Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, Urban Spaceman

[joebstarsurfer]

If i did a Dubstep mix of this would them kids get the joke.

[TomthatiscalledTom]

....and then he met Chastity at the Pretentious Gallery Soho, a simple German girl whose father had invented World War Two

[bananartista]

yes, really addictive !

[mikiimalice]

ugh! tuba player is puffing out his cheeks! great song!

[zeke1731]

Are you SURE that isn't Weird Al Yankovich on drums?

[TheCelinecc]

song I meant lol



[TheCelinecc]

Good sung..really catchy :D

[boobsmalloy]

don't know why they're advertising take that, never gonna buy that shit!

[MrJonarnefoss]

This if great stuff ,simple song with Paul Maccartney as producer

[thecynicalowl]

im actually related to larry smith! i love their music soo much! :D

[stevierigsby]

great ta see the bonzo's in colour :0)

[sonofplug]

2:10 someone was bound to have been hit during rehersals

[jen268827]

I'd play this kind of music if I knew for sure I wouldn't need a second job to get by..

[MEKON17]

this is deep

[1i1feat]

Clowns scare The BeJesus out of me!!

[jmmullarkey1]

That policeman must be from my local station - he's comletely razzed out of his titties!

[paullavan2011]

Beat this. Not a chance.

[zeromeobass]

I want to have a Neil Innes wig glued on and fired into the Pacific for my funeral while they play Inna Gadda da Vida.

[Koreman11]

Producer Apollo C. Vermouth = Paul McCartney

[observer9670]

@Koreman11 Actually it was co-produced by Paul and Gus Dudgeon (Elton John's long time producer). Neil Innes wrote and sung the song.

[bigpurplenug]

Is that Weird Al on the drums?? lol. looks like him. good stoner song....

[fireblade95]

neil innes ...underrated or wot!

[SatansMother]

Its bonkers! I love it!

[tricky459]

Fuck you adverts.

[DanielDare100]

Daft tossers!

[underkyper]

Good intro there from Stanley Unwin.

[aemalonskey]

damn i love acid =]

[LiteratiMuffin]

I'm not sure why, but this song is so addicting.

[VirgLondon2]

shame these great videos have to be blighted by annoying ads!

[papoj1PVR]

Anyone know what hat is Neil Innes wearing? Looks like a green pimp hat (with magenta leopard straps)

[sklell]

played at my brothers funeral last april ...sent with love x

[sulfacide]

Is this about drugs? lol



[rothwellss]

One of the band did the voice on tubular bells introducing the instruments

[subeda1]

@rothwellss

It was the lead singer, Viv Stanshall.

[puddypuss]

I think as he s got older roger ruskin spear reminds me of will hay

[mravantgarde123]

"Are you sitting comfortable 2 square on your body? Than we'll begin!"

[liam6669992008]

@mravantgarde123 Botty*



[mravantgarde123]

@liam6669992008 what a funny old guy! on a lot of the videos of the bonzos i watch, he's in them!

[JumpinJackFlash1998]

Best song about a spaceman

[stevies5]

@SuperNeville. Thanks for the headsup on the two square, that never occurred to me. Great tune anyway, thanks for the upload.

[fagend123]

Such creativeness and originality!

And what do we have now? Lady Gaga.

Oh dear..........

[NrthEastOHsk8]

Whats the Tele show?

[papoj1PVR]

I'd love to find myself a fine hat like that. <3

[smith0250]

sing these lyrics instead im a f***ing spaceman baby ive smoked weed in flying of my f***ing heed you can be a spacegirl baby we can fly its awesome being this high I dont need pleasure i dont feel pain if you were to roll me one well light up again im a urban speceman baby im flaking out im all about

[Sixalienasa]

@smith0250 Get down off Cloud Nine and try to join in with the rest of the world here in reality.

[smith0250]

@Sixalienasa sorry its not as funny as i wanted it to be and ive kind of just made a horrible comment on a awesome song

[ozzymotorhead]

wacky brits. u ppl are so weird

[organaphus]

@ozzymotorhead It's one of our most exquisite qualities...

[dymondgeezer2003]

Whats with all the Simon Pegg hatred!?!?!

SPACED and Shaun of the Dead alone deserve respect!?

[jesustonight]

kinda make not like the song quite as much when i find out people like pegg are fond of it

[jesustonight]

id be happy to play this at simon peggs funeral as it would be a celebration

of no more shite films

[eldospinks]

@jesustonight Gay.

[FallenTormentor]

I love this song, it is so uplifting.

[92RedRevolver]

One of the most reassuring songs ever to be made.

[proudfootz]

Good old Neil had a regular spot on Eric Idle's Rutland Television Weekend.

[bfrposh]

14 People are not Urban Spacemen

[mac8323]

they helped put the GREAT back into Britain, we could take the mick out of ourselves, but now its not allowed. ;))

[wovokanarchy]

Now I know what happened to all the mods in the 70s.

[wolfoutlaw1]

brings back memories of when england was free,

[bornagainheretic]

@wolfoutlaw1 roflmao...you mean...before the Romans came and fucked it all up?

[wolfoutlaw1]

@bornagainheretic yes your right.

[MickeyLove01]

microphone too loud

[Electriiiic]

im the turban spaceman BABY

[InElginRobert]

I don't exist!

[anotherfineday1]

Not only very funny, but also a lovely lampooning of both straight culture and the counter culture. Intelligent pop- how I miss it.

[strongshane]

I served them today where i work, such nice people. never realised how many people like there music and how well known they where/ are.

[lucyj87]

I attribute pretty much my whole personality to the exposure I had to this band's music as a kid. And I wouldn't have it any other way!

[firestartertwistedfi]

@lucyj87 wow i wanna meet you :)

[burnybrosnan]

We would listen to these guys and have a ball.Esp. The Doughnut in Grannys Greenhouse.Viv Stanshall introduced the instruments on Tubular Bells.

[madphilgreenballs]

I never twigged Neil Innes was in BDDDB. Makes sense.

[leushy]

Bonzo, one of the most overlooked bands in history. Part of our musical heritage, not just fun but sometimes insightful, touching an beautiful. Quiet talks and summer walks for example.

[chalton5]

@leushy you are so right my friend,if i had to choose one group to listen to for the rest of my life this group is THE group!

[haba3000]

there is 13 urban spacemans

[AlfredWhy]

Oh I was 13 years old! I like this song.

[rogerredcat]

priceless moment at 2.06 viv stanshall playing hose pipe marvellous

[walsallmatt]

was it a euphimism for drugs or was it about doctor who?

[JohnnyD33re]

@walsallmatt It's actually about the people you see in television commercials, perfect people that don't exist in real life.

[iwasanangryyoungman]

About the only thing missing is a giant-size rainbow-coloured teddy bear

[MissMurdersdaughter]

Simon Pegg actually said he wanted this song to be played at his funeral, I can say I agree with me.

[sturdle]

@MissMurdersdaughter that is something from SP!!

[papoj1PVR]

@MissMurdersdaughter

This just in: Edgar Wright just Tweeted the song "Canyons of Your Mind" by Bonzo Dog Band. :D

[sarahw59]

@MissMurdersdaughter Nice one Simon!

[Xvaser]

i'm so high.

[lange838]

@Xvaser I'm so low

[steelbeard1]

The Bonzos' hit record with Neil Innes singing lead. The song was produced by Paul McCartney using the pseudonym of Apollo C. Vermouth.

[GelGsound]

And Michael Palin would deliver a eulogy...

[Dragmack]

i want this song played at my funeral in this exact manner.

[GelGsound]

@Dragmack I would kill you just to see it.

[TibChu]

12 people exist.

[madFlam1]

i'm 14 and all high again

[JazzlasterBoris]

12 people weren't sitting comflybold two-spare on their botty.

[lovham89]

so awesome song so good, i lov it so great band.

[wouldntyoulike2know]

I love this song.

[braitnicho]

Class uploads thanks.

[tatunkha]

Nice upload. small correction needed though - produced by Paul McCartney and Gus Dudgeon under the collective pseudonym "Apollo C. Vermouth"

[sirensealight]

What year was this?

[scrumpbee]

@sirensealight This was released in november 1968 and got to number 5 in the charts.

[sirensealight]

@scrumpbee Thanks for the response. I love the song! It actually predates Bowie's Space Oddity. I guess a lot of artists were influenced by the Space Race in the 1960's.

[lovham89]

@sirensealight 1970s? 1960s?

[MrBradderz33]

@lovham89 1968 

[Stationario]

@MrBradderz33 Happiness Stan. Absolutely brilliant !

[arkadykobach]

soooooo good to hear this again they were way ahead of their time

[cuteperky]

I think that the group were a fantastic group of individuals who were free spirited who co-incided with the music revolution that was happening at thIer time.THEY WERE TALENT

[cuteperky]

I think that the group were a fantastic group of individuals who were free spirited who co-incided with the music revolution that was happening at thier time.THEY WERE TALENT

[mthowielong007]

Wierd.



[doodahgal]

love this one! but then, there are so many goodies! I do think the version i have is sung by someone else, but no matter. Love it!

[SarahSmith666]

On your botty

[Dragmack]

what is that strange tube thing at the end called?

[alifor9]

@Dragmack

Don't know what it is called, and it's not easy to see what it's actually made of on this video. But I saw the Bonzos live decades ago where Viv Stanshall did the vocals and, at the end, used a piece of garden hose with a funnel stuck in one end and a trumpet or cornet mouthpiece stuck in the other, live and it sounded perfect..

This video is the only one I've seen with Innes singing and Viv playing the recorder. And from his playing, the song is at least partly mimed.

[bli1964]

@Dragmack dunno what it's called but you used to be able to buy the plastic corrugated tubes that we used to spin around and it would make loud whistling sounds .. different pitches at different speeds, but if you sang into them as it spun I seem to remember it sounding like a dijeradoo (spelling?)

[gilllew]

WHAT A CRAZY (BUT LOVEABLE) GUY NEIL INNES IS (SA\W HIM AT THE 1993 BEATLES CONVENTION) HAD ME IN HYSTERICS DOING HIS SEND UP ON THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST SONGS (ON THE LINES OF BING BANG BONG WONT YOU LISTEN TO MY SONG!) I ONLY RECENTLY FOUND OUT THAT PAULMCCATRNEY USED THE PSEUDONYM APOLLO C VERMOUTH. WHEN PRODUCING THIS

[screwyootube1]

12 people have no class. Thanks for posting this!

[moosatious]

The best thing Paul McCartney ever produced, no question.  Now I understand why the Queen knighted him. But how could she have passed over the song's writer and singer, Neil Innes? That still has me in a bit of a quandary . Perhaps some day, the current Prince William will remedy this. Doubtful Charles ever would, but one never knows.

[bli1964]

I designed a tshirt after listening to my old record collection!

please stop by and cast your votes! would love to hear what you think of it!

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[Anglehound]

clever song this, it all hinges on the last line. as far as i can hear the song reffers to the happy people that are the electorate (THE URBAN SPACEMEN) for whome they keep making law to protect, but as in the last line I DON'T EXIST, we all bend the rules from time to time none of us are perfect

[purplegypsy89]

@Anglehound : halfway right, I (an urban spaceman) would say: it all hinges on the last line, yes, but it's really a notion about how none of us exist; we're all really just figments of our imaginations. I've had the same Insight on my personal space travels, but in the end, it's for all of us to believe and make-believe as we wish. Just 'cuz we don't exist don't mean we're not real, eh? =)

[Anglehound]

@purplegypsy89 as an urban spaceman thats a giant leap too far for me....i'm a figment of who's imagination?

[SuperNevile]

@Anglehound Your Own ~ reference Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and also the song Jackass by Greenday. I seem to think the Lennon character in Yellow submarine says it about Jeremy, but am not sure.

[purplegypsy89]

@Anglehound who's who in the big We (or I) that we all are, as one? You make of it what you will, as you surely know (or will know, haha). Don't take anything too seriously, even though it might drive you insane. Just enjoy the ride~

[SuperNevile]

Actually I got the lyrics wrong, it is: Are you sitting comfly-bold, two-square (as opposed to four square ~ very aft) on your botty? Then I'll begin..... Grammar was never my strong point!

[Hemulen40]

SuuuuuuuperSonic !

[DerekBayRoberts1]

In a way that no one will ever understand, The Monkees led me here. First the Monkees, (i was already a Beatle fan and a Python fan, first and foremost), then the Rutles, then this group.

[TheMariah2987]

tHIS IS TOTALLY OUTSTANDING, IT IS THE FOLK WITH A TOUCH OF FLOWERCHILDREN FLAVOR. i HAD TOO BOYS TEENS AT THAT TIME AND IT BRINGS BACK WONDERFUL MEMORIES. DARLENE RANDELL

[pullbackbaby]

Live the life you please and enjoy. Please include some electric shocks for me. - Mattress man

[Jarrahnut]

Thank you, Celsis01. By the way, here in wonderful Western Australia (in the Perth region), the weather forecast for tomorrow (October 26th) is Celsius32. Thanks also to SuperNeville. Best wishes to you both ... shout yas both a beer ... if you're ever in this neck of the woods. By the way ... I was born in Watford, during the Second World War.

[celsis01]

Jarrahnut, lead singer is Neil Innes.

[Jarrahnut]

Who is the lead singer?

[SuperNevile]

@Jarrahnut Neil Innes who wrote this and the previous "Equestrian Statue" single. Viv Stanshall was the 'normal' lead singer and he and Neil either together or seperately wrote alot of the Bonzo Dog songs. VIv was another 'English Eccentric' who unfortunately died when his narrow boat (canal barge) caught fire. Neil incidentally wrote all the Rutle's music, and played "Ron Nasty" the Lennon character in the film

[TheRobinable]

@Jarrahnut

The lead vocalist is Neil Innes (born 1944). He also wrote "I'm the Urban Spaceman", which earned him a Ivor Novello Award in 1968.

Vivian Stanshall later took over as lead vocalist of The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.

[alifor9]

@TheRobinable

Viv's not singing because he's playing the recorder. He was "lead singer" or "MC" whatever, and no less a band member than Innes or the others, for some time before this was filmed .

Stanley Unwin did the "intro"

A good choice, that.

[TimthedogLinehan]

@alifor9

"Professor" Stalet Unwin- had a whole cannon of grammar all of his own

[SuperNevile]

@TimthedogLinehan Are you all sitty comfybo too square on your botty? Then I'll begin.(Happiness Stan)

[sturdle]

@SuperNevile deep joy!!

[sturdle]

@SuperNevile deep joy on the byload

[stevies5]

@SuperNevile With the best will, if yer gonna qoute Stan, it's "Comflybold" ;)

[SuperNevile]

@stevies5 Thanks. I also think I got the "too square" wrong too. it should be "two square" (as opposed to four square) because he's talking about a botty!

[SuperNevile]

Once saw Roger Ruskin Spear in concert, in the early 70's. His backing band were two robots ~(no ~ nobody inside!). He stuck woodwind and brass in their 'mouths' so they could blow along with him. Where has the 'english eccentricity' gone? All we have now is an eccentric Greek driving a 4x4 into Snappy Snaps!

[coldharvest]

@SuperNevile

Margaret Thatcher outlawed eccentricity and replaced it with desperation

and hopelessness

[SuperNevile]

@coldharvest whilst selfishly staying an eccentric herself

[irakees8]

is this the first jewis band ?

[reggiemuzak]

Just a Great Band -  Acid Folk Sums them up they were Unique

[Feisty1967]

Chris Tarrant on clarinet, brilliant!

[currypot1965]

@Feisty1967 Hahahahaha

[jacksterner]

The man at the intro is Stan Unwine. This is the intro used on the Small Face's Odgen's Nut Gone Flake. In fact, It is taken directly from that album (side two). He goes on to narate the entire side. "Odgen's" , by the way, is a fantastic album.

[DustyDurst]

BDB fan here, used to play them on my radio show at WUSF way back in the Underground Railroad days. Also LOVE the Professor Stanley Iwin in the opening it's also the way Happiness Stan opens on the Small Faces Ogdens Not Gone Delite, aren't glad I told that. he he

[xXimrealynotokayXx]

I love Neil's pimp hat! XD

[nondescript11]

Stanley Unwin. Of COURSE! Great fun. Thanks to both of you who replied. Tim

[stussyboy99]

The comedian was called Stanley Unwin. He sadly died in 2002, but was also featured on the 1998 dance track, "Petal" by Wubble-U. How's that for crossing the musical boundaries!

[nondescript11]

OK out there - just WHO is the guy doing the intro? One of THE funniest of old school Brit comedians who had a language all of his own but his name escapes me. Someone'll come up with it I know. Thanks

[utz14]

Bonzo's speak for themselves in a language that only their true fans can understand.

[oddball2036]

great song,great video

[PorroFirst]

I love these guys

[lucarion87]

i love the policeman in the video

[finalconsecration]

@lucarion87 It's Paul McCartney :D

[dikideano96]

these people are Doo Dah

[pizzadealer]

Damn brilliant and read that paul mccartney produced this or sumting?

Anyway its a happy song and its just great to listen to

[simes61]

@pizzadealer You mean you read it on the clip subtitles?!

[pizzadealer]

@simes61 hahaa lol didnt notice it

i first read it on the Last fm page

[misanthrop74]

what did they take???

LOL

[truthslap]

Neil Innes is a genius.

[meenos3]

KrustyFrank27 Didnt know that.!!!!! Not surprised

[meekintheweb]

God... The singer (Neil Innes) was so fucking hot and sexy then, man... Got a boner.

[NavinJohnson90]

That's one hell of a twist.

[djtarrel]

karnaval in cansas

[meenos3]

Bonzo Dogs...........The Monty Python of Music and its light hearted tongue in cheek humour......boy were they good and a one off!!!!

[KrustyFrank27]

@meenos3 It's even better when you realize that Neil Innes, the singer, has written with Eric Idle.

[duckdaotsu]

darlin, this is surreal rock acid dada bizarre for the masses and less general (not a corporal) appeal pleasing desire loving hedonistic happy songs. acid folk just isn't enough... but keep trying... BTDT

[osbikerossy]

unique song

[mopsnuf]

epic in every sense of the word (:

~Nout

[lovham89]

reminds me on me self i tyr to play much instruments.. but i cant play so good i love this band get 3 cds of them..

[MegaFREAK313]

THIS SONG RULES!!!!

[sheilabdevotion1959]

This is the first 45 record I ever bought - as a nine year old - and I still own it and listen to it - amongst lots of other things of course!

[Hemulen40]

Haha..spaced out !  ( :

[kennytrip]

acid folk sounds just great

alphaecho, you need to check your facts. the Logical song was written and sung by Supertramp band member Roger Hodgson. Also, Urban Spaceman was written and sung by Neil Innes. Paul McCartney d