Mull's persona, a nice guy version of the blindly self assured and patronizing Garth Gimble character he so successfully portrayed on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, is so visually based that his records have rarely done his humor justice. Bringing Martin Mull and His Fabulous Furniture right into your living room is a task for video discs, not records, and it's a testament to his insanity that he comes across on vinyl so well anyway.

[I'm Everyone I've Ever Loved] works the best of all his albums, due for the most part to the intermixture of comic vignettes that recall the wonderful early records of Stan Freberg and Bob Newhart … with uncannily realistic song jokes. Hence when he goes gospel ("Damn it, Jesus Christ, I missed church again … But I was hung over so bad, I hope St. Peter don't get mad when it's time for him to read...