Half Man Half Biscuit Half Hearted: Project

Half Man Half Biscuit Half Hearted

Ah yes. Why spend time typing up the lyrics to Half Man Half Biscuit songs? Because they are gems like no other. We celebrate British bands and artists for seminal musical works (think Bowie or Elvis Costello) and, unless you happen to know the late John Peel's inside leg measurement or you were enlightened as a student, the majesty, wit and sheer intelligence of the HMHB opus is ignored. Shame, shame, shame.

Over the years a number of web sites have recorded some lyrics and a multitude of research notes for the songs [see the excellent www.hmhb.co.uk]. The latter are invaluable to understanding the wide ranging and often obscure historical references. The former are a mixed bag, with only a few songs listed.

So what started out as a full hearted attempt by me to record the lyrics so my sister could understand the songs has developed into a blog post and a project to educate the half-hearted masses and to provide a definitive song list with lyrics.

They'll be other crap on here too such as my own songs "Progressive Dads", "People called Wilson", "Blog-proof iPod", "Armchair Expert" and "Holistically Challenged"- I need to finish writing them first :)

"...Baby I'm from the Wirral Peninsula.
A merciless despot with nothing to lose"

Monkey Man, June 2007

Please note that all lyrics are mostly my interpretation and are presented here to assist you in understanding the songs. They are the copyright of others.

You should also pay a visit to www.chrisrand.com/hmhb/ for HMHB lyrics - a superb site with a superb range of listings

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Saturday, 30 June 2007

Another stint over!

Yeee-haaaaa

Another stint over and that marks another album's worth of lyrics listed - in this case McIntyre, Treadmore and Davitt.

Many, many thanks to KPXX for sending me the lyrics. It was good timing as I was struggling with some of the songs.

:)

Monkey Man

Friday, 22 June 2007

Future Plans

Best laid plans and all that.........

General tidying up. I mean the blog not the house
I'll sort out a discography list soon. I didn't do it at the beginning because I figure that most people searching for lyrics will go by the song and not the album title
I'll finish writing my own songs, "Progressive Dads", "People called Wilson", "Blog-proof iPod" and "Armchair Expert" - when you spend a solid couple of days researching HMHB lyrics your mind tends to wander. Well mine did.
I'll buy the last few remaining HMHB CDs I don't own (still waiting for Amazon to furnish me with Four Lads Who Shook the Wirral) and complete the lyrics listing
Finally I'll hang round the local Primark waiting to ask Nigel when he'll do a song about Jeremy Beadle. Take a look at this interview from 2001.

Monkey Man

Second Stint

One more song {Mate of the Bloke} to go and Achtung Bono will be finished.

That means I will have covered:-

Achtung Bono
Cammel Laird Social Club
Editor's Recommendation
Saucy Haulage Ballards

My fingers are bleeding from the typing.

Thursday, 21 June 2007

End of the first stint

Well I've managed to get 23 songs on during my first stint. The most lyrics I've seen on other sites is 9 songs worth! So already the project is doing well.

The problem is I won't sleep now as I have an amalgam of HMHB lyrics zooming through my noggin. And I wanted to complete the Achtung Bono listing before I turned in but that isn't going to happen.

Wednesday, 20 June 2007

I'm a virgin

Displaying classic timing - that is several years after the horse has bolted - I present my first blog and first blog post. My aim is to compile a list, if not the definitive list, of Half Man Half Biscuit Lyrics.

I could have done that using a normal website and not a blog but I'm too lazy and Blogger.com does a lot of the hard work. Anyway, it's accepted that blogs contain lots of prattle and whining and dross. Perfect.

I hope I'm not too lazy not to finish this project.

The Monkey Man.

Half Man Half Biscuit
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