Editor's Recommendation

Editor's Recommendation
EP by Half Man Half Biscuit
Released	25 June 2001
Studio	Liverpool Music House
Genre	Post-punk
Length	11:36
Label	Probe Plus PP32CD
Producer	Colin McKay and Co.
Half Man Half Biscuit chronology
Trouble over Bridgwater (2000) Editor's Recommendation (2001) Cammell Laird Social Club (2002)

Editor's Recommendation is a 2001 extended play CD by Birkenhead-based indie band Half Man Half Biscuit.^[1][2][3]

John Peel (1939–2004; BBC Radio 1 DJ 1967–2004), who greatly admired the band,^[4] included two tracks from Editor's Recommendation in his 2001 Festive Fifty: "Bob Wilson – Anchorman" at No. 13 and "Vatican Broadside" at No. 16.^[5]

• Bob Wilson (born 1941) is a former footballer turned television sports presenter.
• An 'anchorman' is a news presenter.
• The title "Lark Descending" parodies that of the poem The Lark Ascending by George Meredith (1828–1909) and of the well-known classical music piece based upon it by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958).
• Skiffle is a music genre usually employing homemade or improvised instruments, originating in the United States in the first half of the 20th century and revived in the UK in the 1950s.
• The song "New York Skiffle" parodies the 1959 single "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bedpost Overnight?)" by Scottish skiffle player Lonnie Donegan.
• The song "New York Skiffle" includes the line "I've had the CBGBs", and also references Andy Warhol and Greenwich Village.
• New York Skiffle could also be a parody of a Graham Parker song "New York Shuffle"
• The Vatican, Rome includes the seat and bedchamber of the Pope, head of the Roman Catholic church.
• Slipknot, an American Nu metal band. "The singer" referred to is most likely Corey Taylor.

• "Editor's Recommendation". Retrieved 25 February 2016. The oldest-established Half Man Half Biscuit fansite.
• "Editor's Recommendation". Retrieved 25 February 2016. The Half Man Half Biscuit Lyrics Project.