Welcome to the Beautiful South
The Beautiful South
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Song for Whoever | The Beautiful South | 6:09 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Have You Ever Been Away | The Beautiful South | 5:10 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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From Under the Covers | The Beautiful South | 4:03 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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I'll Sail This Ship Alone (Mix) | The Beautiful South | 4:38 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Girlfriend | The Beautiful South | 2:53 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Straight In At 37 | The Beautiful South | 4:29 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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You Keep It All In | The Beautiful South | 2:53 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Woman In the Wall | The Beautiful South | 5:16 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Oh Blackpool | The Beautiful South | 2:59 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Love Is... | The Beautiful South | 7:03 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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I Love You (But You're Boring) | The Beautiful South | 4:30 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Album Review
The Beautiful South's 1989 debut would be important if only to mark the partial continuance of the Housemartins' legacy. But when vocalist Paul Heaton and drummer Dave Hemmingway greeted the world with Welcome to the Beautiful South, the handshake came with a Cheshire grin. Nothing in the Beautiful South was as it seemed. Where there was jaunty, jazzy pop, crossed fingers warned of murderous lyrics. If a single featured a fluttering flute, it was filled with familial terror. "Woman in the Wall," featuring one of the year's most memorable melodies and Heaton's plaintive lead vocal, also featured lines like "He'd enjoyed the thought of killing her before" and "when the rotting flesh began to stink." But even in the album's most gruesome moments, the streak of cynical, caustic sarcasm running through it was as clear as crop circles. This fact only made Welcome's twee goodness that much more fun, for with each well-placed barb it further proved what the Housemartins had started: pop didn't have to be stupid.
Customer Reviews
An Impressive, if sometimes ghoulish, debut
"You Keep It All In" got some airplay in the Boston area when this album was released, and I picked up on the flute-driven Brit pop before I realized that the lyrics describe the emotional problems of a serial criminal. I was hooked on the band after that. My favorite song is still "I'll Sail This Ship Alone," a wistful, romantic bit of melancholy whose narrator turns out to be a psychotic stalker. Funny! It's like "We Are The World" sung by a creep carrying a can of Mace and a blindfold.
up beat dark side
I lived in London in the late 80's and got hooked on the House Martins and the Beautiful South, their music is incredible and the lyrics make you think! Love them! They are one of a kind!
Biography
Formed: 1989 in Hull, England
Genre: Alternative
Years Active: '80s, '90s, '00s
Top Albums and Songs By The Beautiful South
- $9.99
- Genres: Pop, Music, Rock, Adult Alternative, Pop/Rock
- Released: Oct 1989
- ℗ 1989 Go! Records Ltd.
