Half Man Half Biscuit, For old hands and newbloods alike Options

[leopold]

Half Man Half Biscuit. Or HMHB, for short. Either you've heard of them or you haven't.

But now you have, which sort of renders the above statement pointless.

These guys hail from Liverpool and have been around for a long, long time. They've written lots of great songs, with a mixture of lyrical genius, sharp humour and plenty of namedropping. But due to their lack of mainstream exposure, they still remain an enigma to many.

A lot of people have never heard of them, probably because they never went to university, or to a gig at their local, or perhaps never got to hear John Peel on the radio. Which is a shame.

Well, it's time to put things right. I, with the help of my loyal sidekick and nemesis Inky (whose idea this thread was, to be fair) aim to redress this injustice and give Nigel, Neil and the rest of the gang their much deserved recognition.

Go here to their website.

Download their music.

You may want to start with their earlier stuff, so you can get a feel for their musical style without the production values. Permit me to suggest "Back In The DHSS", their first album and the one I was introduced to all those years ago in that grotty house in Sheffield. Ah, halcyon days indeed!

I may, given a little time and much coercion, put some samples somewhere which can be listened to. As you'd expect, these will be lo-fi versions which you can get an idea from but couldn't possibly use in favour of the properly encoded full length super clear versions you can buy. And buy you must, because this is how the lads can achieve their required and deserved status.

Now go. Go forth into the world, safe in the knowledge that your life will be enriched by the presence of Half Man Half Biscuit within it.

[leopold]

To be honest with you, Narth, the Biscuit aren't really about the music anyway, it's all in the lyrics. For me, it's like watching movies in high definition; if you're busy counting the wrinkles on Harrison Ford's face, you clearly aren't enjoying the film. It's the same with HMHB, if you're concentrating on the sound then you're most likely missing the barbed comments about some celebrity or other.