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neil hamburger “sings country winners” compact disc

  • three piece chicken dinner
  • the recycle bin
  • please ask that clown to stop crying
  • jug town
  • how can i be patriotic (when they’ve taken away my right to cry)
  • at least i was paid
  • thinkin’ it over
  • garden party ii
  • zipper lips rides again
  • the hula maiden
april 2008 release ; amazing ...
drag city press release...
neil hamburger
sings country winners
dc363 8 lp/cd

america’s hardest working, most profoundly suffering funnyman returns with his eighth drag city release. no two neil hamburger albums have ever been alike, but this one will throw even the staunchest fan for a loop: neil hamburger sings country and western. as with the classic “celebrity vocal” album by the likes of william shatner and telly savalas, neil’s personality shines through even when his vocal chords don’t. seven originals and three obscure covers pack in a maximum of storytelling and pathos in the tradition of the late great porter wagoner. on this once-in-a-lifetime release, neil is backed up by a “too good for neil hamburger” band who ensure that the sound is vintage country rather than unwanted novelty — or worse yet, the universally-hated sound of contemporary country radio.

the sings country winners band: on drums, prairie prince, founding member of legendary ‘70s theatrical-rock band the tubes (and a man whose resume includes backing todd rundgren, john fogerty, george harrison and jefferson starship); california deep-rooted country and western guitar ace dave gleason; atom ellis, bass player for dieselhed, link wray, and more recently the new cars; rachel haden, whose extraordinarily beautiful vocals have graced albums by the rentals and weezer; and the west coast’s most noted pedal steel player joe goldmark. the album was recorded by tim green (fucking champs) at louder studios in san francisco.

neil hamburger’s credits since the release of the “running on empty”-style performance dvd the world’s funnyman include multiple improbable appearances on fox news’ late night tv show “red eye”; an appearance in the movie tenacious d in the pick of destiny (and 26 shows as tenacious d’s opening act throughout the us & uk); hosting his own talk show “poolside chats” on tom green’s internet network; and a guest starring role on adult swim’s tim and eric awesome show, great job. and all this, whilst maintaining a near-homeless lifestyle thanks to signing the world’s worst contract with an unscrupulous management agency neil found through an ad in the national enquirer. if anyone has a right to sing the blues, it’s neil! but no — neil hamburger sings country winners.

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drag city (usa) #dc 294 cd

neil hamburger “great moments at di presa’s pizza house” compact disc

  • welcome to di presa's pizza house (1:20)
  • rememerable memories (1:41)
  • 5/31/1962 (2:25)
  • flour power (2:37)
  • throwing away (2:45)
  • big heart (2:17)
  • di presa's tries some different (3:39)
  • bad reviews (2:27)
  • bad pizza (2:35)
  • summer of (2004 (2:25)
  • tragedy (1:30)
  • more tragedy (2:31)
  • selling di presa's (2:15)
drag city press release...
neil hamburger
great moments at di presa’s pizza house
dc294 cd

in his long and checkered career, “america’s funnyman” neil hamburger has performed in venues ranging from hollywood’s famous house of blues to the olympic stadium in sydney, australia. but as any neil hamburger fan knows, these prestigious shows only come along every so often. most of the time neil slogs it out in dingy, decrepit nightclubs in secondary markets, or on the dreaded “pizza parlor circuit”— purgatory for aging comedians.

a tiny stage in the corner of a pizza parlor in california’s central valley was home to neil hamburger on most monday nights for the past 13 years. great moments at di presa’s pizza house documents highlights from neil’s many appearances at the unknown, unheralded regional venue, but the album is much more than a simple stand-up recording. on great moments..., originally recorded as a souvenir of the failing pizza parlor, neil and a cast of characters tell the true story of di presa’s, of dismal gigs, of deceased pipe organists, and of unfair health department inspections.

great moments... is the sixth drag city release by this enigmatic sad sack comedian, an icon to the young generation and surely one of the hardest-working men in show business. described by one early-bird critic as neil’s sgt. pepper, this unusual documentary album ushers in a new era of hamburger, as the dirty jokes are put aside (not literally) to showcase a more reflective, nostalgic side of neil.

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neil hamburger “laugh out lord” compact disc

  • tribute to the greats (1:43)
  • seven elevens 3:19)
  • the ocean blue (0:38)
  • disgracing the hamburger family name (0:38)
  • live at caesar's palace in las vegas (0:11)
  • tom thumb mini-storage (0:08)
  • my daughter (1:09)
  • there'd be a popular uprising! (0:19)
  • a diagnosis made offhand (0:09)
  • waiter, i didn't touch that woman's ass! (0:24)
  • 500 of 'em (0:52)
  • look what happened (0:31)
  • the wizard (0:52)
  • condoms 2002 (0:21)
  • death (0:24)
  • dollars (0:42)
  • puerto rico (0:54)
  • just poking fun (1:02)
  • detergent ii (0:34)
  • popular movies (0:18)
  • popular music (0:35)
  • aromatherapy (0:23)
  • management (0:57)
  • dying (0:42)
  • drag city records (1:43)
  • almost startling
  • really! (0:18)
  • he wasn't one (0:35)
  • shoulder trouble (0:05)
  • falling merchandise (0:19)
  • the new album (0:05)
  • a timeless political routine (1:52)
  • divorce (0:12)
  • the deluxe treatment (0:25)
  • lawyers advised against titling this track (0:23)
  • technical problems (0:26)
  • the zipper lips 3:28)
  • troubled times (1:14)
  • triumph in kabul (0:21)
  • our president (2:00)
  • laugh out lord (12:49)
drag city press release...
neil hamburger’s
"laugh out lord"
dc229cd / glory–1001 cd

released for all humor-appreciating people of the world

2002 is a year many people around the world will remember for laughter. yes, it’s true. there may be those of you who might ask, how can you say such a thing in these troubled times, with all the sadness and violence in the world today? it’s simple really—any year that a new neil hamburger album is released has to guarantee at least a few more laughs, doesn’t it?

it looks like this is going to be one of those years. neil hamburger has a new album coming out. and what a record! after initially being rejected by drag city, these recordings resurfaced on the grass-roots religious cassette-tape imprint, glory home records. then they called and made us a licensing deal we just couldn’t say no to. it is therefore with a mixture of pride, confusion and shame (but mostly pride) that we here at drag city, in conjunction with glory home, present this offering, just in time for holiday season 2002—the all-new, all-hilarious new neil hamburger religious-themed comedy album, laugh out lord.

oh, don’t worry, you agnostic types the generous supply of material on laugh out lord guarantees laughs for all different types of people, not just the spiritually obsessed. neil even takes the mic to new extremes for a couple of musical numbers on laugh out lord, with backing provided by today’s sounds (featuring the meat puppets’ derrick bostrom). elsewhere, some of the classic hamburger routines are revisited to the delight of virgin and hardcore hamburger fans alike.

for christmas this year (or for thanksgiving, even!), get yourself a new hamburger—neil hamburger, that is—and you too will laugh out lord.


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drag city (usa) #dc 163 cd

neil hamburger “left for dead in malaysia” compact disc

  • introduction (1:19)
  • selamat malam (0:48)
  • spice girl (0:27)
  • transcending the language barrier (2:53)
  • the cola wars (1:02)
  • murhpy's law (0:52)
  • sales reps' conventions (1:52)
  • swingers' parties (1:58)
  • necrophilia (0:19)
  • divorce (2:59)
  • dentists (1:47)
  • come and visit (0:58)
  • cremation (1:04)
  • kenny rogers (0:56)
  • colonel sanders (0:37)
  • neil's will (0:54)
  • other comedians (0:54)
  • dating (0:25)
  • inspiration (0:59)
  • a.a. (1:30)
  • montezuma's revenge (2:44)
  • music (2:01)
  • religious humor (2:37)
  • metric system / oriental massage (1:11)
  • lotto numbers (2:17)
  • just checking (0:28)
  • antarctica / new jokes (1:55)
  • changing times (1:44)
drag city press release...
this lp captures what it means when the miracle of modern life collides with a personality as old-fashioned as mom's apple pie. another in a series of vivid portraits of neil live in concert, all available from drag city. we here at the label are proud to be releasing this, what we believe to be the third groundbreaking stand-up comedy lp in a row from this man.

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drag city (usa) #dc 153 lp

neil hamburger “inside neil hamburger” twelve inch single record

  • interview snippet (0:16)
  • international funnyman (6:30)
  • inspirational speaker (0:37)
  • why did the cow feel inadequate? (6:31)
drag city press release...
in late 1999, the combination of an unfair court decision regarding alimony payments and an intrusive and inaccurate irs audit forced america’s beloved funnyman neil hamburger to seek temporary refuge in the overseas market. most of this time has been spent working the english-speaking crowds of australia, where he has been holed up awaiting a fair judgment in the us courts. the australian punk band frenzal rhomb, consistent gold-record earners in their home country, used their considerable local clout to repeatedly foist neil and his patented "zipper shtick" onto large bills, the likes of which he had only dreamed about previously.

neil performed before mobs of 20,000-30,000 at large australian outdoor rock festivals such as livid, the big day out, homebake, and the falls, warming up the crowd for acts such as garbage, the offspring, and silverchair. of course, as he was basically an unwelcome intruder at these "alternative rock" youth-oriented events, a barrage of boos, shoes, bottles, and rocks accompanied his every punchline... and it wasn’t long before "the jig was up" and he was bounced back down to size with a series of much, much smaller bookings, from which the recordings on this new ep emanate.

with this cd, recorded in australia, and neil’s previous effort, recorded in malaysia, one could argue strongly that neil hamburger is now the "world’s funnyman". but, as neil realized recently while watching one of his favorite films on television, "there’s no place like home," and those of us who love to laugh have banded together to extradite neil to the usa so that he may undertake an extensive tour in september, 2000.

in the meantime, we hope you will enjoy “inside neil hamburger,” where fans will be delighted to find that once again, the laughs are on neil.

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neil hamburger “inside neil hamburger” compact disc single

  • interview snippet (0:16)
  • international funnyman (6:30)
  • inspirational speaker (0:37)
  • why did the cow feel inadequate? (6:31)
drag city press release...
in late 1999, the combination of an unfair court decision regarding alimony payments and an intrusive and inaccurate irs audit forced america’s beloved funnyman neil hamburger to seek temporary refuge in the overseas market. most of this time has been spent working the english-speaking crowds of australia, where he has been holed up awaiting a fair judgment in the us courts. the australian punk band frenzal rhomb, consistent gold-record earners in their home country, used their considerable local clout to repeatedly foist neil and his patented "zipper shtick" onto large bills, the likes of which he had only dreamed about previously.

neil performed before mobs of 20,000-30,000 at large australian outdoor rock festivals such as livid, the big day out, homebake, and the falls, warming up the crowd for acts such as garbage, the offspring, and silverchair. of course, as he was basically an unwelcome intruder at these "alternative rock" youth-oriented events, a barrage of boos, shoes, bottles, and rocks accompanied his every punchline... and it wasn’t long before "the jig was up" and he was bounced back down to size with a series of much, much smaller bookings, from which the recordings on this new ep emanate.

with this cd, recorded in australia, and neil’s previous effort, recorded in malaysia, one could argue strongly that neil hamburger is now the "world’s funnyman". but, as neil realized recently while watching one of his favorite films on television, "there’s no place like home," and those of us who love to laugh have banded together to extradite neil to the usa so that he may undertake an extensive tour in september, 2000.

in the meantime, we hope you will enjoy “inside neil hamburger,” where fans will be delighted to find that once again, the laughs are on neil.

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drag city (usa) #dc 139 cd

neil hamburger “raw hamburger” compact disc

  • introduction (0:28)
  • stewardesses (1:09)
  • freebasing (1:51)
  • snoop doggy dogg (0:54)
  • cursing (4:02)
  • bestiality (1:39)
  • fags (0:44)
  • beaver (1:41)
  • comedian's wives (1:36)
  • divorce (2:19)
  • naked cheerleaders (1:55)
  • cloning (0:11)
  • dirty diapers (0:17)
  • living life on the edge (1:20)
  • movies (3:54)
  • the right to die (3:42)
  • alzheimer's (0:46)
  • aids (0:38)
  • she sits among the cabbages and peas (2:50)
february 1998 release ; neil hamburger working “blue” ...
drag city press release...
the alter ego of the australian-born alternative comedian gregg turkington, the greasy-haired, stained velvet jacket-wearing neil hamburger's style is timing-challenged, frequently offensive to those of a sensitive disposition, and often interrupted by noisy bouts of throat clearing, sometimes into his own drink.

]his sense of humor is an acquired taste, relying not so much on a joke being actually funny as on its being told at all. while he's far away from the comedy mainstream, and even from its more esoteric branches, hamburger's personality is certainly distinctive, and enables him to take his act where others, perhaps with good reason, fear to tread.

this set is part of a series of releases the comedian has been issuing on the drag city label since the mid-1990s.

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drag city (usa) #dc 097 cd

neil hamburger “america’s funnyman” compact disc

  • america's funnyman (0:54)
  • the diagnosis (0:48)
  • a moment of silence (0:23)
  • factory outlet malls (0:12)
  • menswear (0:04)
  • gourmet chocolate (0:02)
  • women's lingerie (0:30)
  • doctors (0:25)
  • the army reserve (0:58)
  • divorce (0:45)
  • anniversarys (0:24)
  • warehouse shopping (0:39)
  • lawsuit crazy (0:28)
  • single life (0:04)
  • condoms (2:06)
  • smoking (0:15)
  • gusty winds (0:24)
  • the audience (0:26)
  • bigotry (0:48)
  • a&r people (0:21)
  • the ex-wife (0:27)
  • talk show hosts (0:25)
  • motels (0:39)
  • the zipper shtick 1:00)
  • the top ten - censored! (2:03)
  • o.j. (0:22)
  • bill and hillary (0:04)
  • newt gingrich (0:06)
  • celebrity liver transplants (0:40)
  • flashers (0:17)
  • cop shows (0:57)
  • lawyers (0:50)
  • the most annoying thing (1:17)
  • the speed limit (0:12)
  • g-strings (0:20)
  • divorce (0:18)
  • rich little tribute (1:01)
  • the battle between the sexes (2:14)
  • the x-rated hot dog vendor (4:57)
  • gambling (1:43)
  • dating (0:31)
  • suicide (1:08)
  • restaurants (0:47)
  • motels (1:01)
1996 release ; the virgin album-length unleashing of gregg turkington’s neil hamburger “character” onto an un-knowing/caring world ... in the decade since first hearing these albums of dry anti-comedy, they’ve gone from being my least favorite titles in the sprawling drag city catalogue to some of the highlights (oren ambarchi’s repeated enthusiasm had me re-visit them all a few years back ; i’m much closer to “getting” neil than i ever have been, although i imagine complete comprehension is an unattainable goal) ...

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