It is a whopping year for Monty Python, what with that reunion tour you may have heard about, alongside that 50 year anniversary that's been brushed under the carpet.

As such, it would be rude, callous almost, not to celebrate with an utterly humiliating British singalong. Thankfully, this endeavour is in the process of being made rather easy for ourselves with the news from Eric Idle that there is to be a re-release of the 1989 compilation Monty Python Sings, enigmatically titled Monty Python Sings (Again). The bumper edition collection of the gents at their tuneful best will also include five new numbers, including one about 'U Tube'. So, what better time to hastily cobble together five 'U Tube' clips of our favourite Monty Python songs throughout the ages? Let the carefully combed, arduous process begin...

The Lumberjack Song

A song that, at one point or another, has certainly rang true with some of you, we're sure, The Lumberjack Song is a Flying Circus classic from 1969, performed by Michael Palin, with Connie Booth his best girl by his side.

As far as lumberjacklore goes, we can't think of a better song that fully and accurately documents the life of the humble wood-chopper, with each verse celebrating a different lumberjack hobby to perfection; whether it be pressing wild flowers, cutting down trees, or of course, wearing lovely bras just like dear Papa.

Camelot

From 1975's Monty Python And The Holy Grail, this cheerful ditty introduces King Arthur and his Knights to wonderful Camelot - complete with chorus scenes, incredible dance sequences, and enviable rhyming skills including 'table' with 'Clark Gable' and 'Camelot' with 'Spam a lot' - which of course, ended up taking the name of the rather successful Monty Python musical years later.

The song is so overwhelmingly cheerful, that it repels King Arthur instantly, and the group gallop away in disgust. "Actually, let's not go to Camelot. It is a silly place."

Brian Song

With booming brass clearly influenced from John Barry's James Bond series, the title track to Life Of Brian welcomed us into the most famous Python movie with open trumpets. Boisterously performed by Sonia Jones as Shirley Bassey's lung surrogate, the track highlighted our star's life, straight from his conception to puberty. What other movie can say they've covered their title character's personal details, right down to their pubic hair, in the opening couple of minutes?

Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life

Another from Life Of Brian now as, after all, we'd be dragged out and shot somewhere dark and stormy if we were to neglect it. Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: rigorously overplayed to death, awkwardly performed at the London Olympics Closing Ceremony, but always instilled in our hearts as the perfect tune to hum during an existential crisis.

Complete with a rhyming couplet which will probably get attributed to Shakespeare later on down in history, always remember when in times of trouble: "Life's a piece of shit/when you look at it."

Spam

Spam is to Monty Python what oxygen is to life, so our final pick could only be their musical homage to our seventh favourite ubiquitous meat substance. Born from the 1970 Flying Circus greasy spoon sketch, Spam is a simple, eloquent song, centred mostly around spam, with a spam-centred chorus, and a few spam undertones if you really examine the lyrics. During the final episode of Flying Circus the word was uttered a rough estimate of 132 times, and it's this sketch that gives that pest of inboxes the world over its name.