Instant Record Collection, Vol. 2

Monty Python | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 16, 2009)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Arista Contemporary
• ASIN: B000002VD9
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #219,614 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #94 in Music > Miscellaneous > Comedy > Classic Comedy

Track Listings

1. Executive Intro

2. Pet Shop

3. Nudge Nudge

4. Premiere of Film [Live Broadcast from London]

5. Bring Out Your Dead

6. How Do You Tell a Witch

7. Camelot

8. Argument Clinic

9. Crunchy Frog

10. The Cheese Shop

11. The Phone In

12. Sit on My Face

13. Bishop on the Landing

14. Elephantoplasty

15. The Lumberjack Song

16. Bookshop

17. Blackmail

18. World Forum

19. String

20. Wide World of Novel Writing

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great, but THE FINAL RIP has most everything here and more, August 11, 2000

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tropic_of_criticism - See all my reviews

This review is from: Instant Record Collection, Vol. 2 (Audio CD)

The INSTANT COLLECTION, in its day, was probably the best Monty Python album available. Unlike much previous Python fare, this one rips most of its cuts from movies and other previous recordings. Sound quality is unusually high, and sketches are often at their most polished. Unlike so many Python albums of the seventies, INSTANT COLLECTION largely ignores often inferior "live" recordings of the sketches they took on the road. (An unfortunate exception is "Nudge, Nudge", which, though probably the best live recording available, is still not as crisply-timed as the studio version.)

Still, despite its high quality, INSTANT COLLECTION has been eclipsed by THE FINAL RIP OFF, which has much of what's here plus a good deal more. Most people would be better served by getting that two-CD collection than this one.

(It might be important to note for some that this album is similar in name only to the import INSTANT COLLECTION.)

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Better alternatives out there, May 15, 2003

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Glenn Mar (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Instant Record Collection, Vol. 2 (Audio CD)

In 1994 Monty Python had a 25th anniversary release of a boxed set (6 CD) of everything they'd done (except Live from the Hollywood Bowl, which is essentially no different from Live at Drury Lane, which *is* included). This CD is a one-CD boiled down version of this.

There is no substitute for the boxed set, not even "The Final Rip-Off." Monty Python material is like classical music... you can't break apart the pieces and expect no leakage. Go find the boxed set in the secondary market.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Heard most of this before, June 26, 2008

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Jean E. Pouliot (Newburyport, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Instant Record Collection, Vol. 2 (Audio CD)

This short CD offers some of MP's most well-known and beloved sketches -- the Pet Shop, Argument Clinic, The Cheese Shop, etc. Some pieces (How do You Tell a Witch, Bring out your Dead) are taken from MP and the Holy Grail,. Others are taken from a performance before live audience (Hollywood Bowl?) and others are taken from MP's well-produced studio version of the sketches. There are a few lesser known pieces (Elephatoplasty and Phone-In) that will make this album bearable for MP aficionados. Some of my faves (like Spanish Inquisition) wwere left off.

Not sure what the appropriate audience is for this collection of MP's finest. MP newbies? Naw -- they might be put off by the extreme (and atypical) vulgarity in the first cut. Longtime MP fans? Not likely -- they have heard these sketches ad infinitum and probably own larger collections.