangements, and a musical saw.

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released 30 September 2008

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The magnificently indefinable Asylum Street Spankers stand as one of America's most distinctive groups. Defiantly acoustic, ... more fiercely independent and absurdly good, one reviewer aptly described them as "a roots-rock riddle, nestled in a satirical Vaudeville enigma, packaged in an old-timey radio-show puzzle and slathered with hippie-fried mystery sauce." less