The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief

by Monty Python

The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: November 1973
  • Label: Charisma
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Community rating: 3.83/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Andr茅 Jacquemin, Terry Gilliam, Dave Howman

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A legendary milestone in British comedy, this album is most famous for its groundbreaking 'three-sided' vinyl pressing, utilizing a double-concentric groove that played entirely different sketches depending on where the needle dropped. The highly surreal, chaotic audio material brilliantly skewers television conventions, intellectual pretension, and the banality of modern British life. It remains a masterpiece of absurd, deeply subversive comedic art.

Genres

Descriptors: Parody, aleatory, skit

Tracklist

  1. Bishop On The Landing
  2. Elephantoplasty
  3. Wide World Of Novel Writing
  4. Word Association
  5. Bruces
  6. Adventures Of Ralph Melish / Hot Dogs And Knickers
  7. The Cheese Shop
  8. Tiger Talk
  9. A Great Actor
  10. The Background To History
  11. World War Noises In 4
  12. The Fight Of The Century
  13. The Minister For Overseas Development
  14. Oscar Wilde And Friends
  15. Taking In The Terrier
  16. The Phone In

Credits

  • Monty Python - primary artist
  • Michael Doret - cover
  • Porky - lacquer cut by
  • Ray Staff - lacquer cut by
  • Neil Innes - music by
  • Mrs. Jacquemin - other [food]
  • Carol Cleveland - performer
  • Eric Idle - written-by, performer

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