Welcome to the Beautiful South
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Original cover art by Jan Saudek
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| Studio album by The Beautiful South | ||||||||||
| Released | October 1989 | |||||||||
| Recorded | 1988 | |||||||||
| Genre | Pop | |||||||||
| Length | 50:17 | |||||||||
| Label | Go!, Elektra | |||||||||
| Producer | Mike Hedges, The Beautiful South | |||||||||
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Welcome to the Beautiful South is the debut album by English band The Beautiful South, released in October 1989 by Go! Discs and the next year in America by Elektra Records. Three singles were released from the album: "Song for Whoever" (#2 in the UK), "You Keep It All In" (#8) and "I'll Sail This Ship Alone" (#31).
The original album cover depicted two pictures by Jan Saudek, one of a woman with a gun in her mouth, and another with a man smoking. Woolworths refused to stock the album, in the words of the band, to "prevent the hoards [sic] of impressionable young fans from blowing their heads off in a gun-gobbling frenzy, or taking up smoking"; an alternative cover featuring a picture of a stuffed toy rabbit and a teddy bear was therefore made.
NME included it in the "Top 100 Albums You've Never Heard" list in 2012.
All songs written by Paul Heaton and Dave Rotheray, except where noted.
There is also a Japanese reissue released in 2004. It features all eleven original songs, plus five additional bonus tracks:
As what was to become their usual modus operandi, The Beautiful South included unreleased material on the B-sides of the singles taken from their albums.
from the "Song For Whoever" 12" single and CDEP
from the "You Keep It All In" 12" single and CDEP
from the "I'll Sail This Ship Alone" 12" single and CDEP
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