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Achtung Bono |  | Artist: Half Man Half Biscuit
Label: Probe Plus
Category: Music
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 8280
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.7 x 0.4
UPC: 503009411612
EAN: 0503009411612
ASIN: B000ATJYOE
Release Date: September 12, 2005
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Restless Legs | | • | Corgi Registered Friends | | • | For What Is Chatteris... | | • | Shit Arm, Bad Tattoo | | • | Surging Out Of Convalescence | | • | Upon Westminster Bridge | | • | Joy Division Oven Gloves | | • | Mate Of The Bloke | | • | Asparagus Next Left | | • | Depressed Beyond Tablets | | • | Bogus Official | | • | Letters Sent | | • | Twydale's Lament | | • | We Built This Village On A Trad. Arr. Tune |
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 6
Another brilliant LP! August 31, 2005
C. E. Shaw
23 out of 23 found this review helpful
HMHB have been playing some of these songs live for a while now. Everyone is a gem, as you'd expect from the boys from the Wirral. With such underwhelming titles as "Joy Diviison Oven Gloves" you know you're onto a winner. To say that HMHB take the pith out of the rounded orange that it is pop is a truism, but one well worth repeating. Listen, learn and laugh. Sheer indie craft at it's best.
Achtung Superstar January 7, 2006
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
How do Half Man Half Biscuit Always manage to outdo themselves?brI didn#x27;t think much could top the brilliance of Cammell Laird Social Club, but I was Pleasingly mistaken.brHMHB have always been one of favourite bands, and I had already heard a few of the tracks from this CD from Peel Kershaw Sessions, like Joy Division Oven Gloves, Corgi Registered Friends, Mate of the bloke and Asparagus Next Left, but the tracks that were new to me, such as the sheer genius of #x27;We Built this village on a trad. arr. tune#x27;, #x27;S*** arm, Bad tattoo#x27; and #x27;Restless Legs,#x27; were incredible to hear for the first time, and timeless ones like #x27;For What is Chatteris..?#x27; and #x27;Deppressed beyond tablets#x27; make you feel as if you could never tire of HMHB, and you won#x27;t.pMy advice is, if you see this in a shop and you don#x27;t own it, Buy it. If you do, Buy it as a present for a friend.pI give this: 100/100
The best yet? February 25, 2006
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
To steal lyrics off the last album, this album is definitely more "song based". Although I#x27;ve loved every HMHB release so far, they have had of late a lot of non-musical tracks. I find these very funny, but I do, in time, find myself skipping them. Not so with Achtung Bono. From start to end, this album is packed with catchy tunes and great lyrics. The more you listen, the more you discover - the great thing about HMHB is that every line means something, it#x27;s just that it might not mean anything to you until several years later! What Is Chatteris... is probably one of the best songs they#x27;ve ever written, a sort of typical HMHB sad yet funny dejection ballad.pIf you#x27;re not already an HMHB fan, this album is a good intro. It did take eight weeks to deliver, but since all the local shops had either sold out or had their copies nicked, I didn#x27;t have a lot of choice. It was worth the wait.
Great album, but.. October 4, 2005
32 out of 51 found this review helpful
One to two weeks? Given that Amazon's delivery estimates are optimistic at best, I'd be a little put off from ordering this from them. I pre-ordered the previous biscuits album from them, and got it over a month after it appeared in high street record chain stores.pThey aren't great at supplying things which aren't supplied by the truckload. If you aren't buying a Robbie Williams album, best look elsewhere. Even popular independant music gets very poor treatment here.
Definitely the best yet! November 15, 2006
Auld Reekie (Edinburgh, Scotchland)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
From start to finish this is the definitive HMHB album. There's no fillers here. Nigel is at his savage and witty best and is improving with age. Cult tracks in a band's set are invariably older but there's at least two on this album alone - a fact I witnessed at the Arches in Glasgow last year. 'Joy Division Oven Gloves' and 'We Built This Village (on a Trad Arr Tune)' are probably not the best tracks but they bring out a feverish crowd reaction. 'Upon Westmister Bridge' will go down in music history for the lines:
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br /"Help me Mrs Mendlicott I don't now what to do,
br /I've only got three bullete and there's four of Motley Crue".
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br /No other band are doing funny social satire to the same degree as the Bicuits. 4x4 owners and will hate it. The rest of us can't wait until their next offering
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