The Beautiful South - Blue Is the Colour

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Release Date:: 11/05/1996
Label:: Ark 21
UPC:: 618681001928

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Brilliant
, May 27, 2001
Reviewer: easterbunny2k2001 - See all easterbunny2k2001's reviews

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Re: not very good
, April 10, 2001
Reviewer: jefbussens - See all jefbussens's reviews

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Ah but you forget the best song of them all, Foundations !
Live your life a jigsaw, it goes back in the box, in the end !
Though I do agree that it is not their best album (miaow takes that honour)
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"Don't marry her... fk me." Light, dreamy pop that includes lines like this may knock the listener over. An added feature is the various ways vocal duties are shared by Jacqueline Abbot, Dave Hemingway, and Paul Heaton. Finely produced, it should be noted that the knob-twiddler here was Jon Kelly (Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Tori Amos, Kate Bush). Beautiful South reminds one of the blunt simplicity of some of the Ann Magnuson-sung Bongwater, but much more accessible. Dulcet harmonies with casual bar talk rewritten as poetry. "Have fun/And if you can't have fun/Have someone else's fun." The songs here transform spite and hurt into tuneful gems. "The whole place is pickled/The people are pickles for sure/And no one knows if they've done more here/Than they would do in a jar." Yes, yes, yes. Next time your significant other does you significant pain, just put Blue Is the Colour on for a few spins. It will be more healing than a public drunk and save you any day-after embarrassment.

- Thomas Schulte, All Music Guide

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Following the disbandment of the British indie-pop group the Housemartins in 1989, vocalist Paul Heaton and drummer David Hemmingway formed the Beautiful South. Where their previous group relied on jazzy guitars and witty, wry lyrics, the Beautiful S...Full The Beautiful South Biography