''Cammell Laird Social Club'' is the ninth album released by

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-based UK rock band Half Man Half Biscuit, in September 2002.

Critical reception

* Stewart Mason,

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: "''Cammell Laird Social Club'' is proof that for all their supposed indolence, Half Man Half Biscuit remain one of the sharpest and most satisfying bands in the U.K. indie scene".

Track listing

Notes

* The album title parodies those of the film and album ''

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'', a 1999 project by Ry Cooder about a group of Cuban musicians * Cammell Laird, formerly a major shipbuilder, is a company located in

. * Cammell Laird Social Club is a

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located in

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, near Birkenhead. * "The Light at the End of the Tunnel (Is the Light of an Oncoming Train)" is a near-quotation from the poem "Since 1939" by the American poet Robert Lowell: "If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of an oncoming train". *

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is a town in Ibiza, Spain known for its clubbing scene. * A foam party is a social event in which participants dance to music on a floor covered in several feet of foam. * "If I Had Possession over Pancake Day" parodies the song "

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" by bluesman

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. * The title "She's in Broadstairs" parodies that of the 1983 song by "

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" by

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. * Broadstairs is a quaint seaside resort near Ramsgate in

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, England. *

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is a region of

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. * '' Paradise Lost'' is an epic poem by John Milton, published 1667. * The title "Thy Damnation Slumbereth Not" is a quotation from Thomas Hardy's novel '' Tess of the d'Urbervilles''; which is itself an adaptation of the Second Epistle of Peter at 2:3: "Their damnation slumbereth not". * Stavanger is the fourth largest city in

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References

External links

''Cammell Laird Social Club'' at the longest-established Half Man Half Biscuit fan site

''Cammell Laird Social Club'' at the Half Man Half Biscuit Lyrics Project
{{Authority control 2002 albums Half Man Half Biscuit albums