The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back! is a Spoken Word album by Bob Newhart, originally released in 1960. On Gatefold: 22 pressings tracked.
Sound DNA
- Spoken Word
- Comedy
- polished
- sarcastic
- urban
About
Released mere months after 1960’s gigantic <i>The Button-Down Mind</i>, this chart-topper opens with Newhart remembering his Army experience while making fun of machines taking human jobs—still timely decades later. From there he ponders monkeys typing Shakespeare and how all retirement speeches sound alike, turning surprisingly dark at the end of “Ledge Psychology.” “You should always tie things together,” he notes in his deceptively nebbish-like tone at one point, and somehow the man in the gray flannel suit manages to do just that.
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Tracklist
- 1Automation and Private In Washington Army5:14
- 2The Grace L. Ferguson Airline9:29
- 3Bus Drivers School6:18
- 4Retirement Party8:18
- 5An Infinite Number of Monkeys1:37
- 6Ledge Psychology5:19
Credits
Songwriting
Rare pressing on Gatefold · 22 pressings tracked on Gatefold