London 0 Hull 4
by The Housemartins
- Type: Album
- Released: July 1986
- Label: Go! Discs
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 47:25
- Community rating: 3.92/5 from 7 ratings
Artists on this release: Norman Cook, Pete Wingfield, Hugh Whitaker, Anthony Pleeth, Ted Key, Paul Heaton, Stan Cullimore
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Fusing remarkably energetic, upbeat jangle pop with unabashedly Marxist politics and Christian faith, The Housemartins delivered a fiercely original debut. Paul Heaton's soaring, blue-eyed soul vocals wrap biting, sarcastic class critiques in deceptively bright, catchy guitar melodies. It stands as a highly conscious, deeply passionate, and witty classic of British indie pop.
Genres
Descriptors: political, melodic, conscious, christian, jangly
Tracklist
- Happy Hour (2:25)
- Get Up Off Our Knees (3:21)
- Flag Day (5:25)
- Anxious (2:20)
- Reverends Revenge (1:27)
- Sitting On A Fence (2:58)
- Sheep (2:17)
- Over There (2:58)
- Think For A Minute (3:30)
- We're Not Deep (2:15)
- Lean On Me (4:28)
- Freedom (3:19)
- I'll Be Your Shelter (Just Like A Shelter) (4:53)
- People Get Ready (1:41)
- The Mighty Ship (1:54)
- He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother (2:08)
Credits
- The Housemartins - primary artist
- Norman Cook - bass, vocals
- David Storey - design [sleeve design], sleeve [sleeve design]
- Hugh Whitaker - drums, vocals
- Phil Bodger - engineer [engineered by], mixed by
- Stan Cullimore - guitar, vocals, composed by
- Tony Bridge - lacquer cut by
- Nikki Rodgerson - photography by [front, p.d.]
- Gus Devlin - photography by [norman]
- Gino Sprio - photography by [stan, hugh]
- Pete Wingfield - piano, composed by
- John Williams - producer [produced by]
- David Tietz - tape op
- Nick Davis - tape op
- Paul Heaton - vocals, harmonica, chimes, composed by, melodica, guitar [noisy]
- Ted Key - composed by
- Anthony Pleeth - cello