You Can Only Love Someone So Much, But You Can Hate Them All The Way To Hell (to give it its full name) is a slightly above-par, fairly ignorable two-and-a-half-minute pop song. Strachan, however, is one of the greatest songs - no, things - anyone has ever done or thought of or thought about thinking of. The Hitchers call Half Man Half Biscuit an inspiration, but this, as far as I know, is the only Hitchers song worthy of our Birkenhead pals. It is the greatest song about football. Let there be no further debate about it. The lyrics are wonderful - She said what's that you're watching? It's a programme about art. She said a programme about art? I said a programme about art - and the inevitable descent into a wall of noise is pleasing. There's some more Hitchers stuff out on that Youtube website (all of it approximately 6/10), a Peel session you can no doubt download from a dubious Russian torrent site somewhere, and a couple of albums and irritatingly-titled EPs.
1997, Murgatroid Independent Recording Company
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