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The Beautiful South - Welcome to the Beautiful South (CD)

Welcome to the Beautiful South
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Album Details: Welcome to the Beautiful South

Release Date:10/01/1989
Label:Import [Generic]
UPC:4988005221902

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User Reviews: Welcome to the Beautiful South

  • Overall:

    Just very.

    By crijevo  Mar 20, 2001

    And shocking. Beautiful indeed.

  • Overall:

    Wonderful

    By xratedmann  Oct 10, 2000

    Wonderful harmonies
    - song for whoever
    - oh blackpool

    Cutting lyrics
    - woman in the wall
    - you keep it all in


    Simply great

Pro Reviews: Welcome to the Beautiful South

  • All Music Guide

    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. - Johnny Loftus, All Music Guide Read more Less

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Biography

The Beautiful South

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 South boasted a more sophisticated, jazzy pop sound, layered with keyboards, RB-inflected female backing vocals and, occasi... Read more