CSI:Ambleside

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CSI:Ambleside
CSI Ambleside cover.jpg
Studio album by
Released28 April 2008
Genre Post-punk
Length43:53
Label Probe Plus PROBE 61
Half Man Half Biscuit chronology
Achtung Bono
(2005)
CSI:Ambleside
(2008)
90 Bisodol (Crimond)
(2011)
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CSI:Ambleside is the eleventh album by Wirral-based UK rock band Half Man Half Biscuit (HMHB), released in April 2008. [4]

Contents

Critical reception

in 2012, Tim Jonze singled out "National Shite Day" for special praise, calling it an "extended moan about the miseries of British life" which is "hilarious and depressingly true. Because sometimes the sum total of global suffering seems like nothing compared to the pain of being shoved off the pavement by an idiot.". [5]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Evening of Swing (Has Been Cancelled)"3:27
2."Bad Losers on Yahoo! Chess"3:18
3."Took Problem Chimp to Ideal Home Show"4:46
4."Ode to Joyce"2:18
5."Blue Badge Abuser"2:48
6."Totnes Bickering Fair"2:40
7."King of Hi-Vis"3:28
8."Lord Hereford's Knob"3:51
9."On the 'Roids"3:59
10."Petty Sessions"1:11
11."Little in the Way of Sunshine"3:07
12."Give Us Bubblewrap"2:49
13."National Shite Day"6:25

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References

  1. 1 2 Mason, Stewart. Half Man Half Biscuit: CSI: Ambleside at AllMusic. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  2. Bearded Magazine review Archived 21 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  3. 1 2 Passantino, Dom (2 May 2008). "Half Man Half Biscuit – CSI:Ambleside". Drowned in Sound . Archived from the original on 4 July 2008. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  4. Half Man Half Biscuit CSI: Ambleside at Discogs
  5. Jonze, Tim (16 February 2012). "Old music: Half Man Half Biscuit: National Shite Day". The Guardian . Retrieved 27 February 2016.