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

Hmmmmmmmm, I don't know what that track is! I wish I did!

"They bite
They scratch
They make an awful fuss
It's no use stroking them and saying "puss puss puss"..."

Oh, you know what?

Thanks to this thread, I just bought all five remastered CDs (plus extras) for £30 off ebay.

"But now, here in Willesden Green, yes, *brrrrr*, it is a bit chilly, but, no matter, because here comes a gentleman, and we're going to talk to him about shirts..."

"Let's Make Up And Be Friendly" - strange album! "Turkeys" sounds like one of the weirder Canterbury bands and "Waiting For The Wardrobe" is a great Roger Ruskin Spear track. Has anyone heard either of his solo albums?

Also, I've been rocking this new comp of songs they covered or were influenced by. It's 75% good, a few absolute crackers and a two or three crappy ones. Worth getting though, especially for the originals of Ali Baba's Camel, Mickey's Son and Daughter and Skirts (aka Shirt).

http://shop.instant-shop.com/magpiedirect/picture?pic=417140810&table=pictures&width=301&height=300

Wow, I must get that!

There's a lot of old songs that they played live or whatever but aren't on the albums, like "Little Sir Echo" (which you can see them doing on Youtube). Some of those ones are really good, especially if you like their first two albums the best.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A3647630

splendid!

Okay, I did not know that it actually WAS Eric Clapton on ukelele. Cool but not surprising.

Another song I really like by them is "Straight from My Heart"--can't remember the album it's from (maybe "Let's Make Up..."). I like the chorus sing-a-long and the lazy sax line.

Whispering Jack Smith (who does the original version of "All By Yourself In the Moonlight" on the aforementioned comp) has mad flow.

How does his flow compare to that of Norman "Hurricane" Smith?

Comedy Music is about the only kind I can stand anymore.

Poor you

eeeeh.

the five remastered cds have ARRIVED!

see you monday!

Death Cab For Grouty

Grout Stripped Bare By Bachelors

"I'm Going to Bring a Watermelon to Mark Grout Tonight"

WE ARE NORMAL AND WE WANT OUR FREEDOM

The Intro and the Groutro

Well, the kids were impressed with "Monster Mash" and "Urban Spaceman" so far, and Alice enjoyed the "roll call" one (forgot it's name!)

Mind you, when I picked them up from a friends house they were both singing "Good Morning, How Are You, Shut up!!" so I have to go round explaining, thesedays!

Oh, and Alice was singing along to "Death cab for cutie" (the "Baby, don't do it" bits), which surprised me, until I remembered she'd seen the Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" film about 3 months ago.

Mind you, when I picked them up from a friends house they were both singing "Good Morning, How Are You, Shut up!!" so I have to go round explaining, thesedays!

Hip kids!

you know it.

It's such a sliding scale between joke band and 'real' band. I think that, at times at least, The Bonzos were as much a comment on the music of the time and as much a cheeky, but relevant and spot-on, take on 60s pop as, say, Arthur Lee and Love were. There's still something very sincere about The Bonzo Dog Band.

My dad willed me his 'Beast of the Bonzos' LP when I was four because I loved the illustrations so much. So I guess I'd have to say that they're one of my all-time favorite bands.

"Piggy Bank Love" for the win.

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?

^^ srsly

"Gorilla" is great. But then so are all the other albums.

What's best is to have the albums "as they are", with their mix of contemporary rock and trad jazz and all directions off.

The "best of"'s, while serving them well, can only scratch this.

The last "Make up and be friendly" was somewhat disappointing, but the other four are blummin wonderful!

It's a contractual obligation album cobbled together 2 years after they broke up, so no surprises that it's a bit thin.

"...through the HOLES in your STRING VEEEEEEEEEST!"

I got the "chien" reunion album.

Um, they miss Viv. Badly.

Oh, it's not absolutely terrible. But.

Friend of mine had me convinced that BDDDB did Winchester Cathedral, largely on the evidence of one MP3 ID3 tag and one cartoon credit (Clive the frog). Seems that he was mistaken.

You know what's "look at me I'm" wonderful right now?

Scouring Youtube for classic BDDDB filmclips, and finding a festival gig in three parts in perfectly good sound/pic!

I say "sound" but I've not heard it yet. But judging from the picture quality...

Here's part two, the rest you can find...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLX5dlum3yk

Am really digging their song "Don't Get Me Wrong"...sounds kind of like Lennon-led Beatles (sort of like "Dig a Pony").

where's that from?

Let's Make Up and Be Friendly

Heard the strains of "I'm the urban spaceman" on the One show last night, thought "Oh, another useful background for some bloke who likes science fiction", but no:

A whole 10 minutes about the Bonzo's! W/ Neil Innes today, a bunch of film bits that you can see on Youtube (even now), but better quality, and Viv Stanshall of course.

A nice b/day surprise...

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 (5 years ago) Bookmark

^this

"Equestrian Statue" remains one of Alice's favourite songs to sing.

And mine.

"It's a sight to bring you joy
You feel so gay..."

Mark G you are bringing yr kids up right.

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)

i need to get this stuff.

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.

http://childrensbookshop.com/images/bookimages/66/66589.jpg

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

er....Busted?

Real answer is Sofahead.

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