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Saucy Haulage Ballads
EP by
Released4 August 2003 [1]
Recorded2003
StudioF.R.O.G. Studios, Warrington [2]
GenrePost-punk
Length18:55
LabelProbe Plus PP35
ProducerLocal schoolchildren
Half Man Half Biscuit chronology
Cammell Laird Social Club
(2002)
Saucy Haulage Ballads
(2003)
Achtung Bono
(2005)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Stylus MagazineA- [3]

Saucy Haulage Ballads is an extended play CD released by the Birkenhead-based British group Half Man Half Biscuit in August 2003.[4] A reviewer in Stylus Magazine remarked: "Saucy Haulage Ballads may only be a six-track EP, but it contains more ideas, insight and moments than most bands could manage in an entire career."[3]

According to English writer Julie Burchill, the lyrics of "Blood on the Quad" have a "pleasing whiff" of the finale of Lindsay Anderson's 1968 film if.....[5]

Track listing

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No.TitleLength
1."Jarg Armani"3:02
2."Tending the Wrong Grave for 23 Years"3:44
3."It Makes the Room Look Bigger"3:14
4."On Finding the Studio Banjo"3:30
5."Blood on the Quad"2:08
6."I Went to a Wedding..."3:17

Notes

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References

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  1. ^ "Half Man Half Biscuit: Saucy Haulage Ballads". Last.fm. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
  2. ^ "Frog Recording Studios". Retrieved 25 February 2016.
  3. ^ a b Passantino, Dom (1 September 2003). "Half Man Half Biscuit: Saucy Haulage Ballads". Stylus Magazine. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
  4. ^ Half Man Half Biscuit – Saucy Haulage Ballads at Discogs
  5. ^ Burchill, Julie (3 March 2016). "How Half Man Half Biscuit have forged a career mocking middle-class idiocy". New Statesman. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
  6. ^ Guy, Peter (2 June 2015). "Liverpool sayings: Top 26 things only Scousers say – a guide to the Scouse dictionary". Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
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