Cammell Laird Social Club
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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.[1][2]
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".[1]
Track listing
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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.[3]
- "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".[4][5]
- 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;[6] 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
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- ↑ Half Man Half BiscuitTemplate:SndCammell Laird Social Club at Discogs
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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