This Leaden Pall
This Leaden Pall | ||||
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Studio album by Half Man Half Biscuit | ||||
Released | 25 October 1993 | |||
Recorded | Bus Stop Studios, Liverpol | |||
Genre | Indie rock | |||
Length | 53:14 | |||
Label | Probe Plus Probe 36 | |||
Producer | Half Man Half Biscuit and Geoff Davies | |||
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Allmusic | [1] |
This Leaden Pall is the fifth album by UK rock band Half Man Half Biscuit, released in 1993.
The album cover features a bleak overdeveloped picture of the now demolished Hale Wood pub in Halewood, Merseyside. In 2001 it was voted the 93rd best LP sleeve of all time in Q magazine.[2]
Anecdotally, lead singer Nigel Blackwell has referred to the album as their Closer.
At the time of its release, NME writer Johnny Cigarettes gave the album a 6/10 review, describing "Running Order Squabble Fest" as "a mini-epic of Spinal Tap proportions" and Blackwell as "the only rival to Vic Reeves in making cultural ephemera unfeasibly funny".[3] The same publication revisited the album in 1999, with John Robinson stating that it "understood just as much as OK Computer the bravery needed to accomplish modern living".[4]
Track listing
- "M-6-ster"
- "4AD3DCD"
- "Running Order Squabble Fest"
- "Whiteness Thy Name Is Meltonian"
- "This Leaden Pall"
- "Turned up Clocked on Laid Off"
- "Improv Workshop Mimeshow Gobshite"
- "13 Eurogoths Floating in the Dead Sea"
- "Whit Week Malarkey"
- "Doreen"
- "Quality Janitor"
- "Floreat Inertia"
- "Malayan Jelutong"
- "Numanoid Hang-glide"
- "Footprints"
References
- ↑ Mason, Stewart. This Leaden Pall at AllMusic. Retrieved 21 June 2013.
- ↑ O'Connor, Mickey (19 March 2001). "The 100 best album covers ever". Entertainment Weekly.
- ↑ Cigarettes, Johnny (1993). "Half Man Half Biscuit - This Leaden Pall". NME. 18 December 1993.
- ↑ Robinson, John (1999). "Respect Overdue! Half Man Half Biscuit - This Leaden Pall". NME. 27 February 1999. p. 32.