MONTY PYTHON'S HASTILY COBBLED TOGETHER FOR A FAST BUCK ALBUM - Monty Python's Flying Circus

YEAR: 1981

LABEL: None/Bootleg

TRACK LISTING: An Announcer, Here Comes Another One (A Clockwork Orange Version), I'm So Worried (Country/Western Version), Mrs. Particle and Mrs. Velocity, Otto and the Suicide Squad/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, Rainy Day In Berlin, 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, Hi-Fi Shop

IMPRESSIONS: As hinted at in yesterday's post, MONTY PYTHON'S CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATION ALBUM wasn't quite the final word in Python album releases that we all thought it was. Although HASTILY COBBLED was never an official release (despite engineer André Jacquemin's best efforts), this is like the final Monty Python album that never was. Sure, it consists of material the Pythons thought weren't good enough to make it onto their CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATION ALBUM but the stuff is still a gold mine for any Python fan and actually contains some good stuff. And any time we get to hear something previously unheard from the Python's peak creative years is cause for celebration.

MY FAVOURITE TRACKS: Here Comes Another One (A Clockwork Orange Version), Mrs. Particle and Mrs. Velocity, Rooting Around In My Attic, Psychopath, Olympic Shopping, Bunn Whackett Buzzard Stubble and Boot, School Song (Play Up!), Headmaster/Dead School Boy, Laughing at the Unfortunate, Rainy Day In Berlin, I've Got Two Legs, Leg Amputation, Re-Assuring You About the Doctor, Deep-Sea Insurance Agent/Accountancy Shanty, Minister of Defence, Freelance Undertaker, Rudyard Kipling, Apology, Memory Training

GUEST ARTISTS: André Jacquemin (as the "Announcer")

FACT SHEET: THE HASTILY COBBLED TOGETHER FOR A FAST BUCK ALBUM is a bootleg recording of unused material recorded by Monty Python's Flying Circus during their Charisma Records sessions which produced their previously released albums. The material was culled together by the Pythons' engineer/record producer André Jacquemin in 1981 which was never officially released. In 2005, EMI announced they were going to released the album officially but the project was eventually shelved.