release date: Oct. 18, 2004
format: cd
[album rate: 3 / 5] [2,86]
producer: Paul Heaton, Jon Kelly
label: Sony Music UK - nationality: England, UK
Track highlights: 2. "Livin' Thing" - 6. "Don't Fear the Reaper" - 11. "Blitzkrieg Bop"
9th studio album by The Beautiful South is the last to be co-produced with Jon Kelly and the first on Sony after leaving Mercury and Go! Discs. This is a very different release from a band, who as always played and written original compositions as except from one song, it's made up of cover versions. It's not great but the versions are quite original in the way various distinctive songs from different eras, styles and genres all have been transposed into the musical universe of The Beautiful South regardless if punk rock, soul pop, funk or disco was the original incarnation of the song.
Now, not that I find it among their best, it is more than just a mediocre covers album, which is something else, also in this era of the band.
[ allmusic.com 3,5 / 5 stars ]
