Another Monty Python Record is the second album produced by the Monty Python

Monty Python

Monty Python was a British surreal comedy group who created their influential Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. Forty-five episodes were made over four series...

 comedy group, released in 1971. It was packaged as "Beethoven Symphony No. 2 In D Major", but defaced by the Pythons to serve as their own record jacket. (The "serious" liner notes on the back also bear a Pythonesque stamp: the biography of Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...

 quickly turns into a commentary on Beethoven's Wimbledon

The Championships, Wimbledon

The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors...

 debut.) Most of the material is from the Monty Python's Flying Circus

Monty Python's Flying Circus

Monty Python’s Flying Circus is a BBC TV sketch comedy series. The shows were composed of surreality, risqué or innuendo-laden humour, sight gags and observational sketches without punchlines...

television series, although some of the sketches are new. Included with the original LP were three card inserts printed with detailed instructions, scripts and cut-out props for the 'Be A Great Actor' sketch on side 2.

Terry Jones

Terry Jones

Terence Graham Parry Jones is a Welsh comedian, screenwriter, actor, film director, children's author, popular historian, political commentator, and TV documentary host. He is best known as a member of the Monty Python comedy team....

 noted on this album in the book The Pythons:

"We had this horrendous time because we were recording in this rather hippy

Hippie

The hippie subculture was originally a youth movement that arose in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world. The etymology of the term 'hippie' is from hipster, and was initially used to describe beatniks who had moved into San Francisco's...

 recording studio which fortunately I can't remember the name of. ... We were very keen to use the stereo and everything, but what we hadn't realised was that the guy who was doing the recording, who I think was out of his head most of the time, had not been making any notes. We'd end up with tapes and tapes of material with no idea of where anything was on the tapes ... That was a bitter experience."

Track listing - Record

The list of sketches below is the list on the actual record, however there were other sketches featured.

Side one

1. Apologies - 2:00
2. Spanish Inquisition
   The Spanish Inquisition (Monty Python)
   "The Spanish Inquisition" is a series of sketches in Monty Python's Flying Circus, Series 2 Episode 2, first broadcast 22 September 1970, parodying the real-life Spanish Inquisition. This episode is itself entitled "The Spanish Inquisition"...
   
    - 2:49
3. World Forum - 4:00
4. Gumby Theatre, etc. - 2:58
5. The Architect - 4:10
6. The Piranha Brothers - 9:50

Side two

1. Penguin on the TV - 2:58
2. Comfy Chair/Sound Quiz - 3:29
3. Be A Great Actor/Theatre Critic - 4:21
4. Royal Festival Hall Concert - 4:09
5. Spam
   Spam (Monty Python)
   "Spam" is a popular Monty Python sketch, first televised in 1970. In the sketch, two customers are in a greasy spoon café trying to order a breakfast from a menu that includes the processed meat product in almost every dish. The term spam is derived from this sketch...
   
    - 2:24
6. The Judges
7. Stake Your Claim - 3:27
8. Still No Sign of Land (Lifeboat)/Undertaker - 5:29

2006 Bonus tracks

1. Treadmill Lager (alternate version from Contractual Obligation Album)
2. Bishop at Home (Mr. Stoddard)
3. Court Room Sketch
4. Freelance Undertaker

LP Philips 6369 913 (Australia 1972)

The actual tracks found on the Australian version of this album. This is identical to the British release, which is edited shorter than the US release and generally regarded as tighter.

1. Apologies (2:11)
2. Spanish Inquisition (2:03)
3. Gumby Theatre (1:50)
4. Norman St John Polevaulter (Contradicting People) (0:28)
5. Old Ladies Thrown Into The Fjord (0:08)
6. The Architect (2:44)
7. Spanish Inquisition (1:18)
8. Royal Festival Hall Concert (4:18)
9. The Piranha Brothers (10:07)
10. Death Of Mary, Queen Of Scots (2:20)
11. Spam (2:30)
12. Spanish Inquisition (Comfy Chair) (1:25)
13. Sound Quiz (1:20)
14. Be A Great Actor (3:07)
15. Theatre Critic (1:26)
16. The Judges (1:27)
17. Stake Your Claim (2:26)
18. Still No Sign Of Land (Lifeboat)
19. The Judges (0:25)
20. Undertaker (1:38)

Musical works

The following is the list of musical works included on the album, printed on the CD booklet for copyright purposes. They are a mixture of self-penned Python songs, specially composed music by Fred Tomlinson, and pieces of library music.

1. Trondheim Hammer Dance
2. Liberty Bell
   Liberty Bell (march)
   "The Liberty Bell" is an American military march composed by John Philip Sousa.It is now most often associated with the British TV comedy program Monty Python's Flying Circus , which began and ended with the first few bars.-History:...
   
   
3. Fanfare Opening
4. Formal Presentation
5. Contesana Padawana
   Violin Concerto (Tchaikovsky)
   The Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35, written by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1878, is one of the best known of all violin concertos. It is also considered to be among the most technically difficult works for violin.-Instrumentation:...
   
   
6. Man of Power
7. Gold Lame
8. Southern Breeze
9. Spam Song
10. Bahama Parakeet
11. House of Fashion
12. Circus Tumble
13. Fanfare A
14. Mystery Drums
15. Mystery Place
16. Ode to Edward
17. In Step With Johann
18. Knees Up Mother Brown
    Knees Up Mother Brown
    "Knees Up Mother Brown" is a song, published in 1938, by when it had already been known for some years. It dates to at least 1918 and appears to have been sung widely in London on 11 November of that year, Armistice Night, at the end of the First World War...
    
    

Distribution Information

• LP: (1970) Charisma Records Ltd., CAS 1049 (UK)
• LP: (1972) Charisma CAS 1049 (U.S.) (with different running-order and material)
• LP: (1972) Philips 639 913 (Aust) (with different running-order and material)
• LP: (1972) Buddah, **** (U.S.)
• LP: (1988) Virgin Records Ltd., CHC 79 (UK) (budget price)
• LP: (19**) Virgin MP501 (UK)
• CD: (1989) Virgin Records Ltd. CASCD 1049 ("Another Monty Python CD") (U.S.)
• CD: (1994) Virgin Records, Ltd., VCCD 001 (UK) ("Another Monty Python CD" version 2, re-issue)