| 词条 | Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death |
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| name = Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death | type = studio | artist = The Firesign Theatre | cover = Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death album cover.jpg | alt = | released = {{Start date|1998|09}} | recorded = February 3—April 1, 1998 | venue = | studio = Sunburst Recording, Culver City, CA | genre = Comedy | length = | label = Rhino | producer = The Firesign Theatre | prev_title = Pink Hotel Burns Down | prev_year = 1996 | next_title = Boom Dot Bust | next_year = 1999 }}Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death is a comedy album by the Firesign Theatre that was released in 1998 on Rhino Records. Its main theme satirizes 1990s radio formats and public hysteria over the Y2K programming bug. Give Me Immortality... is the first of the Firesign Theatre's Millenium CD trilogy We're Doomed, which includes Boom Dot Bust and Bride of Firesign.[1] SynopsisThe album takes the form of a fictional radio broadcast on the night of December 31, 1999.[2] Radio Now is a radio station in FunFunTown (apparently modeled after Los Angeles, California) whose format changes approximately every hour at the slightest whims of overzealous market researchers and focus groups. The album chronicles Radio Now's attempt to operate normally on the final day before the year 2000, a day riddled with apocalyptic omens, rampant computer errors, and dangerous doomsayers. The station is populated by DJ Bebop Lobo (Phil Austin), his producer Dwayne (Peter Bergman), news anchors Harold Hiphugger (David Ossman) and Ray Hamberger (Philip Proctor), sports commentator Chump Threads (Bergman), and self-help guru O'Nann Winquedinque (Austin).[3] Also reporting from outside the station are celebrity stalker Danny Vanilla (Ossman) and helicopter-bound traffic reporter Col. Happy Panditt (Proctor). ThemesThe album, made in 1998, lampoons the various world-threatening results which were being predicted from the Y2K bug. It also satirizes the media exploitation of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, the Joe Camel controversy, and the Art Bell radio show. A running gag involves eyeballs, which at one moment represent binary digits (the digit 1 resembles the letter I, a homophone of "eye", while the digit 0 is in the shape of a ball) and at other times seem to be an allusion to The Residents ("Guyz in Eyeball Hats"). Another is "U.S. Plus", an apparent multi-national conglomerate with intentionally vague commercials that hint at their all-encompassing presence ("We're U.S. Plus. We own the idea...of America!"). The urbane, sophisticated Goddess Airways commercials promise "no bloody babies" on their flights. References to earlier Firesign Theatre albumsUsed car dealer Ralph Spoilsport (Proctor), last heard in How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All, appears selling used body parts in a "going out of body" sale. Newscasters Harold Hiphugger (Ossman) and Ray Hamberger (Proctor), introduced in Everything You Know Is Wrong, work at the Radio Now station. Caroline Presskey (Proctor), a gameshow contestant on Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers, is heard in a telephone conversation. Track listing
References1. ^{{cite web|title=Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death|url=http://firesigntheatre.com/media/media.php?item=gmiogmd-rv|website=Firesign Media|accessdate=September 12, 2017}} {{Firesign Theatre}}2. ^{{cite news |last=Sirois |first=A. L. |url= https://www.sfsite.com/12b/give47.htm |title=Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death |work=SF Site |date=September 12, 1998 |accessdate=July 5, 2017}} 3. ^{{cite news |last=Roberts |first=Sam |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/26/arts/phil-austin-who-played-nick-danger-on-firesign-theater-dies-at-74.html |title=Phil Austin (a.k.a. Nick Danger) of Firesign Theater Dies at 74 |work=The New York Times |date=June 25, 2015 |accessdate=July 5, 2017}} 6 : The Firesign Theatre albums|1998 albums|Dystopian fiction|Rhino Records albums|Concept albums|1990s comedy albums |
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