Saucy Haulage Ballads

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Saucy Haulage Ballads
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EP by
Released4 August 2003 [1]
Recorded2003
StudioF.R.O.G. Studios, Warrington [2]
Genre Post-punk
Length18:55
Label Probe Plus PP35
Producer Local schoolchildren
Half Man Half Biscuit chronology
Cammell Laird Social Club
(2002)
Saucy Haulage Ballads
(2003)
Achtung Bono
(2005)
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Review scores
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Stylus MagazineA- [3]

Saucy Haulage Ballads is an extended play CD released by the Birkenhead-based British group Half Man Half Biscuit in August 2003. [4] A reviewer in Stylus Magazine remarked: "Saucy Haulage Ballads may only be a six-track EP, but it contains more ideas, insight and moments than most bands could manage in an entire career." [3]

Contents

According to English writer Julie Burchill, the lyrics of "Blood on the Quad" have a "pleasing whiff" of the finale of Lindsay Anderson's 1968 film if.... . [5]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Jarg Armani"3:02
2."Tending the Wrong Grave for 23 Years"3:44
3."It Makes the Room Look Bigger"3:14
4."On Finding the Studio Banjo"3:30
5."Blood on the Quad"2:08
6."I Went to a Wedding..."3:17

Notes

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