Monty Python Sings

Monty Python Sings
Compilation album by Monty Python
Released 1989 (1989)
Recorded 1970–1983
Genre Comedy
Length 54:16
Label Virgin
Monty Python chronology
Monty Python's The Final Rip Off
(1988)
Monty Python Sings
(1989)
The Ultimate Monty Python Rip Off
(1994)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic [1]
Robert ChristgauA- [2]

Monty Python Sings is a 1989 album of comedy songs written by the Monty Python team. It compiles popular tracks from their previous albums and films, as well as some new tracks.

"Oliver Cromwell" and a new recording of "I've Got Two Legs", which had previously only been released as part of live recordings, were recorded during sessions for Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album. The album also has complete versions of "Medical Love Song" and "Henry Kissinger", which each had a verse cut out on the aforementioned album. The album uses the few new mixes from The Final Rip Off, as well as a remix of the single version of "The Lumberjack Song". Three songs from the film Monty Python's The Meaning of Life – "Accountancy Shanty", "Every Sperm Is Sacred" and "Christmas in Heaven" – appear here in slightly different edits

The album was released in memory of Graham Chapman, who had died the year earlier that year.

In June 2014, the album was re-released as Monty Python Sings (Again) on CD and as a digital download, expanded with six additional recordings – three previously unreleased archive recordings and three new recordings from Eric Idle. A deluxe edition in both formats also includes the 1970 Monty Python's Flying Circus album.

Track listing

No.TitleOriginal releaseLength
1."Always Look on the Bright Side of Life"  Monty Python's Life of Brian3:33
2."Sit on My Face"  Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album0:45
3."Lumberjack Song"  single3:20
4."Penis Song (Not the Noel Coward Song)"  Monty Python's The Meaning of Life0:41
5."Oliver Cromwell"   4:10
6."Money Song"  Monty Python's Previous Record0:52
7."Accountancy Shanty"  Monty Python's The Meaning of Life1:16
8."Finland"  Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album2:01
9."Medical Love Song"  Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album3:31
10."I'm So Worried"  Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album2:57
11."Every Sperm Is Sacred"  Monty Python's The Meaning of Life4:34
12."Never Be Rude to an Arab"  Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album1:00
13."I Like Chinese"  Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album3:10
14."Eric the Half-a-Bee"  Monty Python's Previous Record2:06
15."Brian Song"  Monty Python's Life of Brian2:35
16."Bruces' Philosophers Song (Bruces' Song)"  The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief0:52
17."The Meaning of Life"  Monty Python's The Meaning of Life2:15
18."Knights of the Round Table (Camelot Song)"  Monty Python and the Holy Grail1:06
19."All Things Dull and Ugly"  Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album1:33
20."Decomposing Composers"  Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album2:48
21."Henry Kissinger"  Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album1:28
22."I've Got Two Legs"   0:33
23."Christmas in Heaven"  Monty Python's The Meaning of Life2:45
24."Galaxy Song"  Monty Python's The Meaning of Life2:41
25."Spam Song"  Another Monty Python Record0:32

Personnel

References

  1. Monty Python Sings at AllMusic
  2. "CG: Monty Python". Robert Christgau. Retrieved 2012-03-02.
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