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Nice article on Crackerbox Palace.
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Saw the video to this one yesterday. Very Python-esque, especially if you have Eric Idle and Neil Innes involved.
"It's twue, it's twue!"
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12 November 2015

SgtPeppersBulldog said
Saw the video to this one yesterday. Very Python-esque, especially if you have Eric Idle and Neil Innes involved."It's twue, it's twue!"
There's a good video for This Song as well with the same people. There's actually quite a lot of George videos out there if you dig around a little.
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Love this song, it's very cheery and evocative at the same time, and for once the overabundant synths are actually a good thing. Perhaps it's the video influencing my perception, but I could swear it sounds as though he sings it with a smirk. Definitely a highlight of 33 & 1/3.
The video is brilliantly daft; I love to scar people's minds with it. They never hear the song the same way again!
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I actually never noticed that, I was too distracted by the other goings-on.
Concerning the actual SONG, I have always wondered what it's really about. I know he wrote it after seeing Lord Buckley's house (Crackrbox Palace), but that doesn't help me much with decoding the verses.
A YouTube comment I once saw offered the interpretation that it was about growing up in the Catholic church. I think that's a very interesting take, but somehow I can't quite picture George writing that obscurely on the subject. I always sort of figured it was about childhood, society, and life in general... it's very vague.
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8 January 2015

Crackerbox Palace for me is about the world and George's relationship with it. All the temptations are there, all the things that pull him this way and that, all the maya he's lumbered with, from himself and what other people put on him. Also his home and him, its a bunch of symbolism mashed together. The video is obviously Pythonic, from pepperpots, to church police (Neil Innes), and the Major and of course directed by Eric Idle (who gives himself a cameo too). There's supposed to be a lot of the Rutland Television people in it. I'm doubtful of the John Cleese appearance, he's supposed to be Princess Margaret waving but it could be anyone.
Of course it has to be a crackerbox because biscuits!
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