Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
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6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Half Man Half Biscuit
McIntyre, Treadmore And Davitt
(Probe Plus, 1991)
When the hiatus was back off for Birkenhead's good-natured, dole-sage omni-satirists.
Half Man Half Biscuit's cheap but dead funny debut Back In The DHSS (1985) is surely one of the essential British indie records. So think of the dismay felt by their admirers in secondary schools, regional vinyl outlets, pubs and other places where deadpan, punky ribbing of Bob Todd, Precious Mackenzie and Peggy Mount was appreciated when motivating brain Nigel Blackwell called a halt in 1986, fearing that the band were becoming too successful. Thankfully they returned in 1991 with this album, named for some players for football team Barnstoneworth United from the 1979 Ripping Yarns episode Golden Gordon, and with a scene from said programme on the cover. Within were better-polished guitar group sounds, and a sense that Blackwell had spent the intervening four years honing his lyrics of everyday surrealism, strikingly monikered sportspersons and light entertainers, and other pop-cultural esoterica (the de-coding of which offered hours of enjoyable bewilderment in the days before the Internet). Consequently you get the sublime line "Sign on you crazy diamond" in bittersweet love/ cycling fantasia A Lilac Harry Quinn, shout-outs to Kendo Nagasaki and Flintlock on Everything's A.O.R., and, on Let's Not, a partial revisiting of Back In The DHSS's I Hate Nerys Hughes with a possibly disparaging reference to Carla Lane. The band have carried on since with no noticeable commercial peaks or troughs but have made eight more albums that fans know will hit the spot - what a model of creative sustainability.
Ian Harrison
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 01/04/2010
Further Listening
Half Man Half Biscuit – Back In The DHSS (Probe Plus, 1985)
The Fall – Slates (Rough Trade, 1981)
Jilted John – True Love Stories (EMI, 1978)
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