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 comparied 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 ccoordinated 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
The Firesign Theatre
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

All tracks written by the Firesign Theatre.[9]

Disc one
No.TitleTimeAlbum
1Temporarily Humboldt County9:14Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him
2Beat The Reaper!2:53Waiting For the Electrician or Someone Like Him
3I Was A Cock-Teaser For Roosterama!3:05Dear Friends
4Ralph Spoilsport Motors7:05How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All
5The American Pageant9:07How Can You Be In Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All
6The Chinchilla Show2:38Dear Friends
7The Further Adventures of Nick Danger28:06How Can You Be In Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All
8Stab From The Past1:16Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers
9Ersatz Bros. Coffee0:47Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers
10"High School Madness!"6:48Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers
11Napalmolive0:52Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers
12Shoes for Industry!0:29Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers
1340 Great Unclaimed Melodies!2:26Dear Friends
14Station Break2:14Single release

Disc two
No.TitleTimeAlbum
15Forward Into The Past6:03Single release
16The Holygram's Song (Back From The Shadows Again)1:49I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus
17The Breaking of The President6:16I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus
18Deputy Dan Has No Friends2:27Dear Friends
19La Bomba Shelter1:10Not Insane or Anything You Want To
20Young Guy, Motor Detective8:02Not Insane or Anything You Want To
21Toad Away3:08Dear Friends
22Not Quite The Solution He Expected8:37The Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra
23Bear Whiz Beer0:30Everything You Know Is Wrong
24Happy Hour News2:51Everything You Know Is Wrong
25The Golden Hind4:34Everything You Know Is Wrong
26Air Force Training Film3:17Everything You Know Is Wrong
27Police Street14:53In the Next World, You're on Your Own
28Communist Love Song4:02TV or Not TV
29C'mon Jesus3:40Roller Maidens From Outer Space
30Nasi Goring2:51TV or Not TV
31Give Up This Day2:01TV or Not TV

[10]

References
  1. AllMusic
  2. The Encyclopedia of Popular Music-Colin Larkin-Google Books (pg.1126)
  4. The Virgin Encyclopedia of 70s Music-Google Books (pg.133)
  5. WorldCat.org
  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-Google Books (Vol.11, 1994)
  9. Shoes For Industry: The Best of the Firesign Theatre (liner notes). Laugh.com. 1993. Retrieved February 18, 2019.
  10. Spotify
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