The_Housemartins-London_0_Hull_4-(Deluxe_Edition)-2CD-2009-FNT

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2009-08-19

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- Release Info -------------------------------------------------------------- -

  Artist:      The Housemartins
  Album:       London 0 Hull 4
  Label:       Mercury UK
  Playtime:    101:17min
  Genre:       Rock
  URL:         http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kbfwxze0ldhe
  Rip date:    2009-08-17
  Street date: 2009-08-18
  Size:        145.54 MB
  Type:        Deluxe Edition
  Quality:     189 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo

- Release Notes ------------------------------------------------------------- -

   Like a box of chocolate truffles with BBs hidden in them, a Housemartins
   album offers deceivingly simple and tuneful pop songs that are designed to
   cause you some discomfort once you start chewing on them. Singer and
   songwriter Paul Heaton sings with a disarmingly boyish voice, high and
   adenoidal, and his bandmates contribute angelic harmonies as well as sweet
   and straightforward guitar pop instrumental settings. But listen closely to
   Heaton's lyrics and you find yourself plunged into a world of class
   resentment, bitter economic disappointment, and strangled rage. "Get Up Off
   Our Knees" includes the deathless couplet "Don't point your fingers at them
   and turn to walk away/Don't shoot someone tomorrow that you can shoot today,"
   while "Sitting on a Fence" ridicules those who "see both sides of both sides"
   and "Sheep" bemoans the apathy of the downtrodden masses. Heaton is no simple
   lefty ù his politics are a strange amalgam of Marxism and Christianity ù but
   his views are brutally uncompromising, and they constitute a very iron fist
   wrapped in the velvet glove of the Housemartins' blissful guitar pop. Agree
   with him or not, there's no denying the music's power. [Mercury issued a U.K.
   Deluxe Edition in 2009.]

- Track List ---------------------------------------------------------------- -

  01. Happy Hour                                                        ( 2:23)
  02. Get Up Off Our Knees                                              ( 3:22)
  03. Flag Day                                                          ( 5:24)
  04. Anxious                                                           ( 2:20)
  05. Reverends Revenge                                                 ( 1:27)
  06. Sitting On A Fence                                                ( 2:57)
  07. Sheep                                                             ( 2:18)
  08. Over There                                                        ( 2:59)
  09. Think For A Minute                                                ( 3:31)
  10. We're Not Deep                                                    ( 2:14)
  11. Lean On Me                                                        ( 4:27)
  12. Freedom                                                           ( 3:20)
  01. Flag Day (Original Single Version)                                ( 3:35)
  02. Stand At Ease                                                     ( 3:17)
  03. You                                                               ( 3:26)
  04. Coal Train To Hatfield Main                                       ( 2:30)
  05. I'll Be Your Shelter                                              ( 4:51)
  06. People Get Ready                                                  ( 1:39)
  07. Drop Down Dead                                                    ( 3:03)
  08. The Mighty Ship                                                   ( 1:59)
  09. He Ain't Heavy                                                    ( 2:05)
  10. Think For A Minute (Single Version)                               ( 3:31)
  11. Who Needs The Limelight                                           ( 1:36)
  12. I Smell Winter                                                    ( 3:26)
  13. Joy Joy Joy                                                       ( 1:39)
  14. Rap Around The Clock                                              ( 5:13)
  15. Lean On Me (Rehearsal)                                            ( 2:52)
  16. Anxious (Janice Long 6/1/85)                                      ( 2:23)
  17. We're Not Deep (Janice Long 6/1/85)                               ( 2:05)
  18. Freedom (Janice Long 6/1/85)                                      ( 3:28)
  19. Think For A Minute (Saturday Live 4/1/86)                         ( 3:41)
  20. Drop Down Dead (Saturday Live 4/1/86)                             ( 2:41)
  21. Happy Hour (John Peel 6/4/86)                                     ( 2:25)
  22. Get Up Off Our Knees (John Peel 6/4/86)                           ( 3:10)

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