Search - Bonzo Dog Band :: Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse

The Bonzos Sophmore effort gets straight A's

Walter Five | 13th Floor Elevator, Enron Hubbard Bldg. Houston T | 10/25/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

""We are normal and we want our freedom!" That's the chorus of the first song on this LP, a line probably borrowed from the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton, in the Avant-Garde play Marat/Sade, and it goes without saying that this CD is anything *but* normal. Part British Music Hall, part Psychedlic Blues, part 20's cover band, and 100% British Eccentric, the Bonzos were riding high in popularity in Great Britain in 1968, partly due to their weekly appearances on the BBC's tea-time show "Do Not Adjust Your Set." While is has a couple of sleepers, notably Neil Innes "Postcard", it rips Britain's blue-eyed blues asking the immortal question "Can Blue Men Sing The Whites", forsees British Occult-Heavy Metal with "11 Mustachioed Daughters" and celebrated British ecletic eccentricism on "My Pink Half of the Drainpipe."



Overall, a good effort from the Bonzo Dog Band. Perhaps not their best album, but certainly not their worst."