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

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 September 30, 2008

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Asylum Street Spankers Austin, Texas

The magnificently indefinable Asylum Street Spankers stand as one of America's most distinctive groups. Defiantly acoustic, 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." ... more

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