Shoes for Industry: The Best of the Firesign Theatre

Shoes For Industry: The Best of the Firesign Theatre is the eighteenth comedy album by the Firesign Theatre.[3] Released in 1993[4] as a two-disk CD[5] on Laugh.com, it is a compilation of tracks from the group's albums recorded during their Golden Age (1968–1975) for Columbia Records. It is an expanded version of the 1976 Columbia compilation LP Forward Into The Past, containing 31 tracks compared to the previous 18.[6] Unlike that LP, it also contains some selections from two solo albums, Proctor and Bergman's TV or Not TV and Phil Austin's Roller Maidens From Outer Space. Its release was coordinated with Back From the Shadows: The Firesign Theatre's 25th Anniversary Reunion Tour.[7][8]

Shoes For Industry! The Best of the Firesign Theatre
Greatest hits album by
Released1993 [1]
GenreComedy
Length151:10
LabelLaugh.com
Columbia Records (former) [2]
ProducerThe Firesign Theatre
The Firesign Theatre chronology
Eat or Be Eaten
(1985)
Shoes For Industry! The Best of the Firesign Theatre
(1993)
Back From the Shadows: The Firesign Theatre's 25th Anniversary Reunion Tour
(1994)

Track listing

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All tracks written by the Firesign Theatre.[9]

Disc one

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No. Title Time Album
1 Temporarily Humboldt County 9:14 Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him
2 Beat the Reaper! 2:53 Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him
3 I Was a Cock-Teaser for Roosterama! 3:05 Dear Friends
4 Ralph Spoilsport Motors 7:05 How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All
5 The American Pageant 9:07 How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All
6 The Chinchilla Show 2:38 Dear Friends
7 The Further Adventures of Nick Danger 28:06 How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All
8 Stab From the Past 1:16 Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers
9 Ersatz Bros. Coffee 0:47 Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers
10 "High School Madness!" 6:48 Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers
11 Napalmolive 0:52 Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers
12 Shoes for Industry! 0:29 Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers
13 40 Great Unclaimed Melodies! 2:26 Dear Friends
14 Station Break 2:14 Single release

Disc two

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No. Title Time Album
15 Forward Into the Past 6:03 Single release
16 The Holygram's Song (Back From the Shadows Again) 1:49 I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus
17 The Breaking of the President 6:16 I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus
18 Deputy Dan Has No Friends 2:27 Dear Friends
19 La Bomba Shelter 1:10 Not Insane or Anything You Want To
20 Young Guy, Motor Detective 8:02 Not Insane or Anything You Want To
21 Toad Away 3:08 Dear Friends
22 Not Quite the Solution He Expected 8:37 The Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra
23 Bear Whiz Beer 0:30 Everything You Know Is Wrong
24 Happy Hour News 2:51 Everything You Know Is Wrong
25 The Golden Hind 4:34 Everything You Know Is Wrong
26 The Army Training Film 3:17 Everything You Know Is Wrong
27 Police Street 14:53 In the Next World, You're on Your Own
28 Communist Love Song 4:02 TV or Not TV
29 C'mon Jesus 3:40 Roller Maidens From Outer Space
30 Nasi Goring 2:51 TV or Not TV
31 Give Up This Day 2:01 TV or Not TV

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References

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  1. ^ AllMusic
  2. ^ The Encyclopedia of Popular Music-Colin Larkin-Google Books (pg.1126)
  3. ^ "Firesign Theatre Discography". dmdb.org. Retrieved 2021-09-05.
  4. ^ Larkin, Colin (2002). The Virgin Encyclopedia of 70s Music. Virgin. ISBN 978-1-85227-947-9.
  5. ^ Shoes for industry!: the best of the Firesign Theatre, New York: Columbia/Legacy, 1993, OCLC 29237491, retrieved 2021-09-05
  6. ^ "Firesign Theatre". Archived from the original on 2021-02-05.
  7. ^ Simels, Steve (1993). Putting It Simply, There's Never Been Anything Like The Firesign Theatre Before or Since (liner notes). Laugh.com. Retrieved February 18, 2019.
  8. ^ New Age Journal. Rising Star Associates. 1994.
  9. ^ Shoes For Industry: The Best of the Firesign Theatre (liner notes). Laugh.com. 1993. Retrieved February 18, 2019.
  10. ^ Spotify