90 Bisodol (Crimond)
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90 Bisodol (Crimond) is the twelfth album by UK rock band Half Man Half Biscuit, released in September 2011.
The inner sleeve includes a modified version of the painting Christ's Entry into Jerusalem by William Gale (1823–1909),[3] in which one onlooker holds a sign with the words "Dirk Hofman Motorhomes". This is a reference to a man who holds such a sign at the finish of European cycling races.[citation needed]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Something's Rotten in the Back of Iceland " | 2:33 |
| 2. | "RSVP" | 2:58 |
| 3. | "Tommy Walsh's Eco House" | 2:38 |
| 4. | "Joy in Leeuwarden (We Are Ready)" | 2:30 |
| 5. | "Excavating Rita" | 3:39 |
| 6. | "Fun Day in the Park" | 2:00 |
| 7. | "Descent of the Stiperstones" | 5:16 |
| 8. | "Left Lyrics in the Practice Room" | 2:07 |
| 9. | "L'enfer c'est les autres" | 3:10 |
| 10. | "Fix It So She Dreams of Me" | 2:53 |
| 11. | "The Coroner's Footnote" | 3:46 |
| 12. | "Rock and Roll Is Full of Bad Wools" | 5:08 |
Critical reception
The BBC called the album the band's "most consistently brilliant work yet in every aspect, and another start-to-finish showcase of rare genius".[4] The Quietus called it "probably their best, certainly their most consistent album".[5]
Notes
- Bisodol is a brand of indigestion tablet [6]
- Crimond is a village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland; whose name was adopted for a hymn tune by Jessie Seymour Irvine, most associated with a verse paraphrase of Psalm 23, "The Lord's my shepherd, I'll not want" [7]
- The alleged producer, Nelson Burt, was a nine-year-old boy (son of Albin R. Burt) who drowned in the Mersey Hurricane of 1822, and whose grave is in the churchyard of St Lawrence's Church, Stoak; as mentioned in the song "The Unfortunate Gwatkin" on the 2014 album Urge for Offal by Half Man Half Biscuit
- The song title "Something's Rotten in the Back of Iceland" parodies the line "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark", spoken by Marcellus in Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Act 1 Scene 4
- The song title "Excavating Rita" parodies that of the 1980 play Educating Rita by Willy Russell (born 1947)
- The song title "L'enfer c'est les autres" is a quotation from the 1944 existentialist French play Huis Clos by Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–80); in English, "Hell is other people"
- "Wools" is a shortening of Woollybacks, an expression in Merseyside English which refers to people from neighbouring areas [8]
References
- ^ O'Brien, Jon. "Half Man Half Biscuit: 90 Bisodol (Crimond)". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
- ^ Shepherd, Sam (26 September 2011). "Half Man Half Biscuit – 90 Bisodol (Crimond)". MusicOMH.com. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
- ^ "Christ's Entry into Jerusalem". catholictradition.org. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
- ^ Slater, Luke (29 September 2011). "Half Man Half Biscuit 90 Bisodol (Crimond) Review". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 16 December 2011.
- ^ Parkes, Taylor (26 September 2011). "Taylor Parkes on the Continuing Brilliance of Half Man Half Biscuit". thequietus.com. Retrieved 16 December 2011.
- ^ "Bisodol Indigestion Relief". bisodol.com. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
- ^ "Crimond". hymnary.org. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
- ^ "Scousers, plastic Scousers and woolybacks – here are the views of Liverpool Echo readers". Liverpool Echo. 1 October 2011. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
External links
- "90 Bisodol (Crimond)". The Longest-established HMHB Fansite. Retrieved 8 January 2012.
- "90 Bisodol (Crimond)". The Half Man Half Biscuit Lyrics Project. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
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