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Ahhh, ha ha ha, it's gone, it's gone, it's gone. Oh, it's gone. All the shitty shows are gone, all the idiots screaming in the fucking wind are dead, I love it. Leaving nothing but a cool, beautiful serenity called...Arizona Bay. That's right, when L.A. falls in the fucking ocean and is flushed away,
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of the album echoes the theme of Los Angeles being submerged in the ocean and includes the lyrics, "Learn to swim, see you down in Arizona Bay." Additionally, there is artwork inside the album booklet showing a map of California before and after the earthquake, as well as a caricature of Hicks
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Several of Hicks's albums are unique in that they feature background music, meant to enhance the album's mood. Such additions were made well after the initial recordings and are the product of Hicks's own musicianship.
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Who's that talking at the start of "Third Eye"? - That would be the aforementioned Bill Hicks; those are snips of comedy routines of his, from "The War on Drugs" (off his CD
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will one day fall into the ocean due to a major earthquake. Hicks contends that the world will be better off in L.A.'s absence:
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On April 28, 2015, Comedy Dynamics released a new version of the album in the digital format called
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The song "Third Eye" also contains references to several Hicks routines:
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on February 25, 1997, marking three years since Hicks' death.
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Index


Live album
Bill Hicks
Genre
Comedy
Label
Rykodisc
Producer
Kevin Booth
Bill Hicks
Relentless
Rant in E-Minor
AllMusic
stand-up comedian
satirist
Bill Hicks
Rant in E-Minor
Rykodisc
Los Angeles
Rant in E-Minor
Dark Side of the Moon
Tool
Ænima
title song
Dangerous
Relentless
Bill Hicks
L.A. Riots
Kennedy
Bush

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