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Monty Python   ??/??/1981

The Hastily Cobbled Together For A Fast Buck Album, London, UK
Media CD   1 disc
Notes Monty Python
The Hastily Cobbled Together For A Fast Buck Album
liberated bootleg released 1981

1.An Announcer/Here Comes Another One
2.Im So Worried!
3.Mrs.Particle & Mrs.Velocity
4.Otto & The Suicide Squad/Otto Song
5.Rooting Around In My Attic
6.Psychopath
7.Olympic Shopping
8.Bunn Whackett Buzzard Stubble & Boot
9.Talking Science
10.School Song (Play Up!)
11.Headmaster/Dead School Boy
12.Laughing At The Unfortunate
13.Leg Amputation/Reassuring Your Doctor/
Deep-Sea InsuranceAgent/Accounting Shanty
14.Indian Restaurant
15.Minister Of Defense
16.Freelance Undertaker
17.Rudyard Kipling
18.Apology
19.Memory Training
20.Acronyms
21.Hi-Fi Shop
22.Announcer,side 2

These are the notes I recieved with this disc,a little tape hiss
but decent sound:

"Despite this title,this 1981 album was never actually released to
the public for a fast buck..Andre Jacquiem,who put together much of
the Python's 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 found its was,unofficially,into the hands of fans,but has never been sold
in stores."

Highlights for me are the "Otto" segment & "Psychopath",both written
for Life Of Brian but not used...and also "Memory Training",an older
skit with a new ending - Graham Chapman rattling off names of towns
where Life Of Brian was banned!


Put together by André Jacquemin, the producer behind most of the Python's studio albums, this unreleased compilation features, according to the opening announcement, "things which were never good enough to get on any other Monty Python LP - but you've gone out and bought it, so who's the mug?"

The mug - or mugs - in this case would be whoever suppressed this release which has yet to see the light of day since it was compiled back in 1987.

Chances are that nobody would have heard it at all, but for Mötorhead. Said rock group happened to be doing some final mixing for their LP Rock N'Roll at Jacquemin's Brittannia Row studios. Michael Palin, who was present in the studio, contributed some improvised amusement for the end of Side 1 and, gent that he is, got Jacquemin to run off some copies of this Python out-takes compilation for their tour-bus pleasure (a harkback to the 1970s when rock groups would cruise motorways to the sound of Derek and Clive bootlegs). The contents were as follows:

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Owned by Damian · Last Updated May 23, 2023