Harmony No Harmony

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Harmony No Harmony
Studio album by Million Dead
Released	May 16 2005
Recorded	Battery Studios in November and December 2004
Genre	Punk, Alternative
Length	55:19
Label	Xtra Mile Recordings
Producer	Mark Williams
Professional reviews
Europunk [1]
Million Dead chronology
A Song to Ruin (2003) Harmony No Harmony (2005)

Harmony No Harmony is the second full length album released by British band Million Dead and also their last. It is the first to feature new guitarist Tom Fowler who replaced original guitarist Cameron Dean. Lead singer, Frank Turner's mother makes an appearance on the song "To Whom It May Concern". Members of the now defunct Drive Like You Stole It appear on both "To Whom It May Concern" and "Father My Father".

[edit] Track listing

• All songs written by Million Dead

1. "Bread and Circuses" – 2:33
2. "Holloway Prison Blues" – 4:15
3. "After the Rush Hour" – 3:29
4. "Plan B" – 1:37
5. "Carthago Est Delenda" – 6:00
6. "To Whom It May Concern" – 4:17
7. "Living the Dream" – 5:10
8. "Margot Kidder" – 6:37
9. "Murder and Create" – 3:13
10. "Achilles Lung" – 4:08
11. "Bovine Spungiform Economics" – 1:59
12. "Father My Father" – 3:33
13. "Engine Driver" – 6:13
14. "Harmony No Harmony" – 2:15

[edit] Personnel

• Tom Fowler - guitar, 10,000 pedals.
• Julia Ruzicka - bass guitar, vocals
• Ben Dawson - Drums, tam-tam, vocals
• Frank Turner - Vocals, guitar
• Mark Williams - Production, mixing
• Barney Herbert - Production assistant
• Eric Broyhill - Mastering
• Richard Fowler - Drawings
• Layouts and photographs by Million Dead
• Additional vocals on "To Whom It May Concern" - Jane Turner, Ashley Bird, Simon Young, Mel Young, Bethia Beadman, Alice Young
• Additional vocals on "Father My Father" - Evan Cotter, Simon Fowler, Ashley Bird, Simon Young, Mel Young, Alice Young, Mike Kruger, Tony Arthy, Lars Minkinnen

[edit] Miscellanea

• The title "Bread and Circuses" is a reference to a Roman belief that all that was needed to keep the masses distracted from serious matters that affected them was "bread and circuses" (food and entertainment). This is mirrored in the song's lyrics.
• "Holloway Prison Blues" is a play on the title of the Johnny Cash song "Folsom Prison Blues", as singer Frank Turner lived in Holloway at the time of writing. The lyrics also mention Francis Fukuyama, the American philosopher, political economist and author.
• "After The Rush Hour" is a nod to the Neil Young song "After The Gold Rush". It also gives lyrical nods to Austrian politician Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, British philosopher Jeremy Bentham's idea of a panopticon and Italian politician Giuseppe Mazzini and the Jimmy Webb (most notably covered by Glen Campbell) song Wichita Lineman.
• "Carthago Est Delenda" is a reference to the Third Punic War. The phrase is Latin, and was spoken at the end of every speech Roman senator Cato the Elder made during the Punic wars. The phrase loosely translates as "Carthage must be destroyed". The song also gives short mentions to the disaster of Mount Vesuvius and the constant threat of disaster from the San Andreas Fault.
• Margot Kidder is an actress famed for her parts in the Superman movies, and also for a highly-publicised mental breakdown in 1996 (suiting the somewhat weary nature of the song's lyrics).
• "Murder and Create" is a reference to a line in T. S. Eliot's 1917 poem, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
• 'Father My Father' gives a lyrical mention to the students of the Sorbonne (a name used to refer to the University of Paris or one of its offshoots).
• The album title Harmony No Harmony is taken from the liner notes to Black Flag's album Everything Went Black.