George Carlin - Class Clown - (1972)


Artist       : George Carlin
Album        : Class Clown
Genre        : Comedy
Year         : 1972
Tracks       : 9
Playtime     : 00:41:59
Size         : 58.16 MB
Codec        : MPEG 1 Layer III / Lame 3.95 / 192 kbps

01. Class Clown (12:59)
02. Wasting Time-Sharing A Swallow (02:27)
03. Values (How Much Is That Dog Crap In The Window) (04:22)
04. I Used To Be Irish Catholic (01:52)
05. The Confessional (04:12)
06. Special Dispensation- Heaven, Hell, Purgatory And Limbo (03:41)
07. Heavy Mysteries (01:59)
08. Muhammad Ali-America The Beautiful (03:39)
09. Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television (06:44)


Class Clown is the fourth album released by American comedian George Carlin. 
It was recorded on May 27, 1972 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in 
Santa Monica, California, and released in September.

At the time Carlin was relatively well known for tame satirical routines about the entertainment industry. His previous album FM & AM released the same year, showed that he was already drifting towards counter-culture icon, but Class Clown proved 
a landmark. Besides musings about his youth, the album featured strongly directed remarks against the Vietnam War and his attachment to taboo topics. The album contains "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television", which became the focus of government harassment in the year that followed, and, perhaps not coincidentally, Carlin's most famous calling card. Carlin would continue to explore the use of profanity for the rest of his career. Ironically, while this skit prevents the album from being Carlin's only profanity-free one since 1971, it also marks the first time Carlin has used the word "fuck" in any of his recordings