― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 28 November 2003 15:55 (twenty years ago) link
― zappi (joni), Friday, 28 November 2003 16:00 (twenty years ago) link
― retort pouch (retort pouch), Friday, 28 November 2003 16:16 (twenty years ago) link
― charltonlido (gareth), Friday, 28 November 2003 16:27 (twenty years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 28 November 2003 19:27 (twenty years ago) link
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― OleM (OleM), Saturday, 29 November 2003 23:47 (twenty years ago) link
― everything, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 07:06 (nineteen years ago) link
As a kid this line puzzled me for years, and still does!
― mzui (mzui), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 07:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― rwillmsen (rwillmsen), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 09:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 09:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 09:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 10:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 11:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― everything, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 13:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ark Hopping (avoid80), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 14:59 (nineteen years ago) link
I have decided next year I am going to call my fantasy football team that.
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― snails, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:50 (nineteen years ago) link
Dawn: "WHAT?"me: "urr, you had to be there I guess"
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:11 (nineteen years ago) link
"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
― Chris Trew, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 15:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 19 August 2005 07:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 August 2005 08:05 (nineteen years ago) link
In fact pretty much the whole of Look Dad No Tunes is brilliant.
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 19 August 2005 10:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― mzui (mzui), Friday, 19 August 2005 10:35 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― jive session (elwisty), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― mzui (mzui), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:26 (nineteen years ago) link
http://s30.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=32AJ8E54R0W9Z2RJNZO1N2BH27
New album out at the start of September as well, entitled "Achtung Bono".
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― s/c (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:33 (nineteen years ago) link
HALF PAST FOUR? HALF PAST FOUR? YOU SAID HALF PAST TEN TO US!!!
― mzui (mzui), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:40 (nineteen years ago) link
Ah, that is different!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 August 2005 16:42 (nineteen years ago) link
"Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. It goes on for two hours because we've got a new Moog."
― Gukbe (lokar), Friday, 19 August 2005 17:06 (nineteen years ago) link
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"
― retort pouch (retort pouch), Saturday, 20 August 2005 03:01 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 09:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 10:01 (nineteen years ago) link
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
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 27 August 2005 18:34 (nineteen years ago) link
We all new somebody at primary school who had a very powerful magnet
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 27 August 2005 18:41 (nineteen years ago) link
See also Mary Hopkin/She must despair
xpost
― Ark Hopping (avoid80), Saturday, 27 August 2005 18:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 27 August 2005 18:51 (nineteen years ago) link
"I've died and gone to hell, and then I've fallen through a trapdoor and landed on planet progrock"
― Kester, Saturday, 1 April 2006 01:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 12:49 (eighteen years ago) link
just a sort lumpen bloke culture, imago. it's tiresome enough when you encounter it out and about - a large number in one place chanting and it got a bit wicker man.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 19 October 2014 11:03 (nine years ago) link
In bed againCan’t be bothered getting upSwing the lead againI’m just waiting for the manFrom CamelotTelling meThat I’ve won the LotteryLet’s trashThe Murder Mystery WeekendLets stage a couldn’t-give-a-thonSummertime’s hereAnd I’ve got no hassleI could be a gothOn a bouncy castleWouldn’t it be niceTo call off the Barn DanceWouldn’t it be niceTo sabotage theHot Pot Supper
― Chimp Arsons, Sunday, 19 October 2014 13:11 (nine years ago) link
it feels invidious to complain, but fuck it. this album is a bit of a bore. the dropping of parodic elements to their music in favour of fairly strate rockabillly/rock since Trouble Over Bridgewater hasn't been a problem with some a couple of excellent albums - CLSC, CSI: Ambleside, and the other ones have been good, with some excellent songs on. but this latest is very dull. the enjoyable dreary inventiveness of their early albums has been absent for a while. lumpen chantalong rock for the politically insular soft-wing lower league blokes who use irony-so-called to have their cake and eat it.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 10:57 (nine years ago) link
I, bloody quadhopper, shall be the judge of that ;)
― joie de marsh (imago), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 11:04 (nine years ago) link
fwiw I thought the last album was excellent and maybe a National Shite Day short of CSI:A
― joie de marsh (imago), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 11:07 (nine years ago) link
I was kinda disappointed w/ "Achtung Bono"
― Mark G, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 11:08 (nine years ago) link
Excavating Rita MIGHT be NB's best melodic songwriting hour to date
― joie de marsh (imago), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 11:10 (nine years ago) link
Anyway, Tranmere might get relegated out of the Football League, Nigel will commit suicide and we can all move on
― joie de marsh (imago), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 11:13 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 11:13 (nine years ago) link
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
― joie de marsh (imago), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 11:16 (nine years ago) link
Is there one on the new one that fulfils the Joyce -> Rita -> ? continuum of sublime ornate-songwriting genius?
― joie de marsh (imago), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 11:19 (nine years ago) link
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, 22 October 2014 11:27 (nine years ago) link
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.
― joie de marsh (imago), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 11:33 (nine years ago) link
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
― joie de marsh (imago), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 11:35 (nine years ago) link
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
― Jessie Fer Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 11:54 (nine years ago) link
I wasn't too keen on the last album either tbh, loved "Ambleside"
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 12:50 (nine years ago) link
― 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
― joie de marsh (imago), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 14:06 (nine years ago) link
Almost TOO similar to Rita, but lyrically very strong. HMHB's romance songs are great
― joie de marsh (imago), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 14:07 (nine years ago) link
The Bain Of Constance, for its part, rips off Magazine's Believe That I Understand something rotten. Bad Nigel!
― joie de marsh (imago), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 14:11 (nine years ago) link
"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 biplaneLow over SwaffhamI wanna wave at astonished rusticsI’m gonna plead profitless chicanery"
― Stevie T, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 14:14 (nine years ago) link
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
― joie de marsh (imago), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 14:25 (nine years ago) link
last two tracks were ok to good
but yeah this is horribly frontloaded
― joie de marsh (imago), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 14:41 (nine years ago) link
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.
― the bowels are not what they seem (aldo), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 15:43 (nine years ago) link
Speaking of The Birthday Party I only just discovered this the other day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YeqJCcHY4Y
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRtZDOqSk3A&feature=youtu.be
― these are my pincers and if you don't like them I have udders (DJ Mencap), Friday, 16 October 2015 13:40 (eight years ago) link
The entirety of Get Kramer
― imago, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 16:54 (seven years ago) link
'OK, Let's pedestrianise the High Street!'
― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 18:15 (seven years ago) link