The History of the Bonzos

Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - The History of the Bonzos

The History of the Bonzos
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Artist: Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1999-10-08
Music Label: Bgo - Beat Goes on
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Intro and the Outro
  2. Rockaliser Baby
  3. Sport (The Odd Boy)
  4. Noises for the Leg
  5. King of Scurf
  6. Labio Dental Fricative
  7. Hello Mabel
  8. Canyons of Your Mind
  9. Jollity Farm
  10. You Done My Brain In
  11. My Pink Half of the Drainpipe
  12. Mr. Apollo
  13. Hunting Tigers out in Indiah
  14. Hunting Tigers Out In Indiah
  15. Laughing Blues
  16. Narcissus
Music CD 2
  1. I'm the Urban Spaceman
  2. Bad Blood
  3. I Left My Heart in San Francisco
  4. Tent
  5. Can Blue Men Sing the Whites?
  6. 9-5 Pollution Blues
  7. Big Shot
  8. Release Me
  9. We Are Normal
  10. The Sound of Music
  11. Kama-Sutra
  12. Rhinocratic Oaths
  13. Shirt
  14. Mickey's Son and Daughter
  15. Blind Date
  16. Trouser Press
  17. Slush

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Free Music Review: The Musical Bridge Between The Goons and Monty Python
Hit: 5 Stars

With a taste for both ancient radio music and classic British music hall pastiche bent to an absurdist contemporary pop sensibility, this troupe of music satirists soundtracked the bridge between Peter Sellers' legendary Goon Squad routines and the freewheeling, hydradimensional Monty Python (in more ways than one; co-founding pianist/guitarist Neil Innes would be a Python adjunct/support player for most of that troupe's prime existence). Unlike most pop and rock satirists, however, the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (they shortened it to the Bonzo Dog Band after their first two albums) were sensible enough to know the limits of both topical humour and private in-joking (Frank Zappa, with and without the Mothers of Invention, never did quite get it, which explains why most of the Mothers' music post 1967 seemed dated within a week of its issue). And the fact that they were unashamed to let show their genuine affection for the sources of their zany attack somehow makes the Bonzos accessible in ways their actual and would-be contemporaries (as few as there were) could never have been. (Which may explain why, when Geoff Stephens and John Carter - the brains behind the New Vaudeville Band's surprise 1966 hit, "Winchester Cathederal" - needed a touring band fast to ride the wave of that shocker, having cut the song with studio regulars only, the pair first approached the Bonzos to be that band; the Bonzos as a band turned them down, but original sax/trombonist Bob Kerr threw in with the New Vaudeville Band for its brief touring life.)

This 1974 anthology is still the best way to introduce yourself to this troupe of the cheerfully insane, led as always by the sensitive Vivian Stanshall and his nucleus - saxophonists Rodney Slater and Roger Ruskin Spear (who also became renowned for his sound and visual devices, especially his exploding devices and his cartoon speech balloons); drummer Legs Larry Smith; bassist Vernon Dudley Bohay; Innes (vocals, guitar and keyboards). The odd hits (they had a few, mostly in England, especially "I'm The Urban Spaceman") and cult favourites (the clever "The Intro and the Outro," the charming pop of "King of Scurf," the Cream-parodying "9 to 5 Pollution Blues," the needling of British blues in "Can The Blue Men Sing The Whites," among others) blend neatly into a package that, contrary to others' alarm, actually doesn't drive you out of your mind to hear it through in a single sitting.

And if this set does strike a craving for more, hunt down copies of (especially) such classic albums as "Gorilla" and "Tadpoles." Even now, thirty years after the group called it a day, the Bonzos - who were well enough ahead of their own time - seem quite beyond the reach of much now passing for genuine humour.

The History of the Bonzos Poster

1997 BGO release, a two disc reissue of their 1974 anthologyfeaturing 'Intro And Outro', 'Canyons Of Your Mind', 'Mr. Apollo' and 'Urban Spaceman'. 35 tracks total. Double slimline jewel case. Originally released on Liberty/ Capitol Records.

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