Standup Comedy - Kyle Kinane - Whiskey Icarus (2012)

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Kyle Kinane - Whiskey Icarus
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Artist...............: Kyle Kinane
Album................: Whiskey Icarus
Genre................: Comedy
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 2012
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.92 & Asus CD-S520
Codec................: LAME 3.98
Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality..............: CBR 256, (avg. bitrate: 256kbps)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 hz
Tags.................: ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.3
Information..........: http://www.avclub.com/articles/kyle-kinane-whiskey-icarus,89022/
Included.............: NFO
Covers...............: CD

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Tracklisting
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1. Kyle Kinane - Detroit Rock City [05:17]
2. Kyle Kinane - King Of The Night Time World [05:25]
3. Kyle Kinane - God Of Thunder [07:59]
4. Kyle Kinane - Great Expectations [08:02]
5. Kyle Kinane - Flaming Youth [08:50]
6. Kyle Kinane - Sweet Pain [05:55]
7. Kyle Kinane - Shout It Out Loud [04:20]
8. Kyle Kinane - Beth [06:38]
9. Kyle Kinane - Do You Love Me? [03:54]
10. Kyle Kinane - Rock And Roll Party [04:56]

Playing Time.........: 01:01:21
Total Size...........: 116.64 MB
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The Onion AV Club

Kyle Kinane is an exceptionally smart comedian whoÆs made a career out of
acting stupid. He perpetuates and revels in his hobo-clown persona,
characterizing himself on Whiskey Icarus as ôUncle Barbecue [telling] his
dum-dum stories,ö or perhaps ôthe wise high-school janitor,ö the type of
genial burnout who would name the tracks on his second stand-up album
after the songs on KissÆ Destroyer, just because. (He did the same thing with
2010Æs Death Of The Party, only with Cheap TrickÆs Dream Police.) But the
mind behind that character is as sharp as they come, capable of sussing out
the unexpected angles in an anecdote, as in a tour-de-force bit where he
breaks down the multitude of questions raised by his airplane seatmate
deciding to bring a Foot Locker shopping bag full of pancakes on board.
(ôPancakes got X-rayed that day!ö)

The other great contradiction of KinaneÆs comedy is his ability to render
ostensibly depressing material playful, and even heartening, via silly details
and sly wordplay. He turns a lonely, drunken WendyÆs run into a late-night
heist with an unamused cabbie in the role of getaway driver. He sees his sad
life reflected back at him on the face of an unsliced pizza, and soldiers on
anyway, marveling, ôThis giant taco tastes like Italy!ö And finally, he
proposes using his own headstone as an opportunity to elicit laughs from
cemetery passers-by, perhaps the finest distillation of his ability to fuse the
bleak with the uplifting. KinaneÆs material is frequently self-deprecating,
sardonic, and debased, but the underlying joy informing his approach gives it
life, even when heÆs talking about death.

The interplay between Kyle Kinane the character and Kyle Kinane the writer is
what makes Whiskey Icarus such a compelling listen. ItÆs full of surprising
moments that feel natural, the ramblings of an eccentric who has far more
control over the situation than he lets on. KinaneÆs lack of self-control is the
centerpiece of many of his stories, whether heÆs getting drunk on an airplane,
making a sad meal of 7-Eleven cheeseburger dogs, or pondering whether a
Twizzler would fit in his butthole; but heÆs extremely savvy in how he portrays
these moments, manipulating and stacking them for maximum impact when
the punchline falls, turning what could be a one-note character into a power
chord.
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