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Post by sean on May 21, 2008 13:13:24 GMT
...have got a new Lp out, 'CSI Ambleside' yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!
Just listening to the last track, a very Fallesque 'National Shite Day'....
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Post by Shrink Proof on Oct 12, 2016 18:31:11 GMT
"National Shite Day" is a work of utter, utter genius. "There's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets" is one of the greatest lines ever written...
Other HMHB gems include:-
"24 Hour Garage People"
"The Coroner's Footnote"
"Paintball's Coming Home"
Life. And nothing but.
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Post by dem bones on Oct 12, 2016 20:31:08 GMT
And Mr Cave's A Window Cleaner Now is the greatest Birthday Party "tribute" I ever heard in my life.
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Post by franklinmarsh on Jan 24, 2017 11:13:26 GMT
Hah! I thought there was a thread about these ne'er-do-wells somewhere. Recent trawls of chariddy shops have left me a bit disheartened in that you can pick up DVDs for 49p, CDs for 99p but books seem to come in at £2 a pop. Outrageous. Still, the DVD and CD collections are shooting up in quantity if not quality. A minor obsession with compilation albums has been fed by people apparently offloading loads of free-with-Mojo typre stuff. I can't hack the 'Great' Albums Revisited stuff but some of them are fascinating. Recently scarfed up Stooges Jukebox (an Iggy selected compilation of influences and contemporaries tragically hacked down from his original 40 tracks to 15), In Search Of Syd (a psychedelic melange of oldsters - Kevin Ayers, Gong, the Hawks, the Mothers etc and youngsters) and Panic - a collection of 80s protest songs, featuring an eye-catching cover of a young gentleman in a Smiths t-shirt facing off against a line of riot gear clad Old Bill in front of the Houses Of Parliament. You might expect Madness' Blue-Skinned Beast, Billy Bragg was probably a given, there's still tears to be shed over Robert Wyatt's heart-rending rendition of Shipbuilding, but the heart beats faster and the feet get dancing to HMHB - yes, it was only National Shite Day! An instant classic, and huzzah to the good burghers of the Vault above for championing its brilliance years before I even got there. My birthday - no bog roll.
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Post by dem bones on Jan 24, 2017 13:18:17 GMT
In Search Of Syd (a psychedelic melange of oldsters - Kevin Ayers, Gong, the Hawks, the Mothers etc and youngsters) Happy birthday, Mr. M! So which Mothers track is included on the Syd tribute?
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Post by franklinmarsh on Jan 24, 2017 14:12:03 GMT
The Mothers track is Who Are The Brain Police? Incidentally Iggy selected Help I'm A Rock for his Jukebox. It's not my birthday, that was a line from National Shite Day.
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Post by dem bones on Jan 24, 2017 20:05:30 GMT
The Mothers track is Who Are The Brain Police? Incidentally Iggy selected Help I'm A Rock for his Jukebox. It's not my birthday, that was a line from National Shite Day. Who Are The Brain Police? makes sense for the Syd compo, and trust St. Iggy to opt for one of Freak Out's least *ahem* commercial compositions. Can take or leave virtually everything Zappa recorded from 1971 onwards but I love the early Mothers - Freak Out, Absolutely Free, We're Only In It For The Money and Cruisin' with Ruben & The Jets in particular. Freak Out gets things off to a decent start, hostile, scary, hilarious,catchy and unlistenable in just about equal measure, but it's the following year's Absolutely Free sent me gaga at school. Listening to it recently it's the soundtrack to the Trump inauguration 49 (!) years early (try Plastic People, Uncle Bernie's Farm and Brown Shoes Don't Make It).
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Post by Shrink Proof on Jan 25, 2017 10:18:28 GMT
An honourable mention for "Trouble Coming Every Day", my nomination for Zappa's finest hour.
It was memorably covered by the late, great Mick Farren on his excellently-titled solo album "Vampires Stole My Lunch Money" (which features guitar from the equally delightfully unhinged Wilko Johnson, if memory serves...)
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Post by pulphack on Jan 25, 2017 10:29:37 GMT
Indeed it does. There's also a spoken word track with some squelchy thumpy rhythm machine thing that they borrowed from Pink Floyd when they weren't looking, but didn't know how to work. It should stand out like a sore thumb inbetween the alcohol fuelled r'n'b driven racket, but somehow it makes sense. Frankly, with the amount Farren and the great Larry Wallis were putting away while it was being made, it's a miracle it ever got finished. Thankfully it did!
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Post by dem bones on Jan 25, 2017 11:16:28 GMT
An honourable mention for "Trouble Coming Every Day", my nomination for Zappa's finest hour. Yeah, that one hits the spot. How depressing that it's as relevant now as it was in 1966. But my absolute fave from Freak Out is I'm Not Satisfied. Zappa's liner notes to the contrary, it sounds deadly straight to me.
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Post by valdemar on Oct 15, 2017 6:59:37 GMT
I love the distasteful coda on 'Paintball's Coming Home' - 'If I'd have known they were coming, I'd have slashed me wrists...' Always makes me laugh, and only beaten by [shamefully, I've forgotten which track it comes from]: 'Mary had a little lamb/The doctors were astounded/Everywhere that Mary went/Gynecologists surrounded,' That's why Half Man Half Biscuit are so great - they have to be very clever to create something very stupid. Very similar to 'Viz'. An outwardly very stupid comic, created by very clever people. They had a mock advert for a 'Cuneiform Dating' agency, which listed several types of very obscure Cuneiform writing within it, which made my nerdy little heart soar as I read it. I always wish, though, that HMHB had actually marketed some Joy Division oven gloves. They'd have made a fortune.
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Post by jepersonoatcake on Dec 22, 2021 20:11:05 GMT
Always makes me laugh, and only beaten by [shamefully, I've forgotten which track it comes from]: 'Mary had a little lamb/The doctors were astounded/Everywhere that Mary went/Gynaecologists surrounded.' Ninety-Nine Per Cent Of Gargoyles Look Like Bob Todd.
(take me home)
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