90 Bisodol (Crimond)

90 Bisodol (Crimond) is the twelfth studio album by UK rock band Half Man Half Biscuit. It was released on 26 September 2011 by Probe Plus.^[3]

90 Bisodol (Crimond)
Studio album by Half Man Half Biscuit
Released	26 September 2011 (2011-09-26)
Genre	Post-punk
Length	38:38
Label	Probe Plus PROBE 65
Producer	Nelson Burt
Half Man Half Biscuit chronology
CSI:Ambleside (2008) 90 Bisodol (Crimond) (2011) Urge For Offal (2014)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
MusicOMH	[2]

The inner sleeve includes a modified version of the painting Christ's Entry into Jerusalem by William Gale (1823–1909),^[4] in which one onlooker holds a sign with the words "Dirk Hofman Motorhomes". This is a reference to a man who holds such a sign at the finish of European cycling races.^{[citation needed]}

Critical reception

In a review for BBC, critic reviewer Luke Slater called the album the band's "most consistently brilliant work yet in every aspect, and another start-to-finish showcase of rare genius".^[5] The Quietus called it "probably their best, certainly their most consistent album".^[6]

Track listing

90 Bisodol (Crimond) track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Something's Rotten in the Back of Iceland"	2:33
2.	"RSVP"	2:58
3.	"Tommy Walsh's Eco House"	2:38
4.	"Joy in Leeuwarden (We Are Ready)"	2:30
5.	"Excavating Rita"	3:39
6.	"Fun Day in the Park"	2:00
7.	"Descent of the Stiperstones"	5:16
8.	"Left Lyrics in the Practice Room"	2:07
9.	"L'enfer c'est les autres"	3:10
10.	"Fix It So She Dreams of Me"	2:53
11.	"The Coroner's Footnote"	3:46
12.	"Rock and Roll Is Full of Bad Wools"	5:08

Notes

• Bisodol is a brand of indigestion tablet ^[7]
• Crimond is a village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland; whose name was adopted for a hymn tune by Jessie Seymour Irvine, most associated with a verse paraphrase of Psalm 23, "The Lord's my shepherd, I'll not want" ^[8]
• The alleged producer, Nelson Burt, was a nine-year-old boy (son of Albin R. Burt) who drowned in the Mersey Hurricane of 1822, and whose grave is in the churchyard of St Lawrence's Church, Stoak; as mentioned in the song "The Unfortunate Gwatkin" on the 2014 album Urge for Offal by Half Man Half Biscuit
• The song title "Something's Rotten in the Back of Iceland" parodies the line "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark", spoken by Marcellus in Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Act 1 Scene 4
• The song title "Excavating Rita" parodies that of the 1980 play Educating Rita by Willy Russell.
• The song title "L'enfer c'est les autres" is a quotation from the 1944 existentialist French play Huis Clos by Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980); in English, "Hell is other people"
• "Wools" is a shortening of Woollybacks, an expression in Merseyside English which refers to people from neighbouring areas ^[9]