Excuses for Bad Behavior
| Excuses for Bad Behavior (Part One) | ||||
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| Studio album Vinyl record by Sandra Bernhard | ||||
| Released | 1991 | |||
| Genre | Comedy, pop | |||
| Length | 68:19 | |||
| Label | SB.com | |||
| Producer | Sandra Bernhard, Mitch Kaplan | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| The Village Voice |    |
| Excuses for Bad Behavior (Part Two) | ||||
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| Studio album vinyl record by Sandra Bernhard | ||||
| Released | January 2004 | |||
| Recorded | 1998, 2003–2004 | |||
| Genre | Comedy, pop | |||
| Length | 79:03 | |||
| Label | SB.com | |||
| Producer | Sandra Bernhard | |||
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Excuses for Bad Behavior is a two-part album series by Sandra Bernhard. The first album was released in 1991 while the second was released in 2004.
Excuses for Bad Behavior (Part One) is a combination of spoken comedy bits, comedic songs, and pop/rock music.
Co-written and co-produced by Bernhard's longtime collaborator Mitch Kaplan, the album features Bernhard singing originals and standards re-interpreted with a new sound. Disco classic "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" begins with an operatic solo and is then translated to a modern dance song. "Manic Superstar" combines the song "Everything's Alright" from the musical Jesus Christ Superstar and the song "Manic Depression" by Jimi Hendrix. "Sympathy For the Devil" by the Rolling Stones becomes a seductive siren's song.
Comedic bits include the spoken word "The Letter" in which Bernhard reads a fictional letter from a lesbian fan who has "heard" the album in question ("Jesus Christ, why is she singing?"). "Christmas" is a heartwarming story of holidays past told by a Jewish woman who never actually experienced them. Other songs have a comedic edge, such as "Prophecies," a spoof on 1-900 psychic hotlines.
The album was released on a smaller independent label and did moderately well, but is currently unavailable for mainstream purchase. Plans for a special 2-disc re-release version (made exclusively available on Bernhard's website) have been posted there for over a year, but no product has been offered yet.
The Village Voice wrote of the release "Bernhard is petty and bilious as ever."
Excuses for Bad Behavior (Part Two), like Part One, is a combination of spoken comedy bits, comedic songs, and pop/country/rock music. Unlike Part One, the album was not released by a major label. It was sold on burned CD-Rs by Bernhard at her live shows and via her website.
Bernhard announced in 1995 that she had no interest in making a (Part 2), despite the title of (Part 1) [1], and that rather the title was simply a "tongue-in-cheek twist on" the Guns N' Roses albums Use Your Illusion I & II. [2]
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