Urban Spaceman

Artist: The Bonzo Dog Band
Label: One Way Records Inc
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 077771743023
EAN: 0077771743023
ASIN: B000002QZF

Release Date: 1993-09-07

Urban Spaceman

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Tracks:

I'm the Urban Spaceman
We Are Normal
Postcard
Beautiful Zelda
Can Blue Men Sing the Whites?
Hello Mabel
Kama Sutra
Humanoid Boogie
Trouser Press
My Pink Half of the Drainpipe
Rockaliser Baby
Rhinocratic Oaths
11 Moustachioed Daughters

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Customer Reviews:

Bonzo Do Dah Dog Band.......2004-08-18

The Bonzos are dead, long live the Bonzos.......what a great savvy band. A girl friend of mines mother worked for a record distributor and we recieved a promo copy of this album which I still have to this day. I was blown away, what a bunch of nut cases. I felt at home. From beginning to end this is one of the funniest albums outside of the Kinks and Zappa I have ever heard. But lets not forget Tadpoles with the great "Canyons of your Mind" and Keysham, hell they're all great. I'm glad I had the chance to have the Bonzos enter my musical spectrum, we all need a smile on our faces at sometime or another and these blokes will sure do it for you..............

Urban Spaceman: a rock album for the ages!.......2003-06-29

I used to listen to this album when i was a boy growing up in the seventies. A friend had been given a copy by his older brother, who admonished us to listen carefully to the subtle yet over-the-top nuances contained therein. By chance, I found a decent cd version of this album in 2003: though I had forgotten most of the details, I knew in my heart that I needed to hear the work again. The fantastic music and lyrics of Neil Innes and Vivian Stanshall, as well as their peculiar sense of humour are in full effect here. Beggining with the title track, the band displays a playfulness and formidability that, though initially reminiscent of the Beatles, actually strives to rise above the seriousness and limitations that plagued the fab four in their later years. Musically, the ensemble playing on such tracks as "We Are Normal" and "Rhinocratic Oaths", bests much of what the Beatles and other so-called psychedelic bands were trying to create. The lyrics, full of all sorts of jokes and poetic snips at society, are a blast to listen to ... you get the feeling that Innes and Stanshall were laughing their heads off in the studio as they recorded the songs on Urban Spaceman. Every song on this album is highly listenable, though some may prove to be disturbing. Other personal favorites include "Beautiful Zelda" and "My Pink Half of the Drainpipe". With a slight nod and wink to those who influenced them, the Bonzos themselves went on to influence numerous musicians in rock and roll with their off-kilter brilliance and scary-good chops. My advice: listen to this album, now!

Fun Is Good.......2001-12-07

It's hard for me to think how much poorer my life would have been in the sixties and seventies without this inspired creation of the British dada rock combo. The musicianship and humor are both of a very high order - sort of like a blend of the Beatles and Monty Python. Vivian Stanshall was a brilliant dramatic poet, and Neil Innes is probably the world's most underrated living tunesmith. Listen to "Postcard," thematically similar to but, with its swaying interplay of oboe and piano, musically superior to the Who's cut of the same name. Or listen to "My Pink Half of the Drainpipe," a trenchant satire of materialism and alienation of the modern middle class: only the Kinks' "Shangrila" did it better. Above all, musically, the Bonzos are a delight to listen to.

This album, the band's second of five studio albums, was released in the UK with the title "The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse" and was then retitled and repressed for the US market (in 1968, I think) with the addition of the title cut, which had charted as a single in the UK. The album is part of disk one in the three-disk set Cornology, which you should buy instead if you have the scratch.

I hope this CD is rereleased with the original booklet, a dozen or so pages of dada art, collages and such that were hysterically funny and an important part of the "album experience" back in the days of vinyl.

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