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Monty Python’s Total Rubbish

Monty Python’s Total Rubbish (2014)
Monty Python’s Total Rubbish is a 2014 boxed set collecting remastered editions of the nine original albums of British comedy troupe Monty Python on nine CDs or ten LPs. It was released on 30 June 2014.

Monty Python’s Total Rubbish: Complete Collection is complete indeed. Or complete enough, at any rate. It’s a collection of all nine albums the comedy troupe released in the U.K., remastered and split among nine CDs (or 10 vinyl LPs) with a lavish book featuring a foreword from Michael Palin and archival photos.

It’s not the first compilation the Pythons have released: they’ve put out a steady stream of best-of discs over the years, and repackaged eight of their albums into The Instant Monty Python CD Collection, a six-disc box set, in 1994. That would have sufficed, if not for the annoying way the discs were organized: instead of individual tracks for each sketch, each of the eight albums in the collection was split into vinyl sides, meaning there were two tracks per CD, along with a list of what each 20-plus minute track contained.

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