Word: humor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lampoon: houses world's 7th largest circular humor library...
Lampoon: has been around for 111 years and is oldest humor magazine in country...
...resting in the posh basement office retained for the highly influential post of Ibis of the Harvard Lampoon, still cursing myself for failing to massage the buttocks of enough people to guarantee my presidency of the humor magazine, I was disturbed by the incessant noise of our galley-slave dragging his lead ball and chains ever closer to my door...
...belied by the above catalogue, there is not a lot of stylistic unity on Invisible. The one constant on this disk is Hitchcock's bizarre sense of humor, which leads him to rhyme the word "spanner" with such unlikely choice as "banana" and "iguana." When the aim is scabrous, Hitchcock creates "Trash," a scathing put-down of the star-fucking mentality in rock and roll and an explicit tribute to Lou Reed's "Dirt." But at his most playful, he comes up with "Point It At Gran," a suggestion to a gun-toting assailant...
...songs on Invisible Hitchcock form the sort of folk/blues jam Bruce Willis would love to have, if he possessed the sense of humor and talent to pull it off. Maybe there's a wine cooler commercial in Robyn Hitchcock's future. If so, you can be sure that it will be packed with the aliens, talking buildings and vegetable friends that make Invisible Hitchcock an eminently worthwhile compilation...