Achtung Bono

Achtung Bono Artist: Half Man Half Biscuit
Label: Probe Plus
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5030094116122
ASIN: B000ATJYOE


Release Date: 2005-09-15

Achtung Bono


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Tracks:

  1. Restless Legs
  2. Corgi Registered Friends
  3. For What Is Chatteris....
  4. Shit Arm, Bad Tattoo
  5. Surging Out Of Convalescence
  6. Upon Westminster Bridge
  7. Joy Division Oven Gloves
  8. Mate Of The Bloke
  9. Asparagus Next Left
  10. Depressed Beyond Tablets
  11. Bogus Official
  12. Letters Sent
  13. Twydale's Lament
  14. We Built This Village On

Album Description

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. Probe Plus. 2005.

Album Details

Parody of the U2 Album.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Most Amusing, Catchy CD This Year!.......2005-12-27

Okay, I'm not English, so half of the references these guys make in their songs are totally lost on me. But it doesn't matter! Their music is that rare combination of highly amusing yet incredibly catchy songwriting that only a few are able to accomplish -- early Jonathan Richman and Butterscott spring to mind.

Don't get me wrong -- these are not novelty songs. They're actually deeply satirical, biting songs that also have awesome tunes to back them up. And it's one of those great CD's that has at least 5 great songs on it. It brings me back to some early punk records that have a real driving energy throughout the whole thing.

Music Album:

  1. Ear X-Tacy ~ Andy Timmons
  2. Jukebox Hits of 50's ~ Various Artists
  3. S.O.A.P. ~ S.O.A.P.
  4. 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Del Amitri ~ Del Amitri
  5. Waste of Skin ~ Spike 1000
  6. Lili ~ Lili Haydn
  7. This Is a Hospital ~ The Ghost
  8. One Enchanted Evening ~ Annie Haslam
  9. Anthology: All the Right Reasons ~ Greg Kihn
  10. I'll Cry If I Want To/Sings of Mixed-Up Hearts ~ Lesley Gore

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... and His Mother Called Him Bill ~ Duke Ellington & His Orchestra

The New York Scene ~ George Wallington

Peter and the Wolf ~ Jimmy Smith

The Boy Next Door ~ Kai Winding

Cardinal Points ~ Jean-Michel Pilc

Shinutoki Wa Betsu ~ Wha-Ha-Ha

L' Opportuniste ~ Jacques Dutronc

Viaggi Organizatti ~ Lucio Dalla

Island Soul ~ David Pilgrim

Emily ~ Kiyoharu