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Track Listing
DISC 1: WE LAUGHED:
1. Peter Pan - (an interview with Jack Hitt)
2. Drama Bug - (with David Sedaris)
3. Letterman! Cookies! - (with Dishwasher Pete)
4. Mr. Loh's Not Afraid to Be Naked - (with Sandra Tsing-Loh)
5. Teen Getaway - (with Cheryl Trykv)
6. Shooting Dad - (with Sarah Vowell)
DISC 2: WE CRIED:
1. Get Over It! - (with Ira Glass)
2. Hands on a Hard Body - (an interview with Rob Bindler)
3. Test, The - (with Scott Carrier)
4. Christmas Freud - (with David Rakoff)
5. Apology Line - (an interview with Marissa Bridge)
| Details | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
LIES, SISSIES & FIASCOES: THE BEST OF THIS AMERICAN LIFE features segments from the syndicated NPR program.
Producers include: Peter Clowney, Ira Glass, Julie Snyder, Alix Spiegel, Nancy Updike.
Compilation producers: Ira Glass, Nancy Updike.
Includes liner notes by Mr. Ira Glass.
Digitally remastered by Dan Hersch (DigiPrep).
This two-disc compilation serves as a useful introduction to NPR's "This American Life." Every week, host Ira Glass explores a theme--lies, sissies and fiascoes being but three--through interviews, readings, found tapes, and deeply revealing audio autobiographies. The discs are nominally funny and sad, but the best "This American Life pieces" manage to be both at once.
Highlights include Glass's hilariously awkward recounting of a shopping expedition with an ex-girlfriend, Jack Hitt's screamingly funny tale of a disastrous college production of PETER PAN, the sweet father-daughter bonding of Sarah Vowell's "Shooting Dad," and David Rakoff's reminiscences of playing Freud in a Christmas window at Barneys. Sadly, the collection doesn't include the show's most famous piece, David Sedaris's "Santaland Diaries," or Vowell's brilliant examination of the interpersonal dynamics of mix tapes, or any of the hundreds of other small masterpieces the show churns out weekly, but it's a fine start.
Industry Reviews
...this two-CD anthology is a welcome keepsake....park on a side street, press PLAY, and you'll laugh 'til you cry. - Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly (06/04/1999)
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