The Boy Bands Have Won

Tracklist

• 1
  When an Old Man Dies
  0:54
  3.0 ★
• 2
  Add Me
  3:27
  4.5 ★
• 3
  Words Can Save Us
  1:52
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Hull or Hell
  3:31
  3.5 ★
• 5
  El Fusilado
  2:32
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Unpindownable
  1:22
  2.5 ★
• 7
  I Wish That They'd Sack Me
  4:10
  3.6 ★
• 8
  Word Bomber
  2:13
  4.0 ★
• 9
  All Fur Coat & No Knickers
  2:12
  3.5 ★
• 10
  A Fine Line
  0:39
  3.0 ★
• 11
  Lord Batemans Motorbike
  3:34
  3.0 ★
• 12
  A Fine Career
  0:47
  3.0 ★
• 13
  To a Little Radio
  1:08
  3.0 ★
• 14
  Right Around the World
  2:15
  3.5 ★
• 15
  Sing About Love
  1:39
  3.0 ★
• 16
  Bury Me Deep
  1:37
  4.0 ★
• 17
  You Watched Me Dance
  0:58
  3.0 ★
• 18
  Compliments of Your Waitress
  2:43
  3.5 ★
• 19
  R.I.P. PR
  1:26
  3.0 ★
• 20
  Charlie
  2:12
  3.0 ★
• 21
  Ogre (After WH Auden)
  0:53
  3.0 ★
• 22
  Refugee
  2:42
  3.0 ★
• 23
  Same Old Same Old
  0:59
  3.0 ★
• 24
  Waiting for the Bus
  2:44
  3.5 ★
• 25
  What We Want
  0:47
  3.0 ★

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Release credits

• Alan Prosser
  background vocals [4], guest [4]
• Barry Coope
  background vocals [5], guest [5]
• Boff Whalley
  background vocals [8], ukulele [1-2, 4, 6-7, 9, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 23, 25], vocal [1-7, 9-11, 13-25]
• Charlie Cake Marching Band
  brass [2, 14]
• David P. Crickmore
  banjo [7, 22], resonator guitar [18, 22]
• Harry “Daz” Hamer
  cajón [9, 11], tabla [16]
• Ian Telfer
  background vocals [4], guest [4]
• Jim Boyes
  background vocals [5], guest [5]
• Jo Freya
  guest [2], saxophone [2]
• John Jones
  background vocals [4], guest [4]
• Jude Abbott
  background vocals [8], brass [2, 4, 9, 11, 13-14], vocal [1-7, 9-11, 13-25]
• Lee Partis
  background vocals [4], guest [4]
• Lou Watts
  background vocals [8], percussion [2, 4, 6-7, 9-11, 13-14, 16, 18, 20, 22], vocal [1-7, 9-11, 13-25]
• Neil Ferguson
  background vocals [8], guitar [1-2, 4, 6-11, 13-14, 16, 18, 20-22, 24-25], vocal [1-7, 9-11, 13-25]
• Oysterband
  background vocals [4], guest [4]
• Phil Moody
  accordion [1-2, 4, 7, 9, 11, 13-14, 16-17, 22, 24], background vocals [8], vocal [1-7, 9-11, 13-25]
• Ray Cooper
  background vocals [4], guest [4]
• Ray Hearne
  guest [5, 9], spoken vocals [9]
• Robb Johnson
  guest [12]
• Roy Bailey
  guest [8]
• The Pudsey Players
  strings [6, 11, 18]
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Issues

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  The Boy Bands Have Won, and All the Copyists and the Tribute Bands and the TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture to Be Shaped by Mimicry, Whether From Lack of Ideas or From Exaggerated Respect. You Should Never Try to Freeze Culture. What You Can Do Is Recycle That Culture. Take Your Older Brother’s Hand-Me-Down Jacket and Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It to the Point Where It Becomes Your Own. But Don’t Just Regurgitate Creative History, or Hold Art and Music and Literature as Fixed, Untouchable and Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try to ‘Guard’ Any Particular Form of Music Are, Like the Copyists and Manufactured Bands, Doing It the Worst Disservice, Because the Only Thing That You Can Do to Music That Will Damage It Is Not Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It Dies, Then It’s Over, Then It’s Done, and the Boy Bands Have Won.

  CD
  3 March 2008
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  The Boy Bands Have Won

  Digital Media
  24 June 2008
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  The Boy Bands Have Won

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  June 2008
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  The Boy Bands Have Won

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