Monty Python - Monty Python's Hastily Cobbled Together For A Fast Buck Album (1981)

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Despite the title, this 1981 album was never actually released to the public for a fast buck. Andre Jacquemin, who put together much of the Pythons' album work, cobbled this album together from material which had been recorded for other albums (mostly the Contractual Obligation Album) but not used. It was given by Michael Palin to the band Motorhead as a gift, and has found its way, unofficially, into the hands of fans, but has never been sold in stores. A lot of fans think it's about as good as Contractual Obligation. Thanks to Mike at Some of the Corpses Are Amusing for our copy.

The album begins with alternate versions of the songs "Here Comes Another One" and "I'm So Worried" from Contractual Obligation. The first is performed in the style of the music in the film A Clockwork Orange. The latter is performed in a Country Western style! The backing guitarists struggling to keep pace with Terry Jones' singing is classic. The album also contains an extended album version of "Otto and the Suicide Squad," a sketch and song most fans agree shouldn't have been deleted from Monty Python's Life of Brian. The "Psychopath" sketch was also written for Brian and not used - it is here performed in a modern day setting. "Memory Training," a sketch from the pre-Python series At Last the 1948 Show, is used, but with a new ending - Graham Chapman, as an arbiter of good taste, rattles off a long list of all the towns where Life of Brian was banned! Hee hee. Some material here seems to anticipate Monty Python's The Meaning of Life - that film would come out two years later, but the material about the schoolmasters and the dead schoolboy is similar to MOL material, and Terry Jones sings Eric Idle's Accountancy Shanty song (from Eric's classic series Rutland Weekend Television) – comparing accountants to pirates who sing accountancy shanties, which would come up in MOL as well.

Artist: Monty Python
Title: Monty Python's Hastily Cobbled Together For A Fast Buck Album
Label: N/A
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1981
Codec: MP3
Bitrate: VBR, avg 192 kbps
Total Time: 58:48
Size: 87 MB (incl. 10% Recovery record)

Tracklist:

01 - An Announcer - Here Comes Another One
02 - I'm So Worried
03 - Mrs. Particle And Mrs. Velocity
04 - Otto And The Suicide Squad - Otto Song
05 - Rooting Around In My Attic
06 - Psychopath
07 - Olympic Shopping
08 - Bunn Whackett Buzzard Stubble And Boot
09 - Talking Science
10 - School Song (Play Up)
11 - Headmaster - Dead School Boy
12 - Laughing At The Unfortunate
13 - Leg Amputation - Reassuring Your Doctor - Deep-Sea Insurance Agent - Accounti
14 - Indian Restaurant
15 - Minister Of Defense
16 - Freelance Undertaker
17 - Rudyard Kipling
18 - Apology
19 - Memory Training
20 - Acronyms
21 - Hi-Fi Shop
22 - Announcer, Side 2