Rant in E-Minor


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.
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.

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 " – 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 " – 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 " – 2:47
  • **23. "Rush Limbaugh" – 2:21
  • Part Three
  • *Chapter Eight
  • **24. "Time to Evolve" – 3:16
  • *Chapter Nine
  • **25. "Waco " – 5:35
  • **26. "The Pope" – 1:02
  • **27. "Christianity" – 0:27
  • **28. "Seven Seals" – 0:28
  • *Chapter Ten
  • **29. "One of the Boys " – 1:03
  • **30. "Car Bomb Derby" – 0:26
  • **31. "The Elite" – 1:06
  • *Chapter Eleven
  • **32. "Love List " – 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

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