So the Monty Python "albums" finally get reissued with the obligatory extra tracks and lavish packaging. If, like me, you are a fan and already have these recordings, then you should think carefully about which ones you buy. Admittedly they are all great for putting on your iPOD and making you laugh out loud on bus/train trips. I've had some very strange looks from people I can tell you.
This CD was, I think, the first release from the gang. It's actually no where near as funny now as it was back in "nineteen hundred and soaking wet". I'm sure most fans will have already heard nearly all of this before and it's difficult not to think of the visuals when you are listening. Example: the massage joke is not funny and is repeated four times. I've seen all of this CD on TV apart from Are You Embarrassed Easily? which is very funny and works better in the fact that it was never (I think) a visual piece.
The extras on this particular CD are crap but the box is very nice as you would expect. At nearly £15 in the high street stores one cannot help but think one is being royally ripped off. These CD's should all be mid-price.