CHOKE was the swift answer to the doubters of The Beautiful South as one hit wonders.  Briana Corrigan was introduced as a fully fledged member of the band and helped them get their only No.1 single to date with A Little Time.
Other singles from the album included My Book and Let Love Speak Up Itself.
The B'Side to A Little Time - What You See Is What You Get was released as a single in Germany.		 Q Review:
Like The Housemartins before them, The Beautiful South have all but taken up residency in the singles chart in their brief lifespan-a fact not entirely unconnected to their facility in banging out naggingly sweet and simple pop melodies delivered by the croonsome duo of Paul Heaton and David Hemingway. An added bonus on their second LP is the presence of guest vocalist Brianna Corrigan, whose wonderful heartstopping singing voice could surely melt icebergs at 50 paces. As on last year's debut, Beautiful South (1989) songs tinker playfully with the formulae, conventions and cliches of pop songwriting-peer beneath the crystalline surface glow of those pop nuggets and you are confronted by a murky undertow of domestic violence, aberrant behaviour and more than a smidgeon of grim black humour. Already boasting one Top 5 hit in the priceless Need A Little Time, the LP is strewn with plenty of songs itching to follow its upward trajectory, particularly the spendid ballad Let Love Speak Up For Itself, the psychedelic soul goove of Tonight I Fancy Myself, and the disconcertingly gentle pop tones of I Think The Answer's Yes (the burning of The Stock Exchange/and bombing of The Press/I think the answer's yes). Good to know that Paul Heaton hasn't gone soft on us. London 0, Hull 5.**** (4 STARS)
Paul Davies
Tonight I Fancy Myself , My Book , Let Love Speak Up Itself , Should've Kept My Eyes Shut , I've Come For My Award , Lips , I Think The Answer's Yes , A Little Time , Mother's Pride , I Hate You (But You're Interesting) , The Rising Of Grafton Street

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