- Audio CD (20 Aug 2001)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: EMI Gold
- ASIN: B00005NKB2
- Other Editions: Audio CD
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 636,613 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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| 1. Fashion Parade/Alla Handel/Sporting News/Money Song/Dennis Moore(Robin Hood Theme)/Happy Movement/Eric The Half Bee Song/Holiday Time - Monty Python |
| 2. Beethoven's 5th/Comic Giggles/Beachy Head/Yangtse Music/Medievel Fanfares/Great Adventure Suite/Fairytale Music/Ya De Bucketty/Television Tensions - Monty Python |
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The Python troupe is in fine form on this disc, recorded in 1972, before the TV series ground them all down a bit and the movies really took hold of their attention. Every sketch on Previous Record is splendidly well-written, particularly Eric Idle's "Wine List" and "The 1972 Eclipse of the Sun"--but so much care is taken throughout, it's almost misleading to pick out just a few. A lot of the material on Previous Record consists of sound-only versions of sketches from the TV show. Some of these work better than others--the worst can be a bit static--but it's impossible to avoid "seeing" John Cleese and Graham Chapman dressed as the Pepperpots, or Cleese's Dennis Moore, the vacillating 18th-century bandit. Previous Record displays Python's characteristic brand of intellectual silliness and shows the influential comedy group in full flood. --Michael Gerber
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44 of 45 people found the following review helpful
BEWARE! NO TRACK LISTINGS!
22 Nov 1999
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
A great Monty Python album which I had on LP years ago. Unfortunately, on the CD you can't easily find a favorite skit (and TRAVEL AGENT is on this one! ) because there are only two "tracks" representing sides 1 and 2 of the album. Sadly, a terrible CD presentation for a classic comedy album.
FYI, the skits are: SIDE ONE: Embarrassment/A Bed-Time Book; England 1747--Dennis Moore; Money Programme; Dennis Moore Continues; Australian Table Wines; Argument Clinic; Putting Budgies Down; Eric The Half A Bee; Travel Agency
SIDE TWO: Radio Quiz Game; A Massage/City Noises Quiz; Miss Anne Elk; We Love The Yangtse; How-To-Do-It Lessons; A Minute Passed; Eclipse Of The Sun; Alistair Cooke; Wonderful World Of Sounds; A Fairy Tale
14 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Not this record!! Not this record!! Not THIS record!!
22 Nov 2000
Format:Audio CD
The main weakness of this CD version of the LP is that it misses the surprise of the LP's side two. Two parallel spirals were printed onto side two, and the audio content divided between the two parallel grooves. The result was that you got a shock on your second, third or fourth play of the admittedly rather brief side two, in that it was a totally different set of sketches.
This album isn't quite as good as 'Another Monty Python Record'. It's a bit too lavatorial for my liking, though less so that 'Holy Grail'. Much of Eric Idle's sketches rely on an appreciation of the Home Programme on BBC Radio in the late 1960s. His other sketches -- eg the brilliant Australian wine critic and the Watney's Red Barrel hater -- were clearly written first not as dramatic pieces but as essays to be read. Michael Palin's love of football comes through in his Great Yang-tse (Yellow River) sketch. You don't need to know who Bill Shankly or Gary Sprake were, but it helps.
Eric the Half-a-Bee is a great sketch and not a bad song, but I sometimes wonder whether the Cambridge Footlights sketch format has much to answer for, in prompting the Pythons to write fairly dismal tunes such as the 'Wonderful as Money' song.
This is a great album. Dennis Moore is a particularly good set of sketches, and I loved hearing 'Happy Valley' and Prince Walter again.
Buy 'Another Monty Python' first, then the BBC CD (if you can -- available from amazon.co.uk but not amazon.com), then get this one.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
tee hee...
22 May 1999
Format:Audio CD
TAKE IT OFF!!!!!!!! FOR GOD'S SAKES TAKE IT OFF TAKE IT OFF!!!!!!!!!! bzutbuzweeezweee
Yes!! This is what comedy on record is all about! From Dennis Moore to Dr Carl (Karl??) Gruber ("Noises are a major embarrasment source.") this, and its companion "Another Monty Python Record", is a continued hoot from start to finish.
Except for all those stupid "a massage from the swedish prime minister" sayings that are simply embarrasing.
And the moral is, smoking can ruin your health!
Please buy this album. It's the second-funniest album ever made (The first being Negativland's "U2" ep, but good luck finding that one). Listen to it. Cherish it. Love it. Laugh with it. And throw out all those awful Firesign Theatre records!!
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