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London 0 Hull 4
 
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London 0 Hull 4
~ Housemartins (Artist)
5.0 out of 5 stars  (4 customer reviews)
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Product details
  • Audio CD (6 Oct 1992)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Polydor
  • ASIN: B000025SEI
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 4,387 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Happy Hour
2. Get Up Off Our Knees
3. Flag Day
4. Anxious
5. Reverend's Revenge
6. Sitting On A Fence
7. Sheep
8. Over There
9. Think For A Minute
10. We're Not Deep
11. Lean On Me
12. Freedom
13. I'll Be Your Shelter (Just Like A Shelter)

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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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With their music far too rooted in R&B, the Housemartins were never "officially" part of the C86 movement (named after a British music magazine's influential 1986 compilation album that featured the Wedding Present, Wolfhounds, Primal Scream, and others). But their jangling guitars, the social criticism of their lyrics, and their gleefully cynical outlook were fully in line with the C86-ers. The debut LONDON 0 HULL 4 (1986) is chock-full of catchy tunes, great lyrics, and Paul Heaton's exceptional vocals. This is one of the great records of the '80s.
Standouts include the chipper "Get up off Our Knees", carried on a bright acoustic-guitar line and choral-type backing vocals, "Think For a Minute", a wistful track featuring Heaton's falsetto vocals, the percussion-and-bass-driven "We're Not Deep" (complete with sing-along "ba ba baba ba"s), and "The Mighty Ship", a hyper harmonica instrumental. The album's trio of gospel standards is also of note. A staggeringly brilliant take on Luther Ingram's "I'll Be Your Shelter" features Heaton's voice, alternately growling and soaring, a barreling piano, and a full-on choral backing. Start to finish, this record is a masterpiece.

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