Despite the title, this 1981 album was never actually released to the public for a fast buck. Andre Jacquemin, who put together much of the Pythons' album work, cobbled this album together from material which had been recorded for other albums (mostly the Contractual Obligation Album) but not used. It was given by Michael Palin to the band Motorhead as a gift, and has found its way, unofficially, into the hands of fans, but has never been sold in stores. A lot of fans think it's about as good as Contractual Obligation. Thanks to Mike at Some of the Corpses Are Amusing for our copy.

The album begins with alternate versions of the songs "Here Comes Another One" and "I'm So Worried" from Contractual Obligation. The first is performed in the style of the music in the film A Clockwork Orange. The latter is performed in a Country Western style! The backing guitarists struggling to keep pace with Terry Jones' singing is classic. The album also contains an extended album version of "Otto and the Suicide Squad," a sketch and song most fans agree shouldn't have been deleted from Monty Python's Life of Brian. The "Psychopath" sketch was also written for Brian and not used - it is here performed in a modern day setting. "Memory Training," a sketch from the pre-Python series At Last the 1948 Show, is used, but with a new ending - Graham Chapman, as an arbiter of good taste, rattles off a long list of all the towns where Life of Brian was banned! Hee hee. Some material here seems to anticipate Monty Python's The Meaning of Life - that film would come out two years later, but the material about the schoolmasters and the dead schoolboy is similar to MOL material, and Terry Jones sings Eric Idle's Accountancy Shanty song (from Eric's classic series Rutland Weekend Television) -- comparing accountants to pirates who sing accountancy shanties, which would come up in MOL as well.

Track Listing

An Announcer
Here Comes Another One [Clockwork Orange Version]
I'm So Worried! [Country/Western version]
Mrs. Particle and Mrs. Velocity
Otto and the Suicide Squad, with Otto Song
Rooting Around in My Attic
Psychopath
Olympic Shopping
Bunn Whackett Buzzard Stubble and Boot
Talking Science (DNA)
School Song (play up!)
Headmaster/Dead School Boy
Laughing at the Unfortunate
[end of side one]
[side two]
I've Got Two Legs
Leg Amputation
Re-assuring You About the Doctor
Deep-Sea Insurance Agent/Accountancy Shanty
Indian Restaurant
Minister of Defence
Freelance Undertaker
Rudyard Kipling
Apology
Memory Training
Acronyms
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