Let's Not - comments @ The HMHB Lyrics Project

25 Mar 2008

Where Vanburn Holder joins a local grindcore outfit

Let’s Not was a surprisingly sophisticated choon which features a relatively rare cricketing reference and several (fortunately less rare) references to irritating TV persons. It was the big single from what could almost be called the “comeback” album McIntyre, Treadmore and Davitt (all together now, Hagerty F, Hagerty R…) which marked the start of the band we’ve all known and loved ever since. Sorry, I’m rambling.

See lyrics to Let’s Not

6 Letters Sent:

Simon Smith

To my 1991 ears, I always heard the line as “ain’t nothing much in Ecstasy, I saw Jesus but he didn’t see me”. I concede this is possibly catastrophically incorrect, but (and whisper it gently) “In nothing-much-next -to the sea” is a bit shit and despite Nigel’s ‘no drug’ stance, I prefer to think I, alone, am right. Besides, I doubt Nige has done half the things he references in songs (Tantric sex excepted).

Jan 26th, 2009
John Anderson

It’s Nothing Much Next-The-Sea parodying the real Norfolk town of Wells Next-The-Sea. I always heard “set in Norfolk where it’s cold” rather than “set in Norfolk and it’s called.”

Jan 30th, 2009
s.g.d.,a Shropshire lad

the lyric book(which is not 100% perfect) says:

“Mean nothing much
next The Sea”

Jan 31st, 2009
Simon Smith

None of that makes much sense though. In fact, it’s a pretty dire ‘parody’, but I bow to your Norfolk (and Way) reasoning.

Jan 31st, 2009
Keir Hardie

I just read that Stephen Hawking is very ill in hospital. Reading on, the piece mentioned his motor neurone disease. The rest was inevitable. Before long I was thinking about Ian “Sludge” Lees. I remember once seeing the covers of a set of rubbish looking singles, it was something like football songs for a world cup sung by not very famous comedians of England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and the England one was done by Ian “Sludge” Lees. I think he had a perm.

Apr 20th, 2009
tarmac

So is the missing apostrophe on the CD track list a typo or a brilliant joke about letting we’ve all missed?

Aug 2nd, 2009