in november the bonzos released their second album "the doughnut in granny's greenhouse" (the title being a quaint euphemism for an outside toilet), which showcased a marked change in musical direction from "gorilla". after an introductory series of straight-faced street interviews with bewildered pedestrians (conducted by current bassist joel druckman and featuring the public's reactions to vivian stanshall cavorting about wearing only his underpants, shoes and a papier-mache rabbit head) self-proclaimed 'breezy opener' "we are normal" soon launches itself towards a faintly terrifying zappa-esque psychedelic crescendo. elsewhere, "can blue men sing the whites?" rather savagely teases some of the heavy-hitters of the then highly-fashionable british blues boom against a reasonably-authentic brit-blues musical backdrop of its own. other songs such as "postcard" and "my pink half of the drainpipe" skewer parochial suburban british pastimes and attitudes, while the anarchic "trouser press" — featuring a 'solo' by roger ruskin spear on a genuine trouser press he had had fitted with a pickup – later gave its name to the american anglophile rock magazine "trouser press". 1920s-style croon-along "hello mabel" (complete with musical flock of sheep) is the only real reminder of the bonzos' original musical style, while "eleven moustachioed daughters", stanshall's darkly tribal homage to screamin' jay hawkins' "feast of the mau-mau", closes the lp in an unexpectedly nightmarish manner.