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The Jerky Boys (CD)

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DISC 1 for The Jerky Boys (CD) Album By The Jerky Boys (Artist)
1   Irate Tile Man
2   Unemployed Painter
3   Laser Surgery
4   Insulator Job
5   Egyptian Magician
6   Sol's Glasses
7   Car Salesman
8   Sushi Chef
9   Super Across The Way
10   Gay Model, The
11   Home Wrecker, The
12   Auto Mechanic
13   Dental Malpractice
14   Starter Motor Repair
15   Hurt At Work
16   Hot Rod Mover
17   Firecracker Mishap
18   Punitive Damages
19   Piano Tuner
20   Gay Hard Hat
21   Uncle Freddie
 

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Review

Entertainment Weekly (4/23/93, p.54) - "...the kind of wise-ass humor bound to bring out the snot-nosed high schooler in anyone..."
Q (10/93, p.106) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...21 phone conversations that take abrasiveness, bad manners, service politeness and tasteless to new extremes....It gets funnier every time you hear it..."
Melody Maker (8/14/93, p.31) - "...Somewhere inside their gleefully puerile minds there are throbbing comic muscles at work...."
NME (Magazine) (9/11/93, p.39) - 7 - Very Good - "...If you have to put your mature, socially responsible brain in gear at all, just regard this as a shocking social document of our times. You'll end up laughing..."

Title Note

The Jerky Boys: Johnny B., Lou Gitano, Kamal.

Digitally remastered by John Grout (Infinity Studios, Clearwater, Florida).

Tapes of the Jerky Boys, three guys from Queens, New York who make outrageous prank phone calls to doctors, lawyers, salesmen, plumbers and helpless receptionists, circulated for years in the music underground before they finally made their way on to a record. To do that, they had to call all their victims and get permission to use their voices, but the implied cooperation doesn't take away from the viciousness or the hilarity of these routines. Permissions were, after all, granted after the fact.

The most amazing thing about the debut album, besides the fact that the victims would let these conversations be recorded for posterity, is how long they stayed on the phone in the first place. In the role of the Egyptian Magician, one of the Jerkys calls up a nightclub manager and tells her, in a bad accent, that what he does is "stab customer in eye with sabre" ("uh-huh," she says), "sick my cat on my performers and they maul them" ("wow") and so on. "In my country...," he says, and she actually finishes his sentence for him: "that's considered magic." By the end of the conversation, she's asking him to come by and audition.

Among the other people who stay on the phone with the Jerkys, whose main characters are loudmouthed New Yorkers named Rizzo, is a receptionist at a demolition company whom they ask to tear down an ex-girlfriend's house--she politely takes down the address--and an owner of a car dealership who patiently listens to Paul Rizzo, a job applicant, explains how he lost his last job because he beat up a customer. Also, this is the album that added the insult "sizzlechest" to the English language.

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