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Soup is an album released in November 2007 by The Housemartins and The Beautiful South on Mercury Records.It is in effect a greatest hits album for both of the bands, the first seven tracks bracketed together as "The Housemartins Condensed" and the remaining fifteen as "The Cream of The Beautiful South".
Their first album, Welcome to the Beautiful South, was released in 1989 and promptly produced a number two UK singles chart hit, "Song for Whoever".With the follow-up single "You Keep It All In" reaching number eight and "I'll Sail This Ship Alone" reaching number 31, the band were soon set to equal or surpass the success of the Housemartins, while the songwriting built on and expanded the ...
Paul David Heaton (born 9 May 1962) is an English singer-songwriter. He was the lead singer and main lyricist of the Housemartins, who had commercial success in the UK and other European countries between 1985 and 1988, releasing several singles including "Happy Hour" and the UK number-one single "Caravan of Love" in 1986, before the band disbanded.
The Housemartins were an English indie rock group formed in Hull who were active in the 1980s [2] and charted three top-ten albums and six top-twenty singles in the UK. [3] Many of their lyrics conveyed a mixture of socialist politics and Christianity, reflecting the beliefs of the band [4] (the back cover of their debut album, London 0 Hull 4, contained the message, "Take Jesus – Take Marx ...
"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.
After the Housemartins disbanded, he and Housemartins founder Paul Heaton put together The Beautiful South from its ashes, featuring roadie and bassist Sean Welch. Hemingway's first solo album, Hello Cruel World, was released as a download only on iTunes. The album's title was inspired by Hemingway's experience recording in the capital.
The track "This Old Skin" was originally claimed to have been written by Bobby Christiansand/Barry Klein, and to have been originally performed by an obscure band called "The Heppelbaums" in the 1970s, but it was later revealed to have been an original composition by the usual Beautiful South writing team, Paul Heaton and Dave Rotheray.
Live at the BBC (The Housemartins album) N. Now That's What I Call Quite Good; S. Soup (The Housemartins and the Beautiful South album) This page was ...