90 Bisodol (Crimond) Explained
90 Bisodol (Crimond) is the twelfth studio album by UK rock band Half Man Half Biscuit. It was released on 26 September 2011 by Probe Plus.[1]
The inner sleeve includes a modified version of the painting Christ's Entry into Jerusalem by William Gale (18231909),[2] 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.
Critical reception
In a review for BBC, critic reviewer Luke Slater called the album the band's "most consistently brilliant work yet in every aspect, and another start-to-finish showcase of rare genius".[3] The Quietus called it "probably their best, certainly their most consistent album".[4]
Notes
- Bisodol is a brand of indigestion tablet [5]
- 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" [6]
- 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.
- The song title "L'enfer c'est les autres" is a quotation from the 1944 existentialist French play Huis Clos by Jean-Paul Sartre (19051980); in English, "Hell is other people"
- "Wools" is a shortening of Woollybacks, an expression in Merseyside English which refers to people from neighbouring areas [7]
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: 90 Bisodol (Crimond) by Half Man Half Biscuit. Apple Music. 5 April 2021.
- Web site: Christ's Entry into Jerusalem . catholictradition.org . 13 January 2015 .
- Web site: Slater . Luke . Luke Slater . Half Man Half Biscuit 90 Bisodol (Crimond) Review . bbc.co.uk . 29 September 2011 . 16 December 2011.
- Web site: Parkes . Taylor . Taylor Parkes . Taylor Parkes on the Continuing Brilliance of Half Man Half Biscuit . thequietus.com . 26 September 2011 . 16 December 2011 .
- Web site: Bisodol Indigestion Relief . bisodol.com . 12 January 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150112032328/http://www.bisodol.com/ . 12 January 2015 . dead .
- Web site: Crimond . hymnary.org . 13 February 2016 .
- Web site: Scousers, plastic Scousers and woolybacks – here are the views of Liverpool Echo readers . Liverpool Echo . 1 October 2011 . 12 February 2016 .
