Video: Mick Jagger introduces Monty Python press conference!


Complete Monty Python LP and CD sets now up for order!

Amazon is now listing Monty Python's Total Rubbish - a complete collection of all the troupe's audio releases -- on both vinyl and CD.

The set will feature all nine of Monty Python’s albums: Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Another Monty Python Record, Monty Python’s Previous Record, Matching Tie and Handkerchief, Live at Drury Lane, Holy Grail, Life of Brian, Monty Python’s Contractual Obligation Album and The Meaning Of Life.

Both the CD and vinyl sets comes with a 45 rpm vinyl copy of the group's 1974 flexi-disc, Monty Python’s Tiny Black Round Thing.

Both sets are out July 8.






 

New music July 1, 2014: Levon Helm, Pink Floyd, Game of Thrones, Brian Eno, Spanky and Our Gang, Four Seasons, more!

Click the links to order discounted CDs, vinyl and downloads from Amazon.


The Midnight Ramble Sessions, Volume 3 by Levon Helm


The Division Bell 20th Deluxe Box by Pink Floyd


Game Of Thrones (Music from the HBO Series) Season 4


High Life by Eno and Hyde


The Complete Mercury Singles by Spanky and Our Gang


The Classic Albums Box by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons


Selected Solo Works by Franie Valli


Gal Costa


Modern Classics-Greatest Hits by Paul Weller


Would You Like to Go: Songs From the Curt Boettcher Songbook by Beth Sorrentino

Pop Focus: Super Friends of the 1970s!

Seven-year-old me couldn't wait to see the debut of "The Super Friends" on Sept. 8, 1973. ABC aired a sneak preview of it, along with the rest of its new Saturday morning lineup the night before.

I don't know if I slept a wink. But I still managed to awake in time to catch the show. Thank goodness since, in the days before VCRs, if you missed it, you missed it.

I was a huge Batman fan. I liked Superman. At this point, I was starting to pick up comics here and there, but didn't yet know a thing about Wonder Woman or Aquaman. I really dug Aquaman, as I was really into swimming at time. I used to plunge underwater and swim as far as I could before surfacing.

By statute in the 1970s, all Hanna-Barbera cartoons were obligated to feature a goofy dog, which the Super Friends did, along with "kids-we-could-identify-with" Wendy and Marvin. Even at 7, I wanted less of these goofballs and more superheroes.

Later, of course. Wendy and Marvin were replaced by the super-powered Wonder Twins. Which was just as lame. Making them super-powered didn't make them superheroes. Get out of the way so I can see more Batman.

Below are some pics, videos and memorabilia of the early Super Friends. Over the course of the 70s, the series changed its lineup and name and I grew up. I don't know a damn thing about "Challenge of the Super Friends" and the "Legendary Super Powers Show" or any of that. For me it all started i 1973 and ended a few years later.







 In the early 1970s, Mego had the rights to make DC Comics-based action figures. And this was a very good thing. However, it little in the way of Super Friends-branded toys. There was a lunchbox, though.




The great comics artist Alex Toth did the character designs for the Super Friends. His career in animation also saw him work on Space Ghost, Johnny Quest and many other Saturday Morning favorites of the 1960s and 70s.






I also have fond memories of -- and still own--  this DC tabloid edition featuring Justice League reprints and a feature written and illustrated by Toth about the animation process.




I have a few issues of the DC's Super Friends comics series, but quickly opted for the real deal in the Justice League, instead. The Super Friends comics were recently reprinted in one of DC's giant Showcase Presents volumes.