New Tricks

Bonzo Dog Band | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 10, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Castle
• ASIN: B00005AFL2
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #731,236 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Cool Britannia

2. I'm the Urban Spaceman

3. The Intro and the Outro

4. Look at Me, I'm Wonderful

5. Canyons of Your Mind

6. Shirt

7. Big Shot

8. Hunting Tigers Out in 'Indiah'

9. The Sound of Music

10. Ready-Mades

11. Hello Mabel

12. Tubas in the Moonlight

13. Mr. Slater's Parrot

14. We Were Wrong

15. Labio Dental Fricative

16. Straight From My Heart

17. Busted

18. Rusty (Champion Thrust)

19. Don't Get Me Wrong

20. Slush

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

2001 release for the essential art school band that found fame in the sixties with their top five single 'I'm The Urban Spaceman'. Digitally remastered from original tapes. 21 tracks including, 'Cool Britannia', 'I'm The Urban Spaceman', 'The Intro And The Outro' & 'Look At Me I'm Wonderful'. 2001 release.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars superb remastering - long overdue for the Bonzos, July 6, 2006

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John Frame "There Is No Substitute For Equality" (Brisbane, Queensland Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: New Tricks (Audio CD)

On the liner notes for the Bonzo Dog Band's 40th Anniversary DVD (2006) we are proudly advised that the DVD project had nothing whatsoever to do with EMI - and neither does this CD, thank god. The EMI CD's all had lack lustre mastering, whereas all of the digitally remastered tracks on "New Tricks" sound vastly superior - these detailed songs deserve such reverent treatment.

It's worth owning even if only for the perfect and rather rare stereo versions of "I'm The Urban Spaceman" (without the intro fade out of Monster Mash) and "Canyons Of Your Mind" (with the spoken dubs between the intro pauses).

My only beef was with the cut down version of "Rusty" - which fades out 2 minutes short of the original, and makes the song sound silly rather than just unusual.

Ending with "Rhinocratic Oaths" is appropriate - it's not only just about their best radically different song, but it also has a sudden death ending (which leaves you longing for more).

Whether as an introduction to the Bonzo Dog Band or in order to complete a collection, "New Tricks" is to be highly recommended.