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Who says Caller ID killed the prank call star? As we’ve learned from Crank Yankers, Chunklet, Matt Besser and the Rotary Retards and the Ringy-Dingy Bunch, the truly devoted will find a way to keep fuckin’ with people. Andrew Earles and Jeffrey Jensen continue this rich tradition with a two-disc collection that compiles 2-1/2 hours of their legendary crank calls. You’ll meet Bleachy, who just looooves Rally’s 99-cent Big Bufords; a dimwit who pitches “Blogurt” to a guy who’s just trying to sell his fro-yo machines (“Ice cream is a whoooole ‘nother sonofabitch”); and assorted purported handlers of celebrities like Michael Anthony, Ed Asner, Morris Day and “Christopher Fucking Cross”—plus some 57 dim, clueless chumps who dared answer the phone that fateful day when Earles and Jensen called just for shits and gigs. It comes couched in an attractive book of drawings, photos and liner notes by Devendra Banhart, Vice’s Gavin McInnes, Neal Pollack and Neil Hamburger but—if there is one fault—curiously, not Christopher Fucking Cross.

Standout Tracks: All of them! RANDY HARWARD