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- Date Released: March 4, 2008
- Genre: Soundtracks/Other
- Style: Comedy
- Label: Comedy Central Records
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We Say...
It takes a great comedian to make Mick Jagger reading his e-mail into a joke. Luckily, Todd Barry is up for the job. Barry's deadpan delivery (and attempted English accent) are hilariously funny throughout the e-mail bit and the rest of From Heaven. The album is Barry's third on Comedy Central Records and it finds him holding forth on a range of topics that include the ridiculousness of rating a hotel based on the sweet smell of their soap, the reason that Chipotle is delicious and the schadenfreude associated with learning that even Bruce Springsteen has terrible friends.
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They Say...
Comedian Todd Barry isn't so much tortured as terminally ticked. His delivery is quiet, laid-back, kinda creepy, and comes with plenty of acid, but on his third album that uneasy feeling comes on less often than before. Here, Barry communicates and connects with his audience like a true pro. Mundane everyday this-and-that like shopping at Trader Joe's or Old Navy are now hot topics, and Barry's ability to improvise has grown, putting him and the widely appreciative audience captured here in tune. Thanks to the improved pacing of the unsettling and strange material, where to laugh is all the more obvious, pointing him in the direction of Steven Wright when it always seemed he could have gone Andy Kaufman. His routine doesn't dwell on any topic for too long and he makes sharp right turns with abandon. Still, when he goes from discussing his own CDs to imagining Bruce Springsteen getting stood up right before dreaming aloud about running into George W. Bush at party, it's a surprisingly smooth ride. Above it all, Barry is sharp, funny, and able to point out the absurd things in life most everyone else skips over. His forever beaten down and bitter attitude makes him an acquired taste, but this is his strongest work yet so if you don't like From Heaven than you just don't like Todd Barry.
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| 01. |  |
Working With Me |
2:20 |
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| 02. | |
Leak, Looking For Apartment, Friend Looking For Apartment |
2:38 |
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| 03. | |
Guy Who Needs Help, Been To NYC?, Driving With Friend |
3:21 |
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| 04. | |
Preachy Singer, English Washer, Alabama, Pittsburgh |
3:05 |
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| 05. | |
Birthdays, Challenge, Cambridge, Noodle Gift |
5:51 |
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| 06. | |
Prairie Dogs, Sweet Soap |
2:32 |
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| 07. | |
MySpace, Unbelievable Questions, Guy Who Reads Email, UF |
6:19 |
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| 08. | |
Chipotle, Trader Joe’s |
2:32 |
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| 09. | |
Old Navy, Short Shop |
2:37 |
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| 10. | |
Todd’s Address, Stay With Todd, Limo, Container Store |
3:43 |
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| 11. | |
Anal, Set An Alarm |
2:28 |
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| 12. | |
Amex, Pastry Chef |
1:35 |
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| 13. | |
Nurse’s T-Shirt, Kid’s T-Shirt |
1:18 |
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| 14. | |
Selling CDs, Springsteen At Bar, Moore At Party, Gawker |
3:56 |
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| 15. | |
Potter, Chinese Restaurant Conversation |
2:13 |
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| 16. | |
Fridge, Audience Member’s Tab, Best Celebrity Sighting |
4:45 |
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16 Total Tracks, 51:13 Total Length
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Credits
- Steve Rossiter - Engineer // Steve Rossiter - Mastering // Jack Vaughn - Producer // Todd Barry - Photography
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