Tuesday 6 November 2007

Get your Joy Division oven gloves

It's a few years old now but I will NEVER get bored with this song.

Half Man Half Biscuit - Joy Division Oven Gloves

It's a hilarious little number with a quite a few semi-obscure references (see here for decoding), a great sing-a-long chorus, A possible masturbation reference ("polishing the knave" ???), and is probably a comment on band merchandising or somethin'.
What more could you ask for?

A Cabaret Voltaire tea cosy perhaps.

Here's the lyrics, and I promise you'll be singing it too. All together now.....

(from the album Achtung Bono.)

Well the dish is too hot
You'll never guess what
I've got Joy Division oven gloves
If it's her desire
I'll put my fingers in the fire
Cause I've got Joy Division oven gloves
I've got Joy Division oven gloves

Ooh ooh tropical diseases
Ooh ooh chemical alarm
Ooh ooh I'm a little blasé
In my Joy Division oven gloves
In my Joy Division oven gloves

I've been here and I've been there
In my Joy Division oven gloves
I've been to a post-punk postcard fair
In my Joy Division oven gloves
Ooh ooh Nagasaki towpath
Ooh ooh tickling the laird
Ooh ooh checking out the Quantocks
In my Joy Division oven gloves
In my Joy Division oven gloves

On a sinking ship a sailor yearns
For his Joy Division oven gloves
Nero fiddles while Gordon Burns
In his Joy Division oven gloves
Talk to the hands, talk to the hands
In my Joy Division oven gloves
Dance dance dance dance
In your Joy Division oven gloves

Ooh ooh piccalilli shin pads
Ooh ooh polishing the knave
I keep wicket for the Quakers
In me Joy Division oven gloves

My grandfather's clock was too tall for the shelf
So I sold it and opened up a stall
Selling Joy Division oven gloves
We got Joy Division oven gloves
Get your Joy Division oven gloves
Hallelujah



2 comments:

Selkie said...

Is that what you want for Xmas?

Bear-Proof said...

Those and an iPod please love. X