Noises for the Leg wouldn't be most people's first pick for a Bonzos track. It isn't mine either, although it does hold a special place in my heart. The Bonzos are mostly remembered for their lyrics, and rightly so. Few people could turn an anchovy like Viv Stanshall. But Noises for the Leg , nestling towards the end of their final main sequence album, Keynsham , is almost entirely instrumental. It has to deliver using music alone. What it delivers is one of the most profoundly unsettling 2 minutes you'll [...]
I don't have much to talk about tonight. I'm feeling kind of out of it. And by that I mean I'm a little depressed. Not in a "I'm going to down a bottle of painkillers!" way, but in more of a, "Jesus I need to figure my shit out!" kind of way. Though I probably wouldn't mind the painkillers. Anyway, I have a busy week ahead of me. I guess it's good to clear my mind of stupid thoughts and, well, focus on sports and getting drunk: there's the Red Sox game on Tuesday night against the Angels [...]
Holy shit I'm tired. And by that I mean "here's another Spotify monthly playlist from the grandiose ears of self" or some other shite like that... There shall be mentaldom, animals fighting out to the death and probably boogieing while we're at it!!Hooray and stuff.... I'm off to make some nice tea.June 2010 PlaylistDandi Wind "Umbilical Noose" (Bait the Tapes, 2005 Bongo Beat Records) Buy
We have been collecting for the lifeboats today and as usual we have had a massive, lovely meal prepared by my darling Mrs. Toad. It was fucking awesome, I have to tell you, and anyone who wasn't here truly did miss out. We, and the RNLI, owe a massive debt of thanks to Sharon from the Wirral, Euan from The Kays Lavelle (and many other things), Peter from next door, Matthew from Glasgow (as of last week), Ella from the Last Battle, Lucy and Catherine from Mrs. Toad's Finance Corp., Jamie from Broken Records, and Dylan and Ed [...]
a second podcast from crayola, including two of my favourite songs from bob hund (didn't they get ripped off by blur or something?) and martin white, plus a bit more talking this time! ::: bob hund - instället för musik: förvirring ::: besh o drom - 9s ::: xerobot - huffing ::: richard hell & the voidoids - the kid with the replaceable head ::: chocolate overdose - tricky nose ::: the dragsters - albino ::: kate bush - army dreamers ::: luminous orange - puppy dog mail ::: the coachmen - thurston's song ::: martin white - [...]
Filed under: Twisted Tales When Neil Innes first met Vivian Stanshall, the tuba player was dressed in an outlandish Victorian outfit and carrying his euphonium. He was also wearing oversize pink rubber ears. An eccentric in the great British tradition, Stanshall became the focal point of England's great eccentric band, the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, a daffy musical throwback to the 1920s trapped in the forward motion of the 1960s. In its brief run, the Bonzo Dog Band inspired Monty Python's Flying Circus , befriended the Beatles and [...]
the bonzo dog band were a group of british art-school outcasts who loved 50's and 60's pop so dearly they couldn't help but parody it. still a cult favorite, the bonzo's closest american analog is zappa and the mothers. their classic 1968 lp, "the doughnut in granny's greenhouse," traversed most genres of popular music that existed at the time, and even created a few (like the lovesick cockney space shuffle of "beautiful zelda"). my favorite track on the album is the languid music hall number "hello mabel," on which dry british humour and a genuine love [...]
I mean, look - they sell net-curtains I should have titled this post " Neko Case album leak " or something equally inaccurate...One of my favourite "comedy applied to real-life" gags, that I bandy around whenever the situation presents itself, comes from The Bonzo Dog Band - "Shirt". It's four and a half minutes of music/sketch combined, and at one point our subject enters a "59-Minute Cleaners" & asks to have his shirt cleaned, express . When told that it'll take three weeks, he complains - mentioning the sign outside... & well, you [...]
I mean, look - they sell net-curtains I should have titled this post " Neko Case album leak " or something equally inaccurate...One of my favourite "comedy applied to real-life" gags, that I bandy around whenever the situation presents itself, comes from The Bonzo Dog Band - "Shirt". It's four and a half minutes of music/sketch combined, and at one point our subject enters a "59-Minute Cleaners" & asks to have his shirt cleaned, express . When told that it'll take three weeks, he complains - mentioning the sign outside... & well, you [...]
Could be a trick-title actually - but here are some songs about love & desire... tho' they aren't all schmaltzy numbers, that's for sure. ♫ I Want You By My Side - Jazz Gillum (1936) Jazz Gillum & Big Bill Broonzy buy ♫ (I Know my Baby Loves Me) In Her Own Peculiar Way - Chet Atkins Chet Atkins - The Early Years buy ♫ Hello Mabel - [...]
Could be a trick-title actually - but here are some songs about love & desire... tho' they aren't all schmaltzy numbers, that's for sure. ♫ I Want You By My Side - Jazz Gillum (1936) Jazz Gillum & Big Bill Broonzy buy ♫ (I Know my Baby Loves Me) In Her Own Peculiar Way - Chet Atkins Chet Atkins - The Early Years buy ♫ Hello Mabel - [...]
Sticking for now, with the ' hits that wouldna been, without a story ' idea ... I wonder if Kenny Rogers would have made the top of the charts, both sides of the Atlantic, in 1980; without a great tale of hurt & revenge?. ♫ Coward of the County - Kenny Rogers 7" single - late 1979 buy Now, I'm not knocking Kenny Rogers by that, he's great; even if the theme's been done to death over the years - it's just such [...]
Sticking for now, with the ' hits that wouldna been without a story ' idea ... I wonder if Kenny Rogers would have made the top of the charts, both sides of the Atlantic, in 1980; without a great tale of hurt & revenge?. ♫ Coward of the County - Kenny Rogers 7" single - late 1979 buy Now, I'm not knocking Kenny Rogers by that, he's great; even if the theme's been done to death over the years - it's just such a popular notion. [...]
Am feeling ill. As this blog is all about the mp3s, I can't just post pictures of kittens, so here is the musical equivalent. The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - Big Shot (alternate download)
the official release of this collection of greatest brit comedy hits is a triple header, but my promo copy only had 2 cds, so this is what you get here. har har. released by virgin tv in 2004. disc 1 1. harry enfield and chums – conderversation (the slobs) 2. the fast show – new suit (suit you, sir) 3. eddie izzard – cats and dogs 4. goodness gracious me – let's go for an english 5. alan partridge – the child prodigy – simon fisher 6. dead ringers – posh 'n' becks 7. [...]
I highly doubt this post will solve the economic crisis I seem to find myself reporting on in some aspect or another every day, but maybe it'll make it a bit less of a bitter pill The Bonzo Dog Band - Piggy Bank Love Pulled from the Bonzos' 1967 debut, Gorilla , the album was actually more famous for a track called "Death Cab for Cutie" that [...]
The Bonzo Dog Band: Shirt [ purchase ] Today we're talking about shirts. Are they really necessary? All this and more at the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band's Shirt Event, I'll repeat that, the Shirt Event.
Comin' atcha every Monday with a reason to shake off the "Why must I work?" blues, it's... The Get You Goin' Track The Bonzo Dog Band - You Done My Brain In As madcap as they were awesome, the Bonzos (or, The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band) were the definition of alternative in the 1960s -- a ridiculous thumbng of the nose [...]
Long before you listened to Postal Service or Death Cab For Cutie there was Monty Python. Before Monty Python, a character named Apollo C. Vermouth produced a top 5 single for a band called Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and even let them appear in his groups film. Apollo C. Vermouth was Paul McCartney's pseudonym. The Bonzo Dog Dada Band were a rock-comedy band that emerged from the minds of British art college students in the 60's. After renaming themselves to The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and eventually settling on [...]
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