Back Again in the DHSS is the second album by UK rock band Half Man Half Biscuit, released in 1987.[3]
The album was released after the band had split up, and comprised Peel Sessions along with some new songs.[4][2]
"Dickie Davies Eyes" b/w "I Left My Heart In Papworth General" and "The Bastard Son of Dean Friedman" (12" only) had been released as a single in September 1986 and reached no.86 in the UK singles charts.
Some of the tracks were subsequently re-released on the compact discACD in 1989.
The Best Things in Life - Dali, Gagarin, slippers and biros, the joys of staying in over going out
D'Ye Ken Ted Moult? - Title refers to folk song "D'Ye Ken John Peel". Ted Moult and his Everest double glazing adverts demonstrating its indestructibility in all circumstances.
All I Want for Christmas Is a Dukla Prague Away Kit - Childhood memories of Scalextric and its propensity to break down, Subbuteo table football, Dukla Prague (Czech football team, now FK Dukla Prague), Giro benefit cheques.
The Trumpton Riots - Trumpton, 1960's children's television animated series and various characters within it. CS Gas, Brian Cant (narrator of Trumpton), Basque separatists, Socialism, nail bombs.
I Hate Nerys Hughes (From the Heart) - Saint Vitus dance, Social Security (the "social", as well as "Supplementary"), the walking dead, supermarkets, Bath, and of course, Nerys Hughes, a Welsh actress best known for playing a scouser in the sitcom, the Liver Birds