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“Paintball's Coming Home” by Half Man Half Biscuit
From the album Voyage to the Bottom of the Road (1997)
“Paintball's Coming Home” by Half Man Half Biscuit appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1996. It was first released in 1997 on the album Voyage to the Bottom of the Road. Its best result is #43 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1996. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #307 alternative song of 1996.
Nigel Blackwell wrote "Paintball's Coming Home", words and music, and it turned up on Voyage to the Bottom of the Road, the sixth album from Birkenhead's Half Man Half Biscuit, released in July 1997.
The record split the critics clean down the middle. AllMusic's Stewart Mason heard a reinvention at mid-career, surprising and entertaining, and likened the idea to the Mekons' turn toward country. Select's Ian Harrison reckoned it made Beck sound like Michael Bolton. NME's Ian Fortnam, meanwhile, wrote the whole thing off as desperate, hamfisted post-punk and grumbled that, as ever, the band's song titles beat the songs themselves.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 43 | John Peel (BBC Radio 1) | John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1996 | 50 |
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