Album Notes

“His warped sensibilities offer a platform from which he often teaches his audience how to wreak playful havoc on their neighbors, while his gleefully perverse folk-song parodies ultimately sound more immediate and truthful than the classics they skew.”

-Andrew Singer, theapiary.org

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“One of the best things about working the comedy beat is that people send you great stuff to listen to before anyone else gets to hear it. Today I was happy to find Boston legend DJ Hazard’s new album Man of Hazardium in my box.

In just over an hour, Hazard covers material from the last twenty years, including tracks from his impossible to find 1993 album Lock Up the Planet When You Leave and last year’s El Hazardo Rides Again, which Hazard sold only at his shows. He reports the recordings were made “pretty much all over North America,” and spans “from 1988 to just a few months ago.”

A sampling of the tracks – the off-kilter song “Music (Is Like a Woman),” which is one of my favorites, “The Ding Ho Song” from the Boston Comedy documentary When Stand Up Stood Out, the Bruce Springsteen parody “Bruce,” and the crowd favorite “Untie My Ankles,” which is sung to the tune of Juice Newton’s “Angel of the Morning.” Die-hard Hazard fans may recognize the cover art from FUEL TV’s American Misfits.”

-Nick Zaino, bostoncomedy.blogspot.com

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"DJ Hazard — comedy legend, gentleman, scholar — has just released a new album. If you've ever seen DJ perform, you already know his album is destined to become an indispensable addition to your comedy collection. If you haven't seen him, then this will be a great introduction. Have you heard the word gravitas before? This is the guy who invented it. We love him. And so do you.

Buy it. Live it."

-Carol Hartsell, DrinkAtWork.com

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"DJ Hazard, is a veteran of Boston’s comedy renaissance of the 80’s. The range in his act is unparalleled. Rarely do you see a performer exude such warmth one moment and be outright sinister the next. Such is the image of a hulking figure with a shaved head who used to work in a mental asylum. Really."

-Ken Carlson, thecomedians.org

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"The advantage to a stand-up comedy CD by a veteran comic is you know you are in good hands right from the beginning and you know this will last to the very end. This is very much the case for Man of Hazardium, the independent release by D.J. Hazard. This is excellent, varied, original, funny stuff."

-Richard Lanoie, theseriouscomedysite.com