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Avg: 4.0 (177 ratings)
- Date Released: July 5, 2009
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Label: Divine Comedy Records /1969 Recor / PIAS Digital
A brilliant concept album about — cricket? Paging Ray Davies ...
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A strange case: the Duckworth Lewis Method is brilliant entertainment, yet may be baffling to anyone who doesn't know the basics of cricket. Irish cricketophiles (itself an oxymoron) Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon (alias Lewis) and Pugwash's Thomas Walsh (Duckworth) even named their band and album after an opaque scoring system for matches interrupted by rain.
The duo sweetly evokes cricket's village roots and rituals with the dreamy "Mason on the Boundary" (he's "gone to Zanzibar/Underneath his Panama") and the boyhood memoir "Flatten the Hay." But otherwise, they gambol and frolic way beyond predictable sporting nostalgia.
The funky "Age Of Revolution" runs down the game's role in the decline and fall of the British Empire; "Gentlemen & Players" utilizes arcadian harpsichord and flute to score a satirical examination of cricket's place in the class system; and "The Sweet Spot" dirty-rocks double-entendres about bats and sex.
Most appealing, the duo display fabulous verbal and rhyming dexterity. Take "Jiggery Pokery," where England captain Mike Gatting (played in the song by Walsh) laments the "ball of the century" with which Aussie spin bowler Shane Warne dismissed him at Lord's in 1993: "Jiggery pokery, trickery jokery, how did he open me up? Robbery! Muggery! Aussie skullduggery! Out for a buggering duck."
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The Coin Toss |
1:08 |
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| 02. | |
The Age of Revolution |
3:56 |
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| 03. | |
Gentlemen and Players |
3:19 |
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| 04. | |
The Sweet Spot |
3:07 |
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| 05. | |
Jiggery Pokery |
3:24 |
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| 06. | |
Mason on the Boundary |
4:22 |
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| 07. | |
Rain Stops Play |
1:14 |
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| 08. | |
Meeting Mr Miandad |
3:13 |
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| 09. | |
The Nightwatchman |
4:49 |
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| 10. | |
Flatten the Hay |
4:18 |
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| 11. | |
Test Match Special |
4:02 |
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| 12. | |
The End of the Over |
2:51 |
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12 Total Tracks, 39:43 Total Length
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