After some magnificent research in summer 2012 by site regular Acidic Regulator, we have found videos to run alongside the lyrics of almost every song on this site, ranging from live performances to slideshows. Of course, watching YouTube videos instead of buying the music is something only done by eight-year-olds, so if you want the song, buy it, you cheapskate.
Anyway, over to Acidic Regulator, who writes:
“This is an attempt to catalogue all (ha!) HMHB-related videos available on YouTube, with links and brief comments. I haven’t included credits; if they exist, you’ll find them with the video. The music is the commercial recording except where noted. The comments are, I hope, objective: what I like, others may not, and so on, and I certainly don’t want to denigrate anyone who has taken the trouble to upload something – especially anyone who might have been disappointed with what they’d recorded at a gig but uploaded it anyway. Some of us weren’t there.
“The inevitable asterisk. I was very tempted to exclude videos which are nothing more than uploads of commercially-available tracks. Musicians deserve to get paid. But I felt it better to include everything, for the sake of completeness; and because in the case of this band, I think they’re more likely to attract new fans rather than to enable people to compile free collections. (On the other hand, I have flagged the full upload of This Leaden Pall as Inappropriate, and “Disliked” it. Join me if you agree.)
“There are no links to originals of cover versions. You should be able to find them yourself, and in some cases there is, or may be, doubt over the true original. If you think you’ve nailed down an original source, post it in the song’s Comments and Corrections thread.
“If a timing is a second or two out, don’t blame me, blame YouTube – it can change. A timing like 1:00@0:00 indicates that a video contains more than a single song, such as other song(s), clips, interviews, banter, etc., sometimes irrelevant. Only complete or near-complete songs have individual listings.
“Gig recordings are amateur videos except where noted. The distinction between amateur and professional videos isn’t meant to be personal. If a video has clear views from two or more steady cameras, it’s professional. If it has views of the back of someone’s neck or of the floor, it’s amateur. Anything between is a judgment call. “No video” means two pics or fewer, anything more attracts a comment. There are no comments on video quality, you’re here to listen, right? “Poor sound” = moderate distortion and/or some dropouts (making allowances for live recordings); “Very poor sound” = severe distortion and/or one channel silent.
“Dates have been completed or corrected, where necessary, by referring to this and to Gez’s websites. They are by no means guaranteed to be right; if you know better, say so. One or two remain untraceable, so if you know what they are … well you know what to do. BTW, to those people who identified their uploads with accurate place and date information, thank you, and to those who didn’t…”
Additions, corrections, and clarifications would be very welcome. Email me. And once again thanks to Acidic Regulator for hours retrieving the links from YouTube.
ACIDIC REGULATOR
It was a pleasure watching these videos.
I’ve misspent a fair amount of time listening to pub bands. It’s a useful education, you learn to analyse what’s wrong with them. (It’s usually the rhythm section, the clue’s in the name.) I’ve read praise for Neil’s bass-playing on this site, but nothing that i can recall about Nigel on rhythm guitar. It’s a rare and under-appreciated skill, which makes the difference between plod and bounce. My word but he’s good.
Another thing that struck me was, how tight a unit the band is. Good musicians flick glances at each other to keep together, or for cues; HMHB hardly do so at all, they know each other so well they don’t need to. Also, they share round the responsibility of starting songs and so setting tempi, a fairly unusual practice in my experience.
20 September 2012
John Burscough
Ooh, this is good. Stupendous work AR & Chris.
21 September 2012
Chris The Siteowner
OK, Back In The DHSS‘s updated pages with videos are complete. Any comments, including anything you know of on YouTube which Acidic Regulator has missed, do let me know.
24 September 2012
Jim Wickham (Still in the Timor Sea)
This is great stuff – thank you Acidic Regulator and Chris. Does anyone know if Probe Plus have any plan to release a live recording of HMHB? Or a live video?
With little in the way of sunshine on a survey ship, this website is a regular sanctuary – and the video additions are a great enhancement…
See you all one day at a HMHB gig, when I can get back to Blighty!
29 September 2012
Micky Bates
I speak to Geoff quite a bit and have asked the question a few times about live recordings, I don’t think anything is likely soon.
1 October 2012
Third Rate Les
Sorry to be thick like, but where are these videos? I’ve clicked on all the bits above and it didn’t seem to take me to any Youtube bits apart from two bits from God Gave Us Life.
2 October 2012
ACIDIC REGULATOR
@Les, have a look at the new and improved lyrics page for each song. CtSO is manfully working his way through all 179 – and there may well be some future addiitions to the Peel Sessions page.
3 October 2012
Third Rate Les
oh I see – sorry!
3 October 2012
Chris The Siteowner
OK, videos now up for Back Again In The DHSS and ACD, some tracks from which cross over (and with the first album).
14 October 2012
Chris The Siteowner
Videos now up for McIntyre, Treadmore and Davitt (including one or two songs with no videos available …gasp!)
20 October 2012
Chris The Siteowner
Videos now up for This Leaden Pall (once again, including one or two songs with no videos available) and the Peel Session and other one-off songs.
3 November 2012
Chris The Siteowner
And Some Call It Godcore…
11 November 2012
Matty G
… What a treat… For a guy who can’t cross The Pond to see live gigs, these really hit the spot…..
12 November 2012
Chris The Siteowner
And Four Lads…
And Trouble over Bridgwater (please don’t try watching all the versions of Twenty Four Hour Garage People unless you’ve got all night)…
22 November 2012
Chris The Siteowner
Update. Bad advice above. DO watch all the Twenty Four Hour Garage People videos. You won’t regret it. I didn’t.
Cammell Laird Social Club videos now added.
Note: The “See Also” videos now come with a fancypants new popup window. Please let me know if you have any problems with this.
23 November 2012
Chris The Siteowner
Added Achtung Bono videos (that’s a lot of Oven Gloves versions!) and Editor’s Recommendation (that’s a lot of Vatican Broadsides!).
2 December 2012
Exxo
Not that I’m concerned (‘course you’re not)
Got mixed feelings about these videos (‘course you have)
But some songs off of ‘Voyage‘ must be feeling a bit neglected that you’ve never officially announced their addition.
2 December 2012
Chris The Siteowner
Damn, and I’d have got away with it if it wasn’t for…
2 December 2012
Chris The Siteowner
Added CSI: Ambleside and 90 Bisodol. But don’t think that’s it – there are EPs to come, and then enough non-album-related video footage to keep us going until the next LP comes out. Stay tuned.
15 December 2012
Chris The Siteowner
OK, the EPs are done, so that’s everything (phew!). Now to catalogue all the cover versions and other miscellaneous HMHB-related stuff.
26 December 2012
Chris The Siteowner
And it’s all done! Phew. Unfortunately nothing on the internet stays still, so in the time it’s taken me to add all the videos to the site, a whole bunch of new ones have come along. Fortunately, Acidic Regulator has been keeping up, and has provided the (first of what may be regular) updates here.
6 January 2013
CHRIS THE SITEOWNER
Having just watched this video, and not being down with the kids enough to even know about “lyric videos”, I really must make one or two for the songs which have no video.
8 March 2013
Chris The Siteowner
And indeed I have, for Soft Verges, which more than deserved a video of its own. Any other budding video directors out there?
9 March 2013
EXXo
Hmm. Has anyone got anything more (links to articles, etc?) on the “record companies love them” theme? Because ever since the videos appeared on this site I’ve wondered. Do they actually help HMHB sell some more CDs & downloads? Or not?
I will try to ask Geoff & NB57, because I’ve been meaning to for ages, whether they would approve of the links to these vids being on here, but I bet they will probably both just shrug and mumble something about not knowing what these things are really.
10 March 2013
vendor of quack nostrums
Tricky. And ultimately rather difficult to make a judgement on. T’internet is changing marketing theory rapidly and, if anything, free access seems to be winning with money being made alongside initial product. Kindle don’t really want to give Dickens and Conan Doyle away for nowt, but they have no choice. However enough early doors freeloaders get bored of 19th century intrigue and open an account to allow them to show willing and link it from their homepage. Still not sure? They market books at 20p simply to get waverers to sign up, confident that in time they’ll start to buy full price. Freemium products turn a huge profit but Skype ain’t getting it from me although I use it weekly. I’ve no intention of giving EA my real hard earned for overpriced virtual donuts, but they are still making a fortune from Tapped Out.
My hunch would be that the majority of visitors to this site have already purchased HMHB product and the videos would encourage rather than inhibit further purchase. Of those who may be feasting on free video, then yes a percentage of those will contribute nada to the band, but some will feel the need to purchase official like (either for enhanced quality or through empathy with the ripped off artist). All that must be balanced against the digital exposure that this site offers the band. Again, difficult to measure but since this site started the band have released their most commercially successful material.
10 March 2013
Jitsu_g
I agree with the above comments regarding the videos encouraging people to buy CDs, go to gigs etc.
I was reintroduced to the band after borrowing Achtung Bono and CSI from Halifax library a couple of years ago. I had been aware of HMHB back in the 80s, my mate had a tape of DHSS. Since then I have purchased the back catalogue either from gigs or Probe and been to see them eleven times (with tickets for 3 more gigs to come). It just takes a gentle nudge to get people on the right track !
24 March 2013
Paul F
I agree with what others have said – they promote the band. In my case I rediscovered HMHB through the links to the BBC sessions on the “official” site, went on to buy a few CDs from Amazon, and having wised up have bought a stack more directly from Probe and been to a couple of gigs.
25 March 2013
Edwardian LAMPOON
Bleedin’ Youtube nazis have just blocked another one of my vids.
Last night I uploaded “Get Kramer” no problem, then I tried to upload “Prag Vec at the Melk Weg” and just because I edited in a few shots of “Yellow Submarine” fuckin’ Apple Corps were all over me. Three times I tried to upload it, eventually I found out that I could contest their decision but I know the scummy bastards are going to knock me back.
Sorry for the rant but I really need somewhere where I can upload my HMBM vids.
Here’s my appeal to YouTube Storm Troopers.
The images I used from The Beatles film “Yellow Submarine” is already in the public domain as is indicated by the large amount of footage of said film already on show on YouTube. I used none of their music or indeed any part of the film sound track. I would be most grateful if you could reconsider dis-allowing my uploading of these short clips as most of the work involved editing and using PhotoShop images which I personally created rather than profiting from the work of others which this copyright protection is in place to prevent.
I didn’t mention that they’re a bunch of submental, vulgarian dickheads who wouldn’t recognise a joke if one if one bit them on the arse.
That’s for a later video.
4 July 2013
BrumbiscUit
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HG9JVaumYYA&feature=youtu.be
Straight from the Twatter feed. A 1991, ITV, MT&D-heavy, HMHB performance, complete with keyboard player. Only 88 views, so probably not mentioned before here.
8 August 2014
chris the siteowner
The programme has been put up in parts on YouTube before now, and you’ll see clips next to most of the relevant songs, following Acidic Regulator’s huge trawl of YouTube a year or two back (e.g. under “See Also” on A Lilac Harry Quinn). However, this new upload in one part is much better quality, and I should find the time to update the links to point to this one, I guess. Can’t guarantee I ever will, sadly.
8 August 2014
Rubber Faced Irritant
Superb. It can’t have been 9 o’clock.
9 August 2014
TOASTKID
CTSO: I wasn’t sure where to put this comment: is there a general “suggestions for the site” thread? I thought there was but couldn’t find it from the main menu.
Anyway, what about a new “Features on this site” page which attempts to collect all of the band’s single/ep/album artwork? Front covers, back covers, inner sleeves, cd inlays, tape inlays… high quality scans where possible.
It would ideally need some collation (eg organised chronologically, and by release, rather than just a big list of uploaded files), which i’m happy to help with if that’s an option.
Oh, and going on recent form, this will already exist and Gok Wan Acolyte will shortly provide me with a link to it.
23 March 2016
Chris The Siteowner
I think that’s a great idea, Toastkid. All we have are the basic album covers (some of which I’ve Photoshopped to improve the quality from the original!). I’m off for a bit, but I’ll sort out something on my return. And ta for the offer to help.
23 March 2016
GOK WAN ACOLYTE
@Toastkid – sadly not on this occasion!
23 March 2016
dr desperate
I don’t think this was posted when the HAHB tribute gig happened in May, so perhaps it could be added to the video list for TBTIL?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IprGN8dOYk
Incidentally, I’ve only just noticed that there are videos on this site of their 2007 covers of Vitas Gerulaitis and Ready Steady Goa (the Bob Wilson one is marked as ‘private’ for some reason).
25 August 2016
Chris The Siteowner
The same channel also brings us this delightful clip…
26 August 2016
dr desperate
Anybody ever seen the ‘HMHB Live’ video, apparently released in April 1993 (still available on Amazon for £46.75)? Another bad review here from ‘Select’ magazine.
http://selectmagazinescans.monkeon.co.uk/showpage.php?file=wp-content/uploads/2014/08/videos2.jpg
31 July 2018
Cream cheese and chives
Ted Kessler-the reviewer-or a Ted Kessler is now editor of Q.
31 July 2018