Track Listing

1. Cool Brittania
2. Equestrian Statue
3. Jollity Farm
4. I Left My Heart In San Francisco
5. Look Out There's A Monster Coming
6. Jazz Delicious Hot Disgusting Cold
7. Death Cab For Cutie
8. Narcissus
9. Intro And The Outro
10. Mickey's Son And Daughter
11. Big Shot
12. Music For Head Ballet
13. Piggy Bank Love
14. I'm Bored
15. Sound Of Music
16. We Are Normal
17. Postcard
18. Beautiful Zelda
19. Can Blue Men Sing The Whites
20. Hello Mabel
21. Kama Sutra
22. Humanoid Boogie
23. Trouser Press
24. My Pink Half Of The Drainpipe
25. Rockaliser Baby
26. Rhino Cratic Oaths
27. 11 Mustachioed Daughters
28. Hunting Tigers Out In India
29. Shirt
30. Tubas In The Moonlight
31. Dr Jazz
32. Monster Mash
33. I'm The Urban Spaceman
34. Ali Baba's Camel
35. Laughing Blues
36. By A Waterfall (Footlight Parade)
37. Mr Apollo
38. Canyons Of Your Mind
39. You Done My Brain In
40. Keynsham
41. Quiet Talks And Summer Walks
42. Tent
43. We Were Wrong
44. Joke Shop Man
45. Bride Stripped Bare By Bachelors
46. Look At Me I'm Wonderful
47. What Do You Do
48. Mr Slater's Parrot
49. Sport (The Odd Boy)
50. I Want To Be With You
51. Noises For The Leg
52. Busted
53. My Brother Makes The Noises For The Talkies
54. I'm Gonna Bring A Watermelon To My Girl Tonight
55. Ally Oop
56. Button Up Your Overcoat
57. Readymades
58. Strain
59. Turkeys
60. King Of Scurf
61. Waiting For The Wardrobe
62. Straight From My Heart
63. Rusty (Champion Thrust)
64. Rawlinson End
65. Don't Get Me Wrong
66. Fresh Wound
67. Bad Blood
68. Slush
69. Labio Dental Fricative
70. Recycled Vinyl Blues
71. Trouser Freak

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8472 in Music
• Released on: 1992-07-13
• Number of discs: 3
• Format: Box set

Album Review
Four-CD box including all five of their albums and various non-LP singles, rarities, and solo efforts. Of most interest to anyone who's enough of a Bonzo nut to invest in this, naturally, are the rare items, which comprise about half of the third disc (which also includes the Let's Make Up and Be Friendly album). There are the two 1966 singles for Parlophone, predating their first album, which find them at their most 1920s vaudevillian-influenced (even on the cover of "Alley Oop"). "Mr. Apollo" appears in its German version (which actually isn't German, except for a spoken passage by Vivian Stanshall), and its non-LP B-side, "Ready Mades," is a gentle folky tune that sounds like a Keynsham outtake. There's also one early solo item apiece from Vivian Stanshall (his 1970 single "Labio-Dental Fricative," on which Eric Clapton plays), Neil Innes (his 1974 single "Re-Cycled Vinyl Blues"), and Roger Ruskin Spear's "Trouser Freak" (from his 1971 EP). As an extra incentive, there are also lengthy historical liner notes. For all its length, however, it doesn't have everything by the Bonzos: BBC sessions are on Unpeeled, outtakes and rehearsals on Anthropology, and the 1966 outtake "On Her Doorstep Last Night" is on the By Jingo It's... British Rubbish compilation. --Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

Customer Reviews

Life in my wardrobe
At the young of age of teen something I experienced a "Bonzo" moment,this made me jump up, run outside and sell my ruptered spleen to a passing gypsy.Ever since, I have lived in my wardrobe hoping one day to become a pygmy, and I do believe it's happening, yours dimimishingly, MJM

Utterly fantastic!
Can't really say anything more, but I will. I was introduced to them through 'Ali Baba's Camel', but everything else is brilliant as well. I'm a bit worried about listening to it in public because it makes me laugh so much. In particular: 'Look out, there's a Monster coming', 'Trouser Press' and the wonderful 'My brother makes the noises for the Talkies'. Very talented indeed. & 'Hello Mabel'. In fact, every track is superb.

Buy it now, please!

You Done My Brain In- And Thank God You Did!
Having read the existing reviews there's little I can do but echo the sentiments expressed.
I bought my first copy of 'Gorilla' in 1968 and played it to death along with'Doughnut'. This compilation drags me unresisting back to the sixties and seventies - maybe it should be marketed as an elixir of youth.
I can't think of a single track I don't like,but several I think outstanding:'Death Cab for Cutie', 'We Were Wrong', 'Sport','Quiet Talks and Summer Walks'and 'the wonderful 'Bad Blood', which should give a valuable insight into the state of my mind.
Have a bad day? Then just Bonzo it, although whether you should play it when driving or operating machinery is open to debate. Worth any amount of money, but don't come round for it yet boys.

Aaaaaarghh!! I forgot 'Look out There's a Monster Coming' - Lonely unmarried looking for love? What's wrong with my tie, am I getting too high? Absolutely, and I've no intention of coming down. Thanks guys, you've given me forty years of mind blowing happiness-and here's to Viv, he should be canonised.