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Egon Bondy's Happy Hearts Club Banned

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Released
  
1978

Length
  
52:54

Label
  
Globus Music

Recorded
  
1974-1975

Release date
  
1978

Genre
  
Rock music

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Egon Bondy's Happy Hearts Club Banned (rec. 1974/75)
  
Pašijové hry velikonoční (rec. 1978)

Artist
  
The Plastic People of the Universe

Rock music albums
  
Absolutely Free, Owsley, Slade in Flame, John Farnham & Tom Jone, Elton John One Night Only – Th

The plastic people of the universe egon bondy s happy hearts club banned 1974 full album


Egon Bondy's Happy Hearts Club Banned is an album by Czech underground band The Plastic People of the Universe. It was recorded in 1974/75, mainly at Houska Castle, enabled by the castle's then warden Svatopluk Karásek, with some songs being recorded in Prague. The album could not be officially released and distributed under the former Communist regime in Czechoslovakia; instead fans duplicated tapes with one another, often resulting in poor technical quality. It was released in 1978 in France by SCOPA Invisible Production. In the Czech Republic a remastered version was published in 2001 by Globus Music. The album title is a parody of The Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Most of the songs on the record are settings of poems by Egon Bondy. The author of the album title is Ivan Hartl, a Czechoslovak emigrant living in London.

Contents

Track listing

All music composed by Milan Hlavsa; texts are listed.

  1. "Dvacet" (lyrics: Egon Bondy)
  2. "Zácpa" (lyrics: Egon Bondy)
  3. "Toxika" (lyrics: Egon Bondy)
  4. "Magické noci" (lyrics: Egon Bondy)
  5. "M.G.M." (instrumental)
  6. "Okolo okna" (lyrics: Egon Bondy)
  7. "Elegie" (lyrics: Egon Bondy)
  8. "Podivuhodný mandarin" (lyrics: Egon Bondy)
  9. "Nikdo" (lyrics: Egon Bondy)
  10. "Jó-to se ti to spí" (lyrics: Egon Bondy)
  11. "Já a Mike" (lyrics: Kurt Vonnegut; translated to Czech by Jaroslav Kořán)
  12. "Ranní ptáče" (lyrics: Egon Bondy)
  13. "Francovka" (lyrics: Egon Bondy)
  14. "Jednou nohou" (instrumental)
  15. "Spofa blues" (lyrics: Egon Bondy)
  16. "Apokalyptickej pták" (lyrics: Pavel Zajíček)
  17. "Píseň brance" (lyrics: František Pánek)

Personnel

  • Milan Hlavsa – bass guitar, vocals
  • Josef Janíček – claviphone, guitar, vibraphone, vocals
  • Jiří Kabeš – violin, vocals
  • Vratislav Brabenec – alt saxophone
  • Jiří Šula – drums
  • Jaroslav Vožniak – drums
  • Vasil Šnajdr – flute
  • Zdeněk Fišer – theremin

    • Songs

    1Twenty1:57
    2Constipation8:01
    3Toxic Chemicals4:00

    References

    Egon Bondy's Happy Hearts Club Banned Wikipedia
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