Half man Half biscuit: OPO-line

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

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"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"

'you're optimism strikes me like junk mail addressed to the dead'

'with my rugby shirt signed by justin hayward, i will rule the world....playing risk'

"It fills me with joy to see moshers out jogging"

"I can put a tennis racket up against my face and pretend that I am Kendo Nagasaki"

Look, my favourite song by them remains the one that caused me to fall in love with them in the first place "Reasons To Be Miserable". That doesn't mean I have a ready handy one-line quote from them, take pity on me, I'm an American. Thanks.

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

This is true. I thank the people on this thread for giving me the joy of listening to all the albums again for two days straight.

I just wish they could be like the Bonzos and have some kind of random mega hit single and make LOADS AND LOADS of money. Like what they deserve.

"If you're going to quote the Book Of Revelation, don't go calling it the Book Of Revelations."

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!'