Cornology [3CD Set] [Import]

Product Description
Import exclusive compilation for the British psychedelic act that combined elements of rock & comedy to great success. The Intro comprises the groups first two albums, Gorilla and The Doughnut In Granny's Greenhouse and recounts their history up to 1968. The Outro combines Tadpoles and Keynsham and continues the story to 1970, when the band was dissolved. Dog Ends features their reunion album, Let's Make Up And Be Friendly, as well as several non-album releases, some solo material and a text which brings their adventure up to date. Three standard jewel cases housed in a slipcase.

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Cornology [3CD Set] [Import]

Average customer rating: Absolutely Awesome!!! Why did I wait so long? delightfully dotty dada stuff Buyer Beware: contents may baffle the uninitiated A Remarkable Journey

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Tracks:

1. Cool Britannia
2. The Equestrian Statue
3. Jollity Farm
4. I Left My Heart In San Francisco
5. Look Out, There's A Monster Coming
6. Jazz, Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold
7. Death Cab For Cutie
8. Narcissus
9. The Intro And The Outro
10. Mickey's Son And Daughter
11. Big Shot
12. Music For The Head Ballet
13. Piggy Bank Love
14. I'm Bored
15. The Sound Of Music
16. We Are Normal
17. Postcard
18. Beautiful Zelda
19. Can Blue Men Sing The Whites
20. Hello Mabel
21. Kama Sutra
22. Humanoid Boogie
23. Trouser Press
24. My Pink Half Of The Drainpipe
25. Rockaliser Baby
26. Rhinocratic Oaths
27. II Mustachioed Daughters

Tracks:

1. Hunting Tigers Out In 'Indiah'
2. Shirt
3. Tubas In The Moonlight
4. Dr. Jazz
5. Monster Mash
6. I'm The Urban Spaceman
7. Ali Baba's Camel
8. Laughing Blues
9. By A Waterfall
10. Mr. Apollo
11. Canyons Of Your Mind
12. You Done My Brain In
13. Keynsham
14. Quiet Talks And Summer Walks
15. Tent
16. We Were Wrong
17. Joke Shop Man
18. The Bride Stripped Bare By 'Bachelors'
19. Look At Me I'm Wonderful
20. What Do You Do?
21. Mr. Slaters' Parrot
22. Sport (The Odd Boy)
23. I Want To Be With You
24. Noises For The Leg
25. Busted

Tracks:

1. My Brother Makes The Noises For The Talkies
2. I'm Going To Bring A Watermelon To My Girl Tonight
3. Alley Oop
4. Button Up Your Overcoat
5. Mr. Apollo (Single Version) (German Version)
6. Ready Mades
7. The Strain
8. Turkeys
9. King Of Scurf
10. Waiting For The Wardrobe
11. Straight From My Heart
12. Rusty (Champion Thrust)
13. Rawlinson End
14. Don't Get Me Wrong
15. Fresh Wound
16. Bad Blood
17. Slush
18. Labio-Dental Fricative - Vivian Stanshall Sean Head Showband
19. Re-Cycled Vinyl Blues - Neil Innes
20. Trouser Freak - Roger Ruskin Spear & His Giant Orchestral Wardrobe

Album Description

Import exclusive compilation for the British psychedelic act that combined elements of rock & comedy to great success. The Intro comprises the groups first two albums, Gorilla and The Doughnut In Granny's Greenhouse and recounts their history up to 1968. The Outro combines Tadpoles and Keynsham and continues the story to 1970, when the band was dissolved. Dog Ends features their reunion album, Let's Make Up And Be Friendly, as well as several non-album releases, some solo material and a text which brings their adventure up to date. Three standard jewel cases housed in a slipcase.

Album Details

Mammoth Triple Disc Box Set of Recordings from the Hilarious Comedy Rock Band that Featured Members Neil Innes, the Late Viv Stanshall, Roger Ruskin Spear, Rodney Slater, Dennis Cowan and "Legs" Larry Smith.

Customer Reviews:

Absolutely Awesome!!!.......2006-03-17

As a 13 year old in 1982, I had by chance tuned in to a local radio show that spotlighted an hour of music by the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band. I was in awe about their musical delivery, style, and humor. I learned a brief history of the band, and discovered that among the members was one Neil Innes, mastermind behind the music of the Rutles. I looked in vein for their studio albums, only to find 2 decent compilations that gave me different song line-ups of their "most popular" tracks. Although they were great to have, I always felt that there was more to the band than "Urban Spaceman" and "The Intro and the Outro." Cornology includes everything I had on those compilations, plus everything else from their studio albums. 24 years later, I have a more complete picture of the wonderful zaniness that was the Bonzos. The first 4 albums were a revelation in the songwriting skills of Innes and Bonzo madman Viv Stanshall. The two writers balanced each other very nicely. Innes provided twisted contemporary pop while Stanshall kept the band in its original roots of music hall tunes plus bizarre English humor. What a great combination. Their early singles (i.e. "My Brother Makes The Noises for the Talkies") and the first CD (Gorilla) are great examples of their original style, while "Doughnut At Granny's Green House," "Tadpoles," and "Keynsham" are excellent at showcasing the Innes/Stanshall balance. Although their last "band" effort is not as balanced, "Let's Make Up . . ." is worth more than a few listens.

Overall, this compilations bests all others, primarily because it fills in the musical blanks, and paints a more complete picture of this wonderful group of musicians. The most surpising aspect was definitely the sound. After years of scratchy vinyl, it's great to hear every nuance of their brilliance without the "rice krispie" effect. For those people new to the Bonzos, I would suggest "HIstory of the Bonzos," which is how I started so many years ago. But then, why go into the "kiddie" pool if you want to swim the ocean? Go for it! Get Cornology, and get slightly demented!!!!

Why did I wait so long?.......2005-12-24

I can't believe that I waited this long (2005) to make an effort to listen to the music and comedy stylings of the Bonzo Dog Band. I've been a fan of Monty Python since the early 1970s. Neil Innes' musical and acting contributions to Monty Python have always been apparent. I loved the Rutles when the TV movie and LP came out. So here I am just now listening to this fine three CD set! Actually, what got me to purchase this CD set was the fact that the Bonzo Dog Band are a constant onscreen presence on the DVD release of the British TV show "Do Not Adjust You Set", which I purchased in order to see four of the six members of Monty Python. Thus, I had the extra bonus of seeing and hearing lots of the Bonzo Dog Band. At that point I felt it was finally time to hear their recordings on CD.

This group demonstrates a major developement in British group humor in that the previous noteworthy British comedy group, Beyond the Fringe, which had broken up just two years prior to Bonzo releasing its first record, was around just too early to have a psychedelic vibe whereas the Bonzo Dog Band is awash in it.

The British accents and references are so strong I get the impression that this group aimed at a domestic audience and may not have set sites on international acclaim. Dunno. Just an idea.

delightfully dotty dada stuff.......2004-09-27

This set has almost everything you'll need by the Bonzos, an anarchic, daft, dotty, and hugely enjoyable set of art students who made a handful of albums and some memorable live performances in the late 1960s and early 1970s before they split and went their separate ways. This set has all their five albums, although the remixing is sometimes a bit odd (Tadpoles notoriously mixes Monster Mash into Urban Spaceman, and ditches the 'sequins' version of Canyons for a different one). You'll find 'Gorilla', 'The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse', 'Tadpoles', 'Keynsham', and 'Let's Make Up and Be Friendly', as well as the A and B sides of their first two singles from 1966 and some post-Bonzo solo work from Vivian, Neil, and Roger.

This is seriously good stuff, whether the jaunty pop stuff Neil Innes was so keen on (particularly coming to the fore on 'Keynsham'), or the slightly more edgy stuff which tipped from the increasingly unhinged mind of the multi-talented Viv Stanshall - together they were a fabulous combination to front a memorable band.

Buyer Beware: contents may baffle the uninitiated.......2004-04-17

A basic problem with reviews found here is that they are clearly not a sample from a cross section of "objective" listeners. Nostalgia reigns where "vintage" recordings are concerned. I could see myself waxing equally poetic over any number of personal favorites, but here I will be a voice of dissent. Twenty five years ago at my alma mater's FM broadcast station I was briefly exposed to the Bonzos. "The Intro and the Outro" was one of the funniest pieces of whacked out musical humor I had heard (then, or since). Upon seeing the rave Amazonian reviews for this BOX set (of late, the only CD collection available) I couldn't resist. But I should have. I've listened to the entire set three times now and must conclude that "I just don't get it." I'm a sincere fan of British humor (Python, Fawlty, Good Neighbors, Butterflies, The Young Ones, Red Dwarf, The Rutles ... I.E. - pretty wide ranging stuff) but the Bonzo boys leave me truly baffled. Be particularly careful of assuming that if you love Monty Python you will feel the same about BDB. While a few Bonzo bits are as accessible as, say, "The Lumberjack Song", Python was a comedy troupe, anchored in absurdist humor, which occasionally expressed itself musically. BDB are a strange mix of musical miscreants (I mean that in a nice way) who seem to yearn for a simpler time (the era of vaudevillian entertainment parlors) but the targets for their satiric skewers seem oddly mundane. Python's hit & miss humor was generally executed with sledge hammers - the Bonzo's lampoons seem to be of a far more subtle (?) nature. Also keep in mind that BDB precedes Python by almost a decade. There are some pure music tracks here, stuff that was anacronistic then, and now, and this set is ripe for sampling if you do a radio show, produce commercials or just have a "thing" for oddities. If you're a fan, then by all means buy the box. While not exhaustive, the supporting materials seem to adequately document the history of BDB, and the overall quality of the sound and packaging is very good. But, for the novice, think twice before diving in. If I ever figure out what they were on about, perhaps I'll rebut myself.

A Remarkable Journey.......2004-02-22

Well, the only song I remember hearing contemporary to its release was Mr. Apollo. This was not similar to anything on American radio at that time. I suppose this was the peak for the Bonzos, but this chronology shows that they made an incredible musical journey.

The early stuff is built around English music hall performance. So, it's partly songs but the songs are really part of a show. Obviously, you won't get that just from the songs, but it's worth noting. The 'group' were all fairly disciplined and trained artists. The most talented member, Stanshall, wanted to be a painter. The 'da da' name reflects a painting style brought to music, and it is the only way to understand this group.

Take the song the Beatles put in Magical Mystery Tour, "Death Cab for Cutie". It's kind of an Elvis send-up, but it's also a film noir style from the 30's. This group did style, but mostly they played with style in the early days, like songs from the early 20th century. There is a link to later British comedy like Python or 'The Rutles' but the Bonzos were never just about being funny. With Bonzo you never know.

The later albums reflect more of a rock band style, but they really stretch the limits of music. There are lighthearted pieces like "I Want to Be with You" and "I'm the Urban Spaceman". Then, there are brilliant little dramas set as music like "Sport, the Odd Boy". The problem with this group is that they always reached for the limit of music, which took them way away from music. But, no one has ever done more.

One of the more interesting songs is called "King of Scurf" It's about a boy with acne and bad dandruff (scurf). It is rather poignant. How many artists could write a song that lasts 6 minutes about a boy with dandruff. It's comedy, basically, but it's not a bad view of adolescence, either.

The last bits are very close to the edge, songs like Fresh Wound. It's sort of a song about a relationship, but not any relationship that would normally be examined in a song. It starts out asking how love can be expressed, but then asks about truth. There's a narrative on top of the music, but the narrative is sort of out of synch, asking:

"Truth is just a word and words are just
Words are words but truth is what we trust
How can we know if words fill our brains?
How can we show if blood fills our veins?
Truth in words is like our blood congealed
Words like turds escape but truth is sealed
Analysis

Transplant has gone wrong
Paralysis
Now you don't belong

This is an interesting song, to say the least. It has a power that most music does not possess. Or, perhaps, should not possess. Is this what we want from music? There are somewhat less extreme examples, like "Bad Blood". "Don't Get Me Wrong is perhaps a bit more extreme.

So, it was an interesting journey. They knew how to craft words and their musical ability got progressively better. Innes is still around, writing music. Stanshall is dead, but had some interesting projects after Bonzo.

Some lament the Bonzos never made it big or continued. What they did was remarkable and given what the band was producing toward the end, one wonders what else it could have done.

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