Track Listing

1. Intro
2. Summertime
3. The F Word
4. Smoking
5. Yul Brynner
6. Trying To Quit
7. The News
8. The War
9. Worst Audience Ever
10. More War
11. Are You Guys Drug Dealers?
12. Praying For Nuclear Holocaust
13. Girl of your Dreams
14. Young Lady
15. Vs The Audience 1
16. What's Wrong?
17. Vs The Audience 2
18. School Days
19. Vs The Audience 3
20. Working
21. Great Times on Drugs
22. Mandatory Marijuana
23. Penthouse Letters
24. Talking Car
25. Summer Trip
26. Drugs Have Done Good Things
27. Menu?
28. Beelzebozo
29. Cause of Sexual Thought
30. Mechanics of Pornography
31. Goodnight

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #52070 in Music
• Released on: 2002-11-11
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
Flying Saucer Tour Vol 1 is the first in what will hopefully be an exhaustive series of archived Bill Hicks performances. This one, as the sleeve notes admit, is something of a cut-and-shut job: on this particular night in Pittsburgh in 1991, Hicks got carried away and went on for longer than his tape, so the closing stages of this routine are spliced from another show in the same run. The compilers are unnecessarily apologetic: there's no way any listener would notice the edit if they hadn't been told.

Flying Saucer Tour Vol 1 captures Hicks in magnificently combative form, spurred to spectacular heights by a crowd he takes exception to--"the worst audience I've ever faced", he jeers at them after 15 minutes, before going on to accuse them of responding to his routine like "a dog that's been shown a card trick". His hostility is strange--it certainly sounds like they're laughing--but it brings out the best in him. Many of the bits here will be familiar to Hicks fans--his ruminations on smoking, the Gulf War, drugs and pornography--but they were never delivered better than this. --Andrew Mueller

Customer Reviews

Flying Saucer
This is an album of one of Hicks' sets in it's entirety and shows how he carried on in the face of a lack lustre audience and with heckling. It isn't necessarily the best place to start if you're new to Hicks. I'd say it's more for die hard fans who want something extra. Parts of it are uncomfortable to listen to and yet it is compelling the whole way through. A worthy addition to Hicks' catalogue, but not the best example of his unique and outstanding comedy.

Genius!
Any1 who rates billy connelly and the goons as the height of comedy has no business rating bill hicks and misses the point.

Not the best
First of all, let me say that I am a huge fan of Bill Hicks. He is without a doubt the greatest stand-up I have ever heard.
However, in this particular performance you just get the impression that he's done the same material so many times that he is sick to death of it(in fact he says this at the beginning) and he just wants to get through it as quick as possible. This comes across in the performance and has an adverse effect on the material, making it less funny. His stuff is so powerful that you want him to sound like he means it. He doesn't give it the commitment it deserves in this show.
The other reason I have given it 3 stars is that they just seem to be putting out the same stuff time and time again. I can't remember hearing anything on this cd that I hadn't already heard. Obviously it is not unusual for a comic to perform the same material over and over again, but most them only release it once. There must be some different material about so why don't they put that out. If not, what's the point of releasing different shows if it's the same jokes in every one.
If you are new to Hicks, there are cds you should get before this one, and if you get those there really is no point buying this one. Therfore, I think this cd should not have even been released.

God bless Bill Hicks.