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Teddy Boys Don't Knit

Teddy Boys Don't Knit
Viv Stanshall

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Track Listing

  1. King Kripple
  2. Slave Valse
  3. Gums
  4. Biwilderbeeste
  5. Calypso To Calapso
  6. Tube
  7. Ginger Geezer
  8. Cracks Are Showing
  9. Flung A Dummy
  10. Possibly An Arm Chair (And Embodying)
  11. Fresh Faced Boys
  12. Terry Keeps His Clips On
  13. Bass Macaw And Broken Bottles
  14. Nose Hymn
  15. Everyday I Have The Blows
  16. Smoke Signals At Night
  17. Nouveau Riff

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #41028 in Music
  • Released on: 2004-01-05
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Dimensions: .22 pounds

Customer Reviews

Brilliantly bonkers5
If you're a fan of the Bonzo Dog Band......or even if you're not - by this damn album, it's brilliant!
Just listen to the Biwilderbeeste, Ginger geezer, Cracks are showing and....well, all of them. On first listen, they'll just sound like some strange old guy singing nonsense but all the songs have got beutiful messages hidden in them.
Accommpanied by a clutch of great musicians (Richard Thompson for example), your CD collection is worse off for not having it!

Stanshall's best record5
After the Bonzos Stanshall's career stuttered from disc to disc .
Sometimes - as with " Men Opening Umbrellas Ahead " - you marvel that the disc ever made to the market . Brilliant in parts but thrown away .
Teddy Boys Don't Knit shows what he could do with a great producer and great musical support .
The disc has its downbeat side " Calypso to Collapso " but features some truly original masterpieces , Slave Valse , for example , which are quite ignored in comparison with the Bonzo hits .
If only he could have done more like this . He was truly inimitable

When music didn't take itself too seriously4
Before this CD came out, the only time I ever heard the ludicrously wonderful "Terry Keeps His Clips On" was on Noel Edmonds' show, when he was a BBC Radio 1 DJ, I guess at the very start of the '80s. I remember Noel trying desperately to stifle his sniggers as it played. Music in them days didn't always take itself too seriously, I'm happy to say. I guess it all started with Spike Jones, The Goons followed then The Bonzo Dog Do-Da Band and it just got crazier and crazier... until the nineties arrived and the sickly sweet Boy and Girl groups came along and ruined it all.

Buy this if you like barking mad music.