Cammell Laird Social Club
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| Cammell Laird Social Club | ||||
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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) | |||
| Half Man Half Biscuit chronology | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [2] |
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
[edit]- 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
[edit]| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 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
[edit]- 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]
- 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
[edit]- ^ "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.
