This is volume two of the five volume set and is around an hour long.
It consists of material from the early 80's featuring incredible collages mixed with extemporaneous trance-spout extemporaneous riffing, psychedelic bulldada and, with the principle 'Doktors of the Air' at the time, (Moebius Rex, Puzzling Evidence, and Gary G'Broagfran), LIES and Dr. Howland Owll (Dr. Hal).
This show eventually became (some 25 years later) 'The Puzzling Evidence Show' (which is still on KPFA).
Also sprinkled throughout, are Eraserhead references and musical pieces by 'The Band That Dare Not Speak Its Name' which include Gary and Puzzling, amongst others, and 'the sludge girls' talking a lot about nameless sludge.
Most of these mixes are edited clips from 'The Show' which was broadcast live at 4:30 on Saturday Mornings for the longest time, and offered some of the most frenetic, breakneck, and weeeeird live mix radio before, then, or since in the same vein as Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Firesign Theater, but with certainly it's own realm, sound and sensibility.
For more information on Subgenius visit
www.subgenius.com.
These 'Best of' programs were post-mixed and edited together by Phineas Narco of the National Cynical Network. See the attendant credits for the original members and performers for 'The Show' which had a tremendous influence on NCN much later on.
Don't worry, it's just a show.
from
The "Best" of the SubGenius Show - (the 80's) - Volumes 1-5,
released June 4, 2011
D. Woodman Atwell (aka Doug Wellman aka Puzzling Evidence), Gary G'Broagfran (Gary Hughes), The Band That Dare Not Speak Its Name, Moebius Rex (Bob Nelson), Paul Mavrides (LIES).
Edited and compiled by Phineas Narco, with some editing by Puzzling Evidence.