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Shoes For Industry!
Compilation album by
The Firesign Theatre
Released1993
GenreComedy
LabelLaugh.com
ProducerThe Firesign Theatre
The Firesign Theatre chronology
Eat or Be Eaten
(1985) 		Shoes For Industry!
(1993) 		Back From the Shadows
(1994)

Shoes For Industry: The Best of the Firesign Theatre is the eighteenth comedy album by the Firesign Theatre. Released in 1993 as a two-disk CD on Laugh.com, it is a compilation of tracks from the group's recorded albums. It is an expanded version of the 1976 Columbia Records LP compilation Forward Into The Past, containing 31 tracks comparied to the previous 18. Unlike the 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 occurred on the 25th anniversary of the of the group's recording career, and their reunion national tour, Back From the Shadows.[1]

Track listing[edit]

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Disc one[edit]

No. Title Time Album
1 Temporarily Humbolt 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[edit]

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 Air Force 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

External links[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Shoes For Industry: The Best of the Firesign Theatre (liner notes). Laugh.com. 1993. Retrieved February 18, 2019.
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