Half man Half biscuit: OPO-line

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!'