Name: The Rutles by The Rutles
Brand: The Rutles
SKU: 603497964468
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Six years before This Is Spinal Tap, Monty Python’s Eric Idle and Neil Innes of the Bonzo Dog Band stuck it to the Beatles. What started out as a fictional band for a mockumentary became a short-lived phenomenon known by fans as the Prefab Four. They toured, recorded and even landed a couple of UK hits. This collection boasts 20 songs that helped make the 1978 comedy All You Need Is Cash a cult film. Like Spinal Tap, each of the Rutles played their own instruments and sang. But members Ron Nasty, Barry Wom, Stig O'Hara and Dirk McQuickly were not only influential to other rock mockumentaries, as evidenced by 1990s Rutles Highway Revisited (A Tribute to the Rutles) comprising artists such as Galaxie 500, Shonen Knife, Daniel Johnston and others. The opening “Goose-Step Mama” perfectly parodies the early incarnation of the Beatles when they mixed Merseybeat with skiffle folk, while “Blue Suede Schubert” rips on the pre-moptop Teddy Boy era when back-beat was added to rockabilly. “Piggy In the Middle” nails “I Am the Walrus,” replete with warbly Mellotron.

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1. Goose-Step Mama (2006 Remastered Album Version)

2. Number One (2006 Remastered Album Version)

3. Baby Let Me Be (2006 Remastered Album Version)

4. Hold My Hand (2006 Remastered Album Version)

5. Blue Suede Schubert (2006 Remastered Album Version)

6. I Must Be In Love (2006 Remastered Album Version)

7. With A Girl Like You (2006 Remastered Album Version)

8. Between Us (2006 Remastered Album Version)

9. Living In Hope (2006 Remastered Album Version)

10. Ouch! (2006 Remastered Album Version)

11. It's Looking Good (2006 Remastered Album Version)

12. Doubleback Alley (2006 Remastered Album Version)

13. Good Times Roll (2006 Remastered Album Version)

14. Nevertheless (2006 Remastered Album Version)

15. Love Life (2006 Remastered Album Version)

16. Piggy In The Middle (2006 Remastered Album Version)

17. Another Day (2006 Remastered Album Version)

18. Cheese And Onions (2006 Remastered Album Version)

19. Get Up And Go (2006 Remastered Album Version)

20. Let's Be Natural (2006 Remastered Album Version)

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