"Look Dad No Tunes" | ||||
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Single by Half Man Half Biscuit | ||||
B-side | "Ecclesiastical Perks" / "Lock Up Your Mountain Bikes" | |||
Released | 3 September 1999 | |||
Recorded | Bus Stop Studios, Leigh | |||
Genre | Post-punk | |||
Length | 8:59 | |||
Label | Probe Plus PP31 | |||
Producer(s) | 1: Geoff Davies/HMHB 2–3: HMHB | |||
Half Man Half Biscuit singles chronology | ||||
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"Look Dad No Tunes" is a 1999 CD single by Birkenhead indie band Half Man Half Biscuit, released by Probe Plus Records, for whom they have always recorded.[1]
John Peel (1939–2004; BBC Radio 1 DJ 1967–2004), who greatly admired the band,[2] included "Look Dad No Tunes" at No. 11 in his 1999 Festive Fifty.[3]
Track listing
[edit]- "Look Dad No Tunes" (4:43)
- "Ecclesiastical Perks" (2:39)
- "Lock Up Your Mountain Bikes" (1:37)
Notes
[edit]- "Look Dad No Tunes" is also included on the 2000 album Trouble over Bridgwater.
- "Lock Up Your Mountain Bikes" parodies the traditional song "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain".
References
[edit]- ^ "Half Man Half Biscuit – Look Dad No Tunes" at Discogs
- ^ H is for... Half Man Half Biscuit on YouTube Official video by John Peel's widow, Sheila.
- ^ "Keeping It Peel: Festive 50 1999". BBC. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
External links
[edit]- "Look Dad No Tunes". Retrieved 25 February 2016. The oldest-established Half Man Half Biscuit fansite.
- "Look Dad No Tunes". Retrieved 25 February 2016. The Half Man Half Biscuit Lyrics Project.