Bill Hicks's secret weapon was that he wasn't a comedian.  Comedians are harmless guys who tell jokes and roguishly poke fun at our oh-so-silly human foibles.  Ah me!  This was not Hicks.  Hicks was a very serious and  fiercely intelligent social critic and moralist who just happened to be  extremely damn funny at the same time.  He told the hardest of hard truths  and was totally uncompromising.  All his CDs are brilliant, but I have to  dock this one a notch for the frequent musical interludes,which I find  obtrusive and distracting.  They do the same thing on Rant In E Minor,  where it gets really ridiculous, music rising between practically every  sentence out of Hicks's mouth, sometimes obscuring his voice for a while.  If they wanted to release some of Bill's music, they should have added it  on at the end in the form of bonus tracks or devoted a separate CD to it.