Keeping Two Chevrons Apart is the plaintive album-closer from 1998′s Four Lads Who Shook The Wirral, a track which certainly doesn’t overstay its welcome and features some, er, interesting guitar playing. We have them on the M11 now as well, you know. Chevrons, that is. Not guitars. Thanks to Simon, gNick and Jon F
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Peter Gandy
The judge in the Darwin canoe case remarked that Mrs Darwin performed her deception with aplomb.
18 September 2008
grim
What’s the beef with the guitar playing? Sounds all right and proper to me!
19 September 2008
Daryl
I hear “in a medium-sized launch”
rather than
“in her medium-sized launch”
26 September 2008
Daryl
Making ‘youth’ rhyme with ‘south’. Magical.
1 January 2009
Darren
Finally looked up what comes after ‘plenty more fish’. “Amoco Cadiz”? Quick google search reveals an oil tanker disaster. Genius.
1 November 2011
John Anderson
It has come to my attention that you can hear the word “aplomb” being used in Original Prankster by The Offspring.
10 April 2012
Alan
There’s a Biffy Clyro song called “With Aplomb.” It may never include the word “aplomb” itself but does contains the rather bizarre lyrics,
“Kill your bizarre mindset, fuckhead, soldered to a three-layered concrete brainwave castration.”
22 September 2012
ACIDIC REGULATOR
Not just Biffy Clyro – there’s The Pretenders and an incoherent number by The Doors at least. (Ok so I found them by googling.)
@Alan, your quote suggests names for at least two more bands I wish had recorded Peel sessions.
23 September 2012
John Burscough
I think Concrete Brainwave Castration did one, but it was never transmitted.
23 September 2012
John Burscough
Woke up at 4 this morning with the sudden realisation that there’s a gem-like pun in the second verse (which others probably spotted 14 years ago): filling up, as in with petrol / as in with tears.
I also expect it’s no coincidence that Rothersthorpe, now ‘Northampton’ services on the M1 has a footbridge between the North and South moieties which the broken-hearted public are not allowed to use.
Finally (as if) Abergele Sunday Market succumbed to the Curse of HMHB in 2007, when they built a Tesco over it.
12 December 2012
Paul F
I’d missed “filling up” as well. Genius.
12 December 2012
John Burscough
Just to complete the student notes on that verse, any Northamptonshire residents out there prepared to give an opinion on whether ‘youth’ might be pronounced ‘yowth’ in Rothersthorpe? Or is that a load of cobblers (see what I did there)?
13 December 2012
Alanis Maisonnette
I’ve been trying to avoid any blatant self-promotion on this site, but I’m afraid I have to here. I’ve only been listening to HMHB for about 8 months which is quite sad for many reasons, not least because it was about 5 years ago that my own lyricism was compared to Nigel’s in a review. Anyway, here is a song I wrote quite a while ago which contains the word “aplomb”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgOlKlCtXDk
I appreciate that I might have failed the whole self-promotion avoidance in a whole number of ways…
7 June 2013