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Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album
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Professional ratings<table><tbody><tr><th scope="col" colspan="2">Review scores</th></tr><tr><th scope="col">Source</th><th scope="col">Rating</th></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Allmusic/Hb8cU8Fb">Allmusic</a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><i><a href="/facts/Billboard_(magazine)/CVruQGq5">Billboard</a></i></td><td>(unrated)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i>Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album</i> is the final studio album by <a href="/facts/Monty_Python/tNPcRLty">Monty Python</a>, released in 1980. As the title suggests, the album was put together to complete a contract with <a href="/facts/Charisma_Records/PombPRyn">Charisma Records</a>. Besides newly written songs and sketches, the sessions saw re-recordings of material that dated back to the 1960s pre-Python shows <i><a href="/facts/I%27m_Sorry,_I%27ll_Read_That_Again/WdGGXwgS">I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again</a></i>, <i><a href="/facts/The_Frost_Report/GVt5W236">The Frost Report</a></i>, <i><a href="/facts/At_Last_The_1948_Show/BS10TmQw">At Last The 1948 Show</a></i> and <i><a href="/facts/How_To_Irritate_People/Jg2gpL8k">How To Irritate People</a></i>. One track, "Bells", dates from the sessions for <i><a href="/facts/Monty_Python%27s_Previous_Record/hC6odj46">Monty Python's Previous Record</a></i>, while further material was adapted from <a href="/facts/Eric_Idle/8zfXrh4j">Eric Idle</a>'s post-Python series <i><a href="/facts/Rutland_Weekend_Television/CyEcMTEm">Rutland Weekend Television</a></i>. The group also reworked material written but discarded from early drafts of <i><a href="/facts/Life_Of_Brian/tmI0dJ3w">Life Of Brian</a></i>, as well as the initial scripts for what would eventually become <i><a href="/facts/Monty_Python%27s_The_Meaning_of_Life/5a64oEl1">The Meaning Of Life</a></i>. </p>