The House That Dirt Built

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The House That Dirt Built
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Studio album by
Released5 October 2009
Studio
Genre
Length38:06
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Producer Jim Abbiss
The Heavy chronology
Great Vengeance and Furious Fire
(2007)
The House That Dirt Built
(2009)
How You Like Me Now?
(2010)
Professional ratings
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The House That Dirt Built is the second studio album by English rock band The Heavy. It was released on 5 October 2009. The title is a reference to the nursery rhyme This Is the House That Jack Built. Vocalist Kelvin Swaby explained in an interview with Songfacts that the song "Sixteen" was inspired by a time when he was working a lot as a DJ and he would see 16-year-old kids sneaking into clubs. [5]

The album's songs were used for several video games and films; "Short Change Hero" was featured in the promo for the first season of Haven , the 2010 movie Faster , the trailer for the 2011 video game Batman: Arkham City , later opened the 2012 video game Borderlands 2 , and the promo for Season 2 of Longmire . [6] [7] [8] It is also the opening theme of the Sky1 television series Strike Back and was included in the 2011 racing video game Driver: San Francisco (along with two other songs from the band) as well as the Season 2 finale of Suits . [9] [10] [11] The song "How You Like Me Now?" was featured at the beginning and end of the 2010 film The Fighter , in the Season 3 finale of Suits, in the trailer for the 2012 film Ted , during the closing credits for Horrible Bosses , the closing credits for Borderlands 2, and then again in a TV spot for the 2013 animated film, Turbo . [12] [13] [14]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."The House That Dirt Built (Intro)"0:19
2."Oh No! Not You Again!!"1:54
3."How You Like Me Now?"3:38
4."Sixteen"3:02
5."Short Change Hero"5:22
6."No Time"4:31
7."Long Way from Home"3:19
8."Cause for Alarm"4:44
9."Love Like That"2:39
10."What You Want Me to Do?"3:23
11."Stuck"5:27

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