Beautiful South - 1994 - Miaow

Description Artist...............: Beautiful South

Album................: Miaow

Genre................: Pop, Rock

Source...............: Uploaded to SRL

Year.................: 1994

Ripper...............: ravakk

Codec................: Switch v1.32

Quality..............: cbr 128

Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 hz

Information..........: G6 repack from SRL





Tracklisting





01 - "Hold on to What?"

02 - "Good as Gold (Stupid as Mud)"

03 - "Especially for You"

04 - "Everybodys Talkin'" (Fred Neil)

05 - "Prettiest Eyes"

06 - "Worthless Lie"

07 - "Hooligans Don't Fall in Love"

08 - "Hidden Jukebox"

09 - "Hold Me Close (Underground)"

10 - "Tattoo"

11 - "Mini-Correct"

12 - "Poppy"



Miaow is the fourth album by The Beautiful South. It was released in March 1994.

As with most Beautiful South albums, the songs were written by Dave Rotheray and Paul Heaton and Dave Hemingway. The songs reflect a depressing moment in Heaton's life, and this continues with the follow up album Blue is the Colour. The best example of this on the album is the opening track Hold on to What?, which could be interpreted as an attack on the ruling classes, this is most evident at the end of the song where Heaton sings 'Chamberlain had his paper, Jesus had his cross, They held on, We held on to what?'

The songs also led the South's first female singer, Briana Corrigan, to leave the band, after Heaton sent her copies of the songs, including "Mini-correct" and "Worthless Lie", she swiftly made the decision to leave. Equally swiftly, Heaton employed the then-unknown Jacqui Abbott in her place, who went on to appear on every album up to Painting It Red.

The cover originally depicted a lot of dogs seated in a music hall with a gramophone on the stage. However, HMV made the band withdraw it as it mocked their trademark dog, and the band put out a second cover, depicting four dogs in a boat.

It reached number 6 in the album charts, and had three singles released from it.