Post by buster on Apr 25, 2009 13:04:21 GMT -5
i like this thread, as i wouldn't have come across the bob drake album [the guy has a little shannon hoon in his voice] i am really enjoying. whats best about this thread is the download links.
anyway, so i thought i'd contribute, though the original rule requiring you to be almost certain no one has ever heard it makes it hard to post. that being said jennifer gentle was posted, so why not the bonzo dog band - i think their 'known' level is fairly similar? if not, my apologies, just trying to contribute.
the bonzo dog band's the doughnut in granny's greenhouse
. sounds like syd barret and frank zappa joking around and writing cartoon rock or something? there are some good groves and laughs in here. its become a classic of mine.
brief review:
The group was started by British art college students in the mid-'60s. Initially they were inclined toward trad jazz and vaudevillian routines, but by the time of their 1967 debut album, they were leaning further in pop and rock directions.
Taking the "Doo Dah" out of their name for this 1968 LP, the Bonzos' second album was probably their best. Although they were hardly a rock or pop group in the traditional sense, the Bonzos couldn't help absorbing some of the vibes of British psychedelia, and the heady ambience of the era is reflected in the recklessly diverse and outrageous material. Almost all of the songs were penned by the two top dogs, Viv Stanshall and Neil Innes, who deflate British blues, psychedelia, and other pop, jazz, and music hall styles with priceless wit. Star tracks on this saxophone-heavy album include the doo wop ode to a spacegirl ("Beautiful Zelda"), "The Trouser Press" (which gave the late American underground rock magazine its name), the droll series of poker-faced spoken sketches on "Rhinocratic Oaths" (certainly an influence on Monty Python), and the boozy "My Pink Half of the Drainpipe," which ranks as one of the most ridiculous and hysterical songs released by a pop group of any era.
rapidshare.com/files/225649131/Doughnuts_in_Grannys_Greenhouse.rar
anyway, so i thought i'd contribute, though the original rule requiring you to be almost certain no one has ever heard it makes it hard to post. that being said jennifer gentle was posted, so why not the bonzo dog band - i think their 'known' level is fairly similar? if not, my apologies, just trying to contribute.
the bonzo dog band's the doughnut in granny's greenhouse
. sounds like syd barret and frank zappa joking around and writing cartoon rock or something? there are some good groves and laughs in here. its become a classic of mine.
brief review:
The group was started by British art college students in the mid-'60s. Initially they were inclined toward trad jazz and vaudevillian routines, but by the time of their 1967 debut album, they were leaning further in pop and rock directions.
Taking the "Doo Dah" out of their name for this 1968 LP, the Bonzos' second album was probably their best. Although they were hardly a rock or pop group in the traditional sense, the Bonzos couldn't help absorbing some of the vibes of British psychedelia, and the heady ambience of the era is reflected in the recklessly diverse and outrageous material. Almost all of the songs were penned by the two top dogs, Viv Stanshall and Neil Innes, who deflate British blues, psychedelia, and other pop, jazz, and music hall styles with priceless wit. Star tracks on this saxophone-heavy album include the doo wop ode to a spacegirl ("Beautiful Zelda"), "The Trouser Press" (which gave the late American underground rock magazine its name), the droll series of poker-faced spoken sketches on "Rhinocratic Oaths" (certainly an influence on Monty Python), and the boozy "My Pink Half of the Drainpipe," which ranks as one of the most ridiculous and hysterical songs released by a pop group of any era.
rapidshare.com/files/225649131/Doughnuts_in_Grannys_Greenhouse.rar