The Hastily Cobbled Together for a Fast Buck Album
Monty Python's Hastily Cobbled Together for a Fast Buck Album | |
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Studio album by Monty Python | |
Genre | Comedy |
Length | 53:22 |
Hastily Cobbled Together for a Fast Buck is the name of a bootleg of an unreleased album by Monty Python,[1] mostly made up of outtakes from the 1980 sessions for their Contractual Obligation Album. The album was compiled by producer Andre Jacquemin in 1987 but pulled from release in favour of a compilation of previously released material, The Final Rip Off.
As with material that made the final cut of the Contractual Obligation Album, the outtakes include re-recordings of material which predates Monty Python. "Bunn, Wackett, Buzzard, Stubble and Boot", the title of which was among the many rejected suggestions for the name of Monty Python's Flying Circus, dates back to John Cleese's college days. "Adventure" originates from The Frost Report, while At Last the 1948 Show was plundered for "Freelance Undertaker" and "Memory Training", the latter featuring a newly written coda containing a list of the towns where Monty Python's Life of Brian was banned. Another sketch, "Indian Restaurant", was revived from the TV special How to Irritate People. Despite its name, "Accountancy Shanty" is not an early version of the song which would feature in The Crimson Permanent Assurance but a re-recording of a song from Rutland Weekend Television, with Terry Jones performing the lead vocal originally sung by Neil Innes.
The album also features material from the early drafts of Life of Brian, some of which was published in the film's accompanying scrap book. These include "Psychopath" (adapted to a modern-day setting) and "Headmaster". The "Otto" sketch and accompanying song are from the soundtrack of a deleted scene from the film.
Terry Gilliam's 1974 studio recording of "I've Got Two Legs" was the first track from the album to get an official release when it featured on the 1989 compilation Monty Python Sings (with an added introduction from Eric Idle). In 1997 two further tracks, "Mrs Particle and Mrs Velocity" and "Psychopath", were featured on the Monty Python's The Meaning of Life video game, alongside a further previously unreleased sketch.
In 2005 it was announced that Jacquemin was preparing an expanded version of Hastily Cobbled Together for a Fast Buck for official release.[2] However, this was once again cancelled. The following year saw the release of special edition CDs of eight Monty Python albums, with added bonus tracks which included "I'm So Worried (Country & Western Version)", "Otto Sketch", "Otto Song", "Psychopath", "Baxter's", "Freelance Undertaker" and "Radio Shop", among further previously unreleased tracks. In 2014 the songs "Rainy Day in Berlin" and "Rudyard Kipling" appeared as two of three outtakes added to Monty Python Sings (Again). The remaining tracks on the album remain unreleased.
Track listing
Side one
- "An Announcer"
- "Here Comes Another One" (vocoder version)
- "I'm So Worried" (Country & Western version)
- "Mrs. Particle and Mrs. Velocity"
- "Otto Sketch"
- "Otto Song"
- "Rooting Around in My Attic"
- "Psychopath"
- "Olympic Shopping"
- "Bunn, Wackett, Buzzard, Stubble and Boot"
- "Talking Science"
- "School Song"
- "Headmaster"
- "Laughing at the Unfortunate"
Side two
- "Rainy Day in Berlin" (not included on most bootlegged versions)[citation needed]
- "I've Got Two Legs"
- "Amputation"
- "Adventure"
- "Accountancy Shanty"
- "Indian Restaurant"
- "Baxter's"
- "Freelance Undertaker"
- "Rudyard Kipling"
- "Apology"
- "Memory Training"
- "Acronyms"
- "Radio Shop"
References
- v
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- Another Record
- Previous Record
- Matching Tie and Handkerchief
- Holy Grail
- Life of Brian
- Contractual Obligation
- The Meaning of Life
- Flying Circus
- Live at Drury Lane
- Live at City Center
- The Pythons
- Life of Python
- Almost the Truth (Lawyers Cut)
- And Now for Something Rather Similar
- The Meaning of Live
- Spamalot
- Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy)
- An Evening Without Monty Python
- Live (Mostly)
- Big Red Book
- Brand New Bok
- Holy Grail (Book)
- Life of Brian/SCRAPBOOK
- The Meaning of Life
- Just the Words
- Song Book
- A Pocketful of Python
- The Pythons Autobiography by The Pythons
- Live!
- Flying Circus
- Complete Waste of Time
- Quest for the Holy Grail
- The Meaning of Life
- Cow Tossing
- The Ministry of Silly Walks
- Mr Praline
- The Colonel
- Mr Creosote
- Rabbit of Caerbannog
- Other characters
- Albatross!
- Anne Elk's Theory on Brontosauruses
- Architects
- Argument Clinic
- Bruces
- Cheese Shop
- Colin "Bomber" Harris vs Colin "Bomber" Harris
- Crunchy Frog
- Dead Parrot
- Dirty Fork
- Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook
- Election Night Special
- Fish Licence
- Fish-Slapping Dance
- Four Yorkshiremen
- The Funniest Joke in the World
- How Not to Be Seen
- Kilimanjaro Expedition
- Lifeboat
- Marriage Guidance Counsellor
- Ministry of Silly Walks
- Mouse Problem
- Nudge Nudge
- Patient Abuse
- Philosophers' Football Match
- Piranha Brothers
- Sam Peckinpah's "Salad Days"
- Seduced Milkmen
- Spam
- Spanish Inquisition
- Undertakers
- Upper Class Twit of the Year
- Vocational Guidance Counsellor
- World Forum/Communist Quiz
- "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life"
- "Brian Song"
- "Bruces' Philosophers Song"
- "Decomposing Composers"
- "Eric the Half-a-Bee"
- "Every Sperm Is Sacred"
- "Finland"
- "Galaxy Song"
- "I Bet You They Won't Play This Song on the Radio"
- "I Like Chinese"
- "I've Got Two Legs"
- "The Lumberjack Song"
- "Medical Love Song"
- "Oliver Cromwell"
- "Sit on My Face"
- List of Monty Python projects
- The Foot of Cupid
- Cambridge Circus
- I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again
- The Frost Report
- At Last the 1948 Show
- Twice a Fortnight
- Do Not Adjust Your Set
- We Have Ways of Making You Laugh
- Broaden Your Mind
- How to Irritate People
- The Complete and Utter History of Britain
- The Fred Tomlinson Singers
- Teach Yourself Heath
- Python (Monty) Pictures
- Tiny Black Round Thing
- Bert Fegg's Nasty Book for Boys and Girls
- Rutland Weekend Television
- Fawlty Towers
- Ripping Yarns
- Out of the Trees
- A Poke in the Eye (With a Sharp Stick)
- Monty Python v. ABC
- Python On Song
- All You Need Is Cash
- The Secret Policeman's Ball
- A Liar's Autobiography: Volume VI
- The Hastily Cobbled Together for a Fast Buck Album
- The Wind in the Willows
- Monty Python Live
- Concert for George
- Diaries 1969–1979: The Python Years
- The Seventh Python
- Holy Flying Circus
- A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman
- Absolutely Anything