Eno Collaboration is more poking fun at pretentious bands, although this time a bit more major league than the usual indie targets. Thanks to Patrick and Matthew
See lyrics to Eno Collaboration
Eno Collaboration is more poking fun at pretentious bands, although this time a bit more major league than the usual indie targets. Thanks to Patrick and Matthew
See lyrics to Eno Collaboration
niall
Just found this site. A great resource. I’m no good at tabs but I’ve chords for a load of HMHB stuff if it’s any good to you. Fabulous to get the full lyrics to Eno (wonderful song but an absolute bitch to perform). I couldn’t make out that “light aircraft” line for the life of me. I’ll get cracking on the songs you need help with. We’re working on King of Hi-Vis for the next show.
22 May 2008
chris
Wow. You guys are legends. I’d love to see you some day.
Update: sorry, the halfarsedhalfbiscuit.com site seems to have gone away.
22 May 2008
Paul F
Niall – You aren’t in “It Ain’t Half Man, Mum” are you? 😉
29 May 2008
David W
“You get yourself some Ray-Bans and before you know it’s time”
should read:
“And get yourself some Ray-Bans ‘cos boy you know it’s time”
23 June 2008
Petrovic
Not only is “From the Indies to the Andes in his Undies” a 1940s song (as the HMHB discog notes point out) but it’s on YouTube …though I’m not sure I could actually recommend it.
10 September 2008
Paul F
Sorry – I hadn’t noticed the link on Chris’s message when I posted. Truth is stranger than fiction apparently.
12 September 2008
Ricardo
Picking up the bucolic baton from Mr Exford’s excellent post over on the “Tending the Wrong Grave…” comments page, I humbly draw your attention to The Findhorn Garden Story – a pictorial record of those delightful old eco-hippies up in Scotland – in which we find the following passage:
“By drawing us back into myth and legend and into cooperation with the spirits of the Earth, the elves and fairies and gnomes, Findhorn invites us to a more ancient time when man was young and shared his world knowingly with these beings. This priceless gift of wonderment invites us to become as little children, dancing within an elven ring of quicksilver delight and walking near the majesty of the great god Pan.”
22 March 2010
Charles Exford
Aaah. The Findhorn community of course was a big influence on the paganism of Summerisle in The Wicker Man, and I would wager my last hag stone that NB57 came to this line via that route.
Once again Ricardo, thank you for these crumbs that fall from your literary smorgasbord.
*doffs cap*
22 March 2010
lurking like len
hahaha
id never really paid attention to the enos phone answermessage bit
genius piled on genius!!!
oh
and “on toast”
hahahahahaha
16 June 2010
David W
Two years on and somebody’s still in bed writing on the bottom of their slippers with a biro rather than making obvious corrections… As this is a HMHB site, I suppose it figures.
“You get yourself some Ray-Bans and before you know it’s time”
should read:
“And get yourself some Ray-Bans ‘cos boy you know it’s time”
9 December 2010
Charles Exford
Thanks to Tom on the Yahoo HMHB mailing list for posting this link to a delightful video of the Hoosier Hotshots’ 1939 hit “From the Indies to the Andes in his Undies”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G4ZTX-lAoA&feature=related
9 May 2011
M Watts
Has any one got a good collection of chords for HMHB songs. I need some help on my Fretwork Homework, thank you.
28 March 2012
Martin A
I know Bono and He knows Dido…
16 January 2013
Toastkid
Possibly a bit late for this (spurred by the title of the Bono entry in the A-Z), but i’d always thought the line was
“she knows Eno, ‘is phone goes thus:” (with ‘is being short for “his”)
rather than
“she knows Eno’s phone goes thus”.
The latter suggests that Eno’s answerphone message is a secret known to Ono, which seems a bit strange but then, on the other hand, i suppose only a select group of people have his number.
But, listening again, it does sound more like “Eno’s phone” than “Eno, ‘is phone”. So maybe it is. Bit random, sorry.
28 January 2014
Dr Desperate
Rather fine Eno collaboration documentary here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FODvjYoVEi8
(including offal reference! – Ed)
17 September 2014
schoon
QUICK it won’t last, search for Eno, here.
(Very good – copy here for posterity – CtSO)
19 September 2014
dr desperate
@Schoon Excellent work!
19 September 2014
dickhead in quicksand
That edit didn’t last:-( But I’ve had another try, better-referenced maybe. You never know., sooner or later, they might drop their guard. I followed up with some improvements to the lamentable English in the introductory para, as any honest editor would.
Do NOT overlook the boxed quote in that screenshot. I swear on the graves of all my ancestors that it was there when I opened the page.
16 November 2014
peter mcornithologist
@Mr.Quicksand.Not sure if it is mentioned in the above edit ,as I am unable to locate my spectacles but Chrissie Hynde sang backing vocals on The Unforgettable Fire.
16 November 2014
dickhead in quicksand
Someone’s improved my edit to “The album reached number one in Britain, and was successful in the US.” Near enough, imo, it should be safe now. (Result!) I suggest: leave it alone for a month or two, after which someone else might public-spiritedly try to add another citation…
17 November 2014
AnthOny
Now here is an odd thing. For the past 10 years or more I thought the line ‘as sure as night follows day’ was actually ‘George Michael is gay’. I have happily sung the line at gigs over the years. In fact ‘George Michael is gay’ sounds much more like a biscuits line to me. Is it possible that you are all wrong? There I was logging on to my PC at work when the random lyrics generator completely astounded me. You could have scraped my chin off the floor with an ice cream scoop.
After all George Michael is actually gay. I know. I was surprised too…
19 August 2015
Richard Willis
Has anyone [else] seen this: https://twitter.com/gray/status/654300147250274304
4 December 2015
Dr desperate
As far as I know, the wedding photo isn’t Photoshopped (I think it’s only the night-time, though you can never tell from Bono’s eyewear).
http://41.media.tumblr.com/30af84e1cfcb1fcba978269cd463dabb/tumblr_n4vdha7huA1rlq5cvo2_1280.jpg
4 December 2015
paul f
It looks photoshopped, but per your link there are evidently at least two pictures showing the relevant participants, so apparently it is genuine. Brilliant stuff.
4 December 2015
EXXO
So let’s cut to the important issues – back in December when that 1992 ‘Hello’ photoshoot pic from Bowie’s wedding was doing the rounds on tw*tter, the fella who replied that HMHB made the joke first (before Bowie I assume they meant, ‘cos the pic was clearly a visual gag by Bowie).. was he being serious or what?
12 January 2016
dr desperate
It’s not “Brian’s not at home”; it’s “Brian’s not home”.
5 April 2016
Hendrix TATtoo
@Reckless,her autobiography….
A favourite drug-taking comrade was Lemmy, front man of the heavy rock band Motorhead. Hynde recalls that the first time they met in a shop on the King’s Road, neither exchanged a word as he dipped a silver tube he wore around his neck into a bag of white powder, shoved it up her nose and walked out. She sniffed the tube’s contents and was high for three days, she recalls.
5 April 2016
Hendrix TATtoo
@Reckless….
The sisterhood is still reeling in shock and anger. In her new autobiography, Eighties rock chick and feminist icon Chrissie Hynde reveals that she was raped by a gang of bikers when she was just 21.
Not only that, she says it was her fault. She was out of her mind on drugs, behaving flirtatiously and hopelessly naive.
5 April 2016
Hendrix TATtoo
@Reckless….
She was persuaded to put her life down on paper by her old friend John McEnroe. Whenever he played at Wimbledon, she’s said, he would get in contact. ‘He’d always call me because he knew I had pot. He used to come around and hang out.
5 April 2016
Hendrix TATtoo
@Reckless..
She then got a job as an assistant at SEX, the Chelsea clothing store run by punk pioneers Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood. She took industrial quantities of drugs, moved into a Chelsea squat and hung around with other wannabe rock stars who would later start bands such as The Clash and The Sex Pistols.
5 April 2016
Hendrix TATtoo
@Reckless….
These include her ill-fated two-year relationship with Ray Davies, lead singer of The Kinks and father of her daughter, Natalie, now 32.
Hynde and Davies, a manic depressive who has also struggled with drink and drugs, had a tempestuous time together — once, she threw his clothes out of a hotel window and they were picked up by a passing tramp before they could be retrieved.
5 April 2016
Peter mcornithologist
@ Mr.Hendrix..Good clobber.Still got most of ’em.
5 April 2016
dickhead in quicksand
I didn’t know that story about CH, but it doesn’t surprise me: “Stop snivellin’, you’re gonna make some plastic surgeon a rich man.” That’s alongside The Boiler as songs I do not put on repeat.
5 April 2016
EXXo
Let’s hope that fate dealt some kind of painful justice to those evil scumbag rapists, and that hopefully they didn’t have other victims, but if they did let’s hope the victims didn’t blame themselves in any way.
The best, most balanced article I read about the controversy was
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/sep/05/sophie-heawood-in-defence-of-chrissie-hynde-sexual-assault
“Understandably, this [Hynde’s blaming of herself] has upset a lot of people, who want to stress that there is only ever one cause of rape, and it isn’t what a woman wears or how she behaves: it’s rapists. Victim-blaming is misogyny’s cruellest trick, as those leading the backlash point out.
They are right, of course, but you can’t then start blaming Hynde for blaming herself, or the whole cycle of non-empathy continues. Besides which, it feels pretty important to me that a 63-year-old woman can describe her own violation any damned way she wants to.
…It [blaming yourself] It isn’t right, but it isn’t stupid, either. In an imperfect world, sometimes the only way to get your power back is to make it so that you wrote the story yourself.”
5 April 2016
Dawlishian
Eno Collaborations
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07blnrx
14 May 2016
Dan mud
I love the use of xylophone on this song, as though it’s the kind of thing Eno would suggest were HMHB to ask for his chart-busting collaborative input.
17 April 2017
brumbiscuit
More collaborative efforts: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/technology-39506989/brian-enos-app-reflection-uses-science-to-create-music
18 May 2017
Hal fman
What does the on toast gag refer to ?
21 May 2017
dr desperate
Tom Lehrer’s song on the subject of mathematical plagiarism ‘Lobachevsky’ has this line:
“I have a friend in Minsk
Who has a friend in Pinsk
Whose friend in Omsk
Has friend in Tomsk…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQHaGhC7C2E
26 August 2017
dr Desperate
Mark Radcliffe, interviewing David Byrne before his Manc gig on Monday, described Eno as “a key collaborator”.
20 June 2018
The harbinger of nothing
Eno collaborations are now interplanetary…
27 June 2019
TRANSIT FULL OF keith
An Eno collaborating with another Eno. Well surely that’s the ultimate Eno collaboration? Leave your weird noise here: https://www.mixing-colours.com/
28 April 2020
Tim Down
This evening I became aware of a fairly local Eno collaboration, namely the Portsmouth Sinfonia, a truly dreadful orchestra. Brian was a member, apparently. “The composer Brian Eno, who joined the Sinfonia in late 1970 as a clarinetist (he’d never played that particular instrument before), would go on to remark that the group’s ranks were filled with ‘a range of competence, from bona fide virtuosi to extremely incompetent.’”
3 May 2020
dr desperate
The Sinfonia came together fifty years ago as a one-off, tongue-in-cheek performance art ensemble, but became a cultural phenomenon over the following ten years. The band used their shall-we-say unorthodox version of ‘Also Sprach Zarathustra Op 31’ as walk-on music at Cambridge last year.
4 May 2020
EXXO
Yes it did strike me that saying the Pompey Sinf were “truly dreadful” is a bit like saying a Donald Trump protest blimp is neither a good means of transport nor a viable alternative head of state.
4 May 2020
dr desperate
Contemplating a collaboration with the Enos on this one.
https://www.mixing-colours.com/
13 May 2020
Oh no, it’s Ono
Thirteen years hence and we’re still eagerly awaiting the moment when David W’s comment, “And get yourself some Ray-Bans ‘cos boy you know it’s time” will be acted upon.
25 October 2021
Chris The Siteowner
Haha, normally if I’m anything less than certain, I wait for someone to ‘second’ any suggested correction before making a change, and none came for that one. But always open to offers. Sounds quite feasible to me.
25 October 2021
TRANSIT FULL OF keith
He’s just seconded it, and I’ll third it.
25 October 2021
Dr desperate
University Challenge *SPOILER ALERT* from last night’s music round:
“You’re going to hear a piece of popular music. For 10 points I want the names of both the artists who collaborated on it.”
The piece of music was ‘Help Me Somebody’ from ‘My Life in the Bush of Ghosts’, for which the only answer attempted was “Kraftwerk and Plastic Bertrand?”
11 January 2022
Billy Webfoot
Regarding Comment No 11 Charles,
12 years on and wouldn’t you know it…
This video is no longer available because the YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated.
Zapped by the Borg
27 February 2023
dr desperate
Resistance is futile. Here it is again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5U8iJ0fEns
27 February 2023