The Rutles - Archaeology
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Free Music Notes for Archaeology
Free Music Review: Now this is Music
Hit: 5 Stars
A great Cd Neil I love ya I hope you and the Rutles Never stop that great music. All the songs are worth the money.Free Music Review: the Inspiration for the B-sharps
Hit: 5 Stars
They really _were_ bigger than Rod.Free Music Review: rultles cd
Hit: 5 Stars
excellent prompt serviceFree Music Review: Not quite as on-target as the original "Rutles"
Hit: 4 Stars
The name is the same, but this album is a very different animal from its predecessor. The original "Rutles" album consisted of one dead-on-target parody after another. "Archaeology" is less specific in its spoofery. A couple of songs have obvious sources of inspiration ("Maj. Happy's/Rendezvous," "We've Arrived," "Back in '64" and, most pointedly, "Unfinished Words"), but most of the album mimics the overall sound rather than mimic particular songs. Also, sometimes the album wanders off course, becoming more of a parody of John Lennon and his solo work than of the Beatles as a whole. Then again, maybe the tendency to drift John-ward (or should that be "Ron-ward"?) is fair, considering the overwhelming McCartney influence on the work of the latter-day "Threetles" (in the "Archaeology" world, of course, it's Dirk McQuickly, not Ron Nasty, who's unavailable -- having retired from music to become a comedian; the actual death of Ollie Halsall, who had provided McQuickly's singing voice, adds a sharp dash of irony).Interestingly, many of the songs on "Archaeology" are actually Bonzo Dog Band songs rerecorded to sound more Beatlesque. As a result, if you look past the parodic aspect, you find an album with some very strong songs indeed, especially those toward the end -- "Eine Kleine," "Joe Public" and "Shangri-La" (not to be confused with the powerhouse Kinks song of the same name . . . say, you don't suppose that Oasis are to the Kinks what the Rutles are to the Beatles?).
Free Music Review: Rutlemania Redux
Hit: 4 Stars
With the release of the Beatles' Anthology series, it was inevitable that the surviving Rutles would follow suit and dig into their vaults to serve up a CD-ful of outtakes, alternate versions and previously unreleased songs that weren't considered strong enough for the original Rutles' albums like Ouch!, A Hard Day's Rut or Tragical History Tour.Too bad it took the tragic death of Dirk McQuickly for the surviving Rutles to comb through the vaults to serve up this 16-track collection of bits and pieces of Rutlemania. While these songs were never intended for official release, it provides a rare glimpse into the the previously unreleased vaults of perhaps the most overrated band in the history of popular music. Tracks like "Joe Public" clearly show the undeniable effects of tea abuse among the Rutles. Drummer Barry Wom was usually limited to a single vocal per album, and it's a joy to hear him on "Rendezvous," a track that would have fit in nicely on Sgt Rutters. There's an extended combined edit of "Hey Mister!" but it's not the long-rumored three-hour version. "Shagri-La" could have been as big a hit as "Good Times Roll" or "Doubleback Alley." Confessional songs like "Don't Know Why" point the direction Ron Nasty's career would take after the break-up of the Rutles. With talk of a Rutles' reunion now a moot point, the lyrics to "Back in '64" resonate with new meaning: "Life is too short to be small...so, so long...it's all over." RECOMMENDED