Neil Innes - When Does a Dream Begin?

an excerpt from Innes Book of Records

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Music

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• neil
• innes
• rutles
• bonzo

[SilverVulpine]

Innes was truly one of the most underrated, brilliant songwriters...

[egapnala65]

Ahh, good old Neil Innes. Wish they would reissue "Innes Book Of Records" on DVD. A show that combined absurdity with poignancy.

This song actually cropped up first in the last series of Monty Python.

[braitnicho]

Pure Class.

[Notebooked]

I was fascinated with this song since it appeared in Flying Circus, and I'm so happy that it turns out there was a longer version.

Back there, it just seemed like a lullaby/love-song sung by someone who was about to go off into war, but here it paints a different picture -- one of a lonely rich man, trying to study a happy couple and analyze exactly where love sprouts, exactly how a fantasy grows, exactly when a dream begins. Poor fellow can't figure it out, it seems.

[Elric33239]

This defines retro-chic! Hilarious and touching at the same time. They say when you steal from one source it's plagiarism, but if you steal from many sources it's research. Neil Innes is a rare talent and an excellent researcher.

[SiggiNebel]

I like the dancing in a way, but the dancing couple looks like they could really annoy me, once the dancing is over. I wonder what they would talk about, and how and I guess it could me make run away screaming.

[shitfacesam]

Note the form of transport, then look at the end of How Sweet to be an Idiot. I reckon our Neil likes his railways.

[TheSnowballEarth]

...and the tap-dancing annoys the shit out of me too. :-]

[zionravescene]

They should put this song in Fallout 3.

[HSMiyamoto]

I never realized that Neil was writing a parody of Noel Coward. This clip shows it. Thanks much.