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Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album is the fourth and final studio album by English comedy troupe Monty Python. Released in 1980 through Charisma Records in the UK and Arista Records in the US, it is as full of sketches and songs as their other releases. Some material is old, but a lot of it is new, especially the songs "Sit On My Face", "I Like Chinese", "Never Be Rude To An Arab", "Finland" and "Decomposing Composers". Tracklist:Side One "Sit On My Face" (0:44) "Announcement" (0:21) "Henry Kissinger" (0:48) "String" (2:19) "Never Be Rude To An Arab" (1:00) "I Like Chinese" (3:10) "Bishop" (2:33) "Medical Love Song" (2:09) "Farewell To John Denver" (0:15) note Replaced with an apology or removed on later releases "Finland" (2:18) "I'm So Worried" (3:18) "End Of Side 1: Announcement" (5:29) note Only on cassette Side Two "I Bet You They Won't Play This Song On The Radio" (0:54) "Martyrdom of St. Victor" (1:41) "Here Comes Another One" (1:58) "Bookshop" (4:22) "Do What John?" (0:34) "Rock Notes" (2:11) "Muddy Knees" (2:10) "Crocodile" (2:34) "Decomposing Composers" (2:43) "Bells" (2:22) "Traffic Lights" (1:55) "All Things Dull And Ugly" (1:28) "A Scottish Farewell" (0:23)2006 Bonus Tracks "Contractual Obligation – Terry Jones and Graham Chapman Promotional Interview" "Radio Ad Obligation Promo" "Medical Love Song" [Alternate Demo Version] "I'm So Worried" [Demo Version]Personnel: Graham Chapman John Cleese Eric Idle Terry Jones Michael Palin The Fred Tomlinson Singers: vocal choirs |
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Crapsack World: "I Like Chinese" "All Things Dull And Ugly" |
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Bilingual Bonus: Certain lines in "I Like Chinese" are sung in Mandarin and translate to "I love Chinese people. How are you, how are you, how are you, goodbye." |
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Minimalistic Cover Art: There is literally no cover, only a white LP sleeve with the following conversation scribbled in the left corner: |
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Dragons Up the Yin Yang: "Yin and Yang" is mentioned in "I Like Chinese" as one of the things that the singer likes about the people. |
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Stuff Blowing Up: The accidental racist in "Never Be Rude To An Arab" is blown up near the end of the song. The church in "Bells" is shot down with a missile. |
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Time Marches On: Harold Duke in "Crocodile" is said to have "trained every British team since 1928." |
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Pun-Based Title: "Decomposing Composers". |
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Broken Aesop |
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Broken Aesop: Invoked for comedy. "Never Be Rude To An Arab", in which the singer tells us to not use offensive racial language, only to do it himself and being blown up as a result. "Martyrdom of St. Victor" in which St. Victor spends 16 days and 16 nights in the presence of a harem of women who fondle and stroke him until he cries out how "fantastic this is." |
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Sound-Effect Bleep: Liberally and creatively used in "I Bet You They Won't Play This Song on the Radio". |
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Letting the Air out of the Band |
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Letting the Air out of the Band: Happens to the bells of the titular sketch, after the church gets shot down. |
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Never Smile at a Crocodile |
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Never Smile at a Crocodile: "Crocodile" is about an international contest for the sports event being eaten by a crocodile. |
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Fake-Out Fade-Out: "I'm So Worried" does this twice. The second time around apparently was convincing enough for the background singers and orchestra, as they can be heard scrambling to get back to their places when Terry Jones starts singing again. |
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Royal Harem: "Martyrdom Of St. Victor" has Saint Victor spent 16 days and nights with "maidens of the Orient". |
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Anti-Love Song |
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Anti-Love Song: "Sit On My Face" about sex and "Medical Love Song", in which the singer sings about all the STD's he caught from his lover. |
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Location Song |
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Location Song: "Finland Song", a comedic song about the marvels of this country. When Palin went to the country in one of his travel shows he sang this song while kayaking. |
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Covers Always Lie |
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Covers Always Lie: The "Bookshop" sketch is a comedy skit from At Last the 1948 Show (1967-1968) and thus has nothing to do with Monty Python, other that John Cleese originally performed it, albeit with Marty Feldman in the original series. Here Feldman's part is performed by Graham Chapman. |
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God Is Evil |
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God Is Evil: "All Things Dull And Ugly" implies this by noting that God created all the ills of the world. |
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STD Immunity |
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STD Immunity: Averted in "Medical Love Song", in which Chapman lists several sexually transmitted diseases contracted by his loved one. |
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N-Word Privileges |
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N-Word Privileges: Parodied in "Never Be Rude To An Arab". The singer, who does not have N-word privileges, recites lines such as "Never poke fun at a nigger". The song abruptly ends with him getting blown up as if by divine retribution. |
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Real Life Writes the Plot |
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Real Life Writes the Plot: The album actually was made to satisfy a recording contract. |
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Buxom Beauty Standard |
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Buxom Beauty Standard: "Henry Kissinger" |
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News Parody |
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News Parody: "Rock Notes" and "Crocodile" are fake news reports, where Eric Idle plays the journalist. |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Like the title boldly admits, it was indeed put together to complete a contract with Charisma Records. |
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Worrying for the Wrong Reason |
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Worrying for the Wrong Reason: "I'm So Worried", in which the singer (Terry Jones) is worried about just about anything, including the Middle East, baggage retrieval system at Heathrow airport, fashions, TV shows, his hair falling out, the state of the world, being full of self doubt, modern technology, things dumped in the sea, everything that can go wrong, whether people like this song and the next verse and whether he should have stopped the song or just carried on? |
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Reference Overdosed |
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Reference Overdosed: "Decomposing Composers" summarizes various well known European 18th and 19th century composers. "Medical Love Song" lists various STDs, using medical terminology provided by Graham Chapman who was a qualified doctor. |
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National Stereotypes |
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National Stereotypes: "I Like Chinese" describes the Chinese as numerous, wise, witty, cute, cuddly and ready to please. Idle says "they only come up to your knees" and associates them with Maoism, Taoism, I Ching, chess, Zen, ping pong, Yin and Yang and Confucius. He also mentions "their tiny little trees", which is a (deliberate) mistake as bonsai trees are Japanese, though penjing trees are Chinese so perhaps he meant those. Halfway the song an erhu starts playing to add more Chinese atmosphere. "A Scottish Farewell" is performed on bagpipes and sung with a Scottish accent. |
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The Something Song |
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The Something Song: "Finland" (sometimes called "The Finland Song") and "Medical Love Song". |
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Questioning Title?: "Do What John?" |
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Continuity Nod |
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Continuity Nod: "All Things Dull And Ugly" is a parody of the Christian hymn "All Things Bright And Beautiful", a song that was sung before but straight during "The Bishop Sketch" from The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief. |
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Odd Name Out |
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Odd Name Out: "Rock Notes" discusses the various names of the band Dead Monkeys all of which were related to fish and/or had some variant on "Dead" except the last one Helen Shapiro, which is a reference to a pop singer who was popular during the 1960s. |
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Overly Long Gag |
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Overly-Long Gag: A good chunk of the tracks revolve around this. "Traffic Lights" lampshades it. |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_a188ac4b |
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Standard Snippet |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_a3f1531b |
comment |
Standard Snippet: "Decomposing Composers" quotes from Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D, Ludwig van Beethoven's opening bars from the Fifth Symphony, Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, and the rondo from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Horn Concerto No. 4. |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_a3f1531b |
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| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_a73cfb7f |
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Animate Inanimate Object |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_a73cfb7f |
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Animate Inanimate Object: The church in "Bells" starts to walk. |
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Added Alliterative Appeal |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_b5049d76 |
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Added Alliterative Appeal: Invoked in "Bells" |
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Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_b5049d76 |
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Take That! |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_b53077b3 |
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Take That!: In "Farewell to John Denver", Denver sings the opening line of a parody of "Annie's Song" and then gets strangled. |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_b53077b3 |
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Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_b53077b3 |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_b707726f |
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Hypocritical Humor |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_b707726f |
comment |
"Never Be Rude To An Arab", in which the singer tells us to not use offensive racial language, only to do it himself and being blown up as a result. |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_b707726f |
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Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_b707726f |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_c6b75b76 |
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A cappella |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_c6b75b76 |
comment |
A Cappella: "Traffic Lights" is sung by Terry Jones and a choir. |
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Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_c6b75b76 |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_c75df49a |
type |
Shout-Out |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_c75df49a |
comment |
Shout-Out: "Henry Kissinger" provides a shout-out to Henry Kissinger. In "Bishop", when one of the sound engineers asks why they couldn't get the bishop of Bath and Wells to record their beer commercial, he's told that "he's doing frozen peas for Nigel", a reference to the legendary recording of Orson Welles's failed attempt at providing narration for a Findus frozen peas commercial. During "String" Cleese wants to make an advertisement for string and envisions an Greek Orthodox bishop standing next to a nude woman in a bath. "Book Shop" mentions authors like Charles Dickens, Biggles and "The Gospel According To Charley Drake". Charley Drake was a British comedian. "Decomposing Composers" informs us the following composers have passed away: Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johannes Brahms, Franz Liszt, Edward Elgar, Franz Schubert, Fryderyk Chopin, George Frederic Handel, Joseph Haydn, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, Claude Debussy, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Carl Maria von Weber, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Modest Mussorgsky and Johann Nepomuk Hummel. The band Toad the Wet Sprocket was named after a sketch, "Rock Notes", on this album where Eric Idle mentions a fictional band with that name. In Idle's own words, "I was trying to think of a name that would be so silly nobody would ever use it, or dream it could ever be used." Apparently it was just silly enough that someone thought it would be hilarious to use it anyway. His reaction to hearing a real DJ announce the name for the first time? "I nearly drove off the freeway." |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_c75df49a |
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Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_c75df49a |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_ca834552 |
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Self-Titled Album |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_ca834552 |
comment |
Self-Titled Album: The group is mentioned in the title. |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_ca834552 |
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1.0 |
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Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_ca834552 |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_cb1d1694 |
type |
Country Music |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_cb1d1694 |
comment |
"Here Comes Another One" is performed with a classical orchestra and in a Country Music style. It returns being played with bagpipes during "A Scottish Farewell". The singer is killed a few seconds in. |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_cb1d1694 |
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Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_cb1d1694 |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_cc247b2d |
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Unsatisfiable Customer |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_cc247b2d |
comment |
Unsatisfiable Customer: The customer in the bookshop sketch asks for several books with titles similar to ones by Charles Dickens, refuses to buy Olsen's Standard Book of British Birds unless the gannet is removed (and then refuses to buy it because there's a page missing), and eventually reveals after he finds a book he does want that he has no money and can't read. |
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Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_cc247b2d |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_ccb97ff2 |
type |
Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_ccb97ff2 |
comment |
Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: Near the end of "Traffic Lights", Terry Jones sings the line "Although my name's not Bamber", obviously setting up the rhyme for "amber" (as green and red lights were mentioned in the previous verses), but eventually gives up before getting to it. |
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Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_ccb97ff2 |
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Genre Mashup |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_cd3703a2 |
comment |
Genre Mashup: "Henry Kissinger" is a 1920s music hall style song. "Here Comes Another One" is performed with a classical orchestra and in a Country Music style. It returns being played with bagpipes during "A Scottish Farewell". The singer is killed a few seconds in. "Decomposing Composers" has various Standard Snippets from classical compositions. "All Things Dull And Ugly" is done in the style of a Cherubic Choir. |
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Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_cd3703a2 |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_d0f0a80d |
type |
One-Word Title |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_d0f0a80d |
comment |
One-Word Title: "String" "Finland" "Bishop" "Bookshop" "Crocodile" "Bells" |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_d0f0a80d |
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Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_d0f0a80d |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_d5d976dd |
type |
I Have Many Names |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_d5d976dd |
comment |
I Have Many Names: "Rock Notes" features Eric Idle reading how the band Dead Monkeys changed their name several times, being called- in chronological order: Dead Salmon, Trout, Fried Trout, Poached Trout In A White Wine Sauce, Herring, Red Herring, Dead Herring, Dead Loss, Heads Together, Dead Together, Dead Gear, Dead Donkeys, Lead Donkeys, Sole Meunière, Dead Sole, Rock Cod, Turbot, Haddock, White Bait, the Plaices, Fish, Bream, Mackerel, Salmon, Poached Salmon, Poached Salmon In A White Wine Sauce, Salmon Meunière and Helen Shapiro.note Sole meunière is a dish consisting of sole dredged in flour, fried in butter and served with a brown butter sauce made with parsley and lemon; Helen Shapiro was a British teen pop star in the 60s. Just as Idle is confident that they will be called Dead Monkeys forever, he is phoned with the question: what does he think of "Dead Duck"? Or "Lobster"? |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_d5d976dd |
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Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_d5d976dd |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_da46a2c0 |
type |
Hollywood Atheist |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_da46a2c0 |
comment |
Hollywood Atheist: "Bells" features a (lapsed) atheist complaining about the church bells ringing. |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_da46a2c0 |
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| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_da46a2c0 |
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| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) |
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Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_da46a2c0 |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_db26451e |
type |
Limited Lyrics Song |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_db26451e |
comment |
Limited Lyrics Song: "Traffic Lights", "Do What John" and "Here Comes Another One" are mostly the same lyrics over and over again. |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_db26451e |
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Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_db26451e |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_dbfe8427 |
type |
Intercourse with You |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_dbfe8427 |
comment |
Intercourse with You: "Sit On My Face" is all about enjoying oral sex. |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_dbfe8427 |
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1.0 |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_dbfe8427 |
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Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_dbfe8427 |
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type |
Animal Motifs |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_e2ccee25 |
comment |
Animal Motifs: "Rock Notes" features a rock band who changed their name several times and nearly always something related to fish. |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_e2ccee25 |
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Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_e2ccee25 |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_e431c24c |
type |
Not Quite Dead |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_e431c24c |
comment |
Not Quite Dead: "Rock Notes": |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_e431c24c |
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Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_e431c24c |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_e4c95972 |
type |
Innocent Bigot |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_e4c95972 |
comment |
Innocent Bigot: "I Like Chinese", a list of the most benign stereotypes about Chinese people. "Never Be Rude To An Arab" has the singer pleading the listener to not be racist, only to use racial slurs in the song. |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_e4c95972 |
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1.0 |
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Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_e4c95972 |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_e680af6f |
type |
Grief Song |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_e680af6f |
comment |
Grief Song: "Decomposing Composers", where Michael Palin lists all the composers who are dead now. |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_e680af6f |
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Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_e680af6f |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_ec1a1233 |
type |
Running Gagged |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_ec1a1233 |
comment |
Running Gagged: "A Scottish Farewell" It's actually "Here Comes Another One" but with bagpipes and the singer is violently killed a few seconds in. |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_ec1a1233 |
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Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_ec1a1233 |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_eea96e78 |
type |
Swallowed Whole |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_eea96e78 |
comment |
Swallowed Whole: In "Crocodile", news reporter Brian Goebbels is swallowed alive by a crocodile. |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_eea96e78 |
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| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_f1d6144a |
type |
War Is Hell |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_f1d6144a |
comment |
War Is Hell: The spoken word intro to "I Like Chinese" talks about how crazy the world has gotten and mentions the possibility of nuclear warfare. |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_f1d6144a |
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Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_f1d6144a |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_f4d00fb0 |
type |
Deadline News |
| Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (Audio Play) / int_f4d00fb0 |
comment |
Deadline News: During the "man being eaten by a crocodile event", the reporter stood too close to the crocodile pit and got eaten. |
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Alternate Album Cover |
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comment |
Alternate Album Cover: The vinyl artwork features a version of the paper label of the record visible on the outer sleeve. In the UK, the Charisma label is visible (despite not matching the image above) while in the USA it's the Artista label. On CD, the label is edited out on some releases. |
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