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Favourite Half Man Half Biscuit Lyric

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by ElasticMan

I pleased to see HMHB are becoming more popular and well like around here.
A guy the other recommended someone listen to the lyrics of "Bad Review" after receiving a bad review.
Well this song contains my favourite HMHB lyric, and it's not a comedy lyric but strangely poetic..

The fearsome hollow boom of the older boys in the deep end,
Green shoots of recovery shriveled up in harsh tomorrows.
Left to pick dry sticks and mumble to myself;
A melancholy emblem of parish cruelty.

Please add yours.

ElasticMan | 24 Jul '08, 20:48 | Send note | Report this | Reply

What did God give us Neil?

God gave us life Nigel!

1,2,3,4 John the Baptist knows the score...


surging out of convalescence

Is your child hyperactive, or is he perhaps a twat?

Always springs to mind but there are thousands more!


james dean

was just a careless driver

or

and now he's working in a job with a future........


Used to Be in Evil Gazebo, in its entirety

or any of their spoken-word type songs, really.

"Right yeah. Your ex-girlfriend informs us - errm - after her new band of course Pankhurst entered the charts last week - that your treatment as such was at a voluntary day ward and you went along there purely to get people into thinking you were the new Nick Drake."


Had to sign up for this thread!

"We've just been performing a guerilla gig
In the middle of another group's guerilla gig
Well surely that's the ultimate guerilla gig?
But still they cried like girls."

"well I've been here and I've been there
In my Joy Division oven gloves
I've been to a post-punk postcard fair
In my Joy Division oven gloves"


In the wake of their new album CSI:Ambleside

It's clearly got to be "There's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets". Utterly, utterly brilliant.


Overhead, a rainbow appears...

IN BLACK AND WHITE.


...

She’s the main man in the office in the city
And she treats me like I’m just another lackey
But I can put a tennis racket up against my face
And pretend that I am Kendo Nagasaki


Look Dad, No Tunes

My life is comfortable
But I don't want that image for my band
Inside I'm reasonable
But I'll make out they just don't understand
When we don't feel well, let's
Put on some Velvets
Lean our guitars up against the amp

We get feedback
When I feel that I need that
Air of "look, aren't we dangerous"
That's the time to be bad

Intense, no compromise
Nasty evil, cracking up my brain
Hey, ho
She's gone to Spain with a load of mates from work
And I feel cursed and sore, like
I'm Thurston More-like
The darkness in my eyes won't go away

I get feedback
In my bedroom in Nantwich
Stamp my foot down on the amp switch
That's the time to be bad

Somebody's knocking on my door
And it's the boy from over the road
And he says he shares our obsessions
And he'd like to join in on the sessions
And the others aren't arsed either way
So I say

I think we'd better let him in
I've heard he's got a theremin

And I've seen him walk through the park a lot,
And I bet he listens to Arc a lot,


Win!

"I think we'd better let him in
I've heard he's got a theremin"


oh god i'm crying

mostly from laughter but partly because I only have 'Joy Division Oven Gloves'

I clearly need to invest in some more HMHB.


Yep do it!!!

It'll most definately be worth it.

If you dont already have them then the albums 'Cammel Laird Social Club' and 'Trouble Over Bridgewater' are strokes of genius!

But then again you cant really go far wrong with any HMHB.


He needs to get every album

all contain at least a couple of gems


Alright alright

I will. I'll add it to the list. Which is slowly amassing to a cost bigger than the GDP of most african nations. But there we go :)


.

You break your grandma's neck and smother her in custard
As a contribution to your folio
And the very next morning, you take her into college
And the tutor with the beard and polio
Says "Well it's got potential,
And it could well be essential
But it needs a little drama if you know what I mean?


I heard a lovely rumour

that Bette Midler had a tumour


IS THIS A TRICK QUESTION?

SHIRLEY ALL THEIR LYRICS AM BEST??!?!1


but for me it has to be

i'm going to see the bootleg beatles
as the bootleg mark chapman


Greatest band of all time!

We've got Kramer coming over to produce us,
So that we can show off to our specialist friends,
Go down to the Falcon in Camden and say:
"I'll have a pint for myself, and a pint for the ex-MCFiiiive"

Bottleneck at Capel Curig,
Bottleneck at Capel Curig,
Bottleneck at Capel Curig,
Neil Morrissey's a knobhead.

When you’re down beside the lake you’re bound to hear somebody say:
“Careful now, that swan can break your arm”

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

I could go on and on and on...


Where to start?

'Now I’m no hotelier
Just thought I’d tell yer
Dead men don’t need season tickets'


Stockard Channing held sway.

Or

Summertime's here and I want no hassle,
I could be a goth on a bouncy castle.


Dickie Davis SURELY

Mention the Lord of the Rings one more time
And I'll more than likely kill you.
"More cock, more cock, Michael, more cock" you fervently moan.


*Michael Moorcock

The fantasy references don't work if you get that bit wrong!


*Actually

No, it's a pun you see. More cock = Moorecock. You have to use just a little imagination.


From HMHB website

Michael Moorcock Science fiction/fantasy writer, much-beloved of a particular sort of saddo, particularly his Elric fantasies. "Moorcock" has an unfortunate pornographic homonym phrase used in the song. Also, it appears, he wrote some songs for Hawkwind and possibly even The Blue Oyster cult.


I like

"I'm Slim Shady, yes I'm the real shady, the other slim shady has gone to play tennis."

"Certain things have always been and evermore shall be,
walking down this country road I almost guarentee,
North, South, East, West, betwixt 12 and 2,
there'll be a waterboard man in a waterboard van using up his hour in lieu"

And the classic:

"Help me Mrs Meadlicott, I don't know what to do,
I've only got three bullets and there's four of Motley Crue"

And from latest album:

"I ring up dial a pizza! I ring up dial a pizza! I ring up dial a pizza and say THAT's NOT HOW I WOULD SPELL HAWAIAN"

Also, go look up the lyrics to "Breaking News"


sod it I'll post them

We’re just receiving reports of an incident at a farm in Sussex where a number of people have been arrested in connection with “Annoying The Nation”.
It is believed that that the owner of the farm, a Mr. Hibbert, has been co-operating with Police and government officials in a plot codenamed Operation Less Pricks, and kindly granted the use of his seventeenth century tithe barn as a temporary holding place for those arrested. Although not confirmed, we are led to understand that those already charged include:
Bus drivers who don’t wait for people to sit down before pulling away from the bus stop;
Taxi drivers who use their horns instead of knocking on the door;
People who moan at the council about the streets being full of litter, not stopping to think that it is people who drop litter, not the council;
A room full of drama teachers listening to Bjork;
Grown men with replica shirts worn over their jumpers, who stand up and stretch out their arms when the opposing team fail to hit the target;
An assortment of scriptwriters, novelists and playwrights who own Agas but don’t know how to use them;
A musical equipment reviewer responsible for an article titled “Microphone of the Month”;
A woman who described herself as “A little bit Bridget, a little bit Ally, a little bit Sex In The City” and chose to call her baby boy Fred as a childishly rebellious attempt at a clever reaction to those who might have expected her to call him Julian or Rupert. Bit of advice: call him Rupert, it fits, and besides it’s a good name. Don’t be calling him Fred or Archie, with all its cheeky but lovable working class scamp connotations, unless you really do have plans for him to spend his life in William Hill’s waiting for them to weigh in at Newton Abbott.
Also being held is a whole wall full of teenagers spitting needlessly;
An amateur thug in camouflage trousers whose Japanese fighting dog had run amok on a Swindon council estate;
A man from the record company who said that George Michael continues to challenge social taboos through his music;
Lisa Riley;
Continuity announcers introducing comedy shows;
A pub band who get uppity when everyone goes to the bar during a song they’ve written themselves;
A group of football fans referred to as Commodores, as in once, twice, three times a season, who feed sugar lumps to police horses at Cup Finals;
An artist who said his next album would be more “song-based”;
A man who informs people that he gets up at six am every morning and seemed to want a medal;
People who say they speak as they find and are somehow proud of it;
Journalists who try to spell an interviewee’s laugh;
An organisation who declared an awareness week for awareness weeks;
And a council worker who dropped litter.
We’ll bring you more details as they emerge…


OH!

How could I foget:

"There is surely nothing worse than washing sieves
There is surely nothing worse than washing sieves
With the possible exception
Of being Garth Crooks"


I was just about to add that one!

instead this needs to be listed...

The singer out of Slipknot went to rome to see The Pope
The singer out of Slipknot went to rome to see The Pope
The singer out of Slipknot went to rome to see The Pope
And The Pope said to his aide . .

Who the fucking hell are Slipknot?
Who the fucking hell are Slipknot?
Who the fucking hell are Slipknot?
In relation to me getting out of bed?


Hahahaha ^^^^^

"Well now you become quite irate,
and you start to sound like Leadbelly at the depot
I got ham
I got cheese
I got chicken
I got beef
I got tuna sweetcorn
I got tuna sweetcorn"


re: 'Breaking News'

I always thought it was 'Japanese fighting duck' - which it, sadly, clearly isn't.


Eno Collaboration

I've trekked from the Andes to the Indies in my undies...


This has been mentioned already BUT

"Help me Mrs Medlicott I don't know what to do,
I've only got 3 bullets and there's 4 of Mothey Crue"

OR

"It's a cricketing farce with a thickening plot
Act 1 Scene 1 Brenda Blethyn gets shot"

Class!


more!

Is this your wading bird?

And the 12 days of christmas parady where "Five Gold Rings" is replaced by:
"Nick Fucking Knowles"


more!

Are these my ultimate Pyjamas?
Is this my final dressing gown?
I'm sending on this rhyme, deep in injury time,
When the evening sun goes down.

I like the nosense ones as well:

"Same old hampstead,
Ken Hom Wok Set"


From "Mars Ultras - You'll Never Reach The Station"

Quick run hide,
Here comes Dave Stewart,
Walking up the drive,
with that look in his eye,
That "Let's do a project" look,
"about third-rate Swiss agit-pop"


and another.....

If Jesus came to earth today
Thet'd crucify him straight away
Upon a cross of MDF
And they'd use 'No Need For Nails'.


Does anyone

know the lyrics to:

"On Finding The Studio Banjo"

????????????


I could have been like Lou Barlow

but I'm more like Ken Barlow


There's too many to choose from

but at the moment i am singing this in my head:

She stayed with me until
She moved to Notting Hill
She said it was the place she needs to be
Where the cocaine is fairtrade
and frequently displayed
Is the Buena Vista Social Club CD

...

Well we both grew up in Eyam
And strange as it may seem
Neither of us thought we'd ever leave
But the beak in Leak is weak
So she's moved in, so to speak
With featureless TV producer Steve
And now it's all Eva Cassidy
And aphids in Picardy
And so, i can only ascertain
That the light at the end of the tunnel
Is the light of an oncoming train


also stuck in my head at the moment:

"YOU'RE GOING ON AFTER CRISPY AMBULANCE!"

"I could have been like Lou Barlow
But I'm more like Ken Barlow"

And all of 'Hair Like Brian May Blues'.


...

I fancy I'll open a stationers;
stock quaint notebooks for weekend pagans.
"While you were out at the Rollright Stones
I came and set fire to your shed"


^^

I love that one


mmm HMHB

A Boom Boom Boom
Let me hear you say Hose Pipe ban

Paint balls coming home (well one version of it):

They've got the whole world in their house
They've got the whole wide world in their house
They've got the whole world in their house
to see the new conservatory

they go ten pin bowling after work
they go ten pin bowling after work
they go ten pin bowling after work
and they're getting married on a carribean beach

they've got a german shepard dog called prince
they've got a german shepard dog called prince
they've got a german shepard dog called prince
cos the one called sheeba died

They know where things are in B&Q
They know where things are in B&Q
They know where things are in B&Q
and they've got the joy of sex video

If i were a linesman i would execute defenders who applauded my offsides.

They were due on the crystal maze
They were due to go on the crystal maze
yeah they were due on the crystal maze
but they got mugged in florida

They went up in a hot air balloon
They declared their love in a hot air balloon
they drank champagne in a hot air balloon
and had a row on new years eve

they've got nothing but total respect for
they've got nothing but total respect for
they've got nothing but total respect for
annie lennox

-----

this and all i want for christmas is a dupkla prague away kit


you

missed off the last line:

"If I'd had known they were coming I'd have slit me wrists"


slippers

there is nothing better in life than writing on the sole of your slipper with a biro on a sturday night instead of going to the pub.


Dear Mr McGhee,

Please find enclosed the latest demo from Liquid Greek. Dismissed by the mainstream as shoegazing also-rans, the band have nevertheless persevered with their off-kilter-or-nothing policy in the hope that someone like your good self will eventually realise, and thus promote, this violent yet ultimately beautiful genre, which we have dubbed 'new noise'.

The first track is based on the high-pitched lamentations of an unbalanced Lincoln woman, who nurses injured buzzards back to health in her dead child's wardrobe. We hope you like it.

Yours sincerely,
Liquid Greek

PS. We don't like sport of any kind, and friends at school are very much thin on the ground.


i have

to buy more of these

i am so glad there are some poignant lyrics too..just how i imaginedit


I like the new verse in Paintball's Coming Home

They watch Top Gear re-runs, on Channel Dave
They watch Top Gear re-runs, on Channel Dave
They watch Top Gear re-runs, on Channel Dave
And say: "It's not just for petrolheads"


..

like a game-bird reserve short on pheasants,
weavers cottages devoid of tenants,
a market town that lacks quintessence,
that's Chatteris without your presence,
three good butchers, two fine chandlers,
an indoor pool, a first class cake shop,
OFSTED plaudits, envy of the fens,
prick barriers at both ends,

but what's Chatteris if you're not there?


by the way

you can download all their Peel sessions off The Perfumed Garden at the moment: http://www.theperfumedgarden.blogspot.com/





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