eric idle sings download torrent Monty Python. Monty Python is a comedy troupe of 4 Englishmen (, , , ), 1 Welshman () and 1 American (), best known for their legendary and influential show "Monty Python's Flying Circus" (which ran for four seasons from 1969 to 1974). The troupe also wrote and starred in the films "And Now for Something Completely Different" (1971), "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (1975), "Monty Python's Life of Brian" (1979), " At The Hollywood Bowl" (1982) and "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life" (1983). The group formed in 1969 in London, England and ceased normal activity as a comedy troupe in 1983 although the members continue to appear in one another's projects and there have been sporadic reunions since then. The group includes Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle (the trio from Cambridge, who are all taller than all the other members of the group, and known as the more "aggressive" half of the group), Terry Jones (from Wales), Michael Palin (from Oxford) and Terry Gilliam (Minnesota in the United States). Chapman wrote the sketches with Cleese, Jones wrote with Palin, Idle wrote alone and Gilliam did the animations. and have both on occasion been mentioned as the "7th Python". Graham Chapman, widely known as "The Dead One", died of cancer on October 4, 1989, the day before Python's 20th anniversary (thus being called "the greatest party pooper of all time" by Terry Jones), is tagged as the greatest actor among the group by his fellow Pythons. He had problems with alcohol and was a dedicated smoker of the pipe (he appears with a pipe in his hand in most of the Python sketches). He was known for his outstanding and abstract sense of humour; Cleese states that during their sketch-writing partnership Chapman did not say much, but when he said something it was often brilliant. The term "pepperpot" which is used to describe middle-aged ladies was found by Chapman. John Cleese, probably the most famous Python on the other side of the Atlantic, is most widely known for his silly walk - the famous walk that he invented for Monty Python's Flying Circus, and repeated in one episode of , where he tries very hard not to remind his German visitors of the World War II by doing impersonations of Hitler. He lives in the USA. He played the lead as Basil Fawlty in "Fawlty Towers". He has been reported to be the first man to say "shit" on British TV and the first man to say "fuck" at a British memorial service. Eric Idle is the composer of most Python songs (along with Neil Innes) such as the Python anthem "Always Look on the Bright Side Of Life" (which is also played after Iron Maiden's shows). His outstanding linguistic abilities have earned him the name "Master of the One-Liner". He created the Beatles parody "The Rutles" along with Neil Innes, and recently adapted the Python movie "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" as a Broadway musical called "Monty Python's ". His most famous Python role is the character he plays in the "" sketch. He is the self-acclaimed third tallest and sixth nicest Python. Terry Gilliam was the only American in the group and has one of the most successful post-Python careers among the six, as he is the director of hugely popular movies like Brazil, 12 Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and The Fisher King. His part was instrumental in helping Python gain their reputation as a unique comedy group, his animations helping them link sketches (which, of course, don't have punch lines) in an unprecedented manner. He has become a British citizen in early 2006 and renounced his American citizenship shortly afterwards. He acknowledges The Goon Show, a radio show aired in the 1950s on BBC radio, written by Spike Milligan and performed by Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers, as the main reason he chose Britain as his homeland. Terry Jones is the most successful actor of the woman role (as demonstrated in the sketch, which is only one of numerous occasions in which he has voiced the trademark of a high-pitched female impersonation). He is the director (or co-director) of all Python movies. He has also written, directed and appeared in a few more movies which featured some of his Python mates; despite the fact that these movies aren't quite a match for his work in the Flying Circus, they include some hilarious scenes, such as the singing scene in Erik the Viking. He is the writer of such excellent songs as "I'm So Worried" and "Traffic Lights". He has done a few historical documentaries, and in one of them he briefly acts the part of King Richard III (called "Ring Kichard the Thrid" by the Eric Idle character "the man who speaks entirely in anagrams", which prompts Michael Palin the interviewer to suggest that "Ring Kichard is surely a spoonerism and not an anagram", which results in Eric Idle's character leaving the studio, saying "If you are going to split hairs, I'm going to piss off" (which can serve as a pointer to the Eric Idle-John Cleese movie "Splitting Heirs")). Michael Palin, known as the nicest python, and the favorite Python to work with for John Cleese, has done numerous travel documentaries during his post-Python career. His amazing sense of humour has inevitably permeated into what would otherwise be just ordinary documentaries (occasions like the Polushka Pole incident and thanking the goddess for her "nice mountain", to name a couple). This nice man, who finds it very difficult to say "no", is the only one who said "no" to a reunion in their 30th year. He is the inventor of the threat "If you don't cooperate, I will get nasty and start using some Dutch words". Monty Python - The Monty Python Matching Tie And Handkerchief album flac. The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief is the fourth album by the comedy group Monty Python, released in 1973. Most of the material was newly written for the album along with a handful of sketches from the third series of Flying Circus, one from the second ("Bruces") and another from the first ("Pet Conversions"). The team were once again joined by Neil Innes, who provided a trio of rock music parodies for "The Background To History". The designated Python for ‘Monty Python’s Matching Tie and Handkerchief’ was Terry Gilliam. Andre Jacquemin vividly recalls those halcyon days of September 1973. We would be working late into the night. It was all so very Python, maintains Michael Palin. Lovely, Indian Summer weather. Another invaluable selection of sketches recorded during the 1980 sessions for ‘Monty Python’s Contractual Obligation Album’. Psychopath pits Graham Chapman and John Cleese as beleaguered victim and moronic thug, while Radio Shop features the slightly mad Graham haranguing assistant Terry Jones. Due to the limited space of a long-playing record and the team’s preference for focusing on comedy songs for the album, both sketches were dropped. Black Comedy: The tie and handkerchief on the album cover look ordinary, but when the inner sleeve of the LP is pulled out it reveals that the tie and handkerchief are actually from a man hanging from a gallows. Long Title: The original full title is Free Record Given Away with the Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief. Manchild: The man in the "Mrs. Niggerbaiter" sketch, who is treated by his mother and her friend as if he is still a child, despite clearly being an adult and even Minister of Overseas Development. Matching Tie and Handkerchief. The group's third studio album in its original packaging is a find for fans of vinyl trickery: the B-side contains two continuous tracks, leaving the stylus a 50-50 chance at playing the track you want. The group reprises several skits from the show ("Bruces," " Shop") without the hindrance of playing to a live audience: in essence, it's lightning fast and witty to boot. Free Record Given Away with the Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief, later shortened to simply The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief, is the fourth album by the comedy group Monty Python, released in 1973. 1 Cover and Packaging. The initial pressings were packaged with a real tie and handkerchief and distributed to menswear stores, the concept being that the record was merely a 'free gift' in the manner of plastic dinosaurs with breakfast cereals. It is also notable for its inner sleeve art, which is visible through a cutaway hole in the album's outer sleeve. It appears to be a simple Terry Gilliam artwork of a tie and handkerchief, but when the inner sleeve is pulled out, it reveals that the tie and handkerchief are actually on a dead man hanging rather graphically from a gallows. Monty Python (sometimes known as The Pythons) were a British surreal comedy group who created the sketch comedy show Monty Python's Flying Circus, that first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. Forty-five episodes were made over four seasons. The Python phenomenon developed from the television series into something larger in scope and impact, spawning touring stage shows, films, numerous albums, several books, and a stage musical. Free Record Given Away with the Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief, later shortened to simply The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief, is the fourth album by the comedy group Monty Python, released in 1973. The Album of the Soundtrack of the Trailer of the Film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Executive Version released: 1997. The Final Rip Off released: 1987. Features Song Lyrics for Monty Python's Matching Tie and Handkerchief album. 4. Bruce's Song Lyrics. Monty Python Lyrics provided by SongLyrics. All Music News . Popular Monty Python Lyrics. Eric idle sings monty python download torrent. One of the archive tracks on the album is ‘Lousy Song’. Originally recorded during sessions for the 'Monty Python’s Contractual Obligation Album' in 1980, it was conceived and performed by Eric Idle and the late Graham Chapman. In the words of Eric Idle: - “It is the only totally improvised sketch I can remember Python doing. Graham enters the recording studio when I’m listening back to a song I have recorded. I think it is very funny.” There were also additional tracks which were newly recorded and featured in the group's live reunion shows at The O2, London in July 2014. Music videos were produced for two of the new tracks: 'The Silly Walk Song' and 'Lousy Song' Eric Idle: A Python In Winter. British comedian Eric Idle performs during the closing ceremony of the 2012 London Olympic Games in August. Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images. At the beginning of What About Dick? , a stage performance released this week as a digital download, writer/performer Eric Idle announces that the audience will be witnessing "Aural Cinema." The story — a tangential, broadly comic yarn involving the decline of the British Empire and "the birth of a sex toy invented in Shagistan in 1898" — is to be performed in the style of a radio play, with the actors (Russell Brand, Eddie Izzard, Billy Connolly, Tim Curry and Tracey Ullman, to name five) reading their parts from scripts into enormous microphones. To the side of the stage, a visible sound effects man provides exaggerated clanking and whistling, while Idle himself narrates. Now: knowing that this is an Eric Idle-scripted show called What About Dick? , does "aural" make you think of "oral," thus bringing to mind you- know-what? No need to hang your head in shame. For the next five or ten minutes, Idle and Co. proceed with a near-uninterrupted torrent of double-entendres about Dick, a character played by Russell Brand. At age 69, the man who sang "The Penis Song" in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life proves that he can still break new ground in the noble art of penis jokes. "I think it's certainly going to go in the Guinness Book of Records for that," says Idle in an interview. "We took a lot out, actually." In fairness, the male organ recedes to the background after a while — Idle can sense how long the audience will listen until it pines for jokes about other body parts. He talks about comedy in mathematical terms. "I think it's posing an equation: you say A plus B equals C, and hopefully that will be the laugh. And then if you don't get the laugh you can tinker with that — you might have to add in another element at the front to make it clear the thought you're trying to just push through at the speed of light." Idle has described What About Dick? , which first played for a couple of nights in Hollywood in 2007 before returning for the performances released this week, as "Oscar Wilde on acid." Coming in the midst of a lucrative late period, this motto could double as the niche for the Python who struggled longest to find one. When Monty Python disbanded after The Meaning of Life , Idle developed projects that rarely saw the light of day, while becoming a fixture in movies both mediocre and sub-mediocre ( Burn Hollywood Burn , anyone?). "You're kind of dragged into those things," Idle says of his work-for-hire. "Somebody says, 'Will you do this?' You go, 'Oh, alright,' and then after a while you go, 'Wait a minute, what am I doing, this is not what I like to do.'" For Idle, the nadir came with a stint on the Brooke Shields sitcom Suddenly Susan in its final season. "I was being paid not to be funny. And I was being paid enormously." A creative turning point came in 2000, when Idle embarked on a cross-country tour, disarmingly titled Eric Idle Exploits Monty Python . "I went out on the road to discover what I still liked doing, what I still enjoyed about performing. And it was really doing my stuff, or Python stuff, or my songs, and making people laugh live in a theater." If the shadow of Python loomed large, he embraced it by creating Spamalot , the Broadway musical that turned Monty Python into a Times Square blockbuster. Spamalot garnered criticism from Python aficionados for diluting the group's irreverent sensibility into something safe for tourists, families and Tony voters. In truth, that full title — Monty Python's Spamalot — was a misnomer. Freed from the "Monty Python" brand and all its philosophical implications, What About Dick? crystallizes Idle's late-period, dog's-breakfast style of comedy. It has some of the silliness of Python, and some of the attitude of Wilde. In its lesser moments, it suggests the nude-nudge comedy of Benny Hill (one character is called an "ass-trologist" for her ability to . well, never mind). In its better moments, it recalls the BBC '50s radio comedy The Goon Show , for its dense, complicated wordplay ("Once upon a time there were two sisters, who lived in a rambling old Victorian novel") performed by a cheeky, ad-libbing ensemble. It's the kind of anything-for-a-laugh show where Eddie Izzard will recite a convoluted monologue in an Indian accent, and then comment on his appalling accent. It's hard not to admire Idle for his independent spirit and his eagerness to use his Spamalot riches to follow his muse. Instead of another musical, he followed Spamalot first with a comic oratorio called Not The Messiah (He's A Very Naughty Boy) , based on Monty Python's Life Of Brian , and now a pseudo-radio play. Not everyone would follow his biggest hit with two dead art forms. "It's impossible to follow Spamalot ," Idle says. "Everything worked. All that's left is for nothing to work." I ask Idle if this is a frequent dilemma in the career of an ex-Python. "Not always, because most of the things I've done were not instant hits. Python was not an instant hit. The Rutles was number 76 on the television ratings for that week. It's still being played. The Holy Grail — hardly anybody saw it. The TV shows were watched by a tiny minority of people on a Sunday night in England. So, it seems to me that these things become in hindsight hugely successful, but at the time not particularly successful. They're only successful on their own terms of succeeding and being funny for the few people watching." Monty Python / Total Rubbish: The Complete Collection box set. Monty Python’s Total Rubbish is a new nine-LP box set due to be released on the eve of the comic group’s apparently career-ending London live dates in July 2014. The box set will feature all nine of Monty Python ’s UK albums: Monty Python’s Flying Circus , Another Monty Python Record , Monty Python’s Previous Record , Matching Tie and Handkerchief , Live at Drury Lane , Holy Grail , Life of Brian , Monty Python’s Contractual Obligation Album and The Meaning Of Life and will come with a bonus seven-inch single of their 1974 flexi-disc Monty Python’s Tiny Black Round Thing. The set will also be available as a nine-CD edition , which also comes with the seven-inch vinyl record. 9CD version of “Monty Python’s Total Rubbish” The albums were cut with an all analogue signal path from the original 1/4″ master tapes, where available. Both editions also contain a casebound book with new liner notes with a foreword by Michael Palin, original Monty Python artwork, archive photos and an original Terry Gilliam-designed full colour slipcase. At the same time, for a more modest budget, comes the 25th anniversary deluxe reissue of Monty Python Sings (Again) . This features songs and ditties from across their recording and film career, and now includes six previously unavailable tracks ; three never before released songs from the Python archives and three new recordings by Eric Idle. The 2CD deluxe edition is an eight-panel digi-pack (designed by – who else – Terry Gilliam) and includes a bonus disc of Monty Python’s Flying Circus (their live debut album from 1970) and a 32-page booklet with lyrics and track-by-track notes. Monty Python’s Total Rubbish: The Complete Collection is released on 30 June 2014 and Monty Python Sings (Again) is out on 9 June. 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Flying Sheep A Man with Three Buttocks Nudge Nudge Wink Wink The Mouse Problem – 3:14 Buying a Bed Interesting People Barber Shop Sketch Lumberjack Song Interview. Arthur Two Sheds Children’s Stories Visitors Albatross Mr Hilter The North Minehead By-Election Me, Doctor Dead Parrot Sketch Self Defence. LP2: Another Monty Python Record. Apologies Spanish Inquisition World Forum/Communist Phonecall Gumby Theatre, etc. The Architect The . Penguin On The TV Comfy Chair/Sound Quiz Be A Great Actor/Theatre Critic Royal Festival Hall Concert Spam The Judges Stake Your Claim Still No Sign of Land (Lifeboat) Undertaker. LP3: Monty Python’s Previous Record. Embarrassment/Book At Bedtime England 1747 – Dennis Moore Money Programme Dennis Moore Continues Australian Table Wines Putting Budgies Down and so forth Eric the Half-a-Bee Travel Agency. Radio Quiz Game A Massage/City Noises Quiz Miss Anne Elk We Love the Yangtze – Yangtse Kiang Song How-To-Do-It Lessons A Minute Passed Eclipse of the Sun/Alistair Cooke Wonderful World of Sounds A Fairy Tale. LP4: Monty Python’s Matching Tie & Handkerchief. Church Police Elephantoplasty Novel Writing Word Association Bruces/Philosopher’s Song The Adventures of Ralph Mellish/Hot Dogs and Knickers Wasp Club/Tiger Talk Great Actors. Side two (concentric groove): The Background to History First World War Noises Boxing Tonight (Fight of the Century) Minister for Overseas Development (aka Mrs. Niggerbaiter explodes) Oscar Wilde and Friends Buying A Cat (aka Taking in the Terrier) Phone- In. LP5: Monty Python Live At The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Introduction/Llamas Gumby Flower Arranging Secret Service Wrestling Communist Quiz Idiot Song Albatross /Colonel Nudge, Nudge/Cocktail Bar Travel Agent. Spot the Brain Cell Bruces Argument Four Yorkshiremen Election Special Lumberjack Song Parrot Sketch. LP6: Monty Python’s Holy Grail. Introduction To The Executive Album Edition Tour Of The Classic Silbury Hill Theatre Live Broadcast From London Premiere Of The Film Narration From The Silbury Hill Gentlemen’s Room / You’re Using Coconuts Bring Out Your Dead King Arthur And The Old Woman: A Lesson In Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune Living A Witch? A Lesson In Logic Knights of the Round Table The Quest For The Holy Grail Live From The Parking Lot At The Silbury Hill Theatre The Castle Of Louis De Lombard: A Strange Person Bomb Scare. Executive Album Edition Announcement Another Executive Album Edition Announcement The Story Of The Film So Far The Tale Of Sir Robin The Knights Who Say Ni! Interview with Filmmaker Carl French The Tale Of Sir Lancelot: At Swamp Castle Tim the Enchanter / A Shakespearean Critique A Foul-Tempered Rabbit Executive Album Edition Addendum The Castle Aaargh / The End. LP7: Monty Python’s Life Of Brian. Introduction Brian Song The Wise Men At The Manger Brian Song (Cont.) Sermon On The Mount (Big Nose) Stone Salesman Stoning Ex- Leper You Mean You Were Raped? (Nortius Maximus) Revolutionaries In The Amphitheatre (Loretta) Romans Go Home What Have The Romans Ever Done For Us? Ben Brian Before Pilate (Throw Him To The Floor) Prophets Beard Salesman Brian’s Prophecy The Hermit He’s Not The Messiah, He’s A Very Naughty Boy Pilate Sentences Brian Nisus Wettus Pilate With The Crowd (Welease Wodger) Nisus Wettus With The Gaolers Release Brian Not So Bad Once You’re Up Revs Salute Brian Cheeky Is Released Mandy To Her Son Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life (All Things Dull And Ugly) LP8: Monty Python’s Contractual Obligation Album. Announcement Henry Kissinger String Never Be Rude to an Arab Bishop Medical Love Song Finland I’m So Worried. I Bet You They Won’t Play This Song on the Radio Martyrdom of St. Victor Here Comes Another One Bookshop Do What John Rock Notes Muddy Knees Crocodile Decomposing Composers Bells Traffic Lights All Things Dull and Ugly A Scottish Farewell. LP9: Monty Python’s The Meaning Of Life. Introduction/Fish Introduction/The Meaning of Life Birth/Frying Eggs /Protestant Couple/Adventures Of Martin Luther Sex Education Trench Warfare/The Great Tea of 1914-18/Fish. Terry Gilliam’s Intro/Accountancy Shanty/Zulu Wars The Dungeon Restaurant/Live Organ Transplants/The The Penis Song (Not the Noël Coward Song)/Mr. Creosote The Grim Reaper/Christmas In Heaven Dedication (To Fish) 7″: Monty Python’s Tiny Round Black Thing (7-inch single) D.P. Gumby presents “Election ‘74” The Lumberjack Song. Monty Python Sings (again) – Deluxe Version. CD1: Mony Python Sings (again) Always Look on the Bright Side of Life The Meaning of Life The Silly Walk Song (previously unreleased) Penis Song (Not the Noel Coward Song) Money Song Oliver Cromwell Accountancy Shanty Finland Medical Love Song I’m So Worried Every Sperm Is Sacred I Like Chinese The Naval Medley (previously unreleased) Sit On My Face Never Be Rude to an Arab Eric the Half-a-Bee Brian Song Rudyard Kipling(previously unreleased) Nudge Rap /Blackmail (previously unreleased) Bruces’ Philosophers Song (Bruces’ Song) Knights of the Round Table (Camelot Song) All Things Dull and Ugly Decomposing Composers Henry Kissinger I’ve Got Two Legs Rainy Day In Berlin (previously unreleased) Christmas in Heaven Galaxy Song Spam Song Lousy Song (previously unreleased) Lumberjack Song. 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