Unreleased Live Songs

The songs that haven't (yet) been released, and haven't featured on any Peel Sessions are here. The lyrics had to go, I'm afraid.

Charlie Goth

A song about Alien Sex Fiend fans, which is derived from the song "Charlie Brown", a no.6 hit for The Coasters in 1959, which goes something like: 
Fe fe, fi fi, fo fo fum
I smell smoke from the auditorium
Charlie Brown, Charlie Brown
He's a clown, that Charlie Brown
He's gonna get caught, just you wait and see
'Why's everybody always picking on me?'
(Thanks to Andy Sandall for that!)

"Fe Fi Fo Fum...I smell the blood of an Englishman" it goes in Jack & the Beanstalk.
Snakebite Lager & cider.
NME New Musical Express (one for the overseas contingent, there).


Johnny Cash sings Crass - Johnny Crass

...is usually only a few seconds long at the moment, but is a good idea. John Roberts expounds further:

"Johnny Cash sings Crass. I happen to be a fan of former and huge fan of latter. Apparently Ken is also a hug fan of latter too and when at Bradford 1 in 12 spent hours in the anarchist library there (if you dont know the 1 in 12 is a squat or used to be and is run by an anarcho-collective). So could be Nigel taking piss out of him!? Also Noam Chomsky - I left my Chomsky at the Waterstones' book launch - is also an anarchist as well as a linguist. To be precise he defines himself as a libertarian socialist. So there! Also HMHB were billed to play at the anarchist festival in London - Seven (? - might have been Ten) days that shook the world - a couple of years ago during the anarcho football part of the festivities. They didnt play in the end. I seem to remember my mate Stuart quoting Nigel as saying that the organisation was a bit poor but that "that's anarchists for you". Perhaps HMHB ought to release JCSCrass as a single with the generic Crass records stenciled type face etc and pay no more than 45p stipulation."



In the days leading up to This Leaden Pall, the following songs were played live which were clearly subsequently altered before recording the LP:


Lakeland Fell Walk

This is bits of "Doreen" and "Malayan Jelutong" with a different tune. The lyrics are in a fairly random order. Also a reference to Sport Billy, which I don't think crops up anywhere else. I suppose Dead Shot Keen was preferred, eh?

The lyrics are here.


It's A Clear Day (But I Can't See The Point)

The song's a bit of a slowie. Lots of dodgy whistles/recorders on this song. Obviously the forerunner of "24.99 From Argos" (where the title of the song appears).
"...and anyway, I'm a bit Rachel Heyhoe..." The first line is probably the best of the song. (Rachel Heyhoe Flint is probably the world's best known female cricketer. Thus, rhyming slang for skint).

The lyrics are here.


13 Eurogoths Floating In The Dead Sea

Initially it had verses, and was quite a bouncy song. There was even a line "got my free binder with my cider and black" at the end - an actual reference to the said Goth types. A fair few of the words reappeared in later songs.

The lyrics are here.


The Price Of Fish Remains The Same

No idea what this was really called, if it was ever titled at all. From around 1996, it's a bit of a precursor to Moody Chops, I suppose.

The lyrics are here.


There have been a few more, but they tend to be short ditties that turn into full songs on the next LP, so I'll leave them alone.


Covers



HMHB have also covered:

Trail of the Lonesome Pine Laurel and Hardy classic.
Mr. Blue Sky By ELO. At Liverpool Poly a few years back, this was dedicated "to the boys on the Woody". For those not from Birkenhead, the Woody is a notorious estate immortalized in several 80's documentaries on smack.
No Regrets Of course! The Edith Piaf number.
Novelty, 24 Hours, Disorder All from Joy Division.
Match Of The Day theme tune, a solo by Nigel.
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away Beatles tune, knocked out at the Mean Fiddler in 1995.
Sunday Bloody Sunday sort-of appeared at the LA2 in Sept '96.
White Man In Hammersmith Palais by the Clash, at the Hull New Adelphi in 1996.
Transmission Another Joy Division cover, excellently reproduced June '97.
Help Me Rhonda The Beach Boys hit from 1965, covered live June '97.
King of the Hill theme tune, a solo again from Nigel, April '98.
Wreck Of The Ol' '97, early '99.
Statesboro Blues at the QE Hall, October '99.
Song From Under The Floorboards by Magazine, November '99.
Caroline by Status Quo, Manchester 2000.
Worried Man Blues appeared on Editors Recommendation.
Song To The Siren by Tim Buckley, throughout 2001, segueing into A Vatican Broadside.
What Do I Get? by The Buzzcocks, covered at Machester Academy 1, Nov 2003.

A few Fall intros have made an appearance, too - Lay Of The Land, In My Area, Spectre vs. Rector...


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