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Carry On Up The Charts was
the band's second release in 1994. Against the band's best
judgment COUTC (a greatest hits collection) was released and took
the industry by storm.
With just a handful of appearances this album beat The Beatles
Anthology and Sting's Greatest Hits to the Number 1 spot and it
stayed there for 3 months.
This albums success (third fastest selling in UK) won comparisons
for Heaton/Rotheray as the new Lennon/McCartney.
One Last Love Song was the only single released for this album and
had Top20 success.
Song For Whoever, You Keep It All
In, I'll Sail This Ship Alone, A Little Time, My Book, Let Love
Speak Up Itself
Old Red Eyes Is Back, We Are Each Other, Bell Bottomed tear, 36D,
Good As Gold (Stupid As Mud), Everybody's Talkin', Prettiest Eyes, One
Last Love Song
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Q Review
Whereas Northern grit
and self-possession have made New Order hip, such qualities have
made The Beautiful South mistrusted, the group having to take solace
in the genuine love shown them by everyone from grandmothers to
football lads and in being one of the country's best live acts. The
inherent contradictions in the group - Leninist boozers with equal
love for close-harmony soul and communist social justice - are part
of the enormous charm amply displayed in this collection of hits
(real hits too, a Number 1 and a clutch of Top 10s) sung angelically
by Heaton, Hemingway, Brianna Corrigan and latterly Jacqueline
Abbott. Anyone concerned about the group's recent worrying
flirtation with Radio Two styles is pointed towards the accompanying
B-side collection, the band at their maddest and often most lovable.****(4
STARS)
Stuart Maconie
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