Half Man Half Biscuit - search and destroy

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Well? Everyone's been raving about these lot, but I have NO idea where to star. I turn to the ILM faithful to impart their knowledge!

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Sunday, 22 June 2003 07:45 (twenty-two years ago)

well? how abt searching the archives then? bcz there's a thread!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 22 June 2003 08:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Nah, I've looked. Honestly, archives are the firt place I looked. "Half Man Half Biscuit" I types into the search engine, and the only threads with that in the title I saw wern't applicable.

If you would post a link to the thread, I'd be very grateful!

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Sunday, 22 June 2003 08:12 (twenty-two years ago)

well one sec

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 22 June 2003 08:15 (twenty-two years ago)

half man half biscuit: classic or dud

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 22 June 2003 08:17 (twenty-two years ago)

and this too:

Half man Half biscuit: OPO-line

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 22 June 2003 08:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not that familiar with the later HMHB stuff but speaking very broadly what seems to happen is that with the early records the balance of songs and jokes is pretty even (i.e. there's plenty of solid if basic indie tune-age and lots of jokes too, even if the jokes are just off-beam popcult trivia references), then gradually the music takes a back seat to the gags, which get sharper and darker too. i.e. none of the later HMHB stuff I've heard has appealed to me as much as a song as the tracks on ACD or McIntyre, Treadmore and Davitt, but I've been grinning more.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Sunday, 22 June 2003 09:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Neither of the threads Julio links to contain album recommendations.

I like 'Voyage to the bottom of the the garden' best but I've not heard everything.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 22 June 2003 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

'Dead Men Don't Need Season Tickets' is a great song, in the terms that Tico Tico means.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 22 June 2003 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I've only heard one HMHB song and that's the one about Slipknot. Fucking funny, but.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 22 June 2003 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

''Neither of the threads Julio links to contain album recommendations.''

the point was to revive the threads in the first place and ask. strange he couldn't find it in search bcz i just typed ''half man'' and got those.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 22 June 2003 18:38 (twenty-two years ago)

search: above all albums 2 and 5 i think ("back in the dhss again", "some call it godcore")

destroy: very little, though albums 6 onwards all have a share of musically below par stuff (though lyrically they haven't fallen off one bit)

― kieron, Sunday, 22 June 2003 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

the point was to revive the threads in the first place and ask

Ask what? He'd already said he had searched and found threads about HMHB but that the threads he'd found weren't applicable. Which they weren't.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 23 June 2003 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

search everything. just to goddamn funny to avoid.

― angelo (angelo), Monday, 23 June 2003 00:11 (twenty-two years ago)

'too', i meant.

― angelo (angelo), Monday, 23 June 2003 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, search everything, a good starting point would probably be to get ACD to hear the first album stuff and some good live stuff, and also trouble over bridgewater to see where they've gone since, Nove on the sly on there is marvellous. And if you can get to one of their increasingly few live shows then kill your mother for a ticket, they're great.

― hungover chris, Monday, 23 June 2003 08:18 (twenty-two years ago)

''Ask what?''

revive the thread and ask which records to get.

classic or dud is perfectly applicable.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 23 June 2003 08:34 (twenty-two years ago)

five months pass...

Hey lets revive all the HMHB threads

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 28 November 2003 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

Let's revive all the HMHB threads again. I think Four Lads Who Shook The Wirral might be the best album. Either that of Back Again In the DHSS which doesn't have a bad one on it.

― everything, Wednesday, 1 June 2005 07:15 (twenty-one years ago)

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