Stewart Mason, AllMusic: "Cammell Laird Social Club is proof that for all their supposed indolence, Half Man Half Biscuit remain one of the sharpest and most satisfying bands in the U.K. indie scene".[2]
Track listing
No.
Title
Length
1.
"The Light at the End of the Tunnel (Is the Light of an Oncoming Train)"
2:32
2.
"When the Evening Sun Goes Down"
3:32
3.
"San Antonio Foam Party"
3:25
4.
"Them's the Vagaries"
3:28
5.
"If I Had Possession over Pancake Day"
2:14
6.
"The Referee's Alphabet"
4:32
7.
"She's in Broadstairs"
3:38
8.
"Tyrolean Knockabout"
3:24
9.
"Breaking News"
3:07
10.
"27 Yards of Dental Floss"
2:36
11.
"Paradise Lost (You're the Reason Why)"
2:28
12.
"Thy Damnation Slumbereth Not"
6:23
13.
"Stavanger Töestub"
0:25
Notes
The album title parodies those of the film and album Buena Vista Social Club, a 1999 project by Ry Cooder about a group of Cuban musicians
"The Light at the End of the Tunnel (Is the Light of an Oncoming Train)" is a near-quotation from the poem "Since 1939" by the American poet Robert Lowell: "If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of an oncoming train".[5][6]
