Boot to the Head

Infobox Album
Name = Boot to the Head
Type = Album
Artist = The Frantics


Background =
Released = 1987
Recorded = 1986
Genre = Comedy
Length = 44:49
Label = Attic Records
Producer = Marvin Dolgay
Reviews =
Last album = "Frantic Times (album)"
(1984)
This album = "Boot to the Head"
(1987)
Next album = "Official Bootleg CD"
(2004)

"Boot to the Head" is a Canadian comedy album, performed by The Frantics comedy troupe. Its original LP was released in 1987, and was re-issued with the same track listing as a CD in 1996. The album features a number of skits from their radio show "Frantic Times", as well as a few sketches that could not be aired to a general audience. The sketches were recorded over a three-day period in front of a live audience at the Toronto Free Theatre.

Personnel

* Paul Chato
* Rick Green
* Dan Redican
* Peter Wildman

Track listing

#"A Piece of Pie" – 4:33
#"I Shot Bambi's Mother" – 1:20
#"Driving Chicks Mad" – 3:23
#"A Poem" – 0:35
#"Game Show, Game Show" – 2:02
#"Bill from Bala" – 4:42
#"A Poem" – 3:11
#"Architecture Today" – 3:11
#"Mrs. G" – 2:24
#"Worshippers 'R' Us" – 4:05
#"You People Are Fat" – 3:32
#"Making Love" – 2:14
#"A Poem" – 1:12
#"Make Up Dirty Words" – 1:58
#"You Scare the **** Out Of Me" – 2:53
#"Ti Kwan Leep" – 4:52
#"Boot to the Head" – 1:36

"Ti Kwan Leep" is one of the most famous skits from this album, followed by the title song Boot to the Head. These are both regularly played on the Doctor Demento radio show. In the skit, there is a conversation between Ed Gruberman and a martial arts master over the relative merits of harmonious Eastern philosophy versus "trashing bozos". This soon devolves into an all-out brawl. The song recites a long litany of people doing idiotic (in the minds of the performers, at least) things, and recommending that we "Give them a boot to the head!" However, their iconic phrase became famous three years earlier in "Last Will and Temperament" from their Frantic Times album.

Several of the other skits are also considered to be classics, such as "A Piece Of Pie", and "You Scare The **** Out Of Me", which have occasionally appeared in the troupe's shows after their reunion in 2004 and 2005. The former skit involves a man who confides to his friend that he has just excreted a whole, well-formed piece of pie, and the latter is a self-explanatory song. Neither skit could have been aired on their long-running CBC radio show.

Despite the resemblance, Frantics member Paul Chato claims the person getting his head booted on the cover is not supposed to be him.

External links

* [http://www.thefrantics.com/index.cfm?PID=13225&PIDLIST=13225 Albums listings on The Frantics official Web site]
* [http://www.frantics.org/albums.php Frantics Discography]
* [http://beagleweb.com/fun-taekwanleap.html The full text and MP3 of "Tae Kwan Leap" skit]