With the Peel/BBC Sessions material being so readily available online nowadays, it’s the EP-only obscurities which are probably the least well-known HMHB songs. Ecclesiastical Perks can be obtained – expensively – online if it somehow passed you by! There are a couple of guesses towards the end, which some of you might have thoughts on.
Look Dad No Tunes is another “over-earnest band” song (I think I’ll do all of these now). References Neil Young, Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth and other earnest explorers of feedback. Say no more.
A live favourite, the short “She’ll Be Coming Round The Mountain” singalong Lock Up Your Mountain Bikes manages to fit in some classics: Garth Crooks, the swan which will have your arm off, and “That’s when you got into the Manics”.
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Note: the first three Half Man Half Biscuit albums have some crossover of tracks - see here for details
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