The Bonzo Dog (Doo-Dah) Band: C or D?

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I generally get the impression that Comedy Music is considered a Bad Thing on ILM, but I think the Bonzos (Vivian Stanshall, less so Neil Innes) were something special. So I say: Classic. But it's jolly frightening out here.

― Sam, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

I like em but not at Much as The Rutles

― Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

But the Rutles Didn't Write Their Own Stuff. Eric Idle did it (with George Harrison's help). Now the Bonzos on the other hand, you've got very stupid lyrics ('Monster Mash', 'Ali Babar's Camel'), you've got social comment ('My Pink Half Of The Drainpipe', 'Rhinocratic Oaths'), you've got really good style parodies ('Big Shot', 'Do Blue Men Sing The Whites'), you've got anti-macho sentiment ('Mr. Apollo', 'Sport') and some good grooves ('Tent'). Or am I just being obsessive?

― Sam, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

but Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah band didn't write Ali Baba's Camel or the Monster Mash

― MarkH, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

With most comedy records, the listener receives the impression that they only exist because the creators lack the intelligence or soul to make a non-comedy record - witness that whole horrible hybrid 'post-modernist' ironical indie pop craze that started with PWEI and continue through to this day with Beck and doubtless thousands of other names that I thankfully have never encountered.

With the Bonzos, it was the precise opposite. Vivian, Eric et al clearly had too much going on in their diseased imaginations to let out in a 'straighter' form... to call their music 'comedy' is like terming John Berger's 'Ways Of Seeing' an art criticism book. True, but kind of missing the point. Bonzos were parody primarily, and often cruel (the best kind). All human life is within those chuckles and miscues and bad puns and intros and outros and pisstakes of comic book adverts. And some cracking great tunes, and insightful lyrics too.

― Jerry, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Here's my second promotion for Vivian Stanshall's "Sir Henry At Rawlinsworth End" on ILM. Now, that's pure, giddy genius!

― X. Y. Zedd, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Mark, you make me sad. For years I have been telling people that "that monster song they had in the Simpson's" was actually by the Bonzos, actually, and now it turns out that I'm full of shit. Who did write it? And 'Ali Babar's Camel' too? C'mon! Surely only Sir Viv could be responsible for the way it blends into a Scottish reel near the end ("Give us a tune there, Jock!")?
XYZ, please please tell me where to get hold of 'Rawlinson End'. I read a transcript somewhere and giggled so much my face hurt. Especially the bit about the butler: "Old Scrotum, the wrinkled retainer."

― Sam, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

who gives a fuck. Sinatra didnt wirte his songs

― Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Sam, I just did a little Internet research and discovered that not only did "Rawlinson" spawn dramatic (film and theater) sequels in England, it's been reissued on EMI and is available through CD Now--though I suppose it's probably easily found elesewhere, as well. I can finally ditch the crummy tape I made from my scratchy used vinyl copy!

― X. Y. Zedd, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Oh holy jeezum crow! The Bonzo Dog Band are farkin' CLASSIC! "Trouser Press", "The Intro & the Outro," "Jazz, Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold," Rhinocratic Oaths".....unfettered genius!

― alex in nyc, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

"...& over there, looking very relaxed, Adolf Hitler on vibes! mmm, nice!" CLASSIC.

― duane (doorag), Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Their appearance in Magical Mystery Tour makes them a classic, not only on principle, but also because the film editing and the sudden donning of the masks adds an element of 'whoa, what?' to their performance. So does the stripper.

― matthew m., Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

sam, are you referring to the monster mash?

― ethan, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Sam, just to be pedantic, The Rutles songs were all written by Neil Innes. Eric Idle had no involvement in the music at all.

As for George's involvement, of course he was in the film but Innes also played the songs for John and George before they were released incase they were offended or were going to sue him. They thought they were fine although John advised him not to release Get Up And Go because it was rather too close to Get Back. As it turned out Allan Klein (I think it was him anyway) wasn't standing for it and Innes lost the rights to all the songs, so he's never made any money out of them at all.

As for the Bonzos, not all great but classic all the same. They would be classic even if all they had done was the Intro and the Outro and the guitar solo in Canyons Of Your Mind. Plus some of their 60s TV appearances are great with false arms and silly masks much in evidence.

― MSmith, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

I didn't know that Neil Innes was the Rutles writer. I guess I assumed it was Eric Idle because he wrote Python music. I am begging your pardon. "Normally I pack a rod, in pyjamas I carry only scars from Normandy beach." - Big Shot = clARSic

― Sam, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

11 months pass...

Actually, quite a few Python songs were done by Neil Innes too. Innes did a lot of work with Monty Python after the Bonzos broke up. You can see him as Sir Robin's Minstrel in The Holy Grail (he wrote that song), and "How Sweet to be an idiot" from several Python shows.

― Gian Perrone, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

"was there not too much gristle in the blancmange!!??"

― mark s, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

I don't know if Sam still reads ILM, but 'Monster Mash' was written by Bobby Pickett and Leonard Capizzi - it was originally a 1962 hit for Bobby "Boris" Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers.

The Bonzos were GRATE. 'Sofa Head' is the best pro-getting pissed track ever.

― Jeff W, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

Thanks Jeff!

― Sam (chirombo), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 09:58 (10 years ago) Permalink

i had missed this thread!
the bonzo dog band is such a CLASSIC. i wouldn't say they're a comedy band, at all. of course they have a comedy side, but the tunes are great and the songs are crafted in a way that reminds me a lot of the kinks and the best bits on momus' discography ('i want you (but i don't need you)' could be a song by the bonzos, only grosser).

― joan vich (joan vich), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 11:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

A couple of weeks ago, I found the Bonzos box set for £13 quid in HMV. Now, listening to it for the past two days, I realise this is the greatest bargain in musical history. I mean... "Look Out There's A Monster Coming"? What kinda class A white-boy reggae music hall robotic vocals mish-mash thang is this? A fucking great one, that's what.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 28 November 2002 19:04 (10 years ago) Permalink

BOX SET?

*sound of feet galloping towards HMV*

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Thursday, 28 November 2002 19:25 (10 years ago) Permalink

There once was a very famous man
On his famous horse he'd ride through the land
The people used to see him everywhere
When he died they put a statue in the square (hooray)

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 28 November 2002 22:52 (10 years ago) Permalink

weirdly i ALSO bought the bonzos box for £13 in t'HMV sale two saturdays ago 'cos i couldn't be bothered turning my garage upside down for the nine millionth time to find the vinyl origs. they need to be done on Church of Me, and i will do so over the weekend.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 29 November 2002 08:50 (10 years ago) Permalink

Ok whats on the box set 'cos I've about half or two thirds of their stuff already?

The earlier, more obviously comedic records are the ones that, for the most part, keep getting cited above but surely by the time they did Keynsham the Bonzos were doing so much more.

― tigerclawskank, Friday, 29 November 2002 10:14 (10 years ago) Permalink

the box set is all four original albums, "lets make up and be friendly" and a handful of early singles, some solo bonzo stuff ("labio dental fricative" and "recycled vinyl blues" from viv and neil, and "trouser freak" from roger) and the german version of "mr apollo". only doesn't have their final single "heigh ho (no matter who you vote for the government always gets in)"

oh and obviously so classic you could never believe. viv was a comic and musical genius, and neil one of the nicest blokes you could ever hope to meet

― chris browning (commonswings), Friday, 29 November 2002 10:21 (10 years ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

In some parallel British musical universe, Stanshall and Innes are as well-known and revered as Lennon and McCartney...
BDB; absolutely classic; everyone go out and get the *remarkable value* 'Cornology' box set, who hasn't got it... straight away dear sirs! :-)

― Tom May (Tom May), Sunday, 2 March 2003 18:49 (10 years ago) Permalink

Don't know how I missed this before. Classic of course. Viv Stanshall was the first live act I ever saw, in I think 1975.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 2 March 2003 19:05 (10 years ago) Permalink

How i envy you there, Martin! I of course was seven years away from being born in 1975. ;-) Was that 'Men Opening Umbrellas' type time? (not that I've been able to hear that album as it's not out on CD...)

― Tom May (Tom May), Monday, 3 March 2003 00:06 (10 years ago) Permalink

also they invented Belle & Sebastian ("Quiet Talks & Summer Walks")

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 3 March 2003 00:28 (10 years ago) Permalink

I only want to hear GOOD things about them, Daniel!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 March 2003 00:39 (10 years ago) Permalink

No it's really interesting though, since the Bonzo Dog Band were a comedy band and all that, but if someone had released that track today everyone would just go "ew, ew, twee!" and stuff. So I suppose it's a sort of prophetic parody or something (except it isn't very funny and also it's really great)

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 3 March 2003 01:28 (10 years ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

Daniel: but it isn't an intended parody...
There was no rule with the Bonzos that *all they did* had to be comedic parody of genre and convention. Granted, "Gorilla" and "Tadpoles" had a majority of such material (and very well achieved too), but frankly the other 3 records were straight*er* pop music (though that of course cannot sum up the scope entirely of records like "Keynsham"). Obviously they still included an element of satire at many stages... this was more pronounced with Stanshall's material ("My Pink Half...", "Bad Blood" etc.), but Innes is underrated and far from as conventional and parodic as he is perceived. Checking Marcello Carlin's CoM entry on the BDB illustrates a few things about Innes' importance.

They truly did move beyond parody, and were already beginning to do so from the debut album onwards.

― Tom May (Tom May), Saturday, 14 June 2003 00:02 (9 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

My pink half of the the drainpipe separates me from the incredibly boring story of your life in all its minute and tedious attention to detail, and "Was it a Thursday or a Wednesday .... ?" - Well I don't know if you are normal, but if you're normal then I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life and I will baffle you with cabbages and rhinoceroses and quotations from "Now we are Six" through the mouthpiece of Lord Snooty's giant poisoned electric head.

SO THEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

― Bumfluff, Friday, 6 August 2004 20:03 (8 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

REVIVE-O!

Through the exceptionally good, generous graces of fellow ILM'er Abbics Abbie, I have finally aquired the above album (after merely expressing that I'd wanted to finally hear "Eleven Moustachioed Daughters" after reading so much about it here on ILM). Very nicely, she ripped the whole shebang for me, and by gosh is it ever great. All I'd heard previously were compilations, but this album really is fucking fantastic. Moreover, the lyrics to "11 Moustachioed Daughters" are truly creepy in a decidedly occult-bothering sort've way. Witness....

Eleven moustachioed daughters, running in a field of fat
The moon is high, the mandrake screams,
Please come to our Sabbat.
The changeling children shiver, round the fire their mothers dance,
With strangely painted faces,
That smile but never laugh.
The crow-pecked gibbet's victim swings broken in his cage
His hands cut down to make a crown.
To wear as our homage.
Round & round the magic ring soft figures fastly rush
And wolf-like things & toads with wings whisper wetly
"Come with us".

The fresh-plucked eye of a favourite cat,
Pulped and mixed with a white hens fat,
A lapwings' wing and lions' gall,
And Belladonna to make your eyes
Like a beasts.
To anoint the body and make it shine,
To drink & make thyself divine,
To choose another's form and make it thine.

And now they gibber blasphemy & fill the fetid air
With ancient lies & leprous cries,
This night he will be there.
A madness has them, mouths gape wide
As one they sway and moan, & every brutish face is turned,
To see our Goat-King's Throne.

Anyway, thanks again Abbie and let's hear it for the Bonzos.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 23:52 (8 years ago) Permalink

I foolishly sold my original pressings of this and The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse when I was young. "I'm the Urban Spaceman," "Beautiful Zelda," "Rockaliser Baby" - CLASSIC!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 7 October 2004 00:03 (8 years ago) Permalink

"Beatufiul Zelda" reminds me a great deal of Robyn Hitchcock (who, I'd wager, was probably a big fan).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 7 October 2004 00:05 (8 years ago) Permalink

The Keynsham album was maybe even better.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 7 October 2004 00:09 (8 years ago) Permalink

"How long will it take to clean this shirt?"
"Three hours."
"But the sign says 59 minute clean!"
"That's just the name of the shop."

― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 7 October 2004 02:11 (8 years ago) Permalink

"Randy turned in on himself. No mean feat for a 40-stone man."

― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 7 October 2004 11:49 (8 years ago) Permalink

I believe that Keynsham is the key album for them. Possibly their White Album? "The Bride Stripped Bare By Bachelors" has to be the greatest "rock band on tour" song ever. Bitter as hell. Plus, the title track is one of those Neil Innes songs that's just a joy to listen to. Anyone know who he's trying to parody? Musically, I'm thinking maybe Traffic. The lyrics are just classic nonsense.

"Lipstickgleam
Hexachloraphene
Cling cling a ring
Clang clang she sang
It's tragic magic
There are no coincidences
But sometimes the pattern is more obvious"

― everything, Thursday, 7 October 2004 17:43 (8 years ago) Permalink

Classic! Anyone can be funny using WORDS; but like Spike Jones (and unlike Frank Zappa), the Bonzos could be MUSICALLY funny too. Roger's solo on the electric shirt collar ("New horizons in sound!") can make me smile just by thinking about it like I am right now. And who could forget Eric Clapton on ukulele? The Count Basie Orchestra on triangle? and Roy Rogers on Trigger? It's just too bad that (aside from "The Intro And The Outro") Gorilla usually gets overlooked, probably because it's got several outside compositions. It's still a great one that makes me want to shout out, "Hurrah!"

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 7 October 2004 19:16 (8 years ago) Permalink

the funniest thing about "eric clapton on ukulele" is that it actually was eric clapton on ukulele!

also "eleven moustachioed daughters" has uncredited backing vocals by germaine greer.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 8 October 2004 06:57 (8 years ago) Permalink

11 months pass...

What year did "Mr. Apollo" come out and did the Bonzos invent glam rock?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 29 September 2005 05:11 (7 years ago) Permalink

OK, August of '69 so maybe.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 29 September 2005 05:13 (7 years ago) Permalink

hooray for the Bonzos! i was watching the DVDs of "Do Not Adjust Your Set" and the bits with them are awesome (well apart from the one where they are in blackface. oh dear.)

― zappi (joni), Thursday, 29 September 2005 06:12 (7 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

guys, guys:

2006

Saturday 28th January

Neil Innes and Friends
(The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band Revisited)
FEATURING
Rodney Slater
Roger Ruskin Spear
Legs Larry Smith
Vernon Dudley Bohay Nowell
plus special guests
THE ASTORIA
LONDON
Doors Open 1800hrs

Tickets are still available from

STARGREEN BOX OFFICE
Credit Card Hotline 020 7734 8932
www.Stargreen.com

hooooold me back!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 11 December 2005 17:52 (7 years ago) Permalink

Oh holy shit....someoe must go to this!!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 11 December 2005 17:55 (7 years ago) Permalink

and let that someone be me.

i saw neil innes at the melbourne comedy festival in 2003 - he was every bit as wondrous as i'd hoped. (i was the youngest person there by about 20 years)

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 11 December 2005 18:02 (7 years ago) Permalink

I saw Neil Innes a few years back, he does a good show. That Bonzo old boys line-up is something else.

― Falling down the stairs again (noodle vague), Sunday, 11 December 2005 18:13 (7 years ago) Permalink

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Mark G you are bringing yr kids up right.

― we are normal and we want our freedom (Abbott), Thursday, 5 November 2009 17:08 (3 years ago) Permalink

A couple years ago, they did a version of "Monster Mash", based strongly on the Bonzo's version.

(It's on a thread around these parts, the link is still valid)

― Mark G, Thursday, 5 November 2009 17:11 (3 years ago) Permalink

i need to get this stuff.

― PHEAR MY POORAPULT (jjjusten), Thursday, 5 November 2009 17:28 (3 years ago) Permalink

Lord Snooty's giant poisoned electric head.

Gah, and all the years I've heard that as "Lord Snoopy's...." I've now properly Googled and understood the source.

― Such A Hilbily (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 5 November 2009 17:37 (3 years ago) Permalink

― I Poxy the Fule (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 November 2009 17:39 (3 years ago) Permalink

are there any other bands names after the Bonzos apart from Death Cab For Cutie and Poisioned Electrick Head?

― Deluxe Merseybeat Wig (Jack Battery-Pack), Thursday, 5 November 2009 19:15 (3 years ago) Permalink

er....Busted?

― everything, Thursday, 5 November 2009 20:32 (3 years ago) Permalink

Real answer is Sofahead.

― everything, Thursday, 5 November 2009 20:35 (3 years ago) Permalink

there was a magazine named after the bonzos. does that count?

― scott seward, Thursday, 5 November 2009 20:56 (3 years ago) Permalink

this is great for anyone who hasn't seen it. i came across it whilst looking at bonzo vids one night. comes in three parts. watch it when you have the time:

― scott seward, Thursday, 5 November 2009 20:59 (3 years ago) Permalink

Which magazine? Trouser Press?

Thanks for that link by the way. I will watch that tonight for sure.

― everything, Thursday, 5 November 2009 21:03 (3 years ago) Permalink

I bought the Poisoned Electrick Head album just because their name was a Bonzos reference.

― everything, Thursday, 5 November 2009 21:15 (3 years ago) Permalink

I think my step dad bought me Gorilla when I was about 11, it was one of the first records I remember owning.

BDDDB are an ideal band to introduce children to. At that age they sound like the Beano's house band and then later you realise there is loads of stuff going on and most of the funny songs are spot on pastiches.

I had tickets to see Viv but sadly he went and died.

― my opinionation (Hamildan), Thursday, 5 November 2009 21:21 (3 years ago) Permalink

There's a GREAT bootleg DVD collection of all their promotional films which is a must see, maybe even more important than hearing the records. Really weird avant garde performance art stuff with bizarre masks and miming. British comedy strangeness 100x stranger than Monty Python.

― Adam Bruneau, Friday, 6 November 2009 05:17 (3 years ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

Craig Ferguson opens with "Look Out There's A Monster Coming". Great fun. Killer song, new to me.

― Cricket riding a tumbleweed (Plasmon), Thursday, 8 April 2010 07:38 (3 years ago) Permalink

One of my favourite Bonzo songs, and some of Viv's best lyrics..

Also inspired the screen name i've been using for the past few months..

― Deluxe Merseybeat Wig (Jack Battery-Pack), Saturday, 10 April 2010 07:07 (3 years ago) Permalink

9 months pass...

Sky Arts had (has?) a half-hour "Bonzo's Live" show on last night.

Damn. Does anyone have access to a 'play-it-again' version?

― Mark G, Monday, 17 January 2011 12:10 (2 years ago) Permalink

anyone?

― Mark G, Monday, 17 January 2011 13:40 (2 years ago) Permalink

Our apologies for the late change to the schedules which was due to unforeseen circumstances with the delivery of the programme. The Bonzos are now scheduled for 14 Feburary at 6:30pm, and repeating on 15 and 18 Feb.

http://www.skyarts.co.uk/music/article/the-bonzo-dog-doo-dah-band/

― I'll make you bang, combinating with smang (Noodle Vague), Monday, 17 January 2011 17:34 (2 years ago) Permalink

Mark, if it's the live stuff from the Bilzen Festival as per the picture on the Sky webpage, then all that stuff's on Youtube:

― seminal fuiud (NickB), Monday, 17 January 2011 17:43 (2 years ago) Permalink

^^^ was so psyched when I found these on youtube, finally being able to put visuals to the audio I've been listening to for years. (Interesting that they launch several times into the "Fuzzy dice..." line from Zappa's "Dog Breath.")

― Glorified Lolcat (Dan Peterson), Monday, 17 January 2011 18:17 (2 years ago) Permalink

ok Sky Arts, you win..... I wish we have Sky now......

― my opinionation (Hamildan), Monday, 17 January 2011 18:40 (2 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, that was my thought..

NickB, yeah thanks, I did manage to d/l those off Youtube back when you could do that.

I was more "wow, not rubbish quality broadcast! Yeah!"

So, I have a month to find someone to 'save' it for me?

― Mark G, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 00:55 (2 years ago) Permalink

.. anyone?

― Mark G, Wednesday, 26 January 2011 14:47 (2 years ago) Permalink

Is this still going to happen?

― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 14:37 (2 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

Did anybody catch this?

― Mark G, Thursday, 24 February 2011 12:28 (2 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

neil innes is playing at the port washington public library on long island, may 5.

― Thus Sang Freud, Monday, 2 May 2011 01:13 (2 years ago) Permalink

I picked a random episode of "Do not adjust your set" and played it for the kids (and me, obv).

Bear in mind, this was my favourite prog back when it was originally transmitted, but was thinking that it may well have dated badly and/or of little interest to the kids (like the Banana Splits DVD boxset, which we could only watch approx 2 episodes before seeing that they were all pretty much exactly the same, and the inserted bits of "Danger Island" were poor stuff by todays standards, the cartoons being ... um, OK.)

Anyway, as we discussed, this was my generations' "Sorry I've got no head", but whereas that has Sue Perkins and Marcus Brigstoke making up for slightly inferior writing by mugging furiously, this has Denise Coffey and David Jason. Along with some Pre-pythons and the Bonzos obviously.

But, you know what, it's as strange and funny as it was at the time. "Captain Amazing" is a truly surreal 'silent'/b&w film episode thing...

― Mark G, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 11:24 (2 years ago) Permalink

"Captain Amazing" is a truly surreal 'silent'/b&w film episode thing...

... but not funny though. Sue Perkins isn't in "Sorry I've got no head", thank fuck

― Tom D has taken many months to run this thread to ground (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 11:28 (2 years ago) Permalink

Oh it's the other one, innit?

(In my defence, there is an episode of "QI" where Stephen Fry calls Sue Perkins "Mel"...)

― Mark G, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 11:32 (2 years ago) Permalink

innes was charming the other night at the library. he had everybody singing and stomping along, from curiosity seekers to the folks who'd brought stacks of bonzos albums for him to sign.

― Thus Sang Freud, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 12:46 (2 years ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

Film with "Canyons Of Your Mind" in it. What was it???

― A41 (admrl), Monday, 15 August 2011 01:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

The Innes Book of Records was also wonderful, a TV prog that was just wall-to-wall musical parodies, all with a surreal flavour

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 15 August 2011 21:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

So they boxed up the remasters as Dog's Life, which is basically a higher fidelity Cornology (it even has the extra cuts like "Labio-Dental Fricative"). Even as an import it was pretty cheap and sounds amazing. Big jump from my rips. Long story short, I ended up on youtube and found this great clip:

Viv, man. Viv.

― EZ Snappin, Friday, 18 November 2011 03:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

"looking very relaxed, Adolf Hitler on vibes" = classic.

the long ending "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" on 'My Pink Half Of The Drainpipe' = classic.

Trying to have a conversation with friends while under the influence while 'Noises For The Leg' plays in the background and failing miserably = classic.

― Turrican, Friday, 18 November 2011 10:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Shocked, and Stunned, part 56: Seeing Neil Innes' last appearance on TOTP repeated, "Silver Jubilee" from 1977. Sex Pistols it aint.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 14:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

Never knew such a thing existed

― Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 14:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

Me neither.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 14:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

I was vaguely aware the track existed, but didn't realise it was so bad.

― insert 2012 appropriate display name here (snoball), Wednesday, 11 January 2012 14:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

6 months pass...

That Bilzen festival stuff is amazing.

― My Elusive Memes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 12 July 2012 20:57 (10 months ago) Permalink

Yeah, finally got a decent quality version a few months ago. And now I have the Virgin TV, I now have a perfect version saved on the tivo.

― Mark G, Friday, 13 July 2012 09:57 (10 months ago) Permalink

"Hello Mabel," from DO NOT ADJUST YOUR SET

― Sig Sig Ruman (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 July 2012 12:16 (10 months ago) Permalink

And "Hunting Tigers Out In India"

― Sig Sig Ruman (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 July 2012 12:19 (10 months ago) Permalink

Urban Spaceman promo, with pre-Monster Mash mix, so no maniacal laughing at the beginning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=WGVwreJNWlk
It actually says "Paul McCartney .... Producer" in the video and not Apollo C. Vermouth

― Sig Sig Ruman (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 July 2012 13:47 (10 months ago) Permalink

Did that weird non-embedding time out thing. Will try again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=WGVwreJNWlk

― Sig Sig Ruman (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 July 2012 13:48 (10 months ago) Permalink

OK, forget it. Finally here's one I never heard "High School Hermit." sung in "King of Scurf" doo-wop falsetto

― Sig Sig Ruman (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 July 2012 13:50 (10 months ago) Permalink

One more thing. The soundtrack (but not the visuals unfortunately) to an old BBC2 show called Colour Me Pop

― Sig Sig Ruman (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 22 July 2012 14:11 (10 months ago) Permalink

Slightly off topic, but I stumbled across this while searching for Bonzo footage. Sweet, glad youngsters are discovering them.

― David Allan Cow (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 16:06 (9 months ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

Hello:

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_bonzo_dog_band_the_adventures_of_the_son_of_exploding_sausage

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 6 October 2012 13:40 (7 months ago) Permalink

Thanking you.

― Cosmic Fopp (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 6 October 2012 20:46 (7 months ago) Permalink

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