Tadpoles

Bonzo Dog Band | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 10, 1993)
• Label: One Way Records Inc
• ASIN: B000002QZG
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #461,826 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Hunting Tigers Out in "Indiah"

2. Shirt

3. Tubas in the Moonlight

4. Doctor Jazz

5. Monster Mash

6. Ready-Mades

7. Ali-Baba's Camel

8. Laughing Blues

9. By a Waterfall

10. Mr. Apollo

11. Canyons of Your Mind

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars The wacky land of moonlight tubas, fussy tigers, pink drainpipes and other things only found in the surreal sixties, October 18, 2007

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Glen Zimmerman "RealMenDriveFords" (Lindenwold, New Jersey) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tadpoles (Audio CD)

Never has any group built their entire career upon the wacky nonsense of the Bonzo Dog Band (formerly Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band). When a song's lyrics include phrases like "The Shirt Event" and "The Electric Shirt Collar" you know it's something you just have to hear whether you really want to or not.

4.0 out of 5 stars Is It Comedic Music or Musical Comedy?, June 12, 2006

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Mark D. Prouse "Dustyart" (Riverdale (Bronx), NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tadpoles (Audio CD)

While this is not The Bonzo's greatest work (that title belongs to URBAN SPACEMAN, also known as THE DOUGHNUT IN GRANNY'S GREENHOUSE), it is, along with their GORILLA, among some of most innovative and hilarious musical satire ever produced. After all these years, this is not only still funny, it's actually quite enjoyable as music. The musicianship is deceptively complex and accomplished, while the lyrics rival anything to come out of British comedy, Monty Python included (various members of The Python and the Bonzo's worked on each other's projects). Although most of the songs are originals, there is one cover, 'Monster Mash,' which will be more familiar to some listeners (of a certain age) than the Bobby Pickett version. The eclectic range of music here, inspired by several decades of changing styles, makes this recording endlessly entertaining: We are transported to the Late 20's/early 30's ('Tubas In The Moonlight,' 'By A Waterfall,' 'Doctor Jazz') the late 50's/early 60's ('Monster Mash,' 'Canyons Of Your Mind,' the latter a cheeky Elvis send-up), and on towards the age of heavy metal (the guitar work on 'Mr. Apollo'). The Spirits of Spike Jones and His City Slickers are invoked by zany ditties such as 'Hunting Tigers Out In India' and 'Ali-Baba's Camel,' complete with sound effects and vocal asides. 'Shirt' pokes fun at man-on-the-street interviews, and 'Ready-Mades' would be at home on any number of '60's psychedelic rock albums (a strange combination of Bee Gees, Beatles and early Pink Floyd). Songs like 'Tubas' and 'Waterfall' seem to anticipate the rise of the more serious, reverential careers of Ry Cooder (his JAZZ album), John Fahey (OLD-FASHIONED LOVE and AFTER THE BALL), and Leon Redbone (his entire catalog). For fans of important memorabilia from the '60's and early '70's, British comedy up to the present, and musical parody of any kind, this is indispensible. It is becoming hard-to-find, so get it soon!

4.0 out of 5 stars some of their surreal best, August 6, 2003

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andyc "andythesax" (Canberra, Oz) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tadpoles (Audio CD)

This album by the extremely English dada jazz-rock outfit contains some of their shiniest gems. This cover of the "Monster Mash" is probably the one that most people know, in which Igor is asked if he's watered the brains, and Viv laughs wonderfully demonically in the fade-out. The last two tracks are in a class of their own. Particularly if you can get anyone to air-guitar the solo on "Canyons"... (Thanks, Roj!).