Cammell Laird Social Club
2002 studio album by Half Man Half Biscuit
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Released | 23 September 2002 | |||
Recorded | Frog Studios, Warrington[1] | |||
Genre | Post-punk, indie rock | |||
Length | 41:35 | |||
Label | Probe Plus PROBE 52 | |||
Producer | Mark Walker (engineer) | |||
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Cammell Laird Social Club is the ninth album released by Birkenhead-based UK rock band Half Man Half Biscuit, in September 2002.[2][3]
Critical reception
- Stewart Mason, AllMusic: "Cammell Laird Social Club is proof that for all their supposed indolence, Half Man Half Biscuit remain one of the sharpest and most satisfying bands in the U.K. indie scene".[2]
Track listing
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "The Light at the End of the Tunnel (Is the Light of an Oncoming Train)" | 2:32 |
2. | "When the Evening Sun Goes Down" | 3:32 |
3. | "San Antonio Foam Party" | 3:25 |
4. | "Them's the Vagaries" | 3:28 |
5. | "If I Had Possession over Pancake Day" | 2:14 |
6. | "The Referee's Alphabet" | 4:32 |
7. | "She's in Broadstairs" | 3:38 |
8. | "Tyrolean Knockabout" | 3:24 |
9. | "Breaking News" | 3:07 |
10. | "27 Yards of Dental Floss" | 2:36 |
11. | "Paradise Lost (You're the Reason Why)" | 2:28 |
12. | "Thy Damnation Slumbereth Not" | 6:23 |
13. | "Stavanger Töestub" | 0:25 |
Notes
- The album title parodies those of the film and album Buena Vista Social Club, a 1999 project by Ry Cooder about a group of Cuban musicians
- Cammell Laird, formerly a major shipbuilder, is a company located in Birkenhead.
- Cammell Laird Social Club is a working men's club located in Rock Ferry, near Birkenhead.[4]
- "The Light at the End of the Tunnel (Is the Light of an Oncoming Train)" is a near-quotation from the poem "Since 1939" by the American poet Robert Lowell: "If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of an oncoming train".[5][6]j
- New Mills is a town in Derbyshire the refrain parodies Dillerger
Cokane in My Brain "Knife a fork a bottle and a cork that's the way we spell New York"
- San Antonio is a town in Ibiza, Spain known for its clubbing scene.
- A foam party is a social event in which participants dance to music on a floor covered in several feet of foam.
- "If I Had Possession over Pancake Day" parodies the song "If I Had Possession over Judgment Day" by bluesman Robert Johnson.
- The title "She's in Broadstairs" parodies that of the 1983 song by "She's in Parties" by Bauhaus.
- Broadstairs is a quaint seaside resort near Ramsgate in Kent, England.
- Tyrol is a region of Austria.
- Paradise Lost is an epic poem by John Milton, published 1667.
- The title "Thy Damnation Slumbereth Not" is a quotation from Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles;[7] which is itself an adaptation of the Second Epistle of Peter at 2:3: "Their damnation slumbereth not".
- Stavanger is the fourth largest city in Norway.
References
- ^ "Frog Recording Studios". Retrieved 25 February 2016.
- ^ a b c Mason, Stewart. Half Man Half Biscuit: Cammell Laird Social Club at AllMusic. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
- ^ Half Man Half Biscuit – Cammell Laird Social Club at Discogs
- ^ "Cammell Lairds Sports And Social Club". Archived from the original on 12 March 2016. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
- ^ "Robert Lowell (1917–1977)". The Guardian. 22 July 2008. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
- ^ "Robert Lowell, Jr., Additional Information". britannica.com. Retrieved 22 February 2015.
- ^ Hardy, Thomas (1891). Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Chapter 12. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
External links
- Cammell Laird Social Club at the longest-established Half Man Half Biscuit fan site
- Cammell Laird Social Club at the Half Man Half Biscuit Lyrics Project
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