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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]
| Saucy Haulage Ballads | ||||
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| EP by | ||||
| Released | 4 August 2003 [1] | |||
| Recorded | 2003 | |||
| Studio | F.R.O.G. Studios, Warrington [2] | |||
| Genre | Post-punk | |||
| Length | 18:55 | |||
| Label | Probe Plus PP35 | |||
| Producer | Local schoolchildren | |||
| Half Man Half Biscuit chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Stylus Magazine | A- [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 edit
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 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 edit
- "Jarg" is a Merseyside slang word meaning "fake", sometimes applied to knock-off goods.[6]
- Armani is an Italian fashion house.
- "On Finding the Studio Banjo" is a reworking of Half Man Half Biscuit's 1986 song "The Trumpton Riots", in a bluegrass style with banjo accompaniment.
- A quad is a courtyard, often at one of the older English universities.
- The title "I Went to a Wedding..." parodies that of the 1952 song "I Went to Your Wedding".
References edit
- ^ "Half Man Half Biscuit: Saucy Haulage Ballads". Last.fm. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
- ^ "Frog Recording Studios". Retrieved 25 February 2016.
- ^ a b Passantino, Dom (1 September 2003). "Half Man Half Biscuit: Saucy Haulage Ballads". Stylus Magazine. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
- ^ Half Man Half Biscuit – Saucy Haulage Ballads at Discogs
- ^ Burchill, Julie (3 March 2016). "How Half Man Half Biscuit have forged a career mocking middle-class idiocy". New Statesman. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
- ^ 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.
External links edit
- "Saucy Haulage Ballads". Retrieved 25 February 2016. The oldest-established Half Man Half Biscuit fansite
- "Saucy Haulage Ballads". Retrieved 25 February 2016. The Half Man Half Biscuit Lyrics Project