Tracks

1. Rotterdam

2. Perfect 10

3. You Keep It All In

4. Don't Marry Her

5. A Little Time

6. Everybody's Talking

7. Good As Gold

8. Dream A Little Dream

9. Song For Whoever

10. Old Red Eyes Is Back

11. The Root Of All Evil

12. One Last Love Song

13. Dumb

14. How Long 's A Tear Take To Dry

15. Blackbird On The Wire

16. Closer Than Most

17. The River

18. Pretenders To The Throne

19. The Mediterranean

Performer Notes

Long live subversive, cutting lyrics couched in pastel-colored, unassuming, melodic pop. But aren't two compilation albums -- even if the second one has the modest superlative-eschewing subtitle "Great Hits" -- in 13 years a bit much? With 19 tracks to the 15 on 1994's Carry on Up the Charts, the intention on Solid Bronze, it would seem, is to be the definitive Beautiful South collection, never mind the squillion-odd people who bought Carry On. Unforgivably, Solid Bronze shares not one, not two, but a whopping seven tracks with its predecessor. Which effectively means you are buying the Morcheeba remix of "The Mediterranean," a couple of other tracks off Painting It Red, the Mama Cass cover "Dream a Little Dream" from the French Kiss soundtrack, a couple tunes from Quench, the one mandatory new song, "The Root of All Evil," and a "rarity," "Pretenders to the Throne." And don't forget the cleaned-up version of "Don't Marry Her." Sure, Paul Heaton is a great songwriter, Jacqueline Abbott and Brianna Corrigan have lovely voices, and every song here is good in its own way, but you can't help thinking of the whole album as an enterprise ironically marked by the cynicism that distinguishes some of the Beautiful South's best songs. ~ Leslie Mathew

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