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#YesYesYes it's #TuneTuesday
#TheBeautifulSouth - "I Think The Answer's Yes" (1990)
"To a world where the leaders finally confess /
(I think the answer's yes, I think the answer's yes)
To the burning of the Stock Exchange and bombing of the press /
(I think the answer's yes, I think the answer's yes)"
Paul Heaton Night on BBC2 later, everyone! #PaulHeaton #TheHousemartins #TheBeautifulSouth
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #AfternoonShow
The Beautiful South:
🎵 Tonight I Fancy Myself
#TheBeautifulSouth
▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify
▶️ Song on #Spotify:
Tonight I Fancy Myself
#TheBeautifulSouth - "You Keep It All In" (Live on Later With Jools Holland, 1997)
An unassuming, lyric-focused pop group with a trio of soulful singers, The Beautiful South remain the great antidote to overhyped & underwhelming 90s #Britpop.
#NowPlaying #MondayCovers #TheSmiths
#TheBeautifulSouth - "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" (2004)
Trading in some of that annoying solipsism for a bit more bounce, this is a guaranteed #Morrissey-free listen (feat. singer #PaulHeaton, who still regularly gives a shout-out to #KarlMarx in interviews)
The Beautiful South - "From Under The Covers" (1989, Go! Discs)
#TheBeautifulSouth were one of the odder success stories in the history of #Britishpop. Literate, heavy-drinking northerners with roots in Hull's #TheHousemartins, they paired lightly soulful, near-MOR pop with some of the most bitterly vicious lyrics ever to burn up the charts. And burn 'em up they did: their best-of collection, Carry On Up The Charts, went #1 in 1994 and eventually 6x platinum. Sing along everyone:
"It's 7am, and we're coughing up the phlegm / Spitting out the taste of night before / And we'll vomit and we'll choke just to climb their tatty rope / Well, this city has its charm and its claw"
"A little time" - The Beautiful South
They did a brilliant singing at cross-purposes look earlier in the year, and never quite got the cameras right again; bright blue lights and the audience clapping along distract from the intense verbal battle between Paul and Brianna.
It'll win the viewer vote for Best Video at next year's BPI awards, and it'll be one of the group's calling cards throughout their career.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
The Beautiful South:
🎵 Good As Gold (Stupid As Mud)
#6music #TheBeautifulSouth
▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify
▶️ Song/Cover on #Bandcamp:
Good As Gold, by Goodknight Pr...
The Beautiful South / Welcome To The Beautiful South (1989); Süffige Melodien, bitterböse Texte – dieser Einstand ist britischer Pop mit messerscharfer Klinge. Hinter den butterweichen Arrangements lauern Zynismus, Sozialkritik und schwarzer Humor. Die Stimmen von Paul Heaton und Briana Corrigan ergänzen sich kongenial: warm und verletzlich, sarkastisch und süß zugleich. Ein Debüt, das charmant verführt und gleichzeitig beißt. #TheBeautifulSouth #IndiePop #IndieRock #Pop #PaulHeaton
The Beautiful South's Ali Wheeler reveals Brandon Flowers is a huge fan of the band - #TheBeautifulSouth #AliWheeler #leonagrahamdj @leonagrahamdj #leonagraham
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Five hours of pints with Paul Heaton: ‘We’ve got distracted. Let’s get back to the album’
Randomly though of this video this morning 😍
I can’t find Paul Heaton’s Glastonbury 2024 performance, so this will have to do. Please let me know if you’ve any way to find the full set. #paulheaton #housemartins
#TheBeautifulSouth
https://youtu.be/Bq2sD0mDxys?si=U4u46s6RyVY4IXWN
As chosen by survey (the 30th album starting with ‘T’), today’s spotlight is on number 816 from The List, submitted by pjohanneson. Though perhaps “story” is a better word for it. Gather ’round, class…
Once upon a time, there was a group of Martins who decided to live in a House, instead of with a Ricky, or with a Dean (and certainly not with a Hannett). The group came to be known in the neighborhood as “the House Martins” (or, if one was in a hurry, “the Housemartins“).
These Martins liked to make a bunch of sounds together, and liked to give names to short collections of their sounds, like “Happy Hour”, “There Is Always Something There to Remind Me”, or “Think For A Minute”.
Then, one day, during happy hour, something there reminded one of the Martins, and he thought for a minute: “I’m far too Fat and far too Slim to be a Martin in a House. Perhaps I should instead live as a Boy, not in a House.” And so, the Fat Slim Boy (or, as the other Martins started to call him, “Fatboy Slim“) moved out of the House, and the Martins who still lived in the House stopped making a bunch of sounds together.
But then, perhaps again during happy hour, perhaps again because something there reminded them, two of the Martins who were left behind thought for a minute that they still really liked to make a bunch of sounds together. They had heard of a Beautiful place, somewhere down South, where they could continue to make a bunch of sounds together as ex-Martins, perhaps even with others who were not Martins. And so, the ex-Martins moved to the Beautiful South, where they joined some not-Martins, and continued to make a bunch of sounds together.
One day, this new group of ex-Martins and not-Martins decided to make an entire collection of short collections of sounds in honor of sex hotlines and sexy instruments such as the glockenspiel. To ensure the wrong idea was not given by this collection of sounds, they decided to give one short collection of sounds the name “36D”. However, in the end, this short collection of sounds made one of the not-Martins, who was called “Briana”, move away from the Beautiful South, to make her own bunch of sounds.
In 2007, the ex-Martins and not-Martins who were left behind would permanently move away from the Beautiful South, due to “musical similarities”.
((This ridiculous write-up is courtesy of my dog absolutely hating the song “36D” (or, more accurately, hating me singing the song “36D”). Well, that and me also not liking it/the album. And then me having a not-so-crisis-ey crisis in which I didn’t know if I should be sharing my opinion of albums I don’t like on The List. It is true that the lyrics of “36D” (and of some other songs) are partially to blame for Briana Corrigan leaving the band, as is the fact that the entire band has since stated that the song “36D” hasn’t dated well. But the album isn’t just one song, and the band isn’t just one album, and lots of bands/albums we love have cringe-y songs, and my tastes don’t necessarily reflect the quality of an album, etc., etc… And so, my only advice here is, if you’re a dog person, perhaps avoid singing “36D” to it.))
[Alt text for accompanying image: The album artwork is a perhaps a photo, featuring 5 doll faces with various expressions, with each face placed upwards on the back of a striped turtle. The album name is in black font at the top center, and there is a cream-colored background.]
https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/04/23/the-beautiful-south-0898-beautiful-south-1992-uk/
#1001OtherAlbums #1990s #altRock #Housemartins #janglePop #TheBeautifulSouth #TheHousemartins
I'm having a really hard time doing a write-up on #TheBeautifulSouth (the 0898 album, in particular). As someone who loves metal, a genre that more often than not has ridiculous lyrics, I shouldn't have a problem with dumb/satirical lyrics. But I feel like I'm hitting my head against a brick wall here. I quite enjoy the music and vocals, but the lyrics made listening to this all the way through sort of painful. Is historical context important here? Am I having a case of the Mondays?
Music is such a powerful memory activator that we can remember where we first heard a particular album or song.
I listened to The Jam's Greatest Hits album, SNAP at my Uncle's house in about 1983. He was only a few years older than me and had all the cool stuff.
I heard Welcome to the Beautiful South sleeping over at my sister's flat in Settle, Yorkshire, 1991.
Does it work that way for other people?
🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #PickOfThePops
The Beautiful South:
🎵 Perfect 10
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Eejw1SOBhHt7RjWJH7onO
https://goodknightproductions1.bandcamp.com/track/perfect-10
#BandcampFriday
🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #PickOfThePops
The Beautiful South:
🎵 You Keep It All In
https://open.spotify.com/track/57gpjrxXMnqyKIxzMToJ7A
https://goodknightproductions1.bandcamp.com/track/you-keep-it-all-in
#BandcampFriday
🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #OJBorg
The Beautiful South:
🎵 Don't Marry Her
https://open.spotify.com/track/20abcpNIRjDmyFoAbFozil
https://goodknightproductions1.bandcamp.com/track/dont-marry-her
#BandcampFriday
🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #OJBorg
The Beautiful South:
🎵 Don't Marry Her
https://open.spotify.com/track/20abcpNIRjDmyFoAbFozil
https://goodknightproductions1.bandcamp.com/track/dont-marry-her
#BandcampFriday
🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #OwainWynEvans
The Beautiful South:
🎵 Rotterdam (Or Anywhere)
https://open.spotify.com/track/7BZLNqU7zChzcnSo6ETJ5l
https://goodknightproductions1.bandcamp.com/track/rotterdam
#BandcampFriday
Anyone, someone I follow shared this the other day and it struck a chord. #TheBeautifulSouth https://youtu.be/gnsoRheU_v8
Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge: Recent Song I've Loved
#BloggerCommunity #BloggingCommunity #WriterCommunity #WritingCommunity #WednesdayWeeklyBloggingChallenge #Wednesday #Challenge #Music #KateBush #MamaCass #TheBeautifulSouth #Trixie #Mattel
http://georgelthomas.com/2023/06/28/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-recent-song-ive-loved/
#Hashtag #Introduction #ireland
music;
#kaceymusgraves #pattilupone #mpeople #janetjackson #simplyred #nirvana #sherylcrow #alanismorissette #sade #thebeautifulsouth
tv;
#realhousewives #vanderpumprules #frasier #bojackhorseman #twinpeaks #buffy #xfiles #sexandthecity
movies;
#dumbanddumber #mrsdoubtfire #mulhollanddrive #homealone
books;
#theperksofbeingawallflower #talesofthecity #whatremains #normalpeople
podcasts;
#thewitness #crimeworld #stown #missingrichardsimmons #smalltowndicks
#TheBeautifulSouth’s co-founder Dave Hemingway’s new band #Sunbirds to play at #AlexandersLive in #Chester
https://blazingminds.co.uk/sunbirds-head-alexanders-live-chester-april/
I've got a late '80s earworm in my head this morning. There's a special place in my heart for The Beautiful South with their high pop sound combined with dark, cutting lyrics.
I'm especially fond of the imagery of Simon LeBon getting sick all over the house as well as this refrain:
"Shall we dance again?
In our special way
With our trousers round
our knees, our knees"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8zsbZmjhVE
#JukeboxInMyHead #Earworm #TheBeautifulSouth #SimonLeBon
edited to add hashtags
