Pour l'Amour des Chiens
Pour l'Amour des Chiens | ||||
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Studio album by The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band | ||||
Released | 12 December 2007 | |||
Genre | Comedy rock | |||
Label | Storming | |||
Producer | Mickey Simmonds Neil Innes | |||
The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band chronology | ||||
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Pour l'Amour Des Chiens (French: For the Love of Dogs) is the first all new studio album by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band in 35 years. It was released on 12 December 2007, produced by Mickey Simmonds and Neil Innes.
The album was performed by original group members Neil Innes, Roger Ruskin Spear, Rodney Slater, 'Legs' Larry Smith, Vernon Dudley Bowhay-Nowell, , and Bob Kerr, with New Millennium Bonzos Adrian Edmondson, Stephen Fry, and Phill Jupitus. Also credited are Mickey Simmonds (musical director), David Catlin-Birch (guitar and vocals), (drums and percussion) and Steve Barnacle (bass and jazz guitar).
Track listing — CD+DVD Edition[]
Disc 1 (CD)[]
- "Pour l'Amour Des Chiens" (Innes)
- "Let's All Go to Mary's House" (Arranged by The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band)
- "Hawkeye the Gnu" (Arranged by Slater, Innes)
- "Making Faces at the Man in the Moon" (Rich, Smith, Hoffman)
- "Fiasco" (Innes)
- "Purple Sprouting Broccoli" (Ash)
- "Old Tige" (Burke, Burke, Jim Reeves)
- "Wire People" (Ash, Innes)
- "Salmon Proust" (Innes)
- "Democracy" (Innes)
- "I Predict a Riot" (Hodgson, Wilson, Rix, Baines, White)
- "Scarlet Ribbons" (Danzig, Segal)
- "Paws" (Jupitus)
- "And We're Back" (Innes)
- "Stadium Love" (Innes, Heatherington, Fraser-Simpson, Milne)
- "Mornington Crescent" (Simmonds)
- "L'Essence d'Hooligan" (Innes)
- "Early Morning Train" (Innes)
- "My Friends Outside" (Spear)
- "For the Benefit Of Mankind" (Innes)
- "Beautiful People" (Edmondson)
- "Ego Warriors" (Innes)
- "Cockadoodle Tato" (Innes)
- "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" (Burke, Dubin)
- "Sweet Memories" (Smith)
- "Sudoku Forecast" (Jupitus)
- "Now You're Asleep" (Stanshall, Catlin-Birch)
- "Jean Baudrillard" (Innes)
Disc 2 (DVD)[]
- "My Brother Makes the Noises for the Talkies"
- "Trouser Press"
- "Les Deux Callapsos / The Monster Mash"
- "Jollity Farm"
- "The Canyons of Your Mind / The Equestrian Statue"
- "The Urban Spaceman"
Track listing — CD-only Edition[]
When compared to the CD from the above package, the CD-only edition omits "Scarlet Ribbons", "Stadium Love", "Mornington Crescent" and "Sweet Memories", while adding "We Are Normal".
- "Pour l'Amour Des Chiens" (Innes)
- "Let's All Go to Mary's House" (Arranged by The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band)
- "Hawkeye the Gnu" (Arranged by Slater, Innes)
- "Making Faces at the Man in the Moon" (Rich, Smith, Hoffman)
- "Fiasco" (Innes)
- "Purple Sprouting Broccoli" (Ash)
- "Old Tige" (Burke, Burke, Reeves)
- "Wire People" (Ash, Innes)
- "Salmon Proust" (Innes)
- "Democracy" (Innes)
- "I Predict a Riot" (Hodgson, Wilson, Rix, Baines, White)
- "Paws" (Jupitus)
- "And We're Back" (Innes)
- "We Are Normal"
- "L'Essence d'Hooligan" (Innes)
- "Early Morning Train" (Innes)
- "My Friends Outside" (Spear)
- "For the Benefit Of Mankind" (Innes)
- "Beautiful People" (Edmondson)
- "Ego Warriors" (Innes)
- "Cockadoodle Tato" (Innes)
- "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" (Burke, Dubin)
- "Sudoku Forecast" (Jupitus)
- "Now You're Asleep" (Stanshall, Catlin-Birch)
- "Jean Baudrillard" (Innes)
Reception[]
The Times awarded the album four stars and described it as "rarely less than charming",[1] while The Observer gave it three, calling it "predictable" and "only half amusing".[2]
Describing the album in his 2009 book The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - Jollity Farm, Bob Carruthers says of "I Predict a Riot": "Hard to predict the plot of this one, as Mr Spear and Mr Edmonson are let loose on this Kaiser Chiefs classic. Planned and unplanned studio incursions by Mexicans, Wurzels, that bloody chicken clarinet and HM constabulary."[3]}}
References[]
- ^ Jelbert, Steve (December 7, 2007). "Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band: Pour L'Amour des Chiens". The Times. Retrieved 2009-01-09.
- ^ McKie, Rob (November 11, 2007). "The Bonzo-Dog-Doo-Dah-Band, Pour l'Amour des Chiens". The Observer. Retrieved 2009-01-09.
- ^ Carruthers, B. and Christie, D. (ed) (2009), The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - Jollity Farm, Angry Penguin Ltd., ISBN 978-1906783228
- Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band albums
- 2007 albums
- Albums produced by Neil Innes