Somehow it's always struck us: Monty Python had a certain affinity for the song, the musical-like at times. But the films and sketch shows were again not pure musicals, so the purchase of a soundtrack would not somehow paid into a single film. How nice that the Python 1991 (was surprising "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life" back in the charts) have released a compendium of her songs. Here you will find everything you need on a CD; ie all the songs from the movies and much of "Monty Python's Flying Circus". For me to have a child without Internet and VHS subtitled songs a revelation finally printed the entire text to hear (in a beautifully designed booklet of Terry Gilliam) and the otherwise German synchronized passages in English. Although this is now a need not so big, but the CD is still a revelation and a fine collection Python'schen humor in its entire bandwidth. Because sometimes deliberately self-evident expatiated ("He had arms, and legs, and hands, and feet / The Boy Whose Name Was Brian"). Since the Python show not only as Nonsenshumoristen but also as disguise philosophers who provide the central questions of life quite wisely, in order to then go unanswered in "The Meaning of Life": "Is life just a game where we make up the Rules / while we're searching for something to say? / Or are we just simply spiraling coils / of self-replicating DNA? " Since they are sometimes word acrobats and bring untranslatable as the "Accountancy Shanty" the ending -cy as sea sounds: "We're sailing on the wide accountan-cy / sea" (matching a Terry Gilliam-supporting film-to "The Meaning of Life, "in which veteran bankers rebel against the new young management and the bank the flexibility to form a pirate ship). Who indeed as I know all the movies, but not all Flying Circus episodes, can also discover much new. Examples which may be made to "Oliver Cromwell", which begins with the striking and very python-esque black-humored determination: "The most interesting thing about King Charles the First Is that He Was 5 foot 6 inches tall at the start of his reign, but only 4 foot 8 inches tall at the end of it. "
A rather original critique of religion there is in "All Thing Dull And Ugly": "All things dull and ugly / All Creatures short and squat, / All things rude and nasty / The Lord God made the lot / Each little snake did poisons / Each. Little wasp stings did / He made brutish Their venom / He made horrid Their wings ... ". What is compelling about it is not the rather simple fact that God, if he is an all-powerful Creator, and the whole ugly and dangerous in the world must have done. The song lives rather that the pythons that - from a piano accompanied only - be sung by a children's choir, so that it takes the form of a well-known English hymn, in which, however, we are talking about the good things that have created God , All the more bizarre and brutal acts in this seemingly homely atmosphere when the children suddenly the short ending "squatt" emphasizes choppy say: squattt. Zack! That does not fit with the rest of the song when it comes to its melody and diction. And so let the Pythons opposites unprotected collide.
Other examples I give myself, together with notice that all, really all the songs from the movies are included, even so short pieces such as the "Penis Song", the Eric Idle "The Meaning of Life" are in at a restaurant for the best just before someone eats in there literally to burst. At the end of the CD is a classic that has almost proved in retrospect to be visionary stands - but was "lovely spam, wonderful spam" to the namesake of a tiresome email phenomenon that neither lovely nor is wonderful. Pretty and nice is certainly not this CD, but wonderful. And somehow it has indeed again what comforting when you are told that you might just laugh more, smile, dance and sing should. Fortunately, this is now no longer such impossible as the Kreuzigungstod, and the sweetened to us Eric Idle with the best-known Python song. So: Always nice to look at the bright side of life. And maybe even at the bright side of death, Just before you draw your terminal breath. What I think is not as stupid as it sounds. But we come now for something completely different.
