| Gross, Michael / Telephone Solicitor's Nightmae |
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| Album: | Telephone Solicitor's Nightmae | Collection: | Comedy | |
| Artist: | Gross, Michael | Added: | Oct 2002 | |
| Label: | R Independent | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2002-10-11 | Pull Date: | 2002-12-13 |
| Week Ending: | Dec 1 | Nov 17 | Nov 10 | Oct 27 | Oct 20 | Oct 13 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jan 25, 2020: | On The Warpath Slow Down | 4. | Jun 01, 2005: | Brownian Motion Sick Guy | |
| 2. | Jul 26, 2007: | Sunshine ... in the Afternoon Sick Guy | 5. | May 18, 2005: | Brownian Motion, Strangest Music Distillation Foreign Friend | |
| 3. | Feb 22, 2006: | Brownian Motion Foreign Friend | 6. | Nov 28, 2002: | The Thanksgiving of Solitude Slow Down |
| Album Review |
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| Your Imaginary Friend Reviewed 2002-10-03 | ||
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Comedy: prank phone call genre except that this time it’s the caller that’s being pranked, the callers in this case being the universally hated telemarketer. Brilliant and side-splittingly hilarious most of the time as Michael Gross takes on various personas and drives the telemarketers to the brink. But in the end its easy to feel for the callers, realizing that they do indeed have a shit job. At one point a caller thanks Gross for being “the most interesting call I’ve had all day”. Its then that you realize how many of the callers are probably on to Gross but are so jaded that they seem oblivious. Regardless, some of these rank up there with the best of the jerky boys etc. Noted tracks: 1) drives the telemarketer nuts by continuing to say “slow down” 2) feigns illness including horrific barfing sounds 4) this one (along with take 2, track 19) is the best: Gross pretends to consult his “friend” in a foreign language that is so hilariously false and made up 7) pretends to be from france, complete with stereotypes and a genuinely duped hic telemarketer 9) rather abstract: the telemarketer asks various questions to which Gross answers with Shakespeare text, strange 11) pretends to be a “songwriter” and ad libs a song based on the telemarketer’s pitch 18) makes annoying sounds and drives the caller crazy 19) see number 4 | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Slow Down | 10. | Computer Scientist | |||
| 2. | Sick Guy | 11. | Songwriter | |||
| 3. | Alien | 12. | Paranoid | |||
| 4. | Foreign Friend | 13. | Jerry | |||
| 5. | Old Man | 14. | Meditations | |||
| 6. | Secret | 15. | Cowboy | |||
| 7. | Frenchman | 16. | Voiceover | |||
| 8. | Dinner for One | 17. | Greta Garbo | |||
| 9. | Shakespeare | 18. | Annoying Sounds | |||
| 19. | Foriegn Freind Ii | |||||