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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This wasn't the first Python record, but it's one of the best. The great thing about Python records was that they were conceived specifically as records; the original vinyl version of 'Matching Tie and Handkerchief' had two grooves on the B-side running side by side, so that it was a largely random matter which one you got to listen to whenever you put the needle down. Likewise, some of the best and freshest stuff on here was written specifically for the record.
'Another Monty Python Record' contains some classic sketches such as the 'Ethel the Frog' documentary on the Piranha Brothers and 'Spam', and while present-day fans complain that the records sometimes duplicate the TV shows, bear in mind that in the early 1970s, most people didn't even own a VCR and DVD wasn't even invented. Before home taping, listening to the record was the only way you could revisit a great Python sketch short of waiting around for them to be repeated on TV. I was mostly too young to watch Python on TV and encountered a lot of their majesty via these records, so I have a soft spot for them. It should be pointed out that for the CD release the Pythons have seen fit to add quite a lot of material that was cut from the original records, not always with very happy results; some sketches and some jokes go on too long. However, you wouldn't want to miss such audio-only high spots as the Festival Hall sketch, with the eminent but hapless violin soloist Emile Joulbert chronically unable to play his solo without destroying his violin, a situation that eventually culminates in hilarious apocalypse (human sacrifice, carnivorous animals, air attack).
'Another Monty Python Record' contains some classic sketches such as the 'Ethel the Frog' documentary on the Piranha Brothers and 'Spam', and while present-day fans complain that the records sometimes duplicate the TV shows, bear in mind that in the early 1970s, most people didn't even own a VCR and DVD wasn't even invented. Before home taping, listening to the record was the only way you could revisit a great Python sketch short of waiting around for them to be repeated on TV. I was mostly too young to watch Python on TV and encountered a lot of their majesty via these records, so I have a soft spot for them. It should be pointed out that for the CD release the Pythons have seen fit to add quite a lot of material that was cut from the original records, not always with very happy results; some sketches and some jokes go on too long. However, you wouldn't want to miss such audio-only high spots as the Festival Hall sketch, with the eminent but hapless violin soloist Emile Joulbert chronically unable to play his solo without destroying his violin, a situation that eventually culminates in hilarious apocalypse (human sacrifice, carnivorous animals, air attack).
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
`Another Monty Python Record' is exactly what it says on the tin, another Monty Python record following on from `Monty Python's Flying Circus' drawing material from the second series of the TV show. No one not expecting the Spanish inquisition would feel truly at home with this album.
With signing to Charisma records, home of Genesis in the seventies, The Python's moved slightly away from just creating new links between the soundtrack of the TV show to re-recording the sketches to make it suit the media better and using the technology to further their humour. The best example of this would be the closing of the Piranha Brothers piece with a gangster apologising as the record appears to be stuck `Sorry squire I've scratched the record' repeated until the listener would get up to investigate when it would continue. Such jokes are diminished by the advent of the CD re-issue.
The material is chosen to suit the construction of a radio rather than a TV sketch show and used to great effect on the Spanish inquisition and most notably spam, spam, spam,spam...
So sit back and enjoy in the comfy chair, `No, no, not the comfy chair'.
With signing to Charisma records, home of Genesis in the seventies, The Python's moved slightly away from just creating new links between the soundtrack of the TV show to re-recording the sketches to make it suit the media better and using the technology to further their humour. The best example of this would be the closing of the Piranha Brothers piece with a gangster apologising as the record appears to be stuck `Sorry squire I've scratched the record' repeated until the listener would get up to investigate when it would continue. Such jokes are diminished by the advent of the CD re-issue.
The material is chosen to suit the construction of a radio rather than a TV sketch show and used to great effect on the Spanish inquisition and most notably spam, spam, spam,spam...
So sit back and enjoy in the comfy chair, `No, no, not the comfy chair'.
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Disapointing Bonus Tracks
6 Mar 2007
Format:Audio CD
The album itself is classic Python, and it's good that the Cdwas reiussed in it's original ordered, with more breaks for the different tracks. Also, the originaltitle and album art have been restored properly, calling it "Another MontyPython Record", and not "Another Monty Python CD."
However, some off the bonus tracks have been available already (to me anyway.) They go something like this:
Treadmill Lager - This is the same sketch from Contractual Obligation album, only this is an earlier and more rushed version. Usually when a Python sketch is given more room to breathe it becomes funnier. Take for example the journey of "Nudge, Nudge." On the first album it's like a punk version (fast and sloppy) but subsiquent live versoins, it became funnier when the audience had more time to hear and laugh at the jokes.
Bishop at Home - This is a little extra sketch that follows the Bishop to his home, with his wife. The sketch is short and not particularly funny, so one could see why it was left off.
Court Room Sketch - Python has had many court room sketches over the years, but this one here is another new one. It was first included as an easter egg on the Meaning of Life Pc game (which I never bothered to get.) This one isn't that funny either, although the ending goes on longer than the last time I heard it.
Undertaker - This isn't related to the othe Undertaker stuff on the album's end, but completely different. It's quick but hilarious. This sketch first appeared on a compilation* with the last line and sound effects cut off.
Only a few extra tracks don't make this an essential buy for hardcore fans such as myself, but if you haven't bought it yet, this is the version to buy, dear friends.
*The Hastily Cobbeled Together For A Fast Buck Album
Go on SOTCAA's site about Python to find out more. It's a great album, with many classic unheard tracks, that will hopefully one day be relaesed to everyone else. With this new realese out there, it just might happen.
However, some off the bonus tracks have been available already (to me anyway.) They go something like this:
Treadmill Lager - This is the same sketch from Contractual Obligation album, only this is an earlier and more rushed version. Usually when a Python sketch is given more room to breathe it becomes funnier. Take for example the journey of "Nudge, Nudge." On the first album it's like a punk version (fast and sloppy) but subsiquent live versoins, it became funnier when the audience had more time to hear and laugh at the jokes.
Bishop at Home - This is a little extra sketch that follows the Bishop to his home, with his wife. The sketch is short and not particularly funny, so one could see why it was left off.
Court Room Sketch - Python has had many court room sketches over the years, but this one here is another new one. It was first included as an easter egg on the Meaning of Life Pc game (which I never bothered to get.) This one isn't that funny either, although the ending goes on longer than the last time I heard it.
Undertaker - This isn't related to the othe Undertaker stuff on the album's end, but completely different. It's quick but hilarious. This sketch first appeared on a compilation* with the last line and sound effects cut off.
Only a few extra tracks don't make this an essential buy for hardcore fans such as myself, but if you haven't bought it yet, this is the version to buy, dear friends.
*The Hastily Cobbeled Together For A Fast Buck Album
Go on SOTCAA's site about Python to find out more. It's a great album, with many classic unheard tracks, that will hopefully one day be relaesed to everyone else. With this new realese out there, it just might happen.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
A few classics and some little known gems
30 Jun 2008
This CD captures the Pythons at the height of their absurdist greatness. But this album, released in 1971, is only their second, so much great material still lies ahead. For casual fans, I'd recommend getting one of the longer compilation CDs like "The Final Rip off" which contains the more well-known material from this CD: Spam and ever-popular "The Spanish Inquisition."
More hardcore fans will enjoy the less popular but still daffy pieces here, like Gumby Theatre, The Piranha Brothers, Death of Mary, Queen of Scots Penguin on the TV, Be A Great Actor/Theatre Critic, Still No Sign of Land (Lifeboat).
Still, if you're that hard core, consider dropping $40 for "The Instant Monty Python CD Collection" which contains this entire CD plus 7 more.
More hardcore fans will enjoy the less popular but still daffy pieces here, like Gumby Theatre, The Piranha Brothers, Death of Mary, Queen of Scots Penguin on the TV, Be A Great Actor/Theatre Critic, Still No Sign of Land (Lifeboat).
Still, if you're that hard core, consider dropping $40 for "The Instant Monty Python CD Collection" which contains this entire CD plus 7 more.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Another classic.
25 April 2008
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
A must for Monty Python lovers, and lots of bang for the buck. Thirty years after I first laid ears on it, this stuff cracks me up every time.
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