Tadpoles

Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - Tadpoles

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Artist: Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
Edition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2007-07-16
Music Label: Caroline
Soundtracks:
  1. Hunting Tigers Out There In 'Indiah'
  2. Shirt
  3. Tubas In the Moonlight
  4. Dr. Jazz
  5. The Monster Mash
  6. I'm the Urban Spaceman
  7. Ali Baba's Camel
  8. Laughing Blues
  9. By a Waterfall (Footlight Parade)
  10. Mr Apollo
  11. Canyons Of Your Mind
  12. Boo!
  13. Readymades
  14. Look At Me I'm Wonderful
  15. We Were Wrong
  16. Medley: The Craig Torso Christmas Show: The Lady Is a Tramp/The Last Waltz/Calling All Workers

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Free Music Review: WENDY WETLIPS or RrOSE SÉLAVY?
Hit: 5 Stars

There is no perfect Bonzo Dog Band album: they are each distinct, curious and flawed things that only now and again survive their period -- though a rather more interesting period it was. Defined by an odd amalgam of post War World One art movements like Dada and Surrealism lightly emulsified with a critical eye against the post World War Two vapidity of baby-boom fueled capitalism/consumerism it's all suffused with the comedic nihilism particular to early 1960s England and its emergence from "class". Hearing this stuff in context is the best approach and, sadly enough, there abounds more than adequate cultural stupidity in Century 21 to make the stylish puncturing of vanity in a track like "Mr. Apollo" easily and readily applicable today and tomorrow: look out, there's a monster coming.

Of their too-few releases, "Tadpoles" probably best typifies the Bonzo Dog brand. Somewhere amid the hilarious send-ups (Monster Mash), the subverted nostalgia (Tubas in the Moonlight) and pop parody (Canyons of your Mind), Stanshall and Innes would now and again come out with some genuine and sometimes quite moving little ditties. Perhaps the most honest thing Stanshall ever committed to tape was his first-person confessional "Strange Tongues" on his still-not-reissued (why I cannot say) and uniformly outstanding (I can say why) "Men Opening Umbrellas Ahead".

Clamped onto the end of this give-the-dog-a-bonus version of "Tadpoles" is the Innes hommage aux Duchamp "Readymades", which is very sly and very funny in the best tragicomic sense. "Readymades", in addition to its acute and melancholy observations of bourgeois mannerisms, is built on a curiously melodic bass line. Around the same time McCartney did a lot of that style of bass for the Beatles, (an approach later made deliriously perfect by Chris Squire) and a melodic vs rhythmic bass part often imparts a more finished, less pop sensibility to the music. It's something the Bonzos did with fair regularity, and always struck me as an incongruous detail of -- or stylistic quirk for -- such a generally off-hand aesthetic. That sort of interior polish to their recorded work seems often under-appreciated, so pay attention while laughing. And for the best "Tadpoles" experience, seek out the Japanese mini-lp edition: you can watch Legs Larry's eyes spin around inside his empty head again... unless of course there's an "R" in the month.
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