Epic closer to the last Half Man Half Biscuit album CSI:Ambleside, opening with a crashing guitar riff and drums and then...
'Pulling the ice-axe from my leg I staggered on,
Spindrift stinging my remaining eye'
Needless to say things don't get any better over the next 6 minutes, but lyrically this is a high point of western 21st century culture, concerning bus replacement services, Stockard Channing, disgruntled commuters, junior employees, pedestrian etiquette ('sidle out of the store gingerly, embrace the margin'), fat kids with sausage rolls, poor sods conducting polls, a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets, the Mugabe government, the children of the Calcutta railways, Primark FM, Stringy Bob, rubber-faced irritant Phil Cool, a dead Sanderling, keyboard players, The Doors, Floyd, homeless dogs, and Barry Herpes. All this on his birthday, coincidentally National Shite Day. No wonder by the song's conclusion Nigel Blackwell feels 'touched by the wings of something dark'.
If you don't know Half Man Half Biscuit, or havn't heard anything since The Trumpton Riots, or have them down as some kind of novelty, then click this one and dig in. It's perfect in every way, including the heroically crap drum roll on the last chorus.
Additionally, can I just say this song is not connected to our failure to win the league today- I never expected Chelsea to lose or draw.
National_Shite_Day.mp3
'Pulling the ice-axe from my leg I staggered on,
Spindrift stinging my remaining eye'
Needless to say things don't get any better over the next 6 minutes, but lyrically this is a high point of western 21st century culture, concerning bus replacement services, Stockard Channing, disgruntled commuters, junior employees, pedestrian etiquette ('sidle out of the store gingerly, embrace the margin'), fat kids with sausage rolls, poor sods conducting polls, a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets, the Mugabe government, the children of the Calcutta railways, Primark FM, Stringy Bob, rubber-faced irritant Phil Cool, a dead Sanderling, keyboard players, The Doors, Floyd, homeless dogs, and Barry Herpes. All this on his birthday, coincidentally National Shite Day. No wonder by the song's conclusion Nigel Blackwell feels 'touched by the wings of something dark'.
If you don't know Half Man Half Biscuit, or havn't heard anything since The Trumpton Riots, or have them down as some kind of novelty, then click this one and dig in. It's perfect in every way, including the heroically crap drum roll on the last chorus.
Additionally, can I just say this song is not connected to our failure to win the league today- I never expected Chelsea to lose or draw.
National_Shite_Day.mp3
Superb site, excellent choice, have had this in my head after hearing "Bone Machine" by Pixies. Now I keep getting my "preachy preach" and "float, float ons" confused. And, come to think of it, I've never seen Nigel and Frank in the same room...
ReplyDeleteThanks Schcoobydoo- half man half pixie sounds good
ReplyDeleteActually half pixie half biscuit sounds better
ReplyDeleteThis should be the national anthem
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