StationBreak: The Beautiful South – Blue Is The Color

March 14, 2009 | By Admin In Technology |

Ah, what memories………you know that feeling you get when you hear a song that you haven’t heard in years, and you get spanged around the head with nostalgia for the good old days?
I was looking through my CD collection last night (I really do have terrible taste in music!) and saw a CD by The Beautiful South that I used to just love. It was first released around 11 years ago, and when I moved to the US it was one of the CD’s my ex husband and I always used to listen to as we traveled around California getting to know our new country.

The Beautiful South are actually from my hometown of Kingston Upon Hull (it’s not worth looking the place up, the place is a hole) which is in the north of England. The north of England is considered to be less “well off”/poorer than the south of England……we have something called the north/south divide which is an imaginary line between “us” and “them”. But anyway, that’s why they called themselves The Beautiful South because they couldn’t very well be honest, could they?

One I love is Little Blue, purely for the line “you don’t call your plane the Flying Roman, ‘cos the Romans always walked and never flew”, but the tune is very catchy and it has other gems like that in the lyrics.

But my favorite song from the album is Don’t Marry Her which has two versions – the clean, radio version and the naughty album version – it’s just a couple of words here and there in the chorus but the uncensored version is much better! The link here is the clean version