Maria Bamford - How To Win! (c) 2007 Stand Up Records
Artist....: Maria Bamford
Album.....: How To Win!
Type......: Album
Source....: CDDA
Tracks....: 21
Genre.....: Comedy
Label.....: Stand Up Records
Catalogue#: SU 029
Encoder...: LAME 3.97
Quality...: VBR kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint-Stereo
URL.......: http://www.mariabamford.com
Tracklist:
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01 Opening Party 02:15
02 I Heart My Country 03:06
03 Mental Makeup 02:16
04 Competitive Living 02:22
05 Giant Corporation 03:39
06 Self Employed 03:13
07 Saddest Place In The World 01:52
08 Your Comedy Club 01:52
09 Fun Being Evil 02:29
10 Life In LA 02:40
11 TV 02:33
12 Super Confident People 01:51
13 The - Rapist 01:15
14 Alicia Keys 02:42
15 Credit Test 02:11
16 Depression 02:14
17 Dale Carnegie 02:02
18 Dad 03:18
19 Sister Sarah 03:03
20 Arch Enemy From High School 01:32
21 Aging 01:25
Total:60,5 MB / 49:50 min
Release Notes:
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Mom, Dad and bad bosses remain in Maria Bamford's crosshairs. But on
How to Win!, her new CD, the mild and crazy comedian hunts bigger game,
too. Instead of harpooning her victims, though, Bamford, a mannerly
Minnesotan, uses biting sarcasm to attack the pomposity, inequity and
idiocy gnawing at her.
On this follow-up to her Burning Bridges Tour CD, Bamford is slightly
less personal and much more political. Her signature soft voice barely
conceals the vitriol she harbors for her hardheaded, hard-hearted
targets.
Bamford jabs at George W. Bush and then expertly cuts down soulless
companies and clueless executives with the needles she injects into her
act. She especially frowns upon a Mickey Mouse organization for it's
alternately smiley-face and cutthroat approach to business.
She decries the extreme-makeover culture that equates changing
someone's hair color with changing the world. Bamford comically
crusades on behalf of the underpaid and the overlooked, meaning
sweatshop workers and temps, the slaves who drive the economy but walk
to work because they can't afford bus fare.
One segment of the 50-minute performance painfully yet hilariously
captures the all-too-familiar corporate ritual: cake for everyone...
well, everyone except the temp, the office outcast.
While Bamford raises her voice and some issues on How to Win!, she
still loves Mom, Dad and America...it's just that she finds them a bit
mortifying and frightening. :)