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6 | Bob Wilson – Anchorman | 61 | v | 39 | Fix It So She Dreams Of Me | 591 |
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6 | Bob Wilson – Anchorman | 61 | v | 39 | Fix It So She Dreams Of Me | 591 |
Voting and comments closed. Comment on the result here. Here’s the chat during the voting…
There are 14 Half Man Half Biscuit albums, plus two roundup compilations, as well as 4 EPs and a handful of one-off songs. No 'Greatest Hits'. Indulge yourself by starting here.
In which we chose the nation's favourite Half Man Half Biscuit song. For the next four years, anyway.
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Two fat feet
Tricky one to predict as Fix It’s popularity in an arena such as this remains a bit of an unknown quantity. Bob Wilson pulled off something of a giant-killing to topple Vagaries in the first round, so this is certainly not a foregone conclusion.
Fix It doesn’t do it for me the way it seems to for so many others but it’s clearly a modern classic, while I don’t really see Bob Wilson as a quarter-finalist so while he gets my vote on this occasion, I predict Fix It to go through with 55% of the vote.
16 November 2015
Schoon
I just voted and I’m in Broadstairs.
16 November 2015
Two fat feet
Just noticed that maybe I shouldn’t have included that apostrophe in It’s at the beginning.
16 November 2015
Stringy bob
Bob Wilson – Anchorman is hilarious. And brilliantly observed too, because great keeper he may well have been, but as a tv presenter he was utter shit.
16 November 2015
Beltane beard
I want “Bob Wilson – Anchorman” to win the cup as I think it is magnificent. All that brilliance crammed into such a short space of time.
“Fix It…” is a good song but I will feel like Jim Rosenthal if the erstwhile Football Focus presenter doesn’t make it through…….
16 November 2015
peter mcornithologist
Undecided until I read a wee bit about Mr.Wilson.Daughter died aged 32. Son-in law died from food poisoning after eating a corned beef sandwich and the poor sods middle name is Primrose.
16 November 2015
Hazelsound
Me in drab olive. Again.
16 November 2015
Nagasaki shinpads
Fix It is right on more levels than BWA…and my.first headmaster was Mr Wilson who played a harmonium which….dribbled!
17 November 2015
Poolio
BWA just too strong to be threatened by this young upstart… and as a a Jim the “Fix It” leaves me cold…
17 November 2015
D list paul ross
Fix it one of my least favourite HMHB songs go Bob. Although I do enjoy the Jim Beglin bit.
17 November 2015
toastkid
This sounds quite foolish, but i had to go and look up Fix It, realising that it was the song i’d previously thought was called “Gok Wan Acolytes”. When it started, i thought “Wow, this really sounds like Gok Wan Acolytes, ‘all of our songs sound the same’ indeed.” My face is red. Anyway, whatever it’s called, it’s a tough battle: the first one that’s properly left me unable to choose. I’ll come back to it.
17 November 2015
GOK WAN ACOLYTE
For all the reasons outlined in the “Round of 32”, but pretty obviously from my username, it’s Fix It for me
17 November 2015
EXXO
Don’t worry Toastie, on more than one occasion I’ve written lists of HMHB titles (when trying to recall setlists or whatever) that had both ‘Fix It’ and ‘GWA’.
Which makes you think that there are a few songs a fair bit lower than they should be on the 192 spreadsheet because the title does not appear in the song. Some of the songs off TLP and McIntyre that are some of the most accomplished, catchy and original musically in the entire opus just need a title repeated in the chorus and they could be top twenty.
17 November 2015
PAT BOONE ON THE COUNTY BASSOON
No contest here. Bob Wilson every time. Now I’m off to Dundalk.
17 November 2015
SIMON P
Fix It for me. I’ve never understood the appeal of BWA. It’s clearly just me. See also: JDOG, DPAK.
17 November 2015
Cygnus
@Pat Boone
No contest for me either, got to be Fix It every time. Now I’m off to Hope!
17 November 2015
D list paul ross
Exxo quite agree. I always think Our Tune and Girlfriend’s Finished With Him should be the other way round as titles go.
17 November 2015
TWO FAT FEET
I’ve made that suggestion several times in the past with never a word of agreement from anyone. Glad it’s not just me.
17 November 2015
Dougie wougie bader
This is my dream final. I am distraught.
17 November 2015
Scoff Cruddle
Damn it, this is hard…on the one hand, not nearly enough songs mention ammonites, but on the other hand, the same can be said of eating soup with a fork in Dundalk…
And I like both tunes, as they’re a little off kilter and different. Hmmm. Tricksy indeed.
18 November 2015
D list paul ross
Sorry for the steal @TFF I’m not a lifer on here although I think I’m about to become one!
18 November 2015
Featureless tv producer steve
This match isn’t as clear-cut as a few of the others, but it’s still pretty easy for me.
Don’t get me wrong, Bob Wilson’s a great little romp, but when you can work Gok Wan, ammonites, the Domesday Book, Cromwell, Dick Turpin, Jim Beglin, and Chesil Beach all into one song (and start a forest fire with a Renaissance trombone along the way), all whilst being dragged through the musical underbrush by one of HMHB’s most hypnotic grooves – well, eating soup with a fork seems somewhat uninspired. FISSDOM it is.
18 November 2015
Jeff Dreadnought
@ D-List and TFF, I see what you mean, but if you imagine Simon Bates reading out the lyrics to Our Tune with his Our Tune theme tune playing in the background, the titles seem to make more sense. Or maybe that ‘s just me.
18 November 2015