Beautiful South, The - 0898 Vinyl Record
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Description
The band's third album 0898 Beautiful South followed in 1992. It provided another Top 20 hit in the shape of "Bell Bottomed Tear" as well as two further Top 30 hits, "Old Red Eyes Is Back" and "We Are Each Other", although a fourth single "36D" only placed in the Top 50. "We Are Each Other" also became the band's biggest hit in the United States, peaking at No. 10 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart in 1992.
Both Choke and 0898 Beautiful South illustrated the growing fullness of the band's sound. Both featured Pete Thoms and Gary Barnacle as regular contributors on brass and woodwind, and also featured Corrigan as lead vocalist on several tracks. Her contribution helped to characterise the bittersweet kitchen sink dramas played out in the band's often barbed songs, and allowed Heaton and Rotheray to explore and express female perspectives in their songwriting. However, the latter approach had mixed success, demonstrated later in 1992 when Corrigan chose to leave the band to pursue a solo career. Although her decision was partly prompted by a desire to record and promote her own material (which was not getting exposure within The Beautiful South), she had also had ethical disagreements over some of Heaton's lyrics, most notably "Mini-correct", "Worthless Lie" and the 0898 Beautiful South single "36D", which criticized the British glamour industry via scathing comments about glamour models. Five years later, Hemingway would admit "we all agree that we should have targeted the media as sexist instead of blaming the girls for taking off their tops".
Tracklist
A1 Old Red Eyes Is Back 3:35 A2 We Are Each Other 3:39 A3 The Rocking Chair 4:43 A4 We'll Deal With You Later 4:07 A5 Domino Man 2:40 A6 36D 5:16 B1 Here It Is Again 3:27 B2 Something That You Said 4:20 B3 I'm Your No. 1 Fan 4:28 B4 Bell-Bottomed Tear 4:35 B5 You Play Glockenspiel, I'll Play Drums 5:06 B6 When I'm 84 4:32price rating
