Track Listing

1. Outbreak Of Vitas Gerulaitis
2. Prag Vec At The Melkweg
3. Christian Rock Concert
4. Let's Not
5. Yipps (My Baby Got The)
6. Hedley Verityesque
7. Lilac Harry Quinn
8. Our Tune
9. Girlfriend's Finished
10. With Him
11. Everything's AOR

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #34066 in Music
• Released on: 2003-09-22
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Customer Reviews

Magnificent
This album was the first outing after the lads split in th 80's. There are loads of magical bits on the album but without a doubt the greatest HMHB track ever (Everything's AOR) is on here and it deserves repeated re-playing. Any band that can fit Kendo Nagasaki into their lyrics deserve the status of "national treasure" that John Peel accorded the Biscuits.

Brilliance, Nigel my boy, Brilliance

"Who's afraid of Virginia Wade?"
The front cover of the Biccies 'comeback' album from 1991 features a still from a football-themed episode of Michael Palin's "Ripping Yarns" series from the '70s. It's a characteristic touch from a band who famously turned down a slot on 'The Tube' as it clashed with a Friday night home fixture for Tranmere Rovers.

Where this album has the edge over later efforts is in, well, the tunes - most of them are pretty damn hummable and that's not something you always get on other albums by Birkenhead's scathing, post-punk satirists. And any band that rhymes 'lackey' with 'Kendo Nagasaki' is obviously worthy of our most serious attention.

The Biccies have always been suspicious of prescribed 'cool' texts, disdainful of student trendies - "Don't know much about The Highway Code/ And I've never read 'On The Road'/ I don't read I just memorise names/So I can stagger through bohemian games."

Who else would excavate half-forgotten sporting, musical and cultural figures like Alan Brazil, Vitas Gerulaitis, Kip Keino, Hedley Verity, and Peter Grommitt in their songs?

There's probably a poncey doctoral thesis to be written unpicking all the Biccies rich and varied references. Thinking about it, that wouldn't be a bad way to spend the next 3 years of my life.......

Another great album
I'd say this is the third best HMHB album after the joint two best of Actung Bono and Back in the DHSS. Its a close thing though as this album has it all - great lyrics and great tunes. My favourite is 'girlfirends finished with him'. It sort of sums up the band, an interesting unconventional song, great lyrics, and a fantastic ending. The first time I heard this song was on a run (Ipod) and as it got the great ending I just thought 'I love this band'. In these days of money gabbing commercialism, its so refreshing to have things in your life that are just perfect. HMHB are that. Just buy one of their albums. You wont regret it.
Even better they have a new album out soon! Totnes Bickering is up to their usual standard.