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This might be one of the less successful list threads.

I'll get the ball rolling with "Mod Diff V Diff Hard Severe" by Half man half biscuit.

youtube.com/watch?v=Qc0mjT0e5pc&

"grade 1, loose scree - I'm ok,

Trapped on cloggy though - no way!"

Put a smile on my face!

Call out to the ghost of Kirkus!

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You've put a smile on mine.

"You said you were Yosemite bound

You said we'd never leave the ground"

What a fantastic song. I didn't realise intros like that were still being recorded in 2018. I think I've got most of the lyrics of the first half, but after that I struggle...

Half Man Half Biscuit. How have I never heard of them before?

As well as putting out (surely) the only ever song on Hard Severes, they also do Knobheads on Quiz Shows. On top of a driving, killer riff, we have, somewhere in:

"I'll just guess and hope I'm right

The first man into space was Bligh"

I’m not sure if that was great or rubbish. 

Sounds like a shitter version of Status Quo, who were themselves shit.

Wow, doubly wrong post.  

I think you managed a better thread title than I did a week ago! https://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/culture_bunker/new_hmhb_album_time-685141

Renfield's Afoot is pretty funny, but I think there are a couple of fabulous HMHB classics in there - of which Mod Diff V Diff Hard Severe gets my new "Evening Of Swing (Has Been Cancelled)" award for welsh mountain name dropping award. Neil Morrissey is still a knobhead though.

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They could use that as a 'blurb' - fits in with the punk ethic

Upon a ledge

I could do with chalk

I’d only gone for a sensible walk

I didn’t bank on a ?

You said you were Yosemite bound

You said we’d never get off the ground

I’m well aware it’s a love in vain

You’re a peak I can never attain

?I’m so low though ?

Grade 1 loose scree I’m OK

Trapped on Cloggy though - no way

Mod Diff V Diff Hard Severe

How do I climb out of here?

Half past crag fast here I gleam

Call me a blockhead, a shell of a man

Call Llanberis as quick as you can!

Dreams are wheeling on thermals

Streams are thought gone awry

Schemes embarked on sent reeling

?Wailing the toil out of me

Call out to the ghost of Kirkus

I call out to the ghost of Kirkus

You say I’m stupid

You say I’m a clown

You call me incapability Brown

So you’re the best chance of getting me down

Ropeless maybe, hopeless no

My jacket’s pumpkin paramo

Mod Diff V Diff Hard Severe

Won’t you winch me out of here?

Head cam dead ram not my scene

MEM and OBE

Let me hide myself in thee

Probably. I'm an original punk, my 2nd gig was Ramones in 1977, in those days the Quo, and disco, were the enemy. I've grown up now, and I love a bit of Quo boogaloo riffing, and I'll dance to anything with a decent groove  

Wow, impressive!

Or possibly a bit tragic

b

according to your profile you are 52 that makes you 11 in 1977. 

The profiles on here need an automated update for people's ages. I'm 53, soon to be 54,what's your point? 

I think he's trying to govern your bat walk

b

I love bats.

Wow  thats really good.

Hardly heard about them and they come from Wirral, been here for a few years. Have not been paying enough attention too the local scene obviously.  Thanks bringing them up. 

Think he may mean you were advanced in your musical tastes. Tend too agree

Then you were both right. 

To ensure this thread isn't confined to a suggestion of one song, how about Graham Parker's 'Protection' . It has an appropriately paranoid edge and intensity, and the chorus is perfect - I used to find it running through my head at crucial moments of rock-bound stress:

youtube.com/watch?v=-3ETAZSFWWs&

CHORUSJust can't get, just can't get no protectionJust can't get, just can't get no protectionJust can't get, just can't get no Can't get no protectionProtection, protection  

A 12 year old would have never got through the door at any punk gig I went to.

Malvern Winter Gardens would let anyone in (another 53yr old ex-punk).

So let's be clear about what you're saying. Are you calling me a liar? 

I think he's saying you went to different gigs than him.

I wouldn't call it punk.  HMHB are actually good.

Seems to have been updated now

http://halfmanhalfbiscuit.uk/no-one-cares-about-your-creative-hub-so-get-yo...

I believe the Sex pistols penultimate UK gig was a children's xmas party. Sid Vicious took a custard pie to the face. Lydon reckoned it was the only gig any of them really enjoyed, and it was downhill rapidly after that 

Worth watching this;

youtube.com/watch?v=mXpSrT7jVb0&

"Nevermind the baubles."

except change the word trumpet to climbing

My first gig was The Stranglers Who wants the world? Tour 1980. I was 13.  Punk was made for kids! 

Can’t believe I missed the Menlove Edwards reference! Doh. 

Thanks for the update

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National Shite Day is pretty good if you're in a bad mood

HMHB are a whole new way to lose hours and days (that's meant as a compliment). They generate crazy fan stuff too, like HALF MAN HALF BIKE KIT - 2 guys who try to cycle to every place named in hmhb songs! Problem is he keeps making more songs...

They are indeed:

Get your hedge cut,
Get your f*ing hedge cut,
Stop analysing Straaava....,
Cut your hedge!

Gets 9 out of 10 on road.cc 

http://road.cc/content/review/242632-half-man-half-biscuit-no-one-cares-abo...

(not all the readers seem to appreciate the joke)

Was MVS on the flip side? 

Are you going to reply? Are you calling me a liar or not? 

My thread wasn't supposed to be about two grown men bickering about if they went to a gig 40 years ago. Please dissest. 

You're correct, my apologies. 

Thanks for this thread. I have enjoyed discovering and listening to HMHB.

This may just tangentially be to do with your OP topic (but may not, oops if so)

It is the brilliant Terminus. What's he saying?

Camped out on a lower slope
Dog tired at the top of ??
Hot soup in the aftermath
Salad days in many ways
------??
And it puts me back
At the front of the bus
Hands I once held
No longer there

Hanging around, The Stranglers 

Get a grip, The Stranglers 

Did you make it safe, New Model Army

A few more.....yes I'm bored

Friend of a friend (Foo Fighters punk????)

Frightened (New Model Army)

Any track  (The Fall)    (too obvious)

Gecko (The Creatures)

Granite (Pendulum)

Lands End (Siouxsie and the Banshees)

Levitate me (Pixies)

Little Friend (Minor Threat)

Vertigo Game (Melt Banana)

Strange pursuits (Devo)

The Curse (Audioslave  & an aid route in Devon)

Walls (Crass)

You've got big hands (Crass)

b

Thanks very much for that. What a lovely song.