Defend The Indefensible: The Beautiful South

The first album is great IMO

It's like he was trying to do the music boring, overproduced pop music he could, in order to get away with some occasionally "controversial" lyrics.

I think it's basically this, except that the two of them really seriously liked a) pleasing-sounding MOR pop music, and b) other pleasing-sounding MOR pop music that also had dark or vicious lyrics

Wasn't the point of the band to create pleasant-sounding pop songs with evil lyrics? I think the joke was on the record-buying public.

You mean like Microdisney but actually popular?

loved Microdisney + Fatima Mansions

saw BS a number of times, incl when they had a big horn section doing "You Should Be Dancing"

We had the Roundhouse booked for two nights for the Q Awards next week. We didn’t have talent sorted when we had to Covid cancel in April, but Nadine Shah was presenting and the two gigs were Liam Gallagher one night, Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott the other.

— Ted Kessler (@TedKessler1) October 9, 2020

^ You have to follow the thread but this was really decent of Heaton.

Yeah sorry - follow the thread.

I don't think "my jam" is really appropriate in terms of the musicial elements, but I have feelings and fondness for "I'll Sail This Ship Alone" and "I've Come for My Award"

I think a Beautiful South jukebox musical could kill

Saw both Paul Heaton and Jaffa Cakes were both trending earlier and thought perhaps he'd finally overdosed