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My Favorite Albums Of All Time
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Nine albums in, and Neil Hannon's taste for archly literate pop - and, indeed, for the occasional saucy gag, delivered with eyebrow curled - remains. "You don't know how much I need you," he croons, on schoolboy's lament `To Die A Virgin, "The `Handy Andy's I've been through." Seemingly a reference to The Divine Comedy's long unavailable debut Fanfare For The Comic Muse, Victory… sees Hannon fronting a band that skimps not on the symphonics, including as it does a thirteen-piece string section, harp, French Horn, and oboe - not to mention a certain Dougie Payne of Travis on bass. A certain jauntiness is
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Manufacturer: Parlophone
Release date: 19 June 2006
EAN: 0094636537221 UPC: 094636537221
Release date: 19 June 2006
EAN: 0094636537221 UPC: 094636537221
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