Fat Chance (album)

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Fat Chance
Fat Chance - Biscuit Boy album cover.jpg
Studio album by
Paul Heaton
Released10 September 2001 [1]
Genre Rock
Length46:09
Label Polygram International
Mercury Records
Producer Richard Flack, Scott Shields, Martin Slattery
Paul Heaton chronology
Fat Chance
(2001)
Under the Influence
(2004)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Fat Chance is the debut solo album by Paul Heaton, the former frontman of both The Housemartins and The Beautiful South, released in 2001 under the guise of Biscuit Boy (a.k.a. Crackerman). The album was rereleased the following year, complete with new artwork and crediting the artist as Paul Heaton. [4]

Contents

The album was critically acclaimed, [5] [6] but was not a commercial success.

Track listing

  1. "10 Lessons In Love" - 4:59 (Scott Shields/Martin Slattery/Paul Heaton)
  2. "Mitch" - 3:53 (Paul Heaton/David Rotheray)
  3. "The Perfect Couple" - 3:54 (Heaton)
  4. "Last Day Blues" - 3:57 (Damon Butcher/Heaton)
  5. "Man's World" - 4:53 (Butcher/Heaton)
  6. "Barstool" - 4:07 (Shields/Slattery/Heaton)
  7. "Poems" - 3:47 (Shields/Slattery/Heaton)
  8. "If" - 3:56 (Shields/Slattery/Heaton)
  9. "The Real Blues" - 5:51 (Shields/Slattery/Heaton)
  10. "Proceed With Care" - 4:17 (Shields/Slattery/Heaton)
  11. "Man, Girl, Boy, Woman" - 2:28 (Heaton)

Personnel

Musicians

Technical

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References

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