There was something about it in the edit news when that was around i think - i think thats how its supposed to be
SOTCAA Edit News text:
"6. Matching Tie and Handkerchief (1973) is generally agreed to be the best mixed and aurally inventive of the Python LPs. It also features the famous double-banded grooves on Side Two (two separate grooves featuring exclusive material - a trick which had hitherto only ever been attempted on 78 rpm discs). However, when the LP was re-released on vinyl by Virgin in the late 80s they obviously thought it was more trouble than it was worth and presented the two chunks of material as one groove (with an uncharacteristic gap in the middle. As the collective Side Two material didn't exactly match the running time of Side One they also restructured the LP so that everything from Palin's 'Before the next joke there will be a short raspberry' (which was part of the preceding 'Wasp Club' silliness) up to and including the 'Great Actors' interview was hacked off from the end of Side One and presented as the first part of Side Two. Unfortunately by the time of the CD release, this structure had become recognised as 'official' and it is still presented in this revised form."
I am a proud owner of this record (picked it up in a Tunbridge Wells 2nd-hand record shop for a quid a couple of years back), and it is indeed an intentional feature -- a feature I only discovered after listening to both sides of the record several times in bewilderment. To add to the confusion, both sides are labelled "2 1/2". The double-tracked side starts with either the "John Cleese as a baby being fawned over by old ladies" sketch, or, on the other groove, the rather wonderful Open Field Farming System sketch in which all the historians' contributions are performed as rock pastiches ("It's written in the village scrolls, that when a ploughman owns an oxen and that oxen is lent, then the villeins and the plougman have got to have the lord's consent" done Hey Jude style). One of the tracks also includes a particularly confusing sketch where Eric Idle enters a record shop, listens to a record which turns out to be another sketch. Suddenly the record gets stuck (very realistically), and then Idle emerges and says "Scuse me, the record's stuck * the record's stuck * the record's stuck" etc.)
It's strange to think that the record's available on CD. Does anyone know if they tried to emulate this weirdness, perhaps by putting this material on a hidden track or something?
The record also contains especially recorded versions of the Bruce sketch and The Cheese Shop sketch, notable for the alarming use of the word "fucking" ("...I don't care how fucking runny it is...") which I don't think was used in the TV version.
Very cool indeed.
We were obviously posting at the same time. That resolves one of my questions, then. Cheers!
>SOTCAA Edit News text:
Unfortunately by the time of the CD release, this structure had become recognised as 'official' and it is still presented in this revised form."
It's a Porky Prime Cut, isn't it? The original version I mean (I thought it said something like "I'll be home late, mum, I'm cutting another Python album" but my deeply buggered copy says "Tony Porky")
Is there an official list of Porky Prime Cuts anywhere?
>Is there an official list of Porky Prime Cuts anywhere?
There's some info here:
http://www.urbanlegends.com/science/lp_grooves.html
>It's a Porky Prime Cut, isn't it? The original version I mean (I thought it said something like "I'll be home late, mum, I'm cutting another Python album" but my deeply buggered copy says "Tony Porky")
I'll check mine next time I'm back at my parents'.
>>Is there an official list of Porky Prime Cuts anywhere?
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>There's some info here:
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>http://www.urbanlegends.com/science/lp_grooves.html
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Any chance of posting the entire Q article, rather than selected highlights?