THE RUTLES - Cheese And Onions (1969)

[funkmike]

I think it's more like "Sexy Sadie" and "Cry Baby Cry"

[sportyish100]

And the inspiration (written in Nasty's autobiography) came from spilling a fried inion on his tight trousers whilst at a Peruvian clock factory. Hence the notion one must "keep yourself clean, man and device...."

[rodrigocampossalles]

It's Very Better more The Beatles!!!!!!

[DanielBowden1975]

Salt & vinegar man myself

[Monkofmagnesia]

Have this on the old Rutles vinyl album. Love listening to it with headphones on.

[2ndQuarto1]

Love the stoned dinosaur.

[beatlesfreak89]

It's like a combo of "A Day in the Life", "Glass Onion", and "Imagine." :-D

[Snigaty]

If The Beatles had actually written this song, it would probably be regarded as one of their best.

[TheNamron55]

Rutles are the band the Beatles could have been

[irena7777777]

@TheNamron55 No, Wings are!

[tibet220]

I still laugh every time I hear the second line...such a great exaggeration of Lennon

[cookcookish]

Umm cheese and onions.

[glewy74]

Fantastic, The Beatle's were really amazed by the cleverness of Neil Inness dubbing & covering of their music & history!!! Brilliant lol

[lighblue22]

Ding.

[lorax121323]

Best song ever on the consumption of food

[hereinthebronx]

I have a beatles bootleg version of john singing this song.(1968)

however,the rutles take credit for writing it.

[highgatewright]

I read that the Rutles were Neil Innes's creation, and Eric Idle is the only one who did not contribute to the music.

[TheOtherOTHEROp]

Actually, "All You Need is Cash" came out in 1978.

From what I understand, it was really George Harrison's idea, carried out by Monty Python's Eric Idle, with lots of cameos. (And yes, George himself made a cameo as a reporter.)

[ilovekittyandmac]

or be a has been like a dinosaur-best line

[Gooseberry51]

Neil Innes is brilliant!!!!

[MorbidBliss22]

You know you are a true Beatles fan the first time you have a Rutles song stuck in your head.

[ullapoolposse]

the note at the end made me laugh for about a week. *ding*

[DuplicatedOnce]

0:40

anyone catch the Mitsubishi logo?

[ketchup5344]

And in an effort to become "bigger than Rod" David Wilder posted his video "when the war is over" on You tube and then went onto this years` xfactor. Do I have to spell it out: B-R-A-N-D N-E-W S-U-P-E-R-S-T-A-R. You heard it here first-and Y not, I left school, heard the Rutles and said:" this is my type of music" and I`ve been starving ever since. X

[mosquitobight]

Too much tea.

I tried green tea with jasmine a couple times, it really knocks me for a loop.

Best stay away from that Matcha, it'll Getcha! :)

[SuperNevile]

Ha ha, the last mighty piano chord (actually three pianos simultaneously), of Day In The Life was made to last over 45 seconds, so even the airconditioning could be heard at the end. Here one piano note for half a second.

[bekbek78]

The band Oasis could have been!

[MrBeatlesfreak95]

this is OBVIOUSLY a parody of "A Day In The Life"

[grenztruppen3]

ohh, the cheese...and the onions...

[MrBillybob800]

I remember this from English T.V. in the seventies. Does anybody remember The Innes Book of Record?????????

[TheLonersManual]

@MrBillybob800 No. No body remembers that show. Not even Neil Innes ;) :P

[ragandscoob]

Check out Imitation Song by Neil Innes....It is a great song....there's a video of it here on you tube (animated)

[ragandscoob]

Paul and Neil should team up and write some songs......could be good ....real good

[TheIzabel11]

Recently I watched The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (TABM) with my folks. And I said to them, "Hey that guy looks like Paul McCartney!" My parents laughed and said well not really. Later I found my dad's old Rutle CD and I burned it. Then I found out the guy I thought looked like Paul, Eric Idle, actually played Paul in The Rutles. I WAS SO RIGHT!

[LordEizen]

thats not john lennon singing? sounds just like him

[vinstyles]

it hurts me that we are not seeing Neil and other similar talents more. I guess our age group have to make room for the mindless, talentless, numb-skulls that prevail today. And yet, it is our age group with all the money! How come advertisers don't recognise this? Idiots!

[Tornfreedom]

I once saw Neil Innes doing a parody of Bob Dylan and it was of course Absolutely Brilliant. But it made you realise why many people don't like that particular style of early Bob, by putting in dischordant and out of tune harmonica chords. Reminded me of the great Les Dawson and his piano.

[nedphoenix]

"Oh, that's torn it."

[Raman711]

I like how the Rutles incorporate the "Oh No", which was a very much used phrase in Lennon's solo career.

[Cheessa]

@Raman711 He used the phrase"Oh no" so much, he married her. ( Yoko Ono) ...OK. bad joke of the day.

[Raman711]

@Cheessa You got the picture :-)

[Altjap1]

It sounds so Lennon-like!

[jimzy29]

@Altjap1 I always think it sounds more like Oasis!! Liam trying his best to sound like John :-)

[ts1depot]

@Altjap1: Yes, it does... It sounds a lot like his post-Beatles work, like "Mother."

[PuncturedJesus]

@Cheessa and @shmadsta

Imagine as well.

[heybulldog98]

0:10 hahahahahaha look at the kid freaking smashin the ice cream on him over and over again freakin retard!

[heavyboxes]

Brilliant song- and the Galaxie 500 cover is way good too.

[freddygoldstein]

tavistock)

[shmadsta]

Lol which song is this a parody of? I can't even tell..

[Cheessa]

@shmadsta "A day in the life"

[shmadsta]

@Cheessa OHHH haha.. that was really obvious sorry

[Superstarseven]

@shmadsta Not really. It doesn't sound like A Day In The Life until the orchestra buildup and the last short note at the very end. Weird Al does the same thing and he calls them Style parodies. So it's sung and musically arranged in the form of a Lennon song. Remember also that John didn't use that heavy echo until his solo career.

[BlackMagnumFilms]

@Cheessa Is it? There's obviously that final chord spoofed but the rest of it doesn't sound like A Day in the Life at all

[DaveGoodeNC]

I'm eating cheese and onions right at this very moment! xD

[kmburss]

Now i know who 'beady eye' ripped their sound off - The Rutles!

[bowiemichelle]

Only my all time favs: Cheese & onions & the Rutles!!!

[bkeay100]

Rut 4 Great Post

Only The Bonzos can compete with The Rutles

If you don't believe me

Ask Mc Cartney

[bkeay100]

If The Rutlles would have recruited Vivian Stanshall they would nave been the greatest pop band ever

God Bless The Bonzos and The Rutles

[TeamAntiSocial]

George is in it and when they asked Lennon what he thought he simply smiled and said "Cheese and Onions." So yeah, I don't think there was a problem with it. Especially since each Rutles song is 3 to 5 Beatles songs mashed into one and fall under the parody classification.

[njca2000]

All the Beatles were huge Python fans especially George who worked on this project with Eric and the Pre-Fab Four. So, I think they(The Beatles) had no problem with this parody.

[Ivar366]

WEERRRLD

[jamzftw]

This version of the song is different from the one on the CD, I wonder why they changed it...

[benenator3]

@xbex12 that is AWSOME

[MRBORGHEAD]

john tears paul out and in doing so tears himself out. then george dies, and then ringo kills himself. paul is god.

[giggie]

that the weeeurrld was unkind !!

[GreenhouseEffectGE]

that was so sad ,...and such a tragedy when Stig died ....

[llamawalrus]

Did you know? When The Rutles first came out The Beatles company didn't sue them for copyright infringment, they simply asked for the benefits. At that time Neil Innes couldn't find a good lawyer and he let go way too soon. The Beatles themselves didn't know about this until some time later, and even though George tried to fix it, all The Rutles' songs are credited like Lennon/McCartney and Neil Innes didn't get a penny for them.

[grski88]

@llamawalrus I don't think there's anyway that's correct information. It was a parody/satire movie with songs written by Neil Innes specifically for the TV special. None of the songs are credited to Lennon/McCartney. Innes was a member of the Bonzo Dog Band who was a big favorite of the Beatles (and the Rutles) The whole thing was produced by George Harrison & Eric Idle.

[llamawalrus]

@grski88 Ok, I knew all that.

I may be wrong, I just said it because I read it in "You Never Give me your Money", a book about The Beatles legal issues (it's on amazon). And in The Rutles dvd commentary Eric Idle also says that is a shame that Neil Innes can't get a pound for writting all those songs... anyway, english is not my first language, I might have misunderstood.

[grski88]

@llamawalrus Oh! You may be right then :) My mistake - That's interesting if true.

[comanchio1976]

@llamawalrus Could it be that Eric Idle was joking?'' I may be wrong, but I think that you can only copyright the melody. and maybe the lyrics...not the general feel of the songs.

[SgtRuttersClubBand]

@comanchio1976 The melody and lyrics yes, but if a song is to similar the original artists can sue. The Rutles fall under parodies, so it can be as close as possible, but there still can be legal issues, the original release had a Lennon /McCartney/ Innes credits to all songs (even though some parody ether a Harrison or Starr) but the most up to date release and archaeology just have Innes credited.

[comanchio1976]

@SgtRuttersClubBand Ok well you seem to know more on the subject than I do.

Did you mean 'anthology' rather than 'archaeology'..1978 wasnt that long ago was it?;)

[ProcolHarum1967]

@llamawalrus He got half the royalties.

[comanchio1976]

@llamawalrus Where did you read that?

[dexydonovanroger]

535 comments.....

[lakefloor]

All you need is Cash. always loved the Ruttles. Don''t really understand 1969, the Ruts came out in the 70's. I remember George Harrison's appearance as the reporter. Funny stuff, Let it Rot, Tragical History Tour, etc.

[JustTheGman]

All You Need Is Lunch... that and the best Beatles spoof ever made. Brilliant!

[nostalgiahistoria67]

Good animation in the tradition of the 'Yellow Submarine' film!

[SuperNevile]

There is even a parody of the last extended chord on Day In The Life ~ Plop!

[0igres]

did terry gilliam make the animation?

[SuperDJPlop]

@0igres That would, simply put, be AMAZING

[gazzymodo]

@ Everyone ! : Check out "DEAR FATHER CHRISTMAS" by Neil Innes !!

[gazzymodo]

An interviewer asked Neil Innes how he'd achieved capturing the sound of the FABS , after so many 60s Groups had failed. His reply : "They did'nt listen hard enough"

[Alice555foxylady]

Love 'em! Nice parody, nice melodies

[traxcontrols]

Fantastic bit of work - almost as good as the original Yellow Submarine animation. Must have cost a fortune to make back in the 1970's, as there was no computer animation, just hundreds of cells to draw and colour, and a lot of patience!

[diondrum]

Rutles and 1969? No shit? Damn, I am older than I thought. I am fixing a hole; in your head to stop your mind from pondering--might be good with bacon and eggs though.

[ysbaddaden2003]

Oasis is a bad joke gone long stale

Ooh...look at us, were this anti-corporate punk band

Brought to you by these major sponsors.

[EmpoleonMasterSword9]

I could see John totally recording this lmao

[RantingThespian]

The actual people who animated the Yellow Submarine did this whole sequence.

[August8th1969]

I love this song.

[Syzygy60]

do i have to spell it out?

[Syzygy60]

too funny

[theonlyantony]

if only Oasis could write songs as good as The Rutles

[PredatorFilmsInc]

@theonlyantony : OK that joke is getting way too old now, Oasis have written some excellent songs; "Live Forever", "Supersonic", "Wonderwall", "Don't Look Back In Anger", "Stop Crying Your Heart Out" and "The Importance of Being Idle" to name a few.

[theonlyantony]

@PredatorFilmsInc Sorry, Sir, I really mean it ! A queston of taste though. Each to his own. But in my humble opinion, The Rutles, spoof though they were, got there first!

[clarkbell]

@PredatorFilmsInc What about Champagne Supernova?

[zazaranger5]

man or machine keep yourself clean

[broobie09]

lennon could have recorded it lol

[72moon]

This song along with "Piggy in the Middle" are absolutely outstanding. Genius by Neil Innes. The opening few lines are so like the Beatles.

[llanbo]

Great Innes piano intro... compare with "Humanoid Blues" from his Bonzo days...

[Hemulen40]

Hhahahaha..one more , please , wid extra evrything !

[kcirdrab]

I`ve no idea why Idle isn`t lauded for "The Rutles" far more. People go on about the Monty Python songs, but I think this is the best thing he`s done by a mile.

[ICIcon]

@kcirdrab Neil Innes is the one who wrote all the Rutles songs. He is the one who never gets the accolades. Idle had a big part in it but this was Innes's brainchild.

[kcirdrab]

@ICIcon - Yr quite right, Innes is the centre of the Rut`s music & is too often over-looked, thx for the correction.

If Innes could do this stuff so well in parody you wonder why he couldn`t do it for real with original material?

[SuperNevile]

@kcirdrab Urban Spaceman, Equestrian Statue? Not bad ~ Ivor Novello award for Spaceman. However, I think it is tricky to make it on comedy records alone. cheers

[TheZuchinniman]

That "Do I have to spell it out?" line immediately followed by a literal spelling of "cheese and onions" is pure genius!

[dharmaseed]

"That's torn it!" LOL

[c15art]

Even Lennon like this one .

[Purushadasa]

I can usually tell which song (or songs) they're trying to parody, but I have no clue with this one! Anyone have an idea? The very end sounds sort of like the end of "A Day in the Life," but the rest of it doesn't.

[kcirdrab]

@Purushadasa- It`s a parody of Day in the Life. The joke being that what that song was about was lyrically a story about mundane things, but by that stage the critics were raging that everything the Fabs did was automatically a work of "GENIUS!!!" with hidden layers of meaning. Idle was mocking this with a song lyrically equally mundane & a similarly simple chord progression to show it wasn`t that hard to do. Nasty raising his eye-brows at the beginning came from Lennon in 'We Can Work it Out'.

[Purushadasa]

@kcirdrab Awesome! Thanks for that answer. I listened again, and I think you're right: I could detect some definite similarities to "A Day in the Life" throughout the song, not just at the end.

[Callouisafuckinpussy]

lol nice parody

[Syzygy60]

I wouldn't doubt that Chapman did the animation

[thecarcacium]

@Syzygy60 Actually Gilliam did the animations for Python, not Chapman. Chapman was awesome though.

[Blusko]

@Syzygy60 They actually got the same studio who did Yellow Submarine to do it

[Syzygy60]

Eric Idle had a big part,i believe,in the Music

[Syzygy60]

i agree,better than Oasis

[glueforall]

I would have loved to have been on that trip....cheese and onions!

[stoobee09]

fuckin awesome!!

[TheLonersManual]

You know what is so cool about this is that it is a joke, yet it is still so damn good. haha, think about it. This joke song is still way better than the crap we have today.

[deepvoodoo]

@TheLonersManual I heard that some bootleg actually tried to pawn this song off as an unreleased Beatles song.

[TheLonersManual]

@deepvoodoo haha, really? Go figure. I am hoping people were not dumb enough to believe that.

[Canaderek]

@TheLonersManual I wish I could multi-thumbs up this comment.

Neil Innes is a phenomenal musician (the writer/singer/pianist of most Rutles music). Along with Eric Idle, he wrote most of the music you hear in Monty Python movies. The animators Idle hired for this vid are the same folks who did the real Yellow Submarine.

Listen to more Rutles, and the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band (Neil Inne's first band). Neil still tours, playing Bonzo tunes, Rutles & Python songs, and more of his own work.

[TheLonersManual]

@Canaderek Oh thank you. Thanks for the info.

[grahampl]

This is just a massive Oasis rip off...Noel Gallican should sue.

[Ratelzwatel]

@grahampl This is from the 1970s. The Rutles should sue Oasis. :)

[grahampl]

@Ratelzwatel Do I have to spell it out? IRONY, oh yeah!

[Ratelzwatel]

@grahampl The Rutles would accidently sue themselves, anyway. :)

[glueforall]

@Ratelzwatel and that wanker from Monty Python who impersonated a Rutle!

[joethulhuz]

@grahampl Oasis steals everything from the Beatles, who the Rutles were based on. Your crappy cover-band can't even give the original artists credit. So just crawl in a corner and pretend your world is all right.

[grahampl]

@joethulhuz Do I have to spell it out? MORON, oh yeah!

[joethulhuz]

@grahampl Me? I think you replied to the wrong person. I was replying to a moron.

[Jazza54]

Neil Innes...Genius...checkout his website, all songs are free to download!

[hanghang71]

john lennon heard this song and couldn,t stop singing it

[videocanone]

Do I have to spell it out ? C H E E S E A N D O N I O N S oh no !

Ah, the Rutles ! parody of parodies ! Eric Idle and Neil Innes are incredible !

[Exilemainstreet]

They sooo captured Lennon's "deep echo" vocal effect.

[glueforall]

@Exilemainstreet actually sounds amazingly close to a "Lennon" vocal....great job

[demonsbutterfly]

Oasis could only dream of getting near this. And some tracks of Oasis i do like...This is as good as the said Beatles.

[ulfhirtha]

An experience to last a lunchtime ;-)

Innes and company did a splendid job in making these songs Bealtesque....

[ehrensenffan]

"You better think twice - at least once more.“ Stunning logic.

[ookkonaaoulusta]

very well. it is like i had come to home!

[jprg1966]

This good easily be a Lennon solo track haha

[LawsonMovies]

i made up lyrics to the song i am the waitress : Ill have the eggs mam theyl'll have the eggs mam i am the waitress

[FightingJEDI]

1:30

It took me a while to realize that those were supposed to be the blue meanies

[beansterman1998]

YELLOW SUBMARINE SANDWICH #FTW 

[tomthefunky]

My favorite is cheddar cheese and green onions.

[labora4best]

The city-maire of Bruges-Belgium booked them in 2010.

I saw them.

They were nothing but the perfect forgery of THE BEATLES.

But we sang, we had fun...not without mixed feelings.

Playing "The time machine" without fucking up not a single note ..hmm maybe not that bad...But A DEFENITE MAYBE that is, remains and will be.

[Chesterton7]

still a hysterical parody

[enginebelly]

This is amazing. Lennon is surely proud.

[navroful]

If only the Beatles made songs this great...

[SKYVOLTAGE]

"I Feel More Like Him Than Me"....

[joredpu]

I din't know this band till now, yes amazing, sounds just like Lennon.

[arjesme]

@joredpu It's not a band, it's from a movie!! Very good though, I agree.

[AstoriaMichelle99]

Man (and machine)...

keep yourself clean,

OR BE A HAS BEEN

Like a dinosaur.

I'm gettin' out of here too.

[12Zwolf]

; The Rutles are more popular than cheeses.

Cheers!

[SuperNevile]

@12Zwolf and were legends in their own lunchtimes! cheers

[12Zwolf]

; Oh, yes, consider their versatility, although they never openly sought it, over time, past time, breakfast time, dinner time, march time, Mark time, French Thyme, English Thyme, and Wild Thyme, plus the time-of-their-lives.

Cheers!

[sallyfieldrequired]

they managed to make a brilliant homage of the beatles without copying any of the chords or melodies directly unlike oasis

[DrRobert909]

Apparently this was featured on a rare Beatles Bootleg album as people really thought that this was John Lennon singing......That is funny!

[iddread]

@caulinrocker I'm just having fun! He's supposed to sound like Lennon.

[TheHadashi]

i like them

[DonVitoOR]

@paskinrobbins Personal opinions. Oasis ain't The Beatles.

[0xkrisix0]

reminds me Gillianimation. The Rutles are awesome. xD

[Orlor]

This ISN'T from 1969. The Rutles special wasn't made until the late 70's.



[Bizarronumber4]

I love this very subtle parody of the Fab Four's Yellow Submarine movie.