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To think The Beautiful South...

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RuudVanWrinkleBreath · 28/11/2024 13:38

were...bloody amazing!?

AIBU to think this band might be the most underrated band in the UK...EVER!?

I have just blasted out their greatest hits whilst wrapping presents and had a nostalgic sing-along. So many wonderfully written songs, great singers too. Criminally underrated in my opinion.

AIBU?

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Councilhousecheekbones · 28/11/2024 15:44

Love so many of their songs.

Perfect 10 is not my favourite - there is a certain condescension and smugness in this song.

HeadacheEarthquake · 28/11/2024 15:43

DrZaraCarmichael · 28/11/2024 15:40

I loathe and detest them with a passion. There aren't many bands where I have to change the station completely when they come on the radio but the Beautiful South are up there, along with Robbie Williams.

HATE them. Hate their plinky plonky sound, the twee little melodies, the 6th form politics, the lyrics, EVERYTHING. Yuk.

I have the same reaction to Robbie Williams too! Same weird vocal timbre 🤢

DrZaraCarmichael · 28/11/2024 15:40

I loathe and detest them with a passion. There aren't many bands where I have to change the station completely when they come on the radio but the Beautiful South are up there, along with Robbie Williams.

HATE them. Hate their plinky plonky sound, the twee little melodies, the 6th form politics, the lyrics, EVERYTHING. Yuk.

AmytheDancingBrick · 28/11/2024 15:39

They are absolutley brilliant - but then I'm old enough to remember The Housemartins...

Doggymummar · 28/11/2024 15:38

The house martins were preferable, but that album you mention is ex elkent

Funkyslippers · 28/11/2024 15:33

I love them but they've also done some tripe too. Even Paul H admits it. I prefer Briana Corrigan's voice to Jacqui Abbot but Rotterdam is my go-to karaoke song. When I saw them live Jacqui had absolutely no stage presence but she's got better over the years

Mary46 · 28/11/2024 15:30

Loved them too op. Great songs

Tillow4ever · 28/11/2024 15:30

Also, I love Paul's attitude to everything. He is a millionaire but still lives in his mid-terrace house. He put £1,000 behind the bar of something like 60 pubs in the country to buy his fans drinks on his birthday. He caps his ticket prices and will not let them go above a certain value because he doesn't want to rip off his fans. He's a great guy in my book.

Tortielady · 28/11/2024 15:29

When they're good, they're very, very good. (A Little Time, Song For Whoever.) When they're bad, they're horrid. (Perfect 10 🤮)

Hillarious · 28/11/2024 15:29

Love them. Saw Paul Heaton live a couple of years ago, when I was in the year of my 60th 25th December and 59th 4th July. He was obviously singing to me.

Tillow4ever · 28/11/2024 15:28

I absolutely love them and often say they are extremely underrated. Paul Heaton is a bloody genius!

I listen to them frequently. I saw them live in the late 90's at DeMontfort in Leicester and thought they were fantastic. I remember them telling the crowd that 1 in 7 households in the UK owned a Beautiful South album. Such random fact.

I saw "The South" (no Paul or Jacqui) this summer at a festival and they were really good - I sang and danced the whole set and just felt so happy. My 12 year old son was watching me and after their set told me he wanted to buy me a ticket to go and see Paul and Jacqui perform for a Xmas present! He could clearly see how much I loved them, and I had been talking before the festival about how I wasn't sure how good it would be without the 2 main voices.

Might switch back to my Spotify Beautiful South playlist..., their songs were all in my top 5 Wrapped last year and suspect they will be again this year.

TwistedWonder · 28/11/2024 15:25

They’re not my type of music so only ever heard a couple of their songs. The one with all the girls names is probably up there in my list of songs I’d rather cut my ears off than hear again tbh

GrimDamnFanjo · 28/11/2024 15:23

Brianna was quite critical of Paul's attitude to women in the earlier songs I understand.

Coolasfeck · 28/11/2024 15:22

HeadacheEarthquake · 28/11/2024 15:17

Probably the most annoying bad ever! So bad they make me feel nauseous

Fake elvis-american accent, cringy lyrics, overly peppy music. Hate them with my whole soul!

Hahahaha you hate them even more than me!

poppymango · 28/11/2024 15:22

Ohhh yes I love them too!!

EvilsElsasPetSnowman · 28/11/2024 15:22

I also love the twist at the end of little time. You don’t get these kind of songs anymore

Tiggerspal · 28/11/2024 15:22

Huge Paul Heaton fan, in fact going to see him on 9th Dec. We've seen him a few times recently and they've been great (miss Jaqui Abbott though).

Coolasfeck · 28/11/2024 15:21

That song Perfect 10 is next level annoying. BS are boring but I guess we all like different things.

RedHelenB · 28/11/2024 15:21

ObieJoyful · 28/11/2024 14:05

Great on record- lousy in concert.

The only gig I’ve ever walked out of. He basically told the crowd that they were hungover and couldn’t be arsed. It showed!

The must be one off, they were great when I saw them live

EvilsElsasPetSnowman · 28/11/2024 15:18

YANBU I love them! Love when one of their songs comes on the radio

HeadacheEarthquake · 28/11/2024 15:17

Probably the most annoying bad ever! So bad they make me feel nauseous

Fake elvis-american accent, cringy lyrics, overly peppy music. Hate them with my whole soul!

yakkadeez · 28/11/2024 15:14

Absolutely love them! Brings back memories of my first ever crush dedicating "one last love song" to me at a Karaoke bar.. swoon!

Melania90 · 28/11/2024 15:12

Oh God, no. When I hear Perfect 10 I want to smash up the radio. EW.

RenoDakota · 28/11/2024 15:09

I agree, OP. Paul Heaton has the most beautiful, unique voice.
I have been hoping and hoping that he would come to my local town. It was finally announced on Monday and I bought pre-sale tickets on Tuesday. Beyond excited.

Breadcat24 · 28/11/2024 15:05

Sorry I have to turn off the radio when they come on- the cheesy rhyming and all their songs sound the same to me. My loss I am sure but I really cannot stand them.

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