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Gavin Wilson | 05/16/2001

(4 out of 5 stars)

"For a child growing up in sixties Britain, the Wednesday afternoon TV show DO NOT ADJUST YOUR SET was a revelation. It was the first anarchic programme I'd seen -- put together by adults, aimed at children, but somehow subversive. It also marked one of the first forays onto television of Oxbridge graduates Eric Idle, Michael Palin and Terry Jones, who went on to become 50% of Monty Python. The show also offered the first regular TV slot for the Bonzo Dog Doo-dah Band, who performed a three-minute number for each programme.'Tadpoles', the album that makes up half of this CD, contains most of the pieces they did for that TV series. To be honest, 33 years on, I remember little of their songs except for 'I'm the Urban Spaceman' and the 'Monster Mash'. Both are here.Amazon buyers thinking of buying their first Bonzos CD need to choose carefully. This CD is a bargain, but it is also CD#2 of the 3CD 'Cornology' collection. You need to check out whether you can buy CD#1 and CD#3 separately -- you couldn't when I wrote this -- so if you think you'll want everything the Bonzos ever recorded, go for 'Cornology' right away.'Gorilla' and 'Tadpoles' are usually regarded as the Bonzo's classic albums. 'The Outro' contains all of 'Tadpoles' and none of 'Gorilla'.Listening to the material a third of a century on, some of it is politically dodgy if not totally incorrect. But it's all affectionate good fun which I hope no-one finds offensive."

"...I was a 4-stone apology; now I am 2 separate gorillas!"

Algernon D'Ammassa | Los Angeles, CA United States | 09/19/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The wonderful Bonzo Dog Band is a delightful creature of pre-Monty Python lunacy, combining the talents of songwriter Neil Innes (who later wrote songs for the Python, and starred in THE RUTLES), strange novelty songs from the early 20th century, and the evil neo-dada genius of Vivian Stanshall. It is all so hilarious and wonderful.This collection includes their final two albums. TADPOLES collects many of their well-known musical assaults from the show DO NOT ADJUST YOUR SET - including the unkillable single "I'm The Urban Spaceman," produced by a certain Beatle going by the name Apollo C. Vermouth. The final album, KEYNSHAM, showcases a wonderful creative tension between Innes's songwriting and Stanshall's mayhem."