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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

London 0 Hull 4
by Housemartins

Song Lyrics

Happy Hour
Get up off Our Knees
Flag Day
Anxious
Sitting on a Fence
Sheep
Over There
Think for a Minute!
We're Not Deep
Lean on Me
Freedom
I'll Be Your Shelter (Just Like a Shelter)


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