I've been listening to Neil Innes' first solo album, also Lucky Planet by The World, a band he briefly formed after The Bonzo Dog Band. There's very good stuff on both, some of which I haven't heard before.
I'll likely post more sometime, since as far as I can see, neither one is currently available on CD, but this first one jumped out.
Feel No Shame - Neil Innes
How Sweet to be an Idiot (1973)
and speaking of shame... No, unusually for me, not a selection of songs on the subject (maybe later), but another Innes song. Actually, the title track of the same album - How Sweet to be an Idiot, which was doubtless accidentally plagiarised by Oasis in 1994, for their Whatever single. I presume that the courts agreed with Neil Innes, since he's now credited as co-writer.
How Sweet to be an Idiot - Neil Innes (7" single version)
How Sweet to be an Idiot (1973)
Whatever - Oasis
Single release (1994)
buy
If by chance you can't wait for more Neil Innes, or The World... there are a lot of free mp3's at the Neil Innes website, and more on the songblog
Neil Innes is most likely touring the USA this year.
Neil Innes.org
I'll likely post more sometime, since as far as I can see, neither one is currently available on CD, but this first one jumped out.
Feel No Shame - Neil Innes
How Sweet to be an Idiot (1973)
and speaking of shame... No, unusually for me, not a selection of songs on the subject (maybe later), but another Innes song. Actually, the title track of the same album - How Sweet to be an Idiot, which was doubtless accidentally plagiarised by Oasis in 1994, for their Whatever single. I presume that the courts agreed with Neil Innes, since he's now credited as co-writer.
How Sweet to be an Idiot - Neil Innes (7" single version)
How Sweet to be an Idiot (1973)
Whatever - Oasis
Single release (1994)
buy
If by chance you can't wait for more Neil Innes, or The World... there are a lot of free mp3's at the Neil Innes website, and more on the songblog
Neil Innes is most likely touring the USA this year.
Neil Innes.org
Excellent. I've been a fan of Neil and the Bonzos for years now, ever since I first discovered Monty Python.
ReplyDeleteA tiny bit over a year ago, I was lucky enough to see Yo La Tengo do their "Freewheeling" show twice, wherein they'd play requests and answer pretty much any question the audience had.
I asked about their work with Neil, and they seemed really really happy to talk about him, and said they missed hanging out with him.
Oh, and then they played "Readymades" for me.