If ever an album title was in dire need of an exclamation mark!

[itsfredtitmus]

National Shite Day is a bit VeryBritishProblems

[Sebastian Cobb]

National Shite Day is a bit VeryBritishProblems

Cart before horse

[itsfredtitmus]

Cart before horse

Still

[itsfredtitmus]

CSI: Ambleside has Bad Losers On Yahoo! Chess and Blue Badge Abuser, two OBJECTIVELY top-of-the-line songs, musically and lyrically. National Shite Day isn't great but it's lyrically strong.

most modern hmhb songs tbh
what on earth is that bass in ideal home show?

[Sebastian Cobb]

Still

Nah that was the Geto Boys.

[Sebastian Cobb]

It's on Spotify now lads. Only slipped through it quickly, but Nige's vocals sound muffled as fuck. Like yer da copied a tape with the dolby buttons set all wrong.

[itsfredtitmus]

some GREAT tunes on this

[itsfredtitmus]

man of constant sorrow - lost song from back in the dhss

[Sebastian Cobb]

I like the batwalk one.

[itsfredtitmus]

emergency locksmith is so good

[phantom_power]

On first listen it is a bit HMHB by numbers but I will give it a bit more time

[Lost Oliver]

Is the bat walk track on here? Amazing! Thought it might just be a live one.

So excited about this. I never buy anything but made an exception for this because these are the sort of people I want to fund.

It'll be my second vinyl and I can't fucking wait to play it!

[easytarget]

On first listen it is a bit HMHB by numbers but I will give it a bit more time

but they're such good numbers.
My first impression is it's much better than the last one, I do miss the "almost entirely talking songs" (A Country Practice, Thy Damnation, Evil Gazebo) if there was one on here I missed it, but I'll spin it again this afternoon.

[phantom_power]

but they're such good numbers.
My first impression is it's much better than the last one, I do miss the "almost entirely talking songs" (A Country Practice, Thy Damnation, Evil Gazebo) if there was one on here I missed it, but I'll spin it again this afternoon.

I would normally agree but it just seemed a bit tired. It did make me realise that I haven't even listened to their last album though

[Lost Oliver]

Wasted with passions I don't have the courage to express.

Does anyone know what he's saying at the end of bat walks? Live I thought it was Monaco but on the album it sounds a lot like Bollocko.

[Charcoal-ish]

Yes, it's bollock-o. Merseyside slang for "in the nude", as in "stark bollock naked". So not only is he going to defy the rangers by doing his bat walk at 2am, he's going to do it without the recommended warm waterproof clothing.

[Sebastian Cobb]

The bat one holds a place in my heart as there was an utter melvin at my last job who organised hillwalks to raise his profile. They were meticulously planned with risk assessments and the threat of kit inspections, you'd think he was taking people round the matterhorn.

Most infuriatingly he used the phrase 'pack lunch'.

[Lost Oliver]

Ha! I'm definitely going to start saying pack lunch from now on.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Ha! I'm definitely going to start saying pack lunch from now on.

Please don't.

[gilbertharding]

Most infuriatingly he used the phrase 'pack lunch'.

Lunch you carry in your pack, is the only way I can parse that to make it work.

[ajsmith2]

Been listening a bit. While I agree with Beagle 2 on his other thread on this album that musically it's retreading a more than well worn furrow, godammit if these tunes haven't been worming their way insidiously around my mind after just a handful of plays. Catchy stuff.

[Nowhere Man]

Bloody hell this had some fantastic riffs doesn't it? Props to their latest guitarist, Karl Benson, he's done a brilliant job on this.
Haven't even listened to it all yet and its already better than 'Urge To Offal'.

[Nowhere Man]

Fuckin 'ell!

They've made the top 40 charts for the first time ever!

[ajsmith2]

Bloody hell this had some fantastic riffs doesn't it? Props to their latest guitarist, Karl Benson, he's done a brilliant job on this.
Haven't even listened to it all yet and its already better than 'Urge To Offal'.

To get pedantic, I saw on the nitpicking HMHB lyrics site that apparently half the album still has Ken Hancock, and the other half has bassist Neil Crossley doubling up on lead guitar. Apparently Benson has yet to make his studio debut with them.

[Nowhere Man]

Ah okay, that must probably mean they'd finished most of the album by last year. Ken left in 2017, but god knows if I can remember what time that was. Well big props to Neil and Ken then!

[Lost Oliver]

Now we've all had time to digest it what we think?

For me it's the best album they've done since This Leaden Pall.

Terminus is unbelievably sad. Larkin-esque.