Half man Half biscuit: OPO-line

As a kid this line puzzled me for years, and still does!

I have decided next year I am going to call my fantasy football team that.

Dawn: "WHAT?"
me: "urr, you had to be there I guess"

"Well I heard a lovely rumour,
That Bette Midler had a tumour,
So gleefully I went to tell my friends.
But they said it was a lie,
That she wasn't going to die,
And by the way, have we got news for you!"

comes pretty close

In fact pretty much the whole of Look Dad No Tunes is brilliant.

thou my fave ("In fact pretty much the whole of Look Dad No Tunes is brilliant" is a rather OTM statement) was quoted up thread.

http://s30.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=32AJ8E54R0W9Z2RJNZO1N2BH27

New album out at the start of September as well, entitled "Achtung Bono".

HALF PAST FOUR? HALF PAST FOUR? YOU SAID HALF PAST TEN TO US!!!

Ah, that is different!

"Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. It goes on for two hours because we've got a new Moog."

This is so true.

Currently:
"If it's her desire, I'll put my fingers in the fire / 'Cos I've got Joy Division oven gloves"

I saw them the other month and Nigel preceded Vatican Broadside with a rather lovely version of Laughing Len Cohen's Hallelujah. There was also a bit of The Mercy Seat in the middle of 24 Hour Garage People.

the best HMHB lyric is whichever one you're listening to at the moment

Possibly the most OTM thing in the history of ILM.

If you're going going to quote from the Book of Revelation/ Don't go calling it the "Book of Revelations"/ There's no "s", it's the Book of Revelation/ As revealed to St John the Divine

Is your child hyperactive or is he just at twat?

I don't know what to do/ I've only got three bullets and there's four of Motley Crue

NICK FUCKING KNOWLES!

... and a pulled up at Bangor-On-Dee

Sometimes instead of Arthur Lee/ I'd much prefer some Arthur Lowe

We all new somebody at primary school who had a very powerful magnet

See also Mary Hopkin/She must despair

xpost

"I've died and gone to hell, and then I've fallen through a trapdoor and landed on planet progrock"

"I asked if you would like to go along to see the Rocky Horror Picture Show/ You said you'd love to, so I murdered your family, because I hate the Rocky Horror Picture Show/ Besides, I'm going browsing around hardware shops"

I, bloody quadhopper, shall be the judge of that ;)

fwiw I thought the last album was excellent and maybe a National Shite Day short of CSI:A

I was kinda disappointed w/ "Achtung Bono"

Excavating Rita MIGHT be NB's best melodic songwriting hour to date

Anyway, Tranmere might get relegated out of the Football League, Nigel will commit suicide and we can all move on

i never particularly liked National Shite Day (preferred Bad Wools for that template), but yes, some v good stuff on the last one - tho nothing to beat the righteous opening quarter on CSI:A. and would be interested to hear what you think of this latest - can't work out whether it's me or them, but i think they're too close to some fans, and not willing as a consequence to be more rebarbative. that could be completely wrong of course, born of watching the live dynamics between them and some fans who obviously follow them everywhere.

yeah I think I erred there - it has a (less lyrically poetic) Shite Day, but no Problem Chimp, no anarchic musical fuckaround that somehow completely works

Is there one on the new one that fulfils the Joyce -> Rita -> ? continuum of sublime ornate-songwriting genius?

The Bain of Constance feels like it should by name, but it's not really that sort of song. Hmm. Just had a quick review of the songs. 'No' i think is the answer.

think Stiperstones was the Problem Chimp on the last one - instead of gleeful chaos we get full-on mental breakdown, everything curdling to mania. Quite appreciate that.

Also, aw :(

Will review, though

Problem Chimp had those awesome rhyming couplets though

HMHB are the sort of band that encourage songwriting archetype trainspotting but maybe they really are changing whatever formula they may have had

Many laugh out loud moments abound.

I went to see them for the first time not too long ago.

Taking a good look around, I'm guessing it was like attending a real ale convention. Cruelly ironic

I wasn't too keen on the last album either tbh, loved "Ambleside"

The Bain of Constance feels like it should by name, but it's not really that sort of song. Hmm. Just had a quick review of the songs. 'No' i think is the answer.

― Fizzles, Wednesday, October 22, 2014 11:27 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Listening now and it's My Outstretched Arms obviously! :D

Almost TOO similar to Rita, but lyrically very strong. HMHB's romance songs are great

The Bain Of Constance, for its part, rips off Magazine's Believe That I Understand something rotten. Bad Nigel!

"Adam Boyle Has Cast Lad Rock Aside" rings very true re things like www.caughtbytheriver.net/

In Fizzle's bucolic vein mentioned above, I am very fond of:

"I wanna fly my biplane
Low over Swaffham
I wanna wave at astonished rustics
I’m gonna plead profitless chicanery"

yeesh, yerright FIzzles, this is pretty boring - will have to listen a few times, see if the lyrics sink in. So far I've only really been impressed with the first two and Arms - it's terribly frontloaded

last two tracks were ok to good

but yeah this is horribly frontloaded

Chipping in to agree violently. A very average record wig some obvious parody and self-parody moments - "as told to the boil on the cab driver's neck" turns up on two albums on the spin, the second time repeated on this with a tired-sounding "again" tacked on - provide a veneer attempting to give he listener the impression there's more, but I think that's all it is; a veneer.

Baguette Dilemma Is supposed to be The Birthday Party, yes? Nigel comes in all hoarse and says "a-whoopin' and a-hollerin' " which I'm certain is a Nick Cave lift, and the bass solo that starts near the end is supposed to be Tracey Pew I'm sure.

At this time of my life I have no need for a HMHB instrumental track.

Speaking of The Birthday Party I only just discovered this the other day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YeqJCcHY4Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRtZDOqSk3A&feature=youtu.be

The entirety of Get Kramer

'OK, Let's pedestrianise the High Street!'