Track Listing

1. Introduction to the Executive CD Edition
2. Tour of the Classic Silbury Hill Theatre
3. Live Broadcast from London: Premiere of the Film
4. Narration from the Silbury Hill Gentlemen's Room/"You're Using Cocoanut
5. Bring Out Your Dead
6. King Arthur and the "Old Woman": A Lesson in Anarcho-Syndicated Commune
7. Witch?
8. Lesson in Logic
9. Camelot
10. Quest for the Holy Grail
11. Live from the Parking Lot at the Silbury Hill Theatre
12. Castle of Louis de Lombard: "A Strange Person"
13. Bomb Scare
14. Executive CD Edition Announcement
15. Another Executive CD Edition Announcement
16. Story of the Film So Far
17. Tale of Sir Robin
18. Knights Who Say 'Ni!'"
19. Interview with Filmmaker Carl French
20. Tale of Sir Lancelot: At Swamp Castle
21. Tim, The Enchanter/A Shakespearean Critique
22. Foul-Tempered Rabbit
23. Bridge of Death
24. Executive CD Edition Addendum
25. Castle Aargh/The End

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #189073 in Music
• Brand: MONTY PYTHON
• Released on: 2006-09-05
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Soundtrack, Import

Album Description
And now for something completely different...Expanded reissue of the soundtrack to Monty Python's seminal 1975 film including additional bonus tracks. Features 27 popular Python skits/songs that are still quoted today, over 30 years after the movie was released! Includes 'Camelot', 'French Castle' ('I fart in your general direction!'), 'Knights Who Say Ni', 'Brave Sir Robin' and many more naughty bits. EMI. 2006.

Amazon.com essential recording
More than a soundtrack, this CD collects the best moments from the classic film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, many of which are just as funny to hear as to watch. The scene between King Arthur and the peasant, here titled "A Lesson in Anarcho-Syndicated Commune Living," is still hilarious long after its initial silver-screen appearance, as are "A Witch" and "The Bridge of Death." The CD also contains several segments that don't appear in the film but which contribute to the overall flow of the material. If this CD has any failing, it's that you don't get to have fun spotting the recurring scene of the woman smacking the cat against a wall. --Genevieve Williams

Customer Reviews

One day, lad, all this will be yours
Its production budget was dwarfed by its successors, 'Brian' and 'Meaning of Life', but in many ways the quality of writing is higher and seems closer to the Python ideal, whatever that was.

There are the gratuitous appeals to schoolboy humour -- the gore of the knight with no limbs suggesting they call it a draw, and the crude sounds of the wrist-wobblers in the rear stalls. But this is the album that also contains the Witch Trial sketch, the Professor of Logic, the "How do you become King, then?" sketch, and the Knights who say Ni.

The high standard of humour isn't always maintained, but the soundtrack added several linking sketches that weren't in the film, and most of them work.

The Executive CD Edition of the Monty Python Soundtrack
There was an actual need for the "soundtrack" album to "Monty Python & The Holy Grail," which allowed us to help memorize key bits of dialogue while waiting for the movie to finally be released on DVD (which was worth the wait just to have the LEGO version of the "Camelot" song). Now, of course, this album can serve as a companion to the original Broadway cast album for "Spamalot," the current hit musical inflicted upon the masses by Eric Idle on behalf of the Pythons.

To be clear, this soundtrack includes much more than what you heard in the original film. After all, this is the Executive CD Edition, a fact that you are reminded of at both the beginning and the end of each "side." Then, before the movie actually "starts" you have a tour of the classic Silbury Hill Theater and a live broadcast from the premier of the film, including a narration of the film's opening and the "You're Using Coconuts" routine. Then they finally shut up and get to the bits from the film. My favorite remains "King Arthur and the 'Old Woman': Lesson in Anarcho-Syndicated Commune," which I tried without success to work into several papers in graduate school. The episode involving "A Witch" is followed by a "Lesson in Logic," which proves, unless you are using intuition, that just because a woman weighs as much as a duck does not prove she is a witch. Not everything is here, with the encounter with the Black Knight being the most obvious omission. But you do have the songs for "Camelot" and "The Tale of Sir Robin," and the almost song from the sequence regarding Sir Lancelot at Swamp Castle.

There are intrusions from the Python gang throughout the album, including a "Bomb Scare" and "A Shakespearean Critique" provoked by the appearance of Tim, the Enchanter. None of these are as good as the sarcastic French soldiers at the "Castle of Louis de Lombard," the instructions for the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch from Armaments, Chapter 2, Verses 9 to 21, for dealing with "A Foul-Tempered Rabbit," and the exchange at the "Bridge of Death" that inspired the message on my brother's answering machine. Fortunately, now I have my DVD of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" and can watch what I want, when I want, without resorting to this audio version. However, I must commend this album for sounding like the movie and not for sounding like a movie on a record, which is what we were saddled with in the old days.

One of the funniest things I've ever heard
This cd takes all the best parts of the movie and then add's more bonus clips that wheren't actually in the movie... Overall a very funny way to relive the movie... Especially since not many people have TV's in thier cars it's almost like being able to watch the movie while you drive... I would recommend this for all...