Pour l'Amour des Chiens

Pour l'Amour des Chiens
Studio album by The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
Released	12 December 2007
Genre	Comedy rock
Label	Storming
Producer	Mickey Simmonds Neil Innes
The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band chronology
Let's Make Up and Be Friendly (1972) Pour l'Amour Des Chiens (2007)

Pour l'Amour Des Chiens (French meaning For the Love of Dogs) is the first all new studio album by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band in 35 years. It was released on 12 December 2007, produced by Mickey Simmonds and Neil Innes.

The album was performed by original group members Neil Innes, Roger Ruskin Spear, Rodney Slater, 'Legs' Larry Smith, Vernon Dudley Bohay-Nowell, Martin 'Sam Spoons' Ash, and Bob Kerr, with New Millennium Bonzos Adrian Edmondson, Stephen Fry, and Phill Jupitus. Also credited are Mickey Simmonds (musical director), David Catlin-Birch (guitar and vocals), Johnny Marter (drums and percussion) and Steve Barnacle (bass and jazz guitar).

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]

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.^[3]

Track listing — CD+DVD Edition

Disc 1

1. "Pour l'Amour Des Chiens" (Innes)
2. "Let's All Go to Mary's House" (Arranged by The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band)
3. "Hawkeye the Gnu" (Arr. Slater/Innes)
4. "Making Faces at the Man in the Moon" (Rich/Smith/Hoffman)
5. "Fiasco" (Innes)
6. "Purple Sprouting Broccoli" (Ash)
7. "Old Tige" (Burke/Burke/Reeves)
8. "Wire People" (Ash/Innes)
9. "Salmon Proust" (Innes)
10. "Democracy" (Innes)
11. "I Predict a Riot" (Hodgson/Wilson/Rix/Baines/White)
12. "Scarlet Ribbons" (Danzig/Segal)
13. "Paws" (Jupitus)
14. "And We're Back" (Innes)
15. "Stadium Love" (Innes/Heatherington/Fraser-Simpson/Milne)
16. "Mornington Crescent" (Simmonds)
17. "L'Essence d'Hooligan" (Innes)
18. "Early Morning Train" (Innes)
19. "My Friends Outside" (Spear)
20. "For the Benefit Of Mankind" (Innes)
21. "Beautiful People" (Edmondson)
22. "Ego Warriors" (Innes)
23. "Cockadoodle Tato" (Innes)
24. "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" (Burke/Dubin)
25. "Sweet Memories" (Smith)
26. "Sudoku Forecast" (Jupitus)
27. "Now You're Asleep" (Stanshall/Catlin-Birch)
28. "Jean Baudrillard" (Innes)

Disc 2

1. "My Brother Makes the Noises for the Talkies"
2. "Trouser Press"
3. "Les Deux Callapsos / The Monster Mash"
4. "Jollity Farm"
5. "The Canyons of Your Mind / The Equestrian Statue"
6. "The Urban Spaceman"

Track listing — CD-only Edition

1. "Pour l'Amour Des Chiens" (Innes)
2. "Let's All Go to Mary's House" (Arranged by The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band)
3. "Hawkeye the Gnu" (Arr. Slater/Innes)
4. "Making Faces at the Man in the Moon" (Rich/Smith/Hoffman)
5. "Fiasco" (Innes)
6. "Purple Sprouting Broccoli" (Ash)
7. "Old Tige" (Burke/Burke/Reeves)
8. "Wire People" (Ash/Innes)
9. "Salmon Proust" (Innes)
10. "Democracy" (Innes)
11. "I Predict a Riot" (Hodgson/Wilson/Rix/Baines/White)
12. "Paws" (Jupitus)
13. "And We're Back" (Innes)
14. "We Are Normal"
15. "L'Essence d'Hooligan" (Innes)
16. "Early Morning Train" (Innes)
17. "My Friends Outside" (Spear)
18. "For the Benefit Of Mankind" (Innes)
19. "Beautiful People" (Edmondson)
20. "Ego Warriors" (Innes)
21. "Cockadoodle Tato" (Innes)
22. "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" (Burke/Dubin)
23. "Sudoku Forecast" (Jupitus)
24. "Now You're Asleep" (Stanshall/Catlin-Birch)
25. "Jean Baudrillard" (Innes)

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