High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (or simply Contractual Obligation Album) is an album released by Monty Python in 1980. It contains a mixture of mainly songs, some new sketches, and some pre-Python work (rerecorded). As the title suggests, the album was put together to complete a contract with Charisma Records. At least one of the skits on the album ("Bookshop," also called "Bookship Sketch") predates the group itself, having been performed on the ITV series At Last the 1948 Show in 1967.