Back Again in the DHSS

Track listing

1. "The Best Things in Life"
2. "D'Ye Ken Ted Moult?"
3. "Reasons to Be Miserable "
4. "Rod Hull Is Alive - Why?"
5. "Dickie Davies Eyes"
6. "The Bastard Son of Dean Friedman"
7. "I Was a Teenage Armchair Honved Fan"
8. "Arthur's Farm"
9. "All I Want for Christmas Is a Dukla Prague Away Kit"
10. "The Trumpton Riots"
11. "I Hate Nerys Hughes "

    List of references

• 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.
• Reasons To be Miserable - Title refers to Ian Dury and the Blockheads song "Reasons to be Cheerful. Sexist builders, Pierrot clowns, Siamese cats, Fry's Chocolate Cream and Turkish Delight adverts, vampires, peaches on cornflakes, the annoyance generated by pretentious people
• Rod Hull is Alive - Why? - topiary, Sarah Ferguson now ex-wife of The Duke of York, Rod Hull, French racing driver Jacques Lafitte, the Wrekin, Helen Keller, National Service and the long defunct Watney Cup, why do good people die when less deserving don't?
• Dickie Davies Eyes - Title refers to Kim Carnes song "Bette Davis Eyes". Lord of the Rings, Michael Moorcock, Brian Moore, London Planetarium, Roger Dean posters. Cadbury's Flake suggestive advertising campaigns, Dickie Davies.
• The Bastard Son of Dean Friedman - As in "You can thank your lucky stars" you're not..., Bette Midler, Magritte, Mary Poppins song "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious", Borussia Mönchengladbach.
• I was a teenage armchair Honved Fan - Budapest, Budapest Honved FC, Morphy Richards, the blues
• Arthur's Farm - Title refers to George Orwell novel "Animal Farm". Arthur Askey, Douglas Bader, the Luftwaffe, amputation of limbs
• 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, Giro benefit cheques.
• The Trumpton Riots - Trumpton, 1960's children's television animated series and various characters within it. CS Gas, Brian Cant, Basque separatists, Socialism, nail bombs.
• I hate Nerys Hughes - Saint Vitus dance, Social Security, 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