As well as being capable of spookily accurate Beatles parodies, The Bonzo Dog Band also represented a direct line of descent from Spike Jones And The City Slickers musical satire. Spike perfected the art of mimicking a well-known original song and then gradually playing more and more with the words and music as the song progressed so that by the end the song and the audience found themselves in a very different place to where they started from. As we observed in ABON 0155, a large slice of the fun in hearing a City Slicker track was knowing [...]
Mental Health From: Hicksville, United Kingdom I've been ploughing through the list of bands I've been asked to assess for the Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition and it is so hard as there are so many good bands who have entered that selecting a top three will require the judgement of Solomon (or maybe Simon Cowell). One of the bands that have caught my ear [...]
Free Swim From: London, United Kingdom Free Swim's new ep 'Yolanda The Panda' is as English as a fry up in a greasy spoon. Channelling the spirits of The Bonzo Dog Doodah Band , Art Brut ,and The Kinks to tell tales of intrepid and very English mountaineers and pandas being taken into custody by the Chinese authorities. As you might guess it doesn't take itself too seriously and therefore [...]
The Helmholz Resonators From : Londinium, United Kingdom London's The Helmholtz Resonators have a quintessentially English sound reminiscent of The Kinks and Manfred Mann mixed with a healthy dollop of the tongue in cheek wit and quirkiness of bands like Art Brut , The Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band and The Television Personalities . On new single, [...]
Monsieur le Juge d'Intrusion, Je vous fais parvenir comme convenu des informations complémentaires sur les 2 zigotos L'homme lisse et Adrien (de rien) . Ces larbins ont fait leur métier d'usurper régulièrement l'identité de nos valeureux dirigeants ou amis de notre président. En voici quelques preuves : Je viens de déposer un projet de loi visant à mesurer la quéquette de toute personne demandant la nationalité française. Moins de 15,48 cm ? Refusé ! Ecrit par : E. Besson | mercredi, 03 février 2010 15:37 Vu l'énorme succés de notre [...]
Is it just me or do far too many people become far too profound at this time of year. And by become, I mean try to be. As if they must spit out the words before the year ends. Must end it on a profound note! Because... no clue why they get the urge. Especially [...]
I'm not a Death Cab For Cutie fan. They're certainly talented, but not my cup of tea. However, I found it interesting to discover their name came from a song by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. A group who gained popularity performing in the British children's television show Do Not Adjust Your Set (which also featured future members of Monty Python). Paul McCartney was a fan and in 1967 asked the band to perform "Death Cab For Cutie" in the Magical Mystery Tour film. Big Star's Alex Chilton later recoreded a cover of the [...]
Here we go, kids, a special Halloween treat. This is an audio rip from the first episode of legendary British children's show Do Not Adjust Your Set . The show launched the TV performing careers of 2/3 of Monty Python, not to mention today's musical contributors, The Bonzo Dog (Doo Dah) Band ( official wiki AMG ). The Bonzos included Vivian Stanshall (right) on guitar and lead vocals (he was known to do a killer Elvis impression, featured during the band's performance in Magical Mystery Tour [...]
On this day five years ago, John Peel was getting ready to present another episode of his radio show. Unfortunately, it would be his last as a heart attack would take his life a few weeks later while on a working holiday in Peru. He had been best known as a disc jockey and champion of the musical underdog on BBC radio. His Peel Sessions gave many bands their first chance of airplay and a load of them went on to have successful careers in the music business. Sadly, I never got to hear his shows as it was not [...]
Thomas Pynchon's new novel, Inherent Vice , is a brilliantly lighthearted mastery of detective noir. Set in Los Angeles in the 1970's, it's a time capsule decorated with remarkable detail by the period's fascination with drugs, a crumbling counterculture, and its popular music. The novel's protagonist—private eye extraordinaire Larry 'Doc' Sportello—is, cinematically speaking, a pairing of Humphrey Bogart's Sam Spade and Jack Nicholson's Jake Gittes with Jeff Bridges' The Dude : Sportello is street saavy, but he doesn't do much investigating without first lighting up a joint. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Out of all the acts birthed from the '60s, hardly anyone ever recognizes the talent and tense instrumentation of rockers turned jazz rockers turned comedy rockers turned psychedelic rockers, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band . If that lil' ditty of a sentence didn't turn your head, then perhaps this bit of information might: this London act is responsible for what might be the most terrifying song ever recorded. Of course, that's a bold, bold statement. Hell, why else would I say it? To grab your attention, of course. How else am I going [...]
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.
YouTube: Eartha Kitt Witch Mix Yes, it's time for another Halloween music collection. I enjoy these posts because I get a chance to draw upon my memory bank to come up with some tasty selections. Sorry, no Dead Man's Party, Monster Mash or Purple People Eater here. If you're looking for tunes along those lines, there's about one million music blogs that are posting those songs, just check with the Hype Machine or Elbows . Now, on with the festivities. Cars, trucks, and roads are a big part [...]
Dear friends, We've been to a few places in the past year. We have been to Belmar and Isla Mujeres. We made it to Chincoteague but we didn't see the swimming ponies. We went to Woodstock and endured well water showers and overcame bear-nerves. Also Moosebeck!, where were we listened to Vivaldi in a pseudo hobbit house. Sometimes we don't go too far. We went to the Brooklyn Botanical Garden and
If you are a fan of British humor, Monty Python, John Cleese & Monty Python and all that stuff, than I highly highly highly highly highly highly highly highly HIGHLY highly highly highly highly recommend recommend that you check out THE BONZO DOG BAND. It's the subtlety, I think, that makes these bits of dialogue, silly orchestrations, and bizarre lyrics and song topics so growingly hilarious. It's better with each listen, and I can't recommend enough that you try this one out on a road trip (where more than one person is actually listening intently to an album, [...]
In the late nineties i have a small club called " Shit Music Only ", As you can hear on the name the music was kind of odd. Here's one of the big hits at the club. Download: Bonzo Dog Band - Suspicion MP3 (1972) Bonzo Dog Band - Buy the record [...]
A Barrel Of Nails
The Devil Has The Best Tuna
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Enough Talk, More Writing
Everybody Taste
She'll Grow Back
A Town Full of Losers
Spinner.com
How Marvellous...
Consequence Of Sound
Star Maker Machine
snuhthing/anything
soft communication
The Rising Storm
Faster Horses, Younger Women, Older Whiskey
Stream: Neil Young and Crazy Horse – Americana
