Showing posts with label Half Man Half Biscuit. Show all posts
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Thursday, 23 April 2026

Overhead A Rainbow Appears In Black And White

You can depend on Half Man Half Biscuit to have a song for every occasion.

Warning: this video contains images of Simon Cowell, Jeremy Clarkson, Bono, Jeremy Kyle and "rubber faced irritant" Phil Cool.

 

Pulling the ice axe from my leg
I staggered on
Spindrift stinging my remaining eye
I finally managed to reach the station
Only to find that the bus replacement service had broken down

After wondering to myself whether or not
It should actually be called a train replacement service
I walked out onto the concourse and 
Noticed the giant screen seemed to have been tampered with
Probably by a junior employee
Disgruntled commuters were being regaled with some dismal TVM
Involving a tug-of-love-custody-battle
Stockard Channing held sway

Down in the High Street somebody careered out of Boots 
Without due care or attention
I suggest that they learn some pedestrian etiquette
i.e. sidle out of the store gingerly
Embrace the margin

Fat kids with sausage rolls
Poor sods conducting polls

There's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets

I try to put everything into perspective
Set it against the scale of human suffering
And I thought of the Mugabe government
And the children of the Calcutta railways

This works for a while
But then I encounter Primark FM
Overhead a rainbow appears
In black and white

Shite Day
I guess this must be National Shite Day
This surely must be National Shite Day
Don't tell me, it's National Shite Day

Float... float on
Float... float on
Barry... Herpes

I got a letter from Stringy Bob
Still on suicide watch
Screws not happy
Spotted a Marsh Fritillary during association
Was roundly ignored
What news you

I felt sorry for him
He'd only been locked up for public nuisance offences
One of which saw him beachcombing the Dee Estuary
Found a dead wading bird
Took it home, parcelled it up
And sent it off to the rubber-faced irritant Phil Cool
With a note inside which read: 
"Is this your Sanderling?"

Another time saw him answering an advert in the music press
"Keyboard player required: Doors, Floyd, etc.
Must be committed, no time wasters"
You can guess the rest

I always imagined he would 
Simply wander off some day into the hills
To be found months later
His carcass stripped by homeless dogs
His exposed skull a perch for the quartering crow

I folded away the letter and put it in my inside pocket
All of a sudden I felt brushed by the wings of something dark
May the Lord have mercy on Stringy Bob

Shite Day
I do believe it's National Shite Day
It all points to National Shite Day
Someone's declared it National Shite Day

Shite Day
My birthday! 
On National Shite Day
No bogroll, it's National Shite Day
Cue drumroll, it's National Shite Day

Saturday, 18 December 2021

Bad Santa IV

Back due to...well, absolutely no demand whatsover, it's Bad Santa, another selection of Christmas songs. Includes a few all-time personal favourites from Half Man Half Biscuit, Ramones and Belle & Sebastian playing James Brown, plus some obscurities and cover of classic Christmas songs. Pye Corner Audio, who I have listened to lots this year (thanks to Adam @ Bagging Area), bring things up to date with their 2020 festive offering. Ho! Ho! Ho!

1) A Daddy's Christmas: Albert Brooks ft. Little Kristi (1974)
2) Thank God It's Not Christmas: Sparks (1974)
3) Everything's Gonna Be Cool This Christmas (Single Version): Eels (1998)
4) The Little Drummer Boy (Album Version) (Cover of Katherine K. Davis, Henry Onorati & Harry Simeone): The Dandy Warhols (1997)
5) All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit: Half Man Half Biscuit (1986)
6) Rock 'n' Roll Santa: Yo La Tengo (2002)
7) Zombie Christmas: Emmy The Great & Tim Wheeler (2011)
8) Santa Claus Go Straight To The Ghetto (Live on the John Peel Show, BBC Radio 1, 18 December 2002) (
Cover of James Brown): Belle & Sebastian (2002)
9) Christmas In Waikiki: Morgan (2000)
10) Mele Kalikimaka (Christmas In Hawaii) (Cover of Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters): KT Tunstall (2007)
11) Christmas Time Is Here (From 'A Charlie Brown Christmas') (Cover of Vince Guaraldi): Khruangbin (2018)
12) Close Your Mouth (It's Christmas): The Free Design (1968)
13) Chilly Winds (Fink Remix By Fin Greenall): Nina Simone (2008)
14) Christmas Dub (Reprise): Wareika (2013)
15) Omnichord Omnishambles (At Xmas): Pye Corner Audio (2020)
16) Santa's False Teeth: Saint Etienne (2011)
17) Tawel Nos / Silent Night (John Peel Session, 2001) (
Cover of traditional song): Melys (2001)
18) Johnny Shrapnel Buys Christmas: Arab Strap (2000)
19)
Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight) (Album Version): Ramones (1989) 
20) Xmas Bubblegum Machine: Sultans Of Ping (1993)
 
Bad Santa IV (56:59) (GD) (M)

Click on the links for the previous Bad Santa selections from 2016, 2017 & 2020