Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
George Carlin may be known today for all sort of things aside from his comedy recordings--HBO specials, concert tours, books, and film roles. But his most beloved work, the mother lode of humor upon which his reputation is based, are the recordings in the seven-CD collection George Carlin: The Little David Years (1971-1977). On albums such as Class Clown, Occupation: Foole, and the Grammy-winning FM & AM, Carlin redefined what it meant to be stand-up comic: he was a hip, intelligent, social satirist who was also extremely funny and entertaining. And he still is. The issues he was making fun of in the '70s are still around, which is why routines such as '7 Dirty Words' have lost none of their punch or humor. It's all here in a wondrous box set, including the complete contents of six classic records and a CD of rarities from his early years. Recent Carlin converts (as well as those who remember laughing at this stuff when it came out on LPs and 8-tracks) should all consider this great career retrospective. --John Sulak









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Disc 1:

1. Shoot
2. The Hair Piece
3. Sex In Commercials
4. Drugs
5. Birth Control
6. Son Of Wino
7. Divorce Game
8. Ed Sullivan Self Taught
9. Let's Make A Deal
10. The 11 O'Clock News

Disc 2:

1. Class Clown: Bi-Labial Fricative/Attracting Attention/Squeamish
2. Wasted Time-Sharing A Swallow
3. Values (How Much Is That Dog Crap In The Window?)
4. I Used To Be Irish Catholic
5. The Confessional
6. Special Dispensation: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory And Limbo
7. Heavy Mysteries
8. Muhammad Ali-America The Beautiful
9. Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television

Disc 3:

1. Welcome To My Job
2. Occupation: Foole
3. White Harlem
4. The Hallway Groups
5. Black Consciousness
6. New York Voices
7. Grass Swept The Neighborhood
8. Childhood Cliches
9. Cute Little Farts
10. Raisin Rhetoric
11. Filthy Words

Disc 4:

1. Goofy Shit
2. Toledo Window Box
3. Nursery Rhymes
4. Some Werds
5. Water Sez
6. The Metric System
7. God
8. Gay Lib
9. Snot, The Original Rubber Cement
10. Urinals Are 50 Percent Universal
11. A Few More Farts

Disc 5:

1. New News
2. Teenage Masturbation
3. Mental Hot Foots
4. High On The Plane
5. Bodily Functions
6. Wurds
7. For Names' Sake
8. Baseball-Football
9. Good Sports
10. Flesh Colored Band-Aids
11. Religious Lift
12. Radio Dial
13. Y'ever
14. Unrelated Things

Disc 6:

1. On The Road
2. Death And Dying
3. Headlines
4. Kids Are Too Small
5. Rules, Rules, Rules!
6. Parents' Cliches And Childrens' Secret Answers
7. Words We Leave Behind
8. How's Your Dog?
9. Supermarkets

Disc 7:

1. George's Disc Jockey Theme And Show Opening
2. Tattoos
3. Hitchhiking (Short Version)
4. Clerks, Hankies & Emma
5. Elmo's Song-Johnny Badcheck
6. Monopoly
7. New Sports
8. Hitchhiking (Long Version)
9. Guacamole
10. Nuts In Cake & Toenail Clipping
11. 400,000 American Musical Favorites
12. Peas
13. Losing Your Placce
14. I'm Musical
15. Lost & Found
16. Public Affairs
17. Snapper Lawn Mowers
18. How To Handle A Heckler
19. Closing
20. Bonus Track 1

Rating: - Awesome collection of GC Albums on CD Rom....
AWESOME!!!

I grew up listening to George, and I have (or had) all of his albums...remember what albums are? lol....

After George passed this year, and after having seen him in April at the Orleans in Vegas, I needed to get all of his "stuff" on CD.

This collection contains a small CD sized replica of each album, including the liner notes and all images as the original album had - VERY COOL!

Also included is a bonus CD with material (mostly) that I had not heard before. It is called the Coney Island Recording.

Also, you get a small but informative biography booklet of George's life.

If you are a fan, or just want to know about the man and his art, you NEED this collection.

I love it.

RIP GC.

mqqn

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Rating: - Missing one vital track: Morningside Heights (from an appearance on the Tonight Show)
This collection comprises all of Mr. Carlin's work, from the Little David label, but as stated in the title to this review, it misses one vital piece (which, since it wasn't issued on any of the albums, is probably why): Morningside Heights, which was a funny routine he did on the Tonight Show, with Johnny Carson. If you can find a copy of the double lp, on ebay, that's where you'd find it. Too bad they couldn't get permission to include it on a future reissue of this work.

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Rating: - Classic Laugh-Till-You-Hurt Comedy
This box set was my first real exposure to Carlin and it made me a life-long fan.

These early albums showcase the lighter, happier Carlin who spent time exploring the strange things we humans do, from bodily functions, to accents, to the ridiculous names we give things... He even manages to successfully make light of heavy topics like Viet Nam and losing the faith with his child-like curiosity and amazing insight. The sixth album, "On the Road" shows the beginnings of the edginess that would define his later work.

Since the product page only shows disc numbers and track titles, I thought I'd post a list of the albums that each disc corresponds to:
(Each title is linked to the individual album for sale on Amazon)

Disc 1: FM & AM (1972)
Disc 2: Class Clown (1972)
Disc 3: Occupation: Foole (1973)
Disc 4: Toledo Window Box (1974)
Disc 5: An Evening With Wally Londo Featuring Bill Slaszo (1975)
Disc 6: On the Road (1976)

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Rating: - Classic Carlin-It ages slowly and can still make you laugh
I love great comedy in all forms -from Robin Williams,Bill Maher, Kevin Smith films, Chris Rock & the cast of Everyone Hates Chris, Bob Newhart, The old classic Dick van Dyke show to South Park, Bill Cosby, ALF, Mel Brooks, Buster Keaton, Don Rickles, and Jerry Lewis. So actor and comedian George Carlin has a special place in my heart. His wit and humor is messaged to the audience, most of his comedy bites are still timeless years and years later.

The Little David Years (1971-1977) is the first six classic carlin albums with an extra CD of Carlin stuff from that time not on album or CD. These CD albums including such routines as" The seven words you cant say on television" and its sequel "Filthy Words", Ed Sullivan, Football/Baseball, Occupation Foole, and " Death and Dying".

Carlin is witty and thought provoking. He will make you laugh and think-sometime at the same time. These comic routines are 35 years old and still can pack a punch and a laugh

Worth it for any person who enjoys great comedy

Bennet Pomerantz AUDIOWORLD

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Rating: - Carlin the Comedic genius
George Carlin is the grand old man of modern Comedy. You see David Lettermen, Jay Leno, Jon Stewart, and Conan O'Brien, fall all over themselves to acknowledge this whenever he deems them worthy enough to appear on their shows.

George Carlin, along with Robert Kline, Monty Python, Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, and Bill Cosby forms one of the grand pillars of modern comedy. He was the first person ever to host Saturday Night Live and was one of Carson's last guests on the old Tonight Show.

The comedy albums in this collection make up, along with his early work on HBO, the cornerstone of his work. "FM& AM", "Class Clown", "Occupation: Foole", "Toledo Window Box", "On the Road", "An Evening with Wally Lando featuring Bill Slaszo". That great bit Carlin did on pretty much anything that you remember being great when you first heard it, it most likely on these albums someplace.

Carlin's most famous bit, of course, is about the seven dirty words that can never be said on television. This has, after the whole Janet Jackson/Super bowl episode, again become very relevant to modern society. If you thought the USA was now a mature nation that could put up with a little obscenity, then you were very mistaken. Carlin was trying to point out stupidity in society 30+ years ago, and it is still very much stupid today. It appears that people never really do learn new tricks.

People should listen to these album's because it might, admittedly a long shot, but you never know, it might help them shack off the shackles of weirdness that modern society has forced upon them and make them see the brew-ha-ha surrounding things like seven dirty words for the utter foolishness it is. People should not let mere-words have the power to offend them to the point of stupidity. Of course, our President and other leaders in Washington would rather have people screaming about dirty words and wardrobe malfunctions at the Super Bowl, because it keeps them from noticing what they are doing to the people and planet.

People should listen to Carlin. He is one of the great modern philosophers, more knowledgeable than our leaders and more intelligent than most. Of course, most people just laugh and never really think about it. Do more than most, do both!