Gorilla - Bonzo Dog Band

Advantages: Stupendously silly, zany album guaranteed to make you smile
Disadvantages: If you're in a bad mood it may cheer you up

...How can one describe such a silly album? This Double album is packed full of whitty little tunes that stick in your head, popping out at inopportune moments (I see you have the same trouble with your trousers as I do!). The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, or more simply "The Bonzos " as they became known, were formed by Viv Stanshall and a group of his student mates who included Neil Innes amongst many many others (I never knew if Legs Larry Smith was a real person or not). Starting with the grand "Intro and Outro" featuring the whole orchestra of instruments including Val Doonican on rocking chair and a male gorrilla on vocals, the album progresses deeper and deeper into the bizarrre. "My Pink Half of the Drainpipe" and "Noises of the leg" are quite simply strange, while Jolity Farm (all the little pigs grunt and howl ...GRUNT HOWL... Read review

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Advantages: Eccentric English whimsy at it's very best.
Disadvantages: Offbeat humour not to every one's taste.

...And out from the pungent, pregnant seas of English whimsy, formed of Noel Coward's witty pretty ditties, later to swell with Goonish-Beatlist-Python-ry, lurched the Bonzo Dog (with optional Doo-Dah) Band. First of art school Dada, then of pub-rock drinking music, before long just themselves, thrust into the limelight on revolutionary kids' TV show Do Not Adjust Your Set as the resident band. Silliness ensued. Several million kids (or at least those allowed to watch ITV) laughed in tittering unison. 'So the boys formed a band, fate played the straight man and since then they never looked back.' Encouraged with their new found popularity they released two albums in quick succession: 1967's Gorilla and The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse (1968). They made perhaps their most famous appearance in The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour... Read review

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Advantages: fun, interesting, quirky, alternate 60s stuff, makes you want to stand up and sing!
Disadvantages: not for some, a little odd,

...Basically one of the albums in the three album collection of bonzo dog band tracks, i got this for about £6 in a HMV sale and to be honest its a steal, im sure it can be got for that price around and about on the net and the whole set for not too much more. To be honest ii would definately recommend this album and all of this bands works to anyone with a decent taste in music, theres just so much on offer here that one cannot get bored! Including classics that you're bound to have heard like monster mash and urban spaceman along with the even greater, in my opinion, cult classics such as mr appolo and canyons of your mind. Thiis is an album that you really must listen to, its great for a party or just to have on in the background and the quality is actually quite amazing for something froom the 60s sounding... Read review

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