Rant in E-Minor explained

Rant in E-Minor
Type:	live
Artist:	Bill Hicks
Cover:	Bill_Hicks-Rant_in_E-Minor.jpg
Released:	February 25, 1997
Recorded:	November 1992 – December 1993
Genre:	Comedy
Length:	73:54
Label:	Rykodisc RCD 10353
Producer:	Kevin Booth
Prev Title:	Arizona Bay
Prev Year:	1997
Next Year:	2001

Rant in E-Minor is an album by stand-up comedian and satirist Bill Hicks. Both this album and a similar album of new material, Arizona Bay, were released posthumously by Rykodisc on February 25, 1997, marking three years since Hicks' death.^[1]

The material on this album is darker and angrier in tone than some of his earlier work; Hicks can be heard screaming at his audience in between chapters, and very prominently during the track "You're Wrong Night".

On April 15, 2016, Comedy Dynamics released a new version of the album in both double CD and double vinyl LP formats called Rant in E-Minor: Variations. While the original album was culled from various performances and included musical interludes performed by Hicks, the new version presents a complete and uninterrupted performance recorded at the Laff Stop in Austin, Texas on October 24, 1993.^[2]

Track listing

• Part One
  • Chapter One
    • 1. "Fevered Egos" – 4:05
    • 2. "Easter" – 1:19
    • 3. "Gideons" – 1:05
  • Chapter Two
    • 4. "People Suck" – 0:21
    • 5. "Pro Life" – 4:13
    • 6. "People Who Hate People" – 0:32
    • 7. "Non-Smokers" – 2:39
    • 8. "Gifts of Forgiveness" – 5:09
    • 9. "Purple Vein Dick Joke" – 0:29
  • Chapter Three
    • 10. "Confession Time (COPS)" – 4:25
    • 11. "Wax Dart" – 0:30
    • 12. "I'm Talking to the Women Here" – 1:10
• Part Two
  • Chapter Four
    • 13. "You're Wrong Night" – 5:37
  • Chapter Five
    • 14. "A New Flag (Patriotism)" – 1:13
    • 15. "Gays in the Military" – 2:24
    • 16. "I.R.S. Bust" – 1:09
    • 17. "Politics in America" – 0:39
    • 18. "Quiet Loner" – 0:57
  • Chapter Six
    • 19. "Artistic Roll Call" – 4:33
    • 20. "Orange Drink" – 1:08
    • 21. "Save Willie" – 1:30
  • Chapter Seven
    • 22. "Deficit (Jesse Helms)" – 2:47
    • 23. "Rush Limbaugh" – 2:21
• Part Three
  • Chapter Eight
    • 24. "Time to Evolve" – 3:16
  • Chapter Nine
    • 25. "Waco (Koresh)" – 5:35
    • 26. "The Pope" – 1:02
    • 27. "Christianity" – 0:27
    • 28. "Seven Seals" – 0:28
  • Chapter Ten
    • 29. "One of the Boys (Clinton)" – 1:03
    • 30. "Car Bomb Derby" – 0:26
    • 31. "The Elite" – 1:06
  • Chapter Eleven
    • 32. "Love List (No Future)" – 2:56
    • 33. "Back to the Garden" – 1:20
    • 34. "Your Children Aren't Special" – 3:13
    • 35. "Wizards Have Landed" – 1:43
    • 36. "Lift Me Lord" – 0:53

Rant in E-Minor: Variations

Personnel

• Bill Hicks – guitar, vocals
• Kevin Booth – bass, keyboards, percussion, producer

Notes and References

1. Web site: BILL HICKS' LEGACY OF THE PROFANE AND THE PROFOUND OUT ON CD - Chicago Tribune.
2. Web site: Bill Hicks: Rant In E-Minor: Variations . Comedy Dynamics . 8 February 2019.