Monty Python - Monty Python’s Total Rubbish [9CD Box] (2014) [email protected] Beolab1700
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Monty Python - Total Rubbish
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Artist...............: Monty Python
Album................: Total Rubbish
Genre................: Comedy
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 2014
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.92 & Asus CD-S520
Codec................: LAME 3.99
Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality..............: Insane, (avg. bitrate: 320kbps)
Channels.............: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz
Tags.................: ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.3
Information..........:
Posted by............: Beolab1700 on 28/04/2015
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Tracklisting
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CD1: Monty Python’s Flying Circus
Flying Sheep
A Man with Three Buttocks
Crunchy Frog (Trade Description Act)
Nudge Nudge Wink Wink
The Mouse Problem
Buying a Bed
Interesting People
Barber Shop Sketch (The Barber)
Lumberjack Song
Interview
Arthur Two Sheds
Children's Stories
Visitors
Albatross
Mr Hilter
The North Minehead By-Election
Me, Doctor
Dead Parrot Sketch
Self Defence
CD2: Another Monty Python Record
Introduction (Part 1)
Introduction (Apology)
Spanish Inquisition (Part 1) (Extended)
Gumby Theatre
Contradiction
Abattoire
Spanish Inquisition (Part 2)
Ethel The Frog
Mary Queen Of Scots (Extended)
Spanish Inquisition (Ending) (Extended)
Sound Quiz
Be A Great Actor
Neville Shunt
Festival Hall Emille
Spam Sketch
Spam Song (Edit)
Camp Judges
Stake Your Claim
Lifeboat
Camp Judges (Part 2)
Undertaker 1:40
Knees Up Mother Brown Sketch
Treadmill Lager
Bishop At Home (Mr. Stoddard)
Court Room Sketch
Undertaker (Dead Bishops On The Landing)
CD3: Monty Python’s Previous Record
Introduction
Are You Embarrassed Easily?
A Book At Bedtime
England 1747 Denis Moore
Money Program
Money Song
Denis Moore (Part 2)
Denis Moore Song (Robin Hood Theme)
Australian Table Wine
Denis Moore Song (Robin Hood Theme) (Part 2)
Argument (Edit)
How To Do It
Denis Moore Song (Robin Hood Theme) (Part 3)
Pepperpots
Personal Freedom
Denis Moore Song (Robin Hood Theme) (Part 4)
Eric The Half A Bee Sketch
Eric The Half A Bee
What Do You Do Quiz
Travel Agent
Massage From The Swedish Prime Minister
Silly Noises
An Elk Sketch
Yangtse Kiang Sketch
Yangtse Kiang Song
Massage From The Swedish Prime Minister (Part 2)
A Minute Past
1972 Eclipse Of The Sun
Alistair Cook Attacked By A Duck
Wonderful World Of Sound
Certified Stiff
Massage From The Swedish Prime Minister (Part 3
Happy Valley
Baxter's
Meteorology
Blood, Devastation, War & Horror
The Great debate
Mortuary Visit
Flying Fox Of The Yard
Is There
Teach Yourself Heath
The Book Ad
Big Red Bowl
Pepperpots (Part 2)
Pellagra
CD4: Monty Python’s Matching Tie and Handkerchief
Election Forum
Dead Bishops/ Rats
Elephantoplasty
Novel Writing
Word Association
Bruce's Sketch
Bruce's Song
Ralph Mellish
Doctor Quote
Cheese Emporium
Wasp/ Tiger Club
Raspberry
Great Actors
Background To History
Record Shop
First World War
Mrs Niggerbaiter
Oscar Wilde
Pet Shop
Phone In
Psychopath
TelePrompter Football Results
Radio Tuning Radio 4 - Announcer Graham Chapman/ Radio Time Announcer Terry Jones
Radio Shop
CD5: Monty Python Live at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
Introduction
Llamas (Including 'Granada')
Gumby Flower Arranging
Terry Jones Link
Secret Service
Wrestling
Communist Quiz (Including 'World In Action')
Idiot Song
Albatross
Nudge Nudge
Silly Noises
Cocktail Bar
Travel Agent
Spot The Brain Cell
Bruce's Song
Argument Song
Four Yorkshiremen
Election Special (Medley)
Lumberjack Song
Theme Song 'Liberty Bell'
Parrot Sketch
Theme Song 'Liberty Bell' (Part 2)
UK Tour Interview Promo
CD6: Monty Python’s Holy Grail
Introduction (Monty Python And The Holy Grail)
Introduction (Part 2) (Monty Python And The Holy Grail)
Arrival At Castle
Constitutional Peasants
Witch Burning
Logician
Camelot
Camelot Song
Arthur And God
Classic (Silbury Hill)
French Castle
Announcement (Monty Python And The Holy Grail)
Apology (Monty Python And The Holy Grail)
So Far
Brave Sir Robin
The Knights Who Say "Ni"
Classic (Silbury Hill) (Part 2)
Marilyn Monroe
Sir Lancelot & Swamp
Tim The Enchanter
Drama Critic
Hand Grenade Of Antioch
Announcement (Monty Python And The Holy Grail) (Part 2)
End Of Quest
Arthur's Song
Documentary - Terry Jones And Michael Palin
Run Away Song
CD7: Monty Python’s Life Of Brian
Introduction
Brian Song
The Wise Men At The Manger
Brian Song (Part 2)
Sermon On The Mount (Big Nose)
Stone Salesman
Stoning
Ex-Leper
You Mean You Were Raped? (Nortius Maximus)
Link To Revolutionaries In The Amphitheatre (Loretta)
Revolutionaries In The Amphitheatre (Loretta)
Romans Go Home
What Have The Romans Ever Done For Us?
Ben
Brian Before Pilate (Throw Him To The Floor)
Prophets
Beard Salesman
Brian's Prophecy
The Hermit
He's Not The Messiah
He's A Very Naughty Boy
Pilate Sentences Brian
Nisus Wettus
Pilate With The Crowd (Welease Wodger)
Nisus Wettus With The Gaolers
Release Brian
Not So Bad Once You're Up
Revs Salute Brian
Cheeky Is Released
Mandy To Her Son
Look On The Bright Side Of Life (All Things Dull And Ugly)
Otto Sketch
Otto Song
Otto Song Demo (Python Sings)
Brian Song - Alternate Version
Radio Ad - Record Shop
Radio Ad - Twice As Good
CD8: Monty Python’s Contractual Obligation Album
Sit On My Face
Announcement
Henry Kissinger
String
Never Be Rude To An Arab
I Like Chinese
The Bishop
Medical Love Song
Finland
I'm So Worried
I Bet You They Won't Play This Song On The Radio
Martydom Of St Victor
Here Comes Another One
Bookshop
Do What John
Rock Notes
Muddy Knees
Crocodile
Decomposing Composers
Bells
Traffic Lights
All Things Dull And Ugly
A Scottish Farewell
Contractual Obligation - Terry Jones And Graham Chapman Promotional Interview
Radio Ad Obligation Promo
Medical Love Song - Alternate Demo Version
I'm So Worried (Demo Version)
CD9: Monty Python’s The Meaning Of Life
Intro (The Meaning Of Life)
Fish (Morning)
The Meaning Of Life
(Part One) The Miracle Of Birth
MP Link
(Part Two) The Third World (Yorkshire)
Every Sperm Is Sacred
Bloody Catholics
Link (Martin Luther)
(Part Three) Growth And Learning
(Part Four) Fighting Each Other
Terry Gilliam Introduction
Accountancy Shanty
(Part Five) Live Organ Transplants (Galaxy Song)
(Part Six) The Autumn Years (The Not Noel Coward Song)
(Part Seven) Death (Christmas In Heaven)
MP Link (Dedication To Fish)
Intro Title Song Demo Meaning Of Life - Piano Version
Alternate Intro Title Song Meaning Of Life - Band Version
Fat Song - Deleted Intro To Mr Creosote Sketch
Alternate Christmas In Heaven Song
Radio Ad - Philisophers Corner
Radio Ad - Officer
Radio Ad - German Translation
Greasy Hair
Dino Viccotti
Stretch The Script
Grand Prix
Hard Of Thinking
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The only thing missing is “Oliver Cromwell.” Otherwise, Monty Python’s Total Rubbish: The Complete Collection is complete indeed. Or complete enough, at any rate. It’s a collection of all nine albums the comedy troupe released in the U.K., remastered and split among nine CDs with a lavish book featuring a foreword from Michael Palin and archival photos.
It’s not the first compilation the Pythons have released: they’ve put out a steady stream of best-of discs over the years, and repackaged eight of their albums into The Instant Monty Python CD Collection, a six-disc box set, in 1994. That would have sufficed, if not for the annoying way the discs were organized: instead of individual tracks for each sketch, each of the eight albums in the collection was split into vinyl sides, meaning there were two tracks per CD, along with a list of what each 20-plus minute track contained.
That was fine for binge-listening on car rides and the like, but made it irritating to find specific sketches without a lot of fast-forwarding. By rectifying that particular oversight, and adding a ninth album, Total Rubbish offers the single best overview of Monty Python’s career, from their 1970 LP debut Monty Python’s Flying Circus through their last original album in 1983, the soundtrack to Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life.
It’s been more than 30 years now since Monty Python released anything new (apart from “Oliver Cromwell,” a song that first came out in 1989 and appeared on the group’s 1991 compilation Monty Python Sings), and yet the troupe’s influence endures—even flourishes, given the massively successful reunion of the surviving Pythons earlier this year in London—in what looks like a golden age for comedy.
In fact, there’s no way to overstate the influence Monty Python has had on comedy over the past 45 years. From Saturday Night Live to Portlandia, Adult Swim to the Jash comedy collective on YouTube, and TV shows including The Office, Arrested Development, Flight of the Conchords, South Park and too many others to count, Monty Python is a common thread connecting them with deadpan treatment of outlandish premises.
John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones weren’t the first to do ridiculous things with a straight face—The Goon Show predated them in Britain and Firesign Theatre in the U.S.—but the Pythons were masters of the form, and their mix of surrealism, social satire and studied British understatement remains funny decades later, without coming off as a relic from a different time.
Part of the reason their humor endures is context: they rarely took on contemporary social or political issues of the day, leaning instead toward oddball takes on history, absurdist twists on everyday situations and trends in culture, both popular and high. Poking fun at the amoral expedience of the advertising industry on “String,” from Monty Python’s Contractual Obligation Album, or listening to Idle’s breathless soliloquy about the hell that is other people on package vacations in the “Travel Agent” sketch from Monty Python’s Previous Record—“swimming pools full of fat German businessmen pretending they’re acrobats, forming pyramids and frightening the children and barging in the queues”—are still funny because they still ring true. Indeed, when the Uruguayan soccer player Luís Suarez bit Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini during the World Cup this summer, the English announcer’s initial reaction—an understated “Oh dear”—called to mind Palin in the “Festival Hall Emile” sketch. When a lovely solo is interrupted by the sound of crunching wood, Palin interjects, “Oh dear, Gilbert has trodden on his violin.”
It also helps that the Pythons, six upper-crust white men, delighted in lampooning their own social class, giving working-class types the upper hand over the stuck-up sticky-beaks (to quote “Bruce’s Sketch” from Matching Tie and Handkerchief) in bits like “Cheese Emporium” or “Dead Parrot Sketch,” which proved so popular the Pythons took to calling it “Oh, Not Again.”
They were irreverent about organized religion in short sketches like “Martyrdom of St. Vincent” and in longer forms, such as Monty Python’s Life of Brian and parts of Monty Python and the Holy Grail and The Meaning of Life, all of which are included in Total Rubbish. They had a knack for sending up high culture in sketches like “Novel Writing,” which lends a sports-fanatic air to the decidedly more sedate activity of Thomas Hardy writing the opening lines of a new novel.
They were pioneers in the comedy of irritating repetition (the nasal song “Here Comes Another One,” for example, or the extended clattering mayhem of “Mary Queen of Scots”), and masters of wordplay on “Contradiction,” “Argument” and “Neville Shunt,” a send-up of critical reviews like this one. They were funny in song (“Every Sperm Is Sacred,” “Medical Love Song”), and had an impressive affinity for treating the bizarre as normal on “An Elk Sketch,” “Crunchy Frog (Trade Description Act)” and “Eric the Half a Bee Sketch” and accompanying song.
In fact, it’s hard not to gape at the sheer scope of what Monty Python accomplished. As with so much comedy, explaining the joke is also what ruins it, and a huge swath of Python sketches are best appreciated by listening to them. Total Rubbish offers the best of them.
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