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[345] Various artists - Rutles Highway Revisited (LP)
My previous post for the CD version of the fabulous Rutles Highway Revisited was mostly a love-letter to the late and still much missed Neil Innes so I’ll try and keep on topic this time.
I do love most of the tracks on this album but, like The Beatles, The Rutles were better when they were being sweet, so it’s the sweet songs that work better for me. So… here are what are probably my favourite three tracks on the album (that aren’t Galaxie 500), although that does involve leaving a lot of ones I also love off the list.
pic lifted from April March’s Instagram
pic lifted from this page with a 1990 session the duo played for KCRW which opens with a lovely version of I Must Be in Love.
OK, maybe that’s not conventionally sweet but it’s effing Shonen Knife so… it is unconventionally sweet! Here’s a fantastic video of them playing Goose Step Mama in London in 2013.
I bought the LP in 2018 as a collection filler having had the CD since release.
- Catalogue Number: AHFOW 12/080
- Artist: Various artists
- Title: Rutles Highway Revisited
- Format: LP
- Bought from a Discogs seller for £6 in 2018.
- Galaxie 500’s track can be found on ‘Uncollected’ on Bandcamp.