Let's Make Up and Be Friendly

Let's Make Up And Be Friendly was the fifth and, until 2007, final original album by the Bonzo Dog Band. The group had already disbanded when United Artists Records (which absorbed the Bonzos' label Liberty Records) informed band members that the group owed the label one more album. This farewell album was the result. In 2007 the album was re-issued on CD by EMI with 6 bonus tracks. Some of these bonus tracks were not performed by the Bonzos, but were actually solo recordings by the members of the group.

This was their last album of new material featuring all original members until the band's reunion in 2006, by which time Vivian Stanshall was deceased. A new studio album, Pour l'Amour des Chiens (French for For the Love of Dogs), was released on December 2007.

Sleeve Notes

Friendly is the only Bonzo Dog Band album to feature an image of the eponymous "Bonzo Dog".

Track listing

Side one

1. "The Strain"
2. "Turkeys"
3. "King Of Scurf"
4. "Waiting For The Wardrobe"
5. "Straight From My Heart"
6. "Rusty (Champion Thrust)"

Side two

1. "Rawlinson End"
2. "Don't Get Me Wrong"
3. "Fresh Wound"
4. "Bad Blood"
5. "Slush"

Bonus tracks on 2007 re-issue CD

1. "Sofa Head"
2. "Jam" (by Topo D Bill)
3. "I Love To Bumpity Bump" (by Roger Ruskin Spear)
4. "Lie Down & Be Counted" (by Neil Innes)
5. "Bride Stripped Bare By 'Bachelors' (early version)
6. "No Matter Who You Vote For The Government Always Gets In" (demo)

There are a few differences between British and American versions

• "Rusty"
  • UK: fades out at end
  • US: does not fade out and continues on past where UK's ends
• Time difference
  • The UK album has a longer time gap between "Waiting for the Wardrobe" & "Straight from my Heart" and between "Bad Blood" & "Slush" than the US.