Product Description

'Solid Bronze' is a collection of popular tracks from the first twelve years of the Hull pop-rock act's career. It supercedes 1994's 'Carry On Up The Charts' compilation as it includes material from the albums, 'Blue Is The Colour', 'Quench' and 'Painting It Red'. Also included is a rendition of 'Dream A Little Dream' which featured on the soundtrack of 'French Kiss'.

Track Listing

1. Rotterdam
2. Perfect 10
3. You Keep It All In
4. Don't Marry Her
5. A Little Time
6. Everybody's Talkin'
7. Good As Gold
8. Dream A Little Dream
9. Song For Whoever
10. Old Red Eyes Is Back
11. One Last Love Song
12. Dumb
13. How Long's A Tear Take To Dry ?
14. Blackbird On The Wire
15. The Root Of All Evil
16. Closer Than Most
17. The River
18. Pretenders To The Throne
19. The Mediterranean - Morcheeba mix

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1241 in Music
• Released on: 2001-11-11
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
Solid Bronze: Great Hits is the follow-up to the Beautiful South's phenomenally successful first best-of, Carry On Up the Charts. Considering that as many as one in seven people in the UK own that previous collection, one could be forgiven for wondering what the point is in releasing a follow-up. But rather than capping off their career, Carry On... merely served as the half-time flag, as Hull's finest have busily followed up that success with more albums (Quench, Blue is the Colour, Painting it Red) and, of course, more singles. So, in addition to the old favourites such as "You Keep It All In" and "A Little Time", Solid Bronze also contains newer classics such as "Perfect 10" and "Don't Marry Her" (the clean version here). Additionally, fans are given something worthwhile in the brand new track "The Root of All Evil", as well as two rarities ("Pretenders to the Throne" and "Dream a Little Dream") and a Morcheeba remix of "The Mediterranean". --Ted Kord

Customer Reviews

An absolute peach.
I love every track on this album for its own unique style.

One Great Compilation.

Just what we wanted!
The album is great, our favourite is Dream a Little Dream. Thanks!

Very Good As Per Usual, But A Bit Strange...
Every track on here is a cracker in its own way, there's no denying that.

The Beautiful South have been one of the funniest and most melodic bands in the world for nearly 15 years now, even people who don't like pop music that much don't mind them.

This CDs a bit weird though cos it mixes up a few selected hits from the past 7 or so years (eg 'Rotterdam' and 'Perfect 10'), with the bulk of their previous Greatest Hits CD, which just about everybody alive must own by now.

It probably would have been better to serve up a chronological hitlist from 1995-2001, that way we would have got genius stuff like 'Closer Than Most' and 'Liars Bar'.

Nevertheless, this album rocks-in a bittersweet and cynical way, of course. Nice Morcheeba remix on the end, too.