2 Jun 200824 Comments
Ask me to Prestatyn and that’s what I’ll do
With Goth On Our Side is a beautifully realised Bob Dylan spoof with no end of great references to Goths. Sure, the original is a classic, but this is much funnier.
Notes on recently-added lyrics from Trouble Over Bridgwater
29 May 20087 Comments
You moan at the snow ‘cos your car wouldn’t go
It’s Clichéd To Be Cynical At Christmas starts off like the Cocteau Twins and it’s all a bit, well, odd. Kiddies singing? Someone even made a video for it.
13 May 200825 Comments
But I don’t like to talk about it – all the same
Used To Be In Evil Gazebo is a fabulous made-up interview between yet another pretentious indie band member, and a journalist from the NME. The Nick Drake-wannabe is a classic character, but what really completes the song is the journalist’s wonderfully believable questioning. And the pause before the “I’ve been in a mental hospital” chorus. Fabulous.
6 May 20085 Comments
And then I reach the Readers’ Wives
Gubba Look-a-Likes forms some of the most disturbing imagery in the HMHB songbook, yet the payoff is a lesser-known footy commentator. Well, of course it is.
17 Apr 200811 Comments
That air of “look, aren’t we dangerous”
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.
28 Jan 200825 Comments
Late Lunch audience, we’ve got all your addresses!
I’m starting to get a bit more ambitious (at last, you may say!) with Uffington Wassail, as this is one of those tracks which nobody else seems to have been brave enough to transcribe, at least according to Google. So I’m all on my own here, he said nervously, and any comments would be more than helpful.
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