Customer Reviews

Rutland Isles

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I love Eric Idle. His work is hilarious. This is not an exception.

Very weird, this CD will best be appreciated by people who can understand the strangest of Python. Because this CD is weird. It's almost bordering on Graham Chapman Concrete Inspector or Find the Fish weird. Still, it's got some brilliantly funny moments including the General Gucci song, Killing For God (an ironic song if I ever heard one) and Paranoia.

Eric's done better. But this is quite funny. Don't buy it if you can't handle strange. If you can however, and you're willing to listen several times, this CD can yield great rewards.

(Note: Rating for this album is 4 1/2 stars, not just 4)

I bought this album a few months ago, and I must say it is one you can listen to over, and over and over again without any of the humor of the jokes wearing off. For all those tried-and-true Monty Python fans out there, Eric Idle delivers a lot of the Python-influenced humor that he brought to the movies and TV show of Monty Python, and I'm sure you'll agree that Pythonic humor is one of the best kinds of comedy there is. It's not the funniest album in the world, (that accolade would have to go to Robin Williams Live 2002) but it is sure to please just the same. A must-have for all Monty Python fans.

This album is delightfully subversive and deliciously naughty. The few naysayers here are simply silly sods!

This is a great "themed" comedy album - and it has been assembled with meticulous care and more than enough inventiveness.

Produced in a lush stereo soundscape, it really does create a fun sounding tour experience as we are guided around the high and low points of The Rutland Isles.

I particularly like the sequential "Analology", "Filpper Minnelli" and "The Gay Animal Song". I've heard them at least twenty times and still laugh. Earlier in the album Eric had told us about the famous Muff Divers - so it's good that he extends on that particular bent. "The Rutland Isles" is highly irreverent in the best possible taste, and is genuinely humourous. A worthy addition to any collection of Pythonesque audio.

Don't fall for the brochure, this is one trip you will regret. Barely a chuckle.

Don't fall for the brochure, this is one trip you will regret. Barely a chuckle.

Those seven words must have crossed my mind at least a dozen times while playing this disc for the first time. But the mantra failed to generate any aural nirvana: this is a bad disc.

To do the compare-and-contrast thing: compared to the Python CDs, it is extremely bad. Compared to Idle's contributions on the Python CDs, it is slightly less than extremely bad. Compared liberally to Idle's various work, from 'The Rutles' to 'Road to Mars' to 'Pass the Butler', it is no longer extremely bad but is still quite bad. On the whole, then, I'd say it's bad.

Idle hands are indeed the devil's work here.