Roger Ruskin Spear: Unusual

The second (and, to date, last) solo LP from one of the founding members of the Bonzo Dog Band. I prefer his 1972 full-length Electric Shocks (available on a nice CD reissue with his 1971 EP Rebel Trouser), but take any opportunity to hear “When Yuba Plays the Rhumba on the Tuba Down in Cuba”, I say. Plus there’s a contrabass sax here. As Dune’s Baron Harkonnen so aptly observed, “He who controls the contrabass saxophone controls the universe!” Well, at least until someone with a Tubax shows up.

Pinball Wizard

On Her Doorstep Last Night

Trouble With My Trousers

Shove Off Shostakovich

I Love To Bumpity-Bump (On a Bumpy Road with You)

When Yuba Plays the Rhumba on the Tuba Down in Cuba

Frank the Ripper

Morecambe and Wise

Heartbreak Hotel

My Goodness How (Or The Revolutionary New Concrete Mixer Show)

Unusual

LP audio & artwork

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