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Trouble Over Bridgwater by Half Man Half Biscuit
Trouble Over Bridgwater is an album by Half Man Half Biscuit, released in 2000. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 2 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Look Dad No Tunes”, on 1 list with a best position of #11.
Trouble Over Bridgwater, the eighth album from Birkenhead's Half Man Half Biscuit, came out on Probe Plus in 2000, and the joke starts with the title, a pun on Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge over Troubled Water". That's the band all over, as sardonic and surreal as ever, lobbing barbs at British pop culture and geography.
Nigel Blackwell leads from the front on vocals and guitar, Neil Crossley holds down the bass, Ken Hancock adds a second guitar and Carl Henry drums, knocking out scrappy, deadpan rock that sends up whatever genre it happens to borrow. Even the song titles, "Look Dad No Tunes" and "Irk The Purists", read like a dare.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Trouble Over Bridgwater on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Look Dad No Tunes | 1 | #11 | – | 1999 | |
| 2 | Irk The Purists | 1 | #37 | – | 2000 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.