Fitness to Practice
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| Fitness to Practice | ||
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| Studio album by Amateur Transplants | ||
| Released | 2004 | |
| Recorded | Imperial College London Studios | |
| Genre | Medical Comedy | |
| Length | 46:50 | |
| Label | N/A | |
| Producer(s) | Rosh G | |
Fitness to Practice is an album produced for charity by Dr Adam Kay and Dr Suman Biswas (aka: Amateur Transplants) in 2004. 10% of the profits from the album sales go to Macmillan Cancer Relief. The album costs £9.99 for people in the UK and £12.99 for overseas orders. There is now a newly remastered version of the album available with two bonus tracks, Northern Birds and What I went to SKL 4, and full lyrics for all of the songs on the album, on sale for the same price. The album is published on the Friday Audio label of The Friday Project.
The album contains extremely strong language and therefore, according to the official website, "should not be bought for an elderly maiden aunt."
Contents |
[edit] Track listing
- "Paracetamoxyfrusebendroneomycin"
- "Nothing at All"
- "Finals Countdown"
- "Your Baby"
- "Disney Time"
- "Eternal Clerking"
- "The Menstrual Rag"
- "London Underground"
- "Mr Burton"
- "Snippets"
- "Careless Surgeon"
- "Dorsal Horn Concerto"
- "The Drugs Song"
- "Always Look on the Bright Side"
- "A Letter to the Patient's GP Please, Angela"
Bonus Tracks:
- 16. Northern Birds
- 17. What I went to SKL 4
Paracetamoxyfrusebendroneomycin, Nothing at All, The Menstrual Rag, London Underground, Snippets, The Drugs Song, and two new songs; the NHS Song (a parody of Nizlopi's JCB Song) and Sheila's Wheels (a parody of the jingle for a car insurance television advert in the UK), can be downloaded for free at the official website, albeit at a lower quality.
[edit] Parody information
- Paracetamoxyfrusebendroneomycin - "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from Walt Disney's Mary Poppins It is about a fictional new drug from "SmaxoGlithKline" (a parody of GlaxoSmithKline) which acts as an all-purpose medicine for any condition, with some lamentable side effects, which are blamed on it being "fucking cheap" and the state of the NHS.
- Nothing at All - "When You Say Nothing At All" by Paul Overstreet and Don Schlitz, covered by Ronan Keating
- Finals Countdown - "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel
- Your Baby - "My Baby Just Cares for Me" by Walter Donaldson (music) and Gus Kahn (lyrics), best known version by Nina Simone
- Disney Time - "Under The Sea" from Walt Disney's The Little Mermaid and "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" by Solomon Linda
- Eternal Clerking - "Eternal Flame" by The Bangles
- The Menstrual Rag - "The Vatican Rag" by Tom Lehrer
- London Underground - "Going Underground" by The Jam
- Mr Burton - "Any Dream Will Do" from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice
- Snippets - "Hand in My Pocket" by Alanis Morissette, "Macarena" by Los del Río, "Yellow" by Coldplay, "If I Only Had A Brain" from The Wizard of Oz by Howard Arlen (music) and E.Y. Harburg (lyrics), "Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)" by Phil Collins, "Sultans of Swing" by Dire Straits, "One" by U2, "Take On Me" by A-ha
- Careless Surgeon - "Careless Whisper" by George Michael
- Dorsal Horn Concerto - "Rondo" (3rd movement) from Horn Concerto No. 4 in E flat major K.495 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, which was famously parodied by Flanders and Swann in their song "Ill Wind".
- The Drugs Song - "The Elements" by Tom Lehrer, which in turn is a parody of "I am the very model of a modern Major-General" from The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan
- Always Look on the Bright Side - "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" from Monty Python's Life of Brian by Eric Idle
- A Letter to the Patient's GP Please, Angela
Bonus Tracks:
- 16. Northern Birds - "More Than Words" by Extreme
- 17. What I went to SKL 4 - "What I Go to School For" by Busted
[edit] Miscellanea
- Both "The Drugs Song" and "The Menstrual Rag" are parodies of Tom Lehrer's songs, "The Elements" and "The Vatican Rag" respectively.
