Monty Python's Previous Record

Monty Python | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 3, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Caroline
• ASIN: B000000HQB
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #352,028 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Side 1: Embarrassment/A Bed-Time Book/England 1747--Dennis Moore/Money

2. Side 2: Radio Quiz Game/A Massage/City Noises Quiz/Miss Anne ...

Customer Reviews

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44 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars BEWARE! NO TRACK LISTINGS!, November 22, 1999

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rkass (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Monty Python's Previous Record (Audio CD)

A great Monty Python album which I had on LP years ago. Unfortunately, on the CD you can't easily find a favorite skit (and TRAVEL AGENT is on this one! ) because there are only two "tracks" representing sides 1 and 2 of the album. Sadly, a terrible CD presentation for a classic comedy album.

FYI, the skits are: SIDE ONE: Embarrassment/A Bed-Time Book; England 1747--Dennis Moore; Money Programme; Dennis Moore Continues; Australian Table Wines; Argument Clinic; Putting Budgies Down; Eric The Half A Bee; Travel Agency

SIDE TWO: Radio Quiz Game; A Massage/City Noises Quiz; Miss Anne Elk; We Love The Yangtse; How-To-Do-It Lessons; A Minute Passed; Eclipse Of The Sun; Alistair Cooke; Wonderful World Of Sounds; A Fairy Tale

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not this record!! Not this record!! Not THIS record!!, November 21, 2000

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Gavin Wilson - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Monty Python's Previous Record (Audio CD)

The main weakness of this CD version of the LP is that it misses the surprise of the LP's side two. Two parallel spirals were printed onto side two, and the audio content divided between the two parallel grooves. The result was that you got a shock on your second, third or fourth play of the admittedly rather brief side two, in that it was a totally different set of sketches.

This album isn't quite as good as 'Another Monty Python Record'. It's a bit too lavatorial for my liking, though less so that 'Holy Grail'. Much of Eric Idle's sketches rely on an appreciation of the Home Programme on BBC Radio in the late 1960s. His other sketches -- eg the brilliant Australian wine critic and the Watney's Red Barrel hater -- were clearly written first not as dramatic pieces but as essays to be read. Michael Palin's love of football comes through in his Great Yang-tse (Yellow River) sketch. You don't need to know who Bill Shankly or Gary Sprake were, but it helps.

Eric the Half-a-Bee is a great sketch and not a bad song, but I sometimes wonder whether the Cambridge Footlights sketch format has much to answer for, in prompting the Pythons to write fairly dismal tunes such as the 'Wonderful as Money' song.

This is a great album. Dennis Moore is a particularly good set of sketches, and I loved hearing 'Happy Valley' and Prince Walter again.

Buy 'Another Monty Python' first, then the BBC CD (if you can -- available from amazon.co.uk but not amazon.com), then get this one.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars tee hee..., May 22, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Monty Python's Previous Record (Audio CD)

TAKE IT OFF!!!!!!!! FOR GOD'S SAKES TAKE IT OFF TAKE IT OFF!!!!!!!!!! bzutbuzweeezweee

Yes!! This is what comedy on record is all about! From Dennis Moore to Dr Carl (Karl??) Gruber ("Noises are a major embarrasment source.") this, and its companion "Another Monty Python Record", is a continued hoot from start to finish.

Except for all those stupid "a massage from the swedish prime minister" sayings that are simply embarrasing.

And the moral is, smoking can ruin your health!

Please buy this album. It's the second-funniest album ever made (The first being Negativland's "U2" ep, but good luck finding that one). Listen to it. Cherish it. Love it. Laugh with it. And throw out all those awful Firesign Theatre records!!