Something to Take the Edge Off

by Doug Stanhope

Something to Take the Edge Off cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 September 2000
  • Label: Stand Up! Records
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 56:21
  • Community rating: 3.73/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Doug Stanhope's first album, recorded at The Laff Stop in Houston on 21 May 2000, with musical accompaniment from guitarist Henry Phillips. Stanhope's material targets drugs, the police and American pieties, delivered in the confrontational style that became his signature.

Genres

Descriptors: spoken-word, live, dark-humor, vulgar, political

Tracklist

  1. Vice (6:33)
  2. Real Stories (2:55)
  3. Top Ten Laws (1:06)
  4. Quitter (2:54)
  5. Live Life (1:04)
  6. Suicide (3:27)
  7. Dead Sport / Behind The Comedy (5:20)
  8. $16 An Hour (1:04)
  9. Scared Straight (1:27)
  10. Don't Pull Your Dick Out (1:45)
  11. A Matter Of Size (1:20)
  12. Big Rubber Fist (2:24)
  13. Pace Yourself (1:46)
  14. Destroying Your Body (0:50)
  15. Shake The Baby (5:02)
  16. Freak Shows (1:28)
  17. Offensive To Midgets (3:21)
  18. End The Hate (2:27)
  19. The Tit Fuck Joke In Its Entirety (0:45)
  20. Excess In Moderation (1:47)
  21. Bobbie Barnett (7:36)

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