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Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :
 
Over in All Saints, I seem to have made someone's day by telling them that the satirical, sardonic and surreal Half Man Half Biscuit have a new album out soon... then another HMHB fan popped out of the woodwork! There's three of us, at least, watch the bilges...

Meanwhile, last night I was watching John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett.

So who else likes the odder end of the musical spectrum, the cult bands (checks carefully for typos), the acts with the fifty dedicated travelling fans who sell out a toilet in Skegness twice a year, and what is it about the weird and wonderful that takes your fancy?

AG
 

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Posted by Kittyville (# 16106) on :
 
Trumpton Riots is my fave HMHB track. In fact, I might put it on now!
 

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Posted by tessaB (# 8533) on :
 
I have heard The Incredible String Band described as prog-folk which I like. No one else seems to have heard of them though
What would you describe HMHB as?
 

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Posted by Jane R (# 331) on :
 
I don't know whether this counts as half-baked, but I sometimes find myself singing along to supermarket Musak with Weird Al Yankovic's version of the lyrics...

They're just more memorable than the originals.
 

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Posted by jrw (# 18045) on :
 
Microdisney were an uneasy combination of gentle music and angry lyrics, who broke up after a short time in the 1980s. Maybe they would have made it big had they kept going for longer.
 

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Posted by St. Gwladys (# 14504) on :
 
Some more Weird Al fans in this house!
 

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Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :
 
Well, I've heard of the Incredible String Band, for one.

Not really sure where HMHB fit these days, and they probably like it like that. They started out fairly New Wave (which is getting very old wave these days), but seem to be able to have a go at anything they put their hand to - there's several very funny spoken word "songs" as well.

I suppose you could argue that it's folk (Eliza Carthy does, she's a big fan), but only because they're singing about everyday things. I can't imagine a fiddle-mandolin combo getting on a song any time soon!

AG
 

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Posted by Pine Marten (# 11068) on :
 
How about the Third Ear Band? I think Water is rather beautiful.

...and I've heard of the Incredible String Band too

[ 10. October 2014, 17:46: Message edited by: Pine Marten ]
 

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Posted by BessLane (# 15176) on :
 
I'm a huge fan of The Zambonis - as far as I know, the world's only all hockey rock band.
 

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Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
Another one chiming in remembering the Incredible String Band. Also to agree with Louis Armstrong that all music is folk music, as "I ain't never heard nothing written by a horse".
 

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Posted by Horseman Bree (# 5290) on :
 

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Originally posted by St. Gwladys:
Some more Weird Al fans in this house!

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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
Another one chiming in remembering the Incredible String Band. Also to agree with Louis Armstrong that all music is folk music, as "I ain't never heard nothing written by a horse".

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Indeed - Although, on a cautionary note, I hear that over on the folk-buffs forums, the horse quote now arouses the same ire as comparisons to a certain German dictator do on here.
 

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Posted by Bob Two-Owls (# 9680) on :
 
Another Incredible String band fan here as well. I spent a wonderful couple of hours chatting to Robin Williamson at the National Acoustic Festival a couple of years ago.

I am a big fan of Ivor Biggun but he doesn't do much that is safe for the delicate ears of this forum's members. More Filth Dirt Cheap was the soundtrack to my years as a Venture Scout.

Apart from Ivor I like a lit of smaller niche bands, I have a near complete library of Ozric Tentacles and I follow The Reentrants around from time to time. Nothing like a bit of heavy metal played by two blokes with ukuleles.
 

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Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :
 
Blimey, that bought the memories back, Bob! Someone in my scout troop had a copy of the album with the Winker's Song (Misprint) on, which fueled much adolescent merriment on camp. I was obviously a bit young for it, as it was years before I worked out why the song about the funny foreign name was about a funny foreign name...

Anyone else love the Bonzos?

AG
 

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Posted by ChastMastr (# 716) on :
 
DANIEL AMOS.

And Weird Al, though I'd thought of him as "mainstream."
 

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Posted by kitejan (# 4028) on :
 

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.... I have a near complete library of Ozric Tentacles ....]

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Good grief - me as well! I've not met many other Ozric fans in the real world.

Jan
 

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Posted by Earwig (# 12057) on :
 
Bumping for the many ISB fans on this board (of which I too am one) - Mike Heron is touring this December with a band called Trembling Bells. They're performing music from the first four ISB albums, and I'm going to see them at the Brudenell Social Club in Leeds. Can't wait!
 

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Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :
 
BBC Radio 6 are quite fond of Trembling Bells, leastways in the evening.

No Bonzos fans? Pity... The "rump" of Rodney, Roger, Sam Spoons, are retiring Almost the Bonzo Dog Band, and I have tickets to their last night, accompanied by "Legs" Larry Smith* and Vernon Dudley Bohay Nowell.

It'll be emotional...

AG
 

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Posted by Earwig (# 12057) on :
 
Oh yes, I'm a Bonzos fan but have never been able to see them live.

Also a fan of Ivor Cutler - one of the ways my beau woo'ed me was by telling me he'd been to see Mr Cutler in concert, and actually spoken to the great man.
 

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Posted by Earwig (# 12057) on :
 
Actually, my beau is a bigger fan of half-baked music than I am. He loves a lot of apocalyptic folk groups like Nurse With Wound, Coil, and Current 93. We went to see Current 93 in Halifax Minster this year, and it was a surprisingly good - and spiritual - gig. David Tibet of Current 93 describes himself as a Coptic Christian, and there's certainly a lot of biblical references in his music, in the same way there is in the ISB's music. In fact, although they were Scientologists (for a while), I credit ISB with a lot of my spiritual formation.
 

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Posted by Seth (# 3623) on :
 
Apparently Rowan Williams is a huge Incredible String Band fan. He chose one their songs as one of his Desert Island Discs, and wrote the foreword to a book about them!
 

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Posted by The Phantom Flan Flinger (# 8891) on :
 
Another Weird Al and Bonzos fan here.
 

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Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :
 
PDQ Bach. Also, the Vegetable Orchestra (which is exactly what it sounds like).
 

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Posted by Lyda*Rose (# 4544) on :
 
Lyle Lovett: country western meets jazz, swing, gospel, and blues. A great sample of his oeuvre is "Church". I heard it first on the "Tonight Show" and just about wet myself!
 

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Posted by Pearl B4 Swine (# 11451) on :
 
I see that most of the musicians mentioned are current; but I nominate an old group Spike Jones and his City Slickers.
If you have never heard "Cocktails for Two", or The William Tell Overture, give yourself a treat....."In some secluded rendezvous..."

I also nominate the immortal Frank Zappa, a genius.
"Movin to Montana; gonna raise me up a crop of dental floss"
 

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Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :
 
Thanks Pearl! Spike Jones was a kind of genius and he must bear some of the awful responsibility for the Bonzo Dog Doodah Band and Weird Al Jankovich, plus thousands of inferior imitators.
 

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