Carry On up the Charts: The Best of The Beautiful South is The Beautiful South

The Beautiful South

The Beautiful South were an English alternative rock group formed at the end of the 1980s by two former members of Hull group The Housemartins, Paul Heaton and Dave Hemingway. The duo were initially joined by Sean Welch , Dave Stead and Dave Rotheray , all of whom stayed with the group throughout...

's fifth album and first greatest hits

Greatest hits

A greatest hits album is a music compilation album of successful, previously released songs by a particular artist or band...

 collection.

It was released in the same year as the Miaow

Miaow (album)

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. The songs reflect a depressing moment in Heaton's life, and this continues with the follow-up album Blue is the Colour...

album, with the album's only single, "One Last Love Song", was released in October 1994, only two months after "Prettiest Eyes"; the last single to be taken from Miaow

Miaow (album)

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. The songs reflect a depressing moment in Heaton's life, and this continues with the follow-up album Blue is the Colour...

. "One Last Love Song" got to number 14 in the UK charts.

The album itself was released in November 1994 and includes all of the single releases from The South's first five years in the order of their release. Its title is a reference to Carry On films

Carry On films

The Carry On films are a series of low-budget British comedy films, directed by Gerald Thomas and produced by Peter Rogers. They are an energetic mix of parody, farce, slapstick and double entendres....

 such as Carry On up the Khyber

Carry On up the Khyber

Carry On Up the Khyber is the sixteenth Carry On film, released in 1968. It stars Carry On regulars Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Bernard Bresslaw and Peter Butterworth. Roy Castle makes his only Carry On appearance in the "romantic male lead" part usually played by Jim...

.

The album reached #1 on the UK Albums Chart

UK Albums Chart

The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...

 on 3 December 1994. By the end of the year it was the second biggest selling album of 1994.

Track listing

1. "Song for Whoever"
2. "You Keep It All In
   You Keep It All In
   "You Keep It All In" is the second single to be taken from The Beautiful South's debut album Welcome to the Beautiful South. It reached number eight in the UK Singles Chart in September 1989. "You Keep It All In" was also a hit on United States alternative rock radio, and the single peaked at #19...
   
   "
3. "I'll Sail This Ship Alone
   I'll Sail This Ship Alone
   "I'll Sail This Ship Alone" was the third and final single to be taken from The Beautiful South's debut album Welcome to the Beautiful South. The single reached a low #31 in December 1989 compared to the band's first two singles "Song For Whoever" and "You Keep It All In", both of which made the...
   
   "
4. "A Little Time
   A Little Time
   "A Little Time" is a song by The Beautiful South, and is the band's only single to reach number 1. It consists of a duet featuring vocalists Dave Hemingway and Briana Corrigan.The single was the first to be released from the Choke album...
   
   "
5. "My Book"
6. "Let Love Speak Up Itself"
7. "Old Red Eyes Is Back"
8. "We Are Each Other"
9. "Bell Bottomed Tear"
10. "36D
    36D
    36D is a song written by Paul Heaton and Dave Rotheray and performed by The Beautiful South. The song was originally found on the album 0898 Beautiful South and later appeared on two greatest hits compilations, 1994's Carry on up the Charts and 2007's Soup. As a single it reached #46 in the UK...
    
    "
11. "Good As Gold (Stupid as Mud)
    Good as Gold (Stupid as Mud)
    Good as Gold is a song by Pop group The Beautiful South, the second track on their fourth album Miaow. It is one of their more popular songs and is frequently played live...
    
    "
12. "Everybody's Talkin'
    Everybody's Talkin'
    "Everybody's Talkin" is a folk rock song released by Fred Neil in 1966 that became a global success for Harry Nilsson in 1969, reaching #2 and #6 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart and Pop Singles chart respectively and winning a Grammy after it was featured on the soundtrack for the film...
    
    "
13. "Prettiest Eyes"
14. "One Last Love Song"

• Initial copies of the double CD pack had the demo version of Let Love Speak Up Itself with Jacqueline Abbott on vocals instead of the single version with Paul Heaton.
• Copies of the Canadian release also include the album tracks "I Think the Answer's Yes" and "I'm Your No.1 Fan".
• The US release also includes a cover of "Dream a Little Dream of Me".
• "Good As Gold (Stupid As Mud)" is often erroneously known as "Carry on Regardless" due to a prominent lyric within the song.

Limited Edition disc listing

1. "Diamonds" from "Old Red Eyes is Back"
2. "They Used to Wear Black" from "Bell Bottomed Tear"
3. "Throw His Song Away" from "36D"
4. "Trevor You're Bizarre" from "36D"
5. "Love Wars" from "Let Love Speak Up Itself"
6. "You Just Can't Smile It Away" from "You Keep it All In"
7. "But 'Til Then" from "I'll Sail This Ship Alone"
8. "Size" from "Prettiest Eyes"
9. "Frank and Delores" from "Good as Gold (Stupid as Mud)
10. "I Started a Joke" from "We Are Each Other"
11. "Woman in the Wall" originally on Welcome to the Beautiful South
12. "Danielle Steele" from "Let Love Speak Up Itself"
13. "In Other Words I Hate You" from "A Little Time"
14. "His Time Ran Out" from "We Are Each Other"

• Copies of the Canadian release also include "Fleet St. BC" and "Mr. Obsession".