Pour l'Amour Des Chiens (French: For the Love of Dogs) is the first all new studio album by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band in 35 years, and their sixth album overall. It was released on 12 December 2007, produced by Mickey Simmonds and Neil Innes, by Storming Music Company.
"The Canyons of Your Mind / The Equestrian Statue"
"The Urban Spaceman"
Track listing — CD-only Editionedit
When compared to the CD from the above package, the CD-only edition omits "Scarlet Ribbons", "Stadium Love", "Mornington Crescent" and "Sweet Memories", while adding "We Are Normal".
The Times awarded the album four stars and described it as "rarely less than charming",[1] while The Observer gave it three, calling it "predictable" and "only half amusing".[2]Record Collector said, "Delicious idiocy through wordplay, Wire People, songs about dead dogs, Old Tige, neurotic gardening, Purple Sprouting Broccoli and a gloriously levelling cover of the Kaiser Chiefs "I Predict A Riot" – it’s all here. Tiptoeing through the innate silliness, it’s often easy to forget the quality of their playing, which, unlike some of the low-grade gags on offer, is faultless."[3]
Describing the album in his 2009 book The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - Jollity Farm, Bob Carruthers says of "I Predict a Riot":
"Hard to predict the plot of this one, as Mr Spear and Mr Edmonson are let loose on this Kaiser Chiefs classic. Planned and unplanned studio incursions by Mexicans, Wurzels, that bloody chicken clarinet and HM constabulary."[4]
Referencesedit
^Jelbert, Steve (7 December 2007). "Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band: Pour L'Amour des Chiens". The Times. sec. times2 p. 16.
^McKie, Rob (11 November 2007). "The Bonzo-Dog-Doo-Dah-Band, Pour l'Amour des Chiens". The Observer. Retrieved 9 January 2009.
^"Pour l'Amour des Chiens - Record Collector Magazine".
^Carruthers, B. and Christie, D. (ed) (2009), The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - Jollity Farm, Angry Penguin Ltd., ISBN 978-1906783228