Let it happen bass player (HMHB thread)

[Knulpuk]

Are these the most random lyrics ever - I was trying to make them out on the ipod this morning and looked them up.

Four skinny Indie Kids - from Four Lads Who Shook The Wirral


Bleak cheap interview
Pool cue fancy pants
Chic Bates apricot
Short term sweat
Hamstring monument
Shark shit welterweight
Topsoil Chapterhouse
Christ-like mince

Four Skinny Indie Kids
Four Skinny Indie Kids
Drinking weak lager in a Camden boozer
Four Skinny Indie Kids
Four Skinny Indie Kids
Drinking weak lager in a Camden boozer

Sanskrit tantamount
Slide flag Dunstable
Late pen Saltergate
Belsize squat
Tripswitch hinterland
Slack jaw Boys Brigade
Krooklok Murgatroyd
Website nonce

I also cannot stop thinking of the phrase "rubber faced irritant, Phil Cool" from National Sh1te day.

[snout]

My copy has also arrived and after a couple of days I am struggling to get
Took Problem Chimp to the Ideal Home Show out of my head - especially the Tetris hook.

What the hell is that song about? Is Bobby the problem chimp and who is he? Does he wet himself at the Ideal Home Show and then shoot Carol Voderman, Lawrence Lleweyln Bowen and another Carol?

Cracking song, by the way.

[murf]

As Murf alludes to quoting abscure HMHB lyrics in the middle of thread may be entertaining to those in the know but to most are just plain baffling so inspired by the weather thread currently kicking around...

Opinionated weather forecasters telling me it's going to be a miserable day
Miserable to who?
I quite like a bit of drizzle,
so stick to the facts

From a Country Practice (Four lads that shook...)

Sheep have long memories

About to buy Four Lads (£10, no P&P direct from Probe Plus).

You have half an hour to convince me to buy another album instead (I own Back/DHSS, Achtung & Ambleside)

[tedbull]

You could get the Saucy Haulage Ballads EP thrown in for a fiver. Two good tracks in 'Tending the wrong grave for 23 years' and 'It makes the room look bigger'.

Other than that it's a tie between 4 Lads and Cammell Laird Social Club.

Get 4 Lads. You won't be disappointed.

[murf]

You could get the Saucy Haulage Ballads EP thrown in for a fiver. Two good tracks in 'Tending the wrong grave for 23 years' and 'It makes the room look bigger'.

Other than that it's a tie between 4 Lads and Cammell Laird Social Club.

Get 4 Lads. You won't be disappointed.

Thanks - I have been offered 'an alternative route' to all these so may well not (need to) purchase any of them.

[tedbull]

You could get the Saucy Haulage Ballads EP thrown in for a fiver. Two good tracks in 'Tending the wrong grave for 23 years' and 'It makes the room look bigger'.

Other than that it's a tie between 4 Lads and Cammell Laird Social Club.

Get 4 Lads. You won't be disappointed.

Thanks - I have been offered 'an alternative route' to all these so may well not (need to) purchase any of them.

Does taking the alternative route involve a Little Vauxhall?

While we're on the topic. Is everyone on this thread 'of a certain age'? I spent most of my life living on The Wirral and Liverpool and regularly went to probably the only alternative/indie club in Birkenhead (and many in Liverpool) yet never really came across HMHB. It was only an Everton fanzine that sparked my curiosity in my 20s.

[murf]

I was at Uni when HMHB were at their biggest (first 2 albums) so was exposed that way. Never saw them live which is a bit weird as I went to loads of concerts at the time, some in Scouseland. Would have thought I'd have definitely gone if they played anywhere in Mancland. Maybe they didn't tour???

[murf]

RIP Ali Bongo, gone forever

Good at contortionism and much better than David Nixon ever was


clickable map showing places with HMHM mentions! - some people have too much time OR a work of genius?

[Knulpuk]

[quote="murf"]RIP Ali Bongo, gone forever

Good at contortionism and much better than David Nixon ever wasquote]


Ah poor Ali - the start to Reflections in a flat is a cracker

Oh darling sugar honey
When it was nice and sunny
And when I had some money
We would go and see Echo And The Bunny

Men

I actually bought the vinyl second hand and due to a removed sticker on the cover for years I though it was reflections in a fiat.

[Mike_]

Second verse just as good

Since I was eight I’ve loved you
Through garden gates I’ve shoved you
Then there’s the time I slashed you
And you had to go to hospital

[murf]

Definitely my favourite ever HMHB lyric.

Doesn't look so good on paper/forum but the timing of the dodgy (non) rhymes is excellent as well as the Marks and Spencer / Lech Walesa one.

Also the Uncle Trevor story.....

[M-boy]

Was Ali Bongo actually a contortionist?

One of my favourites is from Improv Workshop Mimeshow Gobshite (or 'the one about being the big cheese down at tourist information' as I know it)

Never trust a crown green bowler under thirty

It's a maxim by which I live.

[snout]

Is this the problem chimp?

[tedbull]

clickable map showing places with HMHM mentions! - some people have too much time OR a work of genius?

It's a fine line... I've contributed with Reykjavik. I might point out Australia as well (every day is Australia Day - A Country Practice).

While we're on favourite lyrics... From 'Tending the wrong grave for 23 years'

Curse those in charge of plots
Curse these forget-me-nots
I've been sharing my inner-most thoughts with an Edward McGray
I'm inconsolable and at times uncontrollable
Ah but she wouldn't know because she's two hundred metres away
Lets complain

[Knulpuk]

Surging Out of Convalescence [Achtung Bono]

Darts in soap operas
Oh so wrong oh so wrong
No one scoring and there's
Too much chat between each throw

Worse than this though is when
Cheers are raised up for a bull
Granted, bull's a double and an out
But I know that they don't know
Therefore I propose no soap darts

[murf]

Tale of a Baker’s Son

Once upon a time there was a baker
Who spent all day making buns or cakes or
Rolls or loaves of bread or muffins
And he loved his work but it wasn’t enough and…

He longed to offer up his heart
to not just any tart,
but to one of substance and of virtue
but suitable candidates were oh so few.

Nigel Blackwell, pray please do tell:
How could your parents risk it?
A baker’s son, born of a bun…
Half a man, half a biscuit

He gently took her from the oven
Her sweet scent set off waves of loving
His eyes beheld her flakey crust.
He thought, ‘I mustn’t… but I must!’

Alas, Nigel’s dad could not resist her
He held her close and then he kissed her
Before another word was uttered
His momma’s buns were buttered

Nigel Blackwell, pray please do tell:
How could your parents risk it?
A baker’s son, born of a bun…
Half a man, half a biscuit

And so, please mark this poignant tale
Next time you see baked goods for sale
Which proves true love defies convention
(And leads to couplings we can’t mention)

And so, it comes as no surprise,
The kneady baker’s dough did rise
Though some may scoff, deride and scorn
From such forbidden love, Nigel was born.

Nigel Blackwell, pray please do tell:
How could your parents risk it?
A baker’s son, born of a bun…
Half a man, half a biscuit


By Dean Friedman!

[tedbull]

Did anyone catch the BBC live session?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tc663" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

And here's something else that you might want for Christmas according to the wiki page...

The band recorded a radio session for Marc Riley's 6 Music show in in August 2010, performing four new songs - "Tommy Walsh's Eco-House", "R.S.V.P.", "Left Lyrics in Practice Room", and "L'enfer c'est les autres". Nigel stated that they hoped to finish recording their new album "by Christmas".

[murf]

Did anyone catch the BBC live session?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tc663" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

And here's something else that you might want for Christmas according to the wiki page...

The band recorded a radio session for Marc Riley's 6 Music show in in August 2010, performing four new songs - "Tommy Walsh's Eco-House", "R.S.V.P.", "Left Lyrics in Practice Room", and "L'enfer c'est les autres". Nigel stated that they hoped to finish recording their new album "by Christmas".

Missed it. Mind you the fact Joy Division Oven Gloves had been part of a campaign to save 6 Music also passed me by.....

If anybody knows of any highly illegal bootleg MP3 recordings of that session then please PM me the interweb link so I can report them to the authorities because I obvioulsy wouldn't want to do anything illegal like downloading them.

(Was listening to The Leaden Pall this week - possibly for the first time in about 15 years, using up my eMusic credits to replace a tape I once had and probably still do have somewhere in my loft (next to my subbuteo and scalextric??))

[tedbull]

I was aware of the 6music campaign but hadn't heard anything about a new album or live session.

Only checked the wiki because I was chatting to a Hare Krishna guy at work and felt the need to throw Twydale's Lament into the convo

Oh, and http://bongheights.blogspot.com/2010/08 ... -2010.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[tedbull]

Or you can get it from the lyrics project site...

http://www.chrisrand.com/hmhb/live-perf ... downloads/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[murf]

Or you can get it from the lyrics project site...

http://www.chrisrand.com/hmhb/live-perf ... downloads/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Theres a download link there for the 6 music session

[tedbull]

Isn't that what you asked for?

[murf]

Isn't that what you asked for?

Yes, sorry wrongly assumed your 'it' was the Twydale's Lament lyrics

[Knulpuk]

Hold on here - is no one going to mention the rather incredible exclusive revealed in the interview that Michael Jackson was found dead wearing a HMHB T shirt

Cheers Tedbull

[Knulpuk]

Dean Friedman made an appearance at a HMHB gig last week in Wolverhampton

[murf]

Dean Friedman made an appearance at a HMHB gig last week in Wolverhampton

Apparently performed the song I posted on 6/1 and joined in on 'ba$tard son'. Wish I'd been there.....

[Knulpuk]

Anyone here got a view on the new HMHB album - perhaps from the r6 sessions? Murf maybe - he seems very knowledgeable in this area.

[murf]

Hmm.... let me think about it... while I make 3 other posts......

[murf]

"F***in 'Ell the Curse of HMHB Strikes Again"

RIP Fred Titmuss

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/9433563.stm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

List of those no longer in need of season tickets and by how long they survived the curse

[Knulpuk]

Oh Dracula comes from Transylvania
Stevie nicks books about kleptomania
Johnny looked out of his bedroom window
And shouted to his mum “Fred Titmus!”

RIP Fred