90 Bisodol (Crimond)

{{Infobox album

| name = 90 Bisodol (Crimond)

| type = studio

| artist = Half Man Half Biscuit

| cover = 90 Bisodol (Crimond) cover.jpg

| alt =

| released = {{Start date|2011|09|26|df=yes}}

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Post-punk

| length = {{Duration|m=38|s=38}}

| label = Probe Plus PROBE 65

| producer = Nelson Burt

| prev_title = CSI:Ambleside

| prev_year = 2008

| next_title = Urge For Offal

| next_year = 2014

}}

{{Album ratings

|rev1 = Allmusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/90-bisodol-crimond-mw0002206645 |title=Half Man Half Biscuit: 90 Bisodol (Crimond) |publisher=Allmusic.com |last=O'Brien |first=Jon |access-date=10 August 2013}}

|rev2=MusicOMH

|rev2Score={{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web |url=http://www.musicomh.com/reviews/albums/half-man-half-biscuit-90-bisodol-crimond |title=Half Man Half Biscuit – 90 Bisodol (Crimond) |publisher=MusicOMH.com |last=Shepherd |first=Sam |date=26 September 2011 |access-date=10 August 2013}}

}}

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.{{cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/90-bisodol-crimond/468882060|title=90 Bisodol (Crimond) by Half Man Half Biscuit|publisher=Apple Music|access-date=5 April 2021}}

The inner sleeve includes a modified version of the painting Christ's Entry into Jerusalem by William Gale (1823{{ndash}}1909),{{cite web |url=http://www.catholictradition.org/Passion/pge-2.jpg |title=Christ's Entry into Jerusalem |website=catholictradition.org |access-date=13 January 2015 }} 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.{{citation needed|date=February 2016}}

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".{{cite web |last=Slater |first=Luke |author-link=Luke Slater |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/cb4z |title= Half Man Half Biscuit 90 Bisodol (Crimond) Review |website=bbc.co.uk |date=29 September 2011 |access-date=16 December 2011}} The Quietus called it "probably their best, certainly their most consistent album".{{cite web |last=Parkes |first=Taylor |author-link=Taylor Parkes |url=http://thequietus.com/articles/07060-half-man-half-biscuit-90-bisodol-crimond |title=Taylor Parkes on the Continuing Brilliance of Half Man Half Biscuit |website=thequietus.com |date=26 September 2011 |access-date=16 December 2011 }}

Track listing

{{Track listing

|headline=90 Bisodol (Crimond) track listing

|title1=Something's Rotten in the Back of Iceland

|length1=2:33

|title2=RSVP

|length2=2:58

|title3=Tommy Walsh's Eco House

|length3=2:38

|title4=Joy in Leeuwarden (We Are Ready)

|length4=2:30

|title5=Excavating Rita

|length5=3:39

|title6=Fun Day in the Park

|length6=2:00

|title7=Descent of the Stiperstones

|length7=5:16

|title8=Left Lyrics in the Practice Room

|length8=2:07

|title9=L'enfer c'est les autres

|length9=3:10

|title10=Fix It So She Dreams of Me

|length10=2:53

|title11=The Coroner's Footnote

|length11=3:46

|title12=Rock and Roll Is Full of Bad Wools

|length12=5:08

}}

Notes

Bisodol is a brand of indigestion tablet {{cite web |url=http://www.bisodol.com/ |title=Bisodol Indigestion Relief |website=bisodol.com |access-date=12 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150112032328/http://www.bisodol.com/ |archive-date=12 January 2015 |url-status=dead }}
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" {{cite web |url=http://www.hymnary.org/tune/crimond_irvine |website=hymnary.org |title=Crimond |access-date=13 February 2016 }}
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 (1905{{ndash}}1980); in English, "Hell is other people"
"Wools" is a shortening of Woollybacks, an expression in Merseyside English which refers to people from neighbouring areas {{cite web |url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/scousers-plastic-scousers-woolybacks--3366630 |website=Liverpool Echo |title=Scousers, plastic Scousers and woolybacks – here are the views of Liverpool Echo readers |date=1 October 2011 |access-date=12 February 2016 }}

References

External links

{{Cite web |url=http://cobweb.businesscollaborator.com/hmhb/records/Bisodol.htm |website=The Longest-established HMHB Fansite |title=90 Bisodol (Crimond) |access-date=8 January 2012}}
{{cite web |url=http://www.chrisrand.com/hmhb/90-bisodol-crimond/ |website=The Half Man Half Biscuit Lyrics Project |title=90 Bisodol (Crimond) |access-date=12 January 2015 }}

Category:2011 albums

Category:Half Man Half Biscuit albums