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MIAOW
was released in 1994, and after happily receiving money for the
initial release HMV threatened to sue the band for the use of His
Master's Voice, the painting of the dogs hypnotized by the
gramophone.
This was the first opportunity people had to hear Jacqui Abbott sing
for the band. Paul discovered her singing at a party and the
rest is history (literally - See Painting It Red).
The most successful single off this, The South's slowest selling
album to date, was Everybody's Talkin' - a great, crisp solo by Ms.
Abbott.
Other singles from this album were Good As Gold (Stupid As Mud) and
Prettiest Eyes.
Hold
On To What ? ,
Good As Gold ,
Especially For You ,
Everybody's Talkin' ,
Prettiest Eyes ,
Worthless Lie
Hooligans Don't Fall In Love ,
Hidden Jukebox ,
Hold Me Close (Underground) ,
Tattoo
,
Mini-Correct
Poppy
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Q Review
Scientists are asking:
can The Beautiful South get any more unfashionable or out of step
with the rest of rock? Their lightweight socio-politically-inclined
pop has never quite fitted in-to its credit, surely-yet, as their
last single Good As Gold trilled, they carry on regardless.
Diminishing returns may be their undoing come Dombsday, since Miaow,
their fourth LP, is nary a stylistic shuffle forward from 1992's
coasting 0898. The tapalong song count is generous (Tattoo,
Hooligans, Hold On To What), Paul Heaton's under-celebrated lungs
are in finest fettle (the chores no longer split with Dave
Hemingway), and the replacement for disenchanted Briana Corrigan,
Jacqueline Abbot, seems a plus. But even with the wily addition of
Fred Neil's Everybody's Talkin' (previously covered by Moose and
Nilsson) and an unchecked post-PC lyric in Mini-Correct, it's just
another Beautiful South record, the faintest praise of all.*** (3
STARS)
Andrew Collins
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