new EMI remaster w/ lots of bonus tracks

Track Listing

1. Cool Britannia
2. Equestrian Statue
3. Jollity Farm
4. (I Left My Heart) In San Francisco
5. Look out, There's a Monster Coming
6. Jazz, Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold
7. Death Cab for Cutie
8. Narcissus
9. Intro and the Outro
10. Mickey's Son and Daughter
11. Big Shot
12. Music for the Head Ballet
13. Piggy Bank Love
14. I'm Bored
15. Sound of Music
16. My Brother Makes the Noises for the Talkies [*]
17. I'm Gonna Bring a Watermelon to My Girl Tonight [*]
18. Ali Baba's Camel [Early Version][#][*]
19. On Her Doorstep Last Night [*]
20. Alley Oop [*]
21. Button Up Your Overcoat [*]
22. Craig Torso Show [BBC Recording][*]

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #35618 in Music
• Released on: 2007-07-24
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Album Details
Neil Innes and Vivien Stanshall, were the Back Bone of this Band Formed in the 60's by Art School Students. They Started Life as the Bonzo Dog Dada Band, Then Becoming the Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band, and Then Finally Just the Bonzo Dog Band.

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Customer Reviews

Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band Gorilla Album Review (I couldn't think of a better title! :(
This is probably my dad's and my favorite album that we own simply for it's ridiculusness. Some background:
The Bonzos were the "house band" for Monty Python's predicessor, a silly British tv show called "Do Not Adjust Your Set." Since they were that house band, you can't expect their music to be all that serious. If you listen closely to the lyrics, the songs are downright hilarious. I do not reccomend listening to this while doing homework, though. I just finished an essay that would've nomally taken me about one hour to write, revise, and edit, but instead it took me about 1.5 hours because I was listening to Gorilla. It's good for leisure time, but not for homework. In short, I love the Gorilla album.

Great dada from the Bonzos!
Having heard most of the Bonzos' catalog (or catalogue, if you're in the UK), off of assorted collections and the Cornology boxed set, I leaped at the chance to own the original CD's (and this was the last one I purchased), because of the bonus tracks. As always, Neil Innes provides sharp and witty banter recounting the history of how the Bonzo tracks came into existence, and the music never fails to delight, especially 'The Craig Torso Show' where I would have nearly fell about laughing if I wouldn't have been in the car ('Craig Torso smells wonderfuuuuuuul'). Minus one star for again mis-labelling Sidney Nicholls (aka Big Sid, the guy playing banjo in the numbered group shot) as Vernon Dudley Bohay Nowell.

Do Not Adjust Your Set: The Soundtrack, practically...
Two years ago saw the release of what was left of the proto-Python series Do Not Adjust Your Set, along with At Last the 1948 Show whose merits I've triumphed earlier. With the recent reunion of the Bonzos with British comic stars like Steven Fry and Ade Edmondson standing in for the late Viv Stanshall (trading one Viv for another in the case of the latter), following Neil Innes' recent solo tour (a really nice guy to have played a character named Nasty "all those years ago," he signed all my DVDs and put up with my jabberings quite patiently), interest has been revived enough to see the original albums put out with bonus tracks. Considering this album came out at the time they were providing music for the above mentioned show, it should be no surprise that songs like "Equestrian Statue" and "Look Out There's a Monster Coming" along with their version of "The Sound of Music" got airtime and appear here. If you liked them, if you like Python, and have a love of British dancehall music, you should pick this up. Even if you get no other Bonzo release (and your life is the worser for it), buy this in Viv's memory.

Signed,
The Urban Spaceman (er, epsteinsmutha)