Housemartins
London 0 Hull 4
Label ©  Go! Discs
Release Year  1986
Length  47:16
Genre  Rock
Personal Star Rating [1-5]  
  Ref#  H-0010
Bitrate  ~189 Kbps
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    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 Happy Hour  
       2:22  
      2.  
      		 Get Up Off Our Knees  
       3:22  
      3.  
      		 Flag Day  
       5:25  
      4.  
      		 Anxious  
       2:19  
      5.  
      		 Reverends Revenge  
       1:27  
      6.  
      		 Sitting On A Fence  
       2:58  
      7.  
      		 Sheep  
       2:17  
      8.  
      		 Over There  
       2:58  
      9.  
      		 Think For A Minute  
       3:30  
      10.  
      		 We're Not Deep  
       2:15  
      11.  
      		 Lean On Me  
       4:28  
      12.  
      		 Freedom  
       3:20  
      13.  
      		 I'll Be Your Shelter (Just Like A Shelter)  
       4:54  
      14.  
      		 People Get Ready  
       1:42  
      15.  
      		 The Mighty Ship  
       1:53  
      16.  
      		 He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother  
       2:06  
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      The band whose alumni went on to both the Beautiful South and (improbably) Fatboy Slim was a lot more like the former. Paul Heaton's laconic songs are nicely groomed and innocuous-sounding, with a happy jangle and rich harmonies (the group's interest in gospel extends to technique as well as sentiment), but there is a dryly vicious sense of humor lurking inside them--"Sheep" flips a familiar religious image on its back and leaves its legs waving in the air. London 0 Hull 4, the band's first album, is full of cheerful, taut little tunes about failures of the spirit, barstool sexism, and thermonuclear Armageddon--not to mention love of humanity, which underscored the fact that they weren't just nihilists, they actually cared. --Douglas Wolk
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