- Source: Hammer and tongs
- Source: Hammer and Tongs
To go at something hammer and tongs is an idiom indicating seriousness of intent and capability of harm.
Hammer and Tongs may refer to:
Books
Hammer and Tongs, a seminal 1937 chapbook of essays by Clyde F. Beck in the field of science fiction studies
Hammer and Tongs, 1999 poetry anthology featuring Karen Solie among others
Music
Hammer & Tongs, a British film production duo
Hammer and Tongs, a 1989 album by the Scottish rock group Goodbye Mr Mackenzie
Hammer and Tongs, a 1930 film; see screenwriter Douglas Z. Doty
"Hammer and Tongs", a song by Budgie from the 1974 album In for the Kill!
"Hammer and Tongs", a song by the Legendary Shack Shakers from the 2010 album AgriDustrial
"Hammer and Tongs", a song by The Darkness from the 2015 album Last of Our Kind
Hammer and Tongs is the second album from the Scottish rock group Goodbye Mr Mackenzie. It was recorded in Germany in 1989, at Berlin's Hansa Ton Studios just as the Fall of the Berlin Wall occurred. The album sat on the shelf for almost 18 months, in which time the band were transferred across EMI record labels, from Capitol to Parlophone, who released two singles from the album in 1990. Parlophone sold the band's record deal to Radioactive Records and MCA, who released Hammer and Tongs in the United Kingdom in early 1991 and encouraged the band to record a new song "Now We Are Married" to promote the release.
Later that year, Radioactive, and their partners MCA, repackaged the album for international release by including several stand-out tracks from the band's debut album Good Deeds and Dirty Rags and eponymously re-titling the album as Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie.
Paul Davies of Q Magazine called the album a "more than adequate follow up."
Track listing
All songs written by Metcalfe and Kelly, except where noted.
"Blacker Than Black"
"Bold John Barleycorn"
"Diamonds"
"The Burning"
"Now We Are Married"
"Sick Baby" (Metcalfe, Kelly, Scobie, Wilson, Duncan)
"Down to the Minimum" (Metcalfe, Kelly, Scobie, Wilson, Duncan)
"She's Strong"
"Love Child"
"Tongue-Tied"
Unreleased Parlophone version
"Working on a Shoe-fly"
2006 Cherry Red re-issue bonus tracks
"Friday's Child" (Lee Hazlewood)
"Candelstick Park II
"Candy Says" (Lou Reed)
"Now We Are Married" (Extended version)
Personnel
Goodbye Mr Mackenzie
Martin Metcalfe - lead vocals
John Duncan - guitar
Fin Wilson - bass guitar
Shirley Manson - keyboards, backing vocals
Rona Scobie - keyboards, backing vocals
Derek Kelly - drums
References
External links
Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie website
Hammer and Tongs discography
Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie discography