In the Next World, You're on Your Own

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In the Next World, You're on Your Own
Cover art by William Stout
Studio album by
The Firesign Theatre
ReleasedOctober 1975
GenreComedy
Length44:00
LabelColumbia
ProducerPhil Austin and David Ossman
The Firesign Theatre chronology
Everything You Know Is Wrong
(1974) 		In the Next World, You're on Your Own
(1975)
Forward Into The Past

(1976)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The New Rolling Stone Record Guide
[1]
The Goldmine Comedy Record Price Guide[2]

In the Next World, You're on Your Own is the ninth and last comedy album recorded by the Firesign Theatre for Columbia Records. It was released in October 1975.

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Police Street" – 21:30

Side two

  1. "We've Lost Our Big Kabloona" – 22:30[3]

Detailed track information and commentary

The first side of the album, "Police Street", features a group of sketches interconnected by the kind of police show satire reminiscent of

Native Americans. In surreal fashion, the police satire also plays out a family drama. In this drama the main characters are: the hard-boiled Lieutenant Detective Random Coolzip; his wife, Peggy, who is also his dispatcher; their son, Skip Coolzip, a junior policeman; and their daughter, Kim, a pornographic film
actress.

Several side sketches are interwoven with the police drama. In the first, a commercial for Dead Cat Soap segues into a

fascist
media pigs.'"

The second side of the album, "We've Lost Our Big Kabloona", culminates in the hostage situation, on stage during the live broadcast of the Academy Awards. While accepting an award for a police/family drama called "Squat!," which stars their parents and seems identical to the show on the first side of the album, Skip and Kim Coolzip reveal a gun. They demand that the President of the United States appear in Hollywood "with a plane full of cash and all those broken treaties," or they will shoot the nominees one by one in alphabetical order. This sketch was inspired by Sacheen Littlefeather's appearance at the 1973 Academy Awards.

In the liner notes, thanks are given to authors Jorge Luis Borges and Raymond Chandler.

This album was the only commercial album during the group's Columbia Records period that was released under the group name but not crediting all four members as writers. The script is formally credited only to Phil Austin and David Ossman, although the other two members, Peter Bergman and Philip Proctor, honed their parts further during recording. The result did not sell well, and the label declined to renew the group's contract.

This album was recorded in the same

Warner Brothers studio in Burbank, California, where John Lennon and Harry Nilsson recorded Pussy Cats
. The same engineer worked on both albums.

Release history

This album was originally released simultaneously on LP and 8 Track.

It has been re-released on

CD
at least once

  • 2001 - Laugh.com LGH1078 [5]

Memorable quotes

The album's quote "Eat flaming death,

Zot
, from 1984: "Eat flaming death, you fascist pig!".

Cover art

The album cover by William Stout references many of Firesign Theatre's previous albums.

Also appearing on the back cover are all four members in cartoon form.

External sources

  • Firesign Theatre. In the Next World, You're on Your Own. Columbia Records, 1975.
  • Firesign Theatre. Firesign Theatre
  • "Firezine: Linques!." Firesign Theatre FAQ
  • Marsh, Dave, and Greil Marcus. "The Firesign Theatre." The New Rolling Stone Record Guide. Ed. Dave Marsh and John Swenson. New York: Random House, 1983. 175-176.
  • Smith, Ronald L. The Goldmine Comedy Record Price Guide. Iola: Krause, 1996. 124-127.

References

  1. ^ Marsh, Dave, and Greil Marcus. "The Firesign Theatre." The New Rolling Stone Record Guide. Ed. Dave Marsh and John Swenson. New York: Random House, 1983. 175-176.
  2. ^ Smith, Ronald L. The Goldmine Comedy Record Price Guide. Iola: Krause, 1996. 124-127.
  3. ^ Firesign Theatre. In the Next World, You're on Your Own. Columbia Records, 1975.
  4. ^ "Welcome to the World's Biggest Firesign Theatre FAQ!". Retrieved December 23, 2020.
  5. ^ "Firesign Theatre — In The Next World You're On Your Own CD — Audio Only." Laugh.com. Laugh.com. 11 February 2006<"Firesign Theatre - in the Next World You're on Your Own CD - AUDIO ONLY". Archived from the original on 2005-04-09. Retrieved 2006-02-13.>
  6. ISBN 9780262680929
    .
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