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Featuring the best of Dangerous, Relentless, Arizona Bay, and Rant In E-Minor, Philosophy creates the feel of one incredible live performance.

The Essential Collection encompasses Bill Hicks’ short but powerful career as a satirist, social critic, and stand-up comedian. It features over two hours of Bill’s best stand up material spanning his entire career including never-before-released bits from a San Ramon, California, performance, a collection of 11 original songs entitled “Lo-Fi Troubadour”, and two digital exclusives - a song called “Ice Cold Macaroni”, and “The Adventure”, a 30 minute travelogue of Hicks talking into a tape recorder on a car trip from New York City to Little Rock, Arkansas.

This is Bill Hicks' portrait of life on the beach after the “big one” drops California into the Pacific Ocean. This extended version is a raw and uncut show that comprised the original Arizona Bay. Now fully-restored, much longer, and without music, hear Arizona Bay like an audience did when it was first recorded and revel in Bill’s genius once more.

This two-hour album captures Bill Hicks at the height of his powers in a legendary performance at Oxford University.

An unreleased live performance recorded in ’91 before what Hicks dubbed “the worst audience I’ve ever faced.” He whips out every trick in the book to win them over. The show is magic.

On 11/29/1992 at the end of a very successful tour of the UK, Bill performed in London at the Dominion Theatre to a raucous capacity crowd. This performance became his last recorded special, Revelations, which many consider to be Bill in peak form. On TV, DVD, and LP, it was edited down to one hour and 13 minutes. But, the actual show that Bill performed that night was an epic, running just under two hours long. Now for the first time the entire audio of the show is being released as Bill performed it that night...with all 43 missing minutes!

Raising the spiritual and philosophical stake considerably, Relentless is pure comedic catharsis.

Perhaps his most explosive recorded work, "Rant In E-Minor" sees Bill Hicks broaden the range of his comedy and further hone his satirical wit.

On this hilarious performance, Bill Hicks unleashes his thoughts on homelessness, smoking, drugs, and porn. While it may seem dark and cynical, it’s sunny compared to the work that follows.

This is the last special Bill Hicks ever taped in 1992 and features him the height of his genius. Recorded at the Dominion Theatre in London, Bill Hicks opens our eyes and minds to the hypocrisy and ludicrousness of the world around us.

Recorded at the Centaur Theatre at Just For Laughs in July 1991, Bill Hicks’ Relentless: Live In Montreal was his international breakout performance. It led to two sold-out tours in the UK over the next two years, culminating in the recording of Revelations in London in November 1992. Bill’s insights that night into religion, pornography, drugs, war, news, rock stars, and smoking are now available for you listening pleasure.

Bill Hicks developed a more complex plan for Arizona Bay, alternating music and comedy and painting a portrait of life on the beach after the “big one” dropped California into the Pacific Ocean.

In this stand-up special, Bill Hicks shows us his unique view on war, the California droughts, and drugs.

An incendiary album of unreleased material culled from the multitude of live recordings Bill Hicks made for personal use from the mid ‘80s until his death in ’94.

On the morning of June 20, 1993, Bill Hicks received the final diagnosis from his doctor that he had pancreatic cancer. That same evening at an open mic night this show was recorded in West Palm Beach, Florida. ​It's unreal he had the energy and frame of mind to put on such an amazing show after such devastating news. He always said he felt most comfortable when he was on stage. Please enjoy the show!

Bill loved music. It was a big part of his life and his comedy. He wrote many songs over the years and often traveled with his guitar while he was on his comedy tours. After shows, in his hotel room, he would play his guitar and write songs. After Bill died his family found boxes of songs Bill had recorded. To honor Bill’s love for music, the tapes were taken to Abbey Road Studios in London where they were re-mastered. Lo-Fi Troubadour contains 17 original Bill Hicks songs, six of those being released for the first time here.

It's a wild night in 1989 of raucous fun as Bill Hicks shows us his unique view on smoking cigarettes, smoking pot, drinking, sex, advertising, and music.

This EP was released in honor of the 50th anniversary of Bill's birth, featuring five tracks of unreleased material from Bill as a 21-year-old.

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