The Half Man Half Biscuit Lyrics Project

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106 pop songs picked over by pedants!

Notes on recently-added lyrics from Eno Collaboration EP

9 Jun 20080

Lord you gotta let me drown so those ringlets they won’t see

Perhaps the most surprising thing about Hair Like Brian May Blues is that Moby hasn’t remixed it into a dinner party soundtrack. Yet. When he does, you heard it here first.

9 Jun 20080

The high-pitched lamentations of an unbalanced Lincoln woman

Get Kramer is an earlier, more obscure, example in the long tradition of Half Man Half Biscuit deriding shoegazing indie also-rans. Thoroughly deserved, naturally.

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