Monty Python - The Album Of The Soundtrack Of The Trailer Of The Film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Artist....: Monty Python
Album.....: The Album Of The Soundtrack Of The Trailer Of The Film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Type......: Soundtrack
Source....: CDDA
Tracks....: 24
Genre.....: Soundtrack
Label.....: Sony
Catalogue#: n/a
Encoder...: LAME 3.97
Quality...: VBR kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint-Stereo
URL.......: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Album_of_the_Soundtrack_of_the_Trailer_of_the_Film_of_Monty_Python_and_the_Holy_Grail
Tracklist:
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01 Introduction To The Executive CD Edition 01:07
02 Tour Of The Classic Silbury Hill Theatre 00:13
03 Live Broadcast From London- Premiere Of The Film 03:58
04 Narration From The Silbury Hill Gentlemen's Room,'you're Usi 01:32
05 'bring Out Your Dead' 01:03
06 King Arthur And The 'old Woman'- A Lesson In Anarcho-Syndicat 02:57
07 'a Witch ' 02:48
08 A Lesson In Logic 02:52
09 'camelot' 01:36
10 'the Quest For The Holy Grail' 01:13
11 Live From The Parking Lot At The Silbury Hill Theatre 01:03
12 The Castle Of Louis De Lombard- 'a Strange Person' 02:05
13 Bomb Scare 00:44
14 Executive CD Edition Announcement 00:19
15 Another Executive CD Edition Announcement 00:30
16 The Story Of The Film So Far 02:12
17 The Tale Of Sir Robin 01:55
18 The Knights Who Say 'ni!' 02:36
19 Interview With Filmmaker Carl French 02:39
20 The Tale Of Sir Lancelot- At Swamp Castle 04:09
21 Tim, The Enchanter,a Shakespearean Critique 03:30
22 'a Foul-Tempered Rabbit' 02:32
23 Executive CD Edition Addendum 00:55
24 The Castle Aaargh,the End 02:46
Total:62,6 MB / 47:14 min
Release Notes:
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Note: This is the Executive CD Edition that came with the Monty Python
and the Holy Grail: Extraordinarily Deluxe Edition DVD Set
It has also been released in other forms separately.
Here's the audio CD of Monty Python's 1975 LP. Rather than a straight
soundtrack album, this is a full-on Python effort lampooning a
fictitious Holy Grail premiere, "recorded live at the 3:10 showing at
the Classic Silbury Hill Theatre." Audio clips from the movie's
highlight scenes (complete with John Cleese narrating for us at home,
plus audience grunts, snorts, and laughs) are interrupted by broken
reels, a grizzly attacking the Sino-Scottish projectionist, a bomb
threat, treatises from Pythonesque academics (the Logician is
especially memorable), and other funny business from the Pythons, some
of it naughtier than the film. Its heritage as a pre-digital-era LP
record remains intact with Graham Champan's praise for the "Executive
Edition's" Swiss-craftsmanship center hole and, half-way through, his
berating "This is side two!" It's a novelty album even by Monty Python
standards, and its purpose expired once we had the ability to watch the
movie itself whenever we want on home video, but it's a must for
completists.
The actual title of this release is "The Album of the Soundtrack of the
Trailer of the Film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)." As
such, a majority of the disc consists of extracts from the motion
picture's dialogue. This is a different approach from what
writer/actors Michael Palin, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle,
Terry Jones, and Terry Gilliam (also visual designer) had taken with
their previous studio outings, which were in essence re-recordings of
classic sketches from the Monty Python's Flying Circus television
program. For the sake of continuity, several new bits have been added;
chief among these are Chapman's assorted "Executive Edition"
announcements, concluding with the "verrrry nice" "Executive Edition
Addendum." For the "Tour of the Classic Silbury Hill Theatre" and "Live
Broadcast from London: Premiere of the Film," Palin and Cleese provide
setting and exposition for both the album and the film. At times they
mock the visual aspects and the very nature of the cinematic experience
as it translates (or fails to translate) onto vinyl. Much of what is
included here has become legendary among the faithful, as well as
definitive within the Python repertoire, most notably "Bring Out Your
Dead," "A Witch," "The Knights Who Say 'Ni!'," and "Camelot," the
Hollywood-style production number written by former Bonzo Dog Doo Dah
Band member Neil Innes, who also provided all the songs for the flick.
~ Lindsay Planer, All Music Guide