Pour l'Amour Des Chiens (French meaning 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

Mickey Simmonds

Mickey Simmonds is an English session keyboardist, arranger and composer. He is best known for his work with progressive rock acts, Mike Oldfield, Renaissance, Camel and Fish...

 and Neil Innes

Neil Innes

Neil James Innes is an English writer and performer of comic songs, best known for his collaborative work with Monty Python, and for playing in the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and later The Rutles.-Personal life:...

.

Featuring original members Neil Innes

Neil Innes

Neil James Innes is an English writer and performer of comic songs, best known for his collaborative work with Monty Python, and for playing in the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and later The Rutles.-Personal life:...

, Roger Ruskin Spear

Roger Ruskin Spear

Roger Ruskin Spear is a multi-instrumentalist who was a founding member of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, staying with it until its end.-Career:...

, Rodney Slater

Rodney Slater (musician)

Rodney Slater was a member of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, playing saxophones and other musical instruments ....

, 'Legs' Larry Smith

Larry Smith (musician)

"Legs" Larry Smith is the former drummer of the comedy satirical rock group the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.He was originally invited to join by Vivian Stanshall as a tuba player and tap dancer. As the drummer he was a core member of the band and played on their top 5 hit "I'm The Urban Spaceman" and...

, Vernon Dudley Bohay-Nowell, Martin 'Sam Spoons' Ash, and Bob Kerr

Bob Kerr (musician)

Bob Kerr is a comic musician who plays trumpet and cornet. He was originally a member of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and was persuaded by Geoff Stephens to join The New Vaudeville Band before forming his own Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band...

, with shiny New Millennium Bonzos Adrian Edmondson

Adrian Edmondson

Adrian Charles "Ade" Edmondson is an English comedian. He is probably best known for his comedic roles in the television series The Young Ones and Bottom , for which he also wrote together with his long-time collaboration partner Rik Mayall.-Early life:Edmondson, the second of four children, was...

, Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry

Stephen John Fry is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter and film director, and a director of Norwich City Football Club. He first came to attention in the 1981 Cambridge Footlights Revue presentation "The Cellar Tapes", which also...

, and Phill Jupitus

Phill Jupitus

Phillip Christopher Jupitus is an English stand-up and improvised comedian, actor, performance poet, musician and podcaster....

. Also credited: Mickey Simmonds

Mickey Simmonds

Mickey Simmonds is an English session keyboardist, arranger and composer. He is best known for his work with progressive rock acts, Mike Oldfield, Renaissance, Camel and Fish...

 (musical director), David Catlin-Birch

David Catlin-Birch

David Catlin-Birch is a British musician, most notably as the World Party bassist, including their "Is It Like Today" track from No.1 album Bang, and the original and most recent Paul for leading Beatles tribute The Bootleg Beatles....

 (guitar and vocals), Johnny Marter (drums and percussion), Steve Barnacle (bass and jazz guitar).

The Times gave the album four stars and described it as "rarely less than charming", while the Observer gave it three, calling it "predictable" and "only half amusing".

Track listing

1. "Pour l'Amour Des Chiens" (Innes)
2. "Let's All Go to Mary's House
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   " (Arranged by The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band)
3. "Hawkeye The Gnu" (Arr. Slater/Innes)
4. "Making Faces At The Man In The Moon" (Rich/Smith/Hoffman)
5. "Fiasco" (Innes)
6. "Purple Sprouting Broccoli" (Ash)
7. "Old Tige" (Burke/Burke/Reeves)
8. "Wire People" (Ash/Innes)
9. "Salmon Proust" (Innes)
10. "Democracy" (Innes)
11. "I Predict A Riot
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    " (Hodgson/Wilson/Rix/Baines/White)
12. "Scarlet Ribbons" (Danzig/Segal)
13. "Paws" (Jupitus)
14. "And We're Back" (Innes)
15. "Stadium Love" (Innes/Heatherington/Fraser-Simpson/Milne)
16. "Mornington Crescent
    Pour l'Amour des Chiens
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    " (Simmonds)
17. "L'Essence d'Hooligan" (Innes)
18. "Early Morning Train" (Innes)
19. "My Friends Outside" (Spear)
20. "For The Benefit Of Mankind" (Innes)
21. "Beautiful People" (Edmondson)
22. "Ego Warriors" (Innes)
23. "Cockadoodle Tato" (Innes)
24. "Tiptoe Through The Tulips
    Tiptoe Through the Tulips
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    " (Burke/Dubin)
25. "Sweet Memories" (Smith)
26. "Sudoku Forecast" (Jupitus)
27. "Now You're Asleep" (Stanshall/Catlin-Birch)
28. "Jean Baudrillard" (Innes)