:D
― imago, Saturday, 13 September 2014 18:46 (nine years ago) link
so this is really, really good. Any other listeners?
― Ratt in Mi Kitchen (Neil S), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 12:10 (nine years ago) link
i think it's their worst album possibly ever :(
― imago, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 12:18 (nine years ago) link
first four tracks are great, rest falls off a cliff, last two sorta pull it back but too little too late
'my outstretched arms' is the keeper. we discussed this on the OPO-line thread
― imago, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 12:19 (nine years ago) link
I need to listen to it a bit more, but "Old Age Killed my Teenage Bride" was the stand-out first time round.
― Ratt in Mi Kitchen (Neil S), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 12:20 (nine years ago) link
2. This One’s For Now 4. My Outstretched Arms 9. Urge For Offal 11. Adam Boyle Has Cast Lad Rock Aside
^all these are solid performers but... there don't really seem to be many funny lines, nor darkness/trenchant social commentary with which to plug the void
― well-behaved wingmen really hate Mystery (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 14:48 (nine years ago) link
^otm.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 14:50 (nine years ago) link
http://porteliotfestival.com/whats-on/
imagine all of these sung consecutively in the voice of nigel blackwell to the sound of robust folk-rock
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Friday, 13 May 2016 10:08 (seven years ago) link
M. CRAFT YOGA SEVERED LIMB WORDS
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Friday, 13 May 2016 10:09 (seven years ago) link
(cheers tt for the heads-up)
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Friday, 13 May 2016 10:11 (seven years ago) link
Worth reading
http://www.bigissue.com/features/6652/half-man-half-biscuit-and-a-very-british-odyssey
― piscesx, Monday, 6 June 2016 10:08 (seven years ago) link
that's brilliant stuff, wow
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Monday, 6 June 2016 10:25 (seven years ago) link
there's a guy in the comments is who is not so impressed
I remember when the crowd were just regular folk. Football lads and the like. I've no time for these characters dressing up and writing every little incident down. King of Hi Vis, you could of saved yourself seven years study and a pile of cash by aquring the reflective coat on your first day of work and to this clown geoff " Get back on the railway platforms where you really belong " If the Big Issue want another slant on what it was like watching the band in the days of Fuji caps coming back from germany 88 then root out Brian Sheddy. Great band with shite fans
I saw them live once, around 10 years ago, in Liverpool. I remember the audience as being almost entirely male, quite blokey, mostly mid 30s to late 40s and that I looked quite out of place as a floppy haired student.
― soref, Thursday, 9 June 2016 18:52 (seven years ago) link
just discovered 'fear my wraith'
― imago, Sunday, 30 April 2017 19:09 (six years ago) link
new one
https://d1wtzzt4oxg683.cloudfront.net/images/covers/large/66/170066.jpg
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 15:09 (six years ago) link
• Alehouse Futsal• Man of Constant Sorrow (With A Garage In Constant Use)• Knobheads on Quiz Shows• Bladderwrack Allowance• Renfield’s Afoot• Terminus• The Announcement• What Made Colombia Famous• Harsh Times in Umberstone Covert• Every Time a Bell Rings• Emergency Locksmith• Mod Diff V Diff Hard Severe• Swerving the Checkatrade
hahahaha so he HAS addressed Tranmere's non-league purgatory
― imago, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 16:03 (six years ago) link
This has done wonders for my mood. A shame to see Ken left though, hope his health improves.
― devvvine, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 16:20 (six years ago) link
Was wondering 'have they mellowed?' - then got to Knobheads On Quiz Shows. They have not :D
― imago, Friday, 18 May 2018 09:34 (five years ago) link
hmm, it is the best track by miles though
― imago, Friday, 18 May 2018 13:08 (five years ago) link
bell + maybe terminus also good
― imago, Friday, 18 May 2018 13:21 (five years ago) link
is it just me or have the last 2 HMHB albums been a bit of disappointment? "CSI Ambleside" was great
― well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Friday, 18 May 2018 13:35 (five years ago) link
yeah they've lost much of the magic. they're trying fewer risks and all the songs really do sound the same now, a kind of hard-rock whinge predominating
― imago, Friday, 18 May 2018 13:38 (five years ago) link
thought urge a bit disappointing but 90 bisodol is front to back their best
― devvvine, Friday, 18 May 2018 13:43 (five years ago) link
I didn't think Urge To Offal was that good either. 90 Bisodol was OK, CSI: Ambleside a classic of our times.
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 18 May 2018 13:58 (five years ago) link
90 Bisodol is great, Urge was where they fell off. CSI obviously amazing
― imago, Friday, 18 May 2018 14:09 (five years ago) link
bono > csi > 90 bisodol is maybe the greatest three album run
― devvvine, Friday, 18 May 2018 14:13 (five years ago) link
Inspirational album title though. Too many hubs in my life
― woof, Friday, 18 May 2018 14:18 (five years ago) link
Every album from maybe Godcore, certainly Voyage -> Bisodol is an unparalleled run tbh
― imago, Friday, 18 May 2018 14:30 (five years ago) link
I cant remember any songs from Bisodol except for "Tommy Walsh's Eco house" and "Excavating Rita"
― well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Friday, 18 May 2018 14:31 (five years ago) link
"Trouble Over Bridgewater" and "Cammell Laird Social Club" were career highpoints imo
― well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Friday, 18 May 2018 14:32 (five years ago) link
Trouble Over Bridgwater is the high mark among high marks imo
― imago, Friday, 18 May 2018 14:33 (five years ago) link
You'll get nothing like The Ballad Of Climie Fisher or Gubba Look-a-Likes on the new album, is all I'll say
― imago, Friday, 18 May 2018 14:34 (five years ago) link
Maybe this is a concept album about becoming a crotchety old git?
― imago, Friday, 18 May 2018 16:16 (five years ago) link
an anti-cocaine song strikes me as a little gauche by their standards
no legit lols yet
some of the songs on the first half sound like fairly standard chuggy early 90s Amerindie
I'll prob grow to like it
― Pardew to Megson: "you've stolen my New Orleans bounce" (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 19 May 2018 21:06 (five years ago) link
it has grown on me slightly - certainly better than Offal
― imago, Sunday, 20 May 2018 19:40 (five years ago) link
it IS a concept album about becoming a crotchety old git - but I think deliberately
― imago, Sunday, 20 May 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link
i couldn't get with Offal at all, but although this is pretty underwhelming compared to the album you've all been entirely correctly listing here, i've been enjoying it. moderately. the chugging is hard to avoid. Harsh Times in Umberstone Covert is a favourite i think. quite touching.
Geraldine [continuing a good line in touching HMHB women's names)
...don't be so self-conscious.what became of the carefree you?the one that would whistle tothrobbing gristle throughharsh times in Umberstone covert,scoffing at the notion of a shoulder to cry on,the very thought of a rock to rely on.astonishing therefore to look at you now,bitter with the gall,reaching for the mainland (?). i will mend you, and i will tend to you,take it as read,with a needle and thread,when you are falling apart at the seams,i will make at that stitch in time."
and i must admit dad laughs at
[i]sour-faced, she picked up the gherkins,saw christ in Dorothy Perkins,oh geraldine we were so laissez-faire,every other day was a non-sequitur:hadron collider,who's there?knock knock.
the initial riff for every time a bell rings is v attractive as well, and again, though it doesn't quite hit the mark - i mean stuff like 'artisan gossip' brings its own embarrassment (the gaucheness DJ Mencap was talking about) - it's hard to argue with 'get your hedge cut, get your fucking hedge cut, stop meeting friends and cut your hedge'. i mean in these pied times, i'll take what i'm given. almost wondering about going back to Offal, so to speak.
lol i was reading Barthes while listening to this on the tube, and felt this was very Nigel Blackwell:
but, underneath this discourse whose argument and whose approach I just presented, it seems to me that today i hear, in fleeting moments, another music.
― Fizzles, Monday, 21 May 2018 19:14 (five years ago) link
have come around to the first 10 tracks of this album tbh - it's less funny or varied than previous albums but it has an elegiac heft
should end with 'every time a bell rings' though - the last three tracks are entirely superfluous, rising to irritating
― imago, Monday, 21 May 2018 20:14 (five years ago) link
a better HMHB song than anything theyve released in the last few years imo (ok it doesnt sound like them really but the lyrics express a similar suburban disdain)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_tGKd3egWI
― Dark Mavis (Michael B), Thursday, 28 June 2018 08:38 (five years ago) link
That is closer to The Pre-New's vibe tbh - you must hear their two albums if you haven't
― imago, Thursday, 28 June 2018 09:09 (five years ago) link
ooh featuring ex-members of Earl Brutus
― Dark Mavis (Michael B), Thursday, 28 June 2018 09:38 (five years ago) link
The Pre New is good. I never saw Earl Brutus but did catch the Pre New at a festival about 8 years ago
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 28 June 2018 10:09 (five years ago) link
Just discovered 'National Shite Day', truly a work whose time has come.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 3 February 2019 21:05 (five years ago) link
//////////////shawty got poll poll poll poll poll poll poll (part I: 2008 TRAX)\\\\\\\
this actually happened :)
― imago, Sunday, 3 February 2019 21:08 (five years ago) link
back when it was 25 points for a #1, etc etc
anyway, pour one out for Stringy Bob
― imago, Sunday, 3 February 2019 21:09 (five years ago) link
Great stuff, probably only time HMHB has featured on an ILM poll. If Coldwar Steve isn't a fan I'd be amazed.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 3 February 2019 21:10 (five years ago) link
The Doors/Floyd advert is icing on the cake for me.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 3 February 2019 21:12 (five years ago) link