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
the Stringy Bob verse is probably my pick for best verse of lyrics since the turn of the millennium tbh, it is literature
― imago, Sunday, 3 February 2019 21:15 (five years ago) link
embrace the margin
― Sam Weller, Monday, 4 February 2019 15:15 (five years ago) link
Btw I'm from the US but I lived in Liverpool for 7 years -- some of it good, some of it bad, but it was probably worth it to be able to understand HMHB lyrics about northwest UK television broadcasting.
― Sam Weller, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 11:29 (five years ago) link
Good interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-em8_hueZI
― piscesx, Thursday, 2 January 2020 02:55 (four years ago) link
Kinda weird to turn on Sky News the other morning and hear Sky's business presenter, Ian King, bantering away with Kay Burley about his favourite band, Half Man Half Biscuit.
― Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 May 2020 20:14 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIl_NDp-U0M
― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 3 August 2021 12:51 (two years ago) link
new album 'the voltarol years' feb 18th
― devvvine, Thursday, 6 January 2022 15:53 (two years ago) link
Was recently thinking they're due
― imago, Thursday, 6 January 2022 15:55 (two years ago) link
on a fairly drunk listen this seems like the best for a while.
― Fizzles, Friday, 25 February 2022 19:43 (two years ago) link
omg it's out!!!!
― imago, Friday, 25 February 2022 19:45 (two years ago) link
me Tarzan, you June
― imago, Friday, 25 February 2022 19:59 (two years ago) link
okay this hasn't been prime material, but In A Suffolk Ditch is righting that
― imago, Friday, 25 February 2022 20:13 (two years ago) link
a CARDIACS SHOUTOUT wtf :D
― imago, Friday, 25 February 2022 20:16 (two years ago) link
“cowslips and celandine” is lovely
― Fizzles, Friday, 25 February 2022 20:31 (two years ago) link
second half of this album has been absolutely top-tier, weirdly a very backloaded record imo
the last two tracks are amazing
― imago, Friday, 25 February 2022 20:33 (two years ago) link
nigel leaning hard into the 'lovely' at times here, extremely elegiac and beautiful yes
― imago, Friday, 25 February 2022 20:35 (two years ago) link
On second thoughts, this really is all prime stuff. He's getting so good at character studies
― imago, Sunday, 27 February 2022 09:19 (two years ago) link
What's an 'onion batch'?
― Maresn3st, Sunday, 27 February 2022 13:16 (two years ago) link
a type of bread
― imago, Sunday, 27 February 2022 13:30 (two years ago) link
As seen on Taskmaster
https://i.imgur.com/vkCo9bG.jpeg
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Sunday, 7 April 2024 06:28 (one month ago) link