90 Bisodol (Crimond)

90 Bisodol (Crimond)
Studio album by Half Man Half Biscuit
Released	25 September 2011
Genre	Post-punk
Length	38:38
Label	Probe Plus PROBE 65
Producer	Nelson Burt
Half Man Half Biscuit chronology
CSI:Ambleside (2008) 90 Bisodol (Crimond) (2011) Urge For Offal (2014)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
MusicOMH	[2]

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.

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

1. O'Brien, Jon. "Half Man Half Biscuit: 90 Bisodol (Crimond)". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
2. Shepherd, Sam (26 September 2011). "Half Man Half Biscuit – 90 Bisodol (Crimond)". MusicOMH.com. Retrieved 10 August 2013.
3. "Christ's Entry into Jerusalem". catholictradition.org. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
4. Slater, Luke (29 September 2011). "Half Man Half Biscuit 90 Bisodol (Crimond) Review". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 16 December 2011.
5. Parkes, Taylor (26 September 2011). "Taylor Parkes on the Continuing Brilliance of Half Man Half Biscuit". thequietus.com. Retrieved 16 December 2011.
6. "Bisodol Indigestion Relief". bisodol.com. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
7. "Crimond". hymnary.org. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
8. "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.