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Featuring a picture of can of soup on the cover, the top half titled "The Housemartins Condensed" and the bottom half "The Cream of the Beautiful South," the album known as Soup was rather biased towards the latter of Paul Heaton's groups with just seven of 22 tracks from only two of the Housemartins' albums, London 0 Hull 4 (named after the fact that there were four of them and they were from Hull) and The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death. That's not a lot, considering that during their brief existence, the Housemartins only achieved seven top 40 hits, all of which are included here except their cover of "There Is Always Something There to Remind Me." The band were more influential than their chart success would have indicated. Both the Housemartins other major hits were included, the bouncy, jolly "Happy Hour" and the a cappella cover of "Caravan of Love," along with lesser hits "Five Get Over Excited," "Me and the Farmer," and "Build." Fifteen of the 22 tracks here are devoted to Heaton's second and even more commercially successful band, the Beautiful South. With nine Top Ten albums behind them, the Beautiful South had achieved more radio-friendly hits and continued to enjoy play on easy listening stations long after their peak in the early '90s. Songs such as "Song for Whoever," "You Keep It All In," "A Little Time," "Rotterdam," "Don't Marry Her," and "Perfect 10" are all here, along with some lesser hits spread throughout their career from 1989 to 2003. The Housemartins have not been very well served by their highly visible greatest-hits campaigns, the last being the low key release Best Of in 2004 or Now That's What I Call Quite Good! (a parody title of Now That's What I Call Music, the compilation series) in 1988. The Beautiful South, however, had enjoyed one of the biggest selling albums of the '90s with Carry on Up the Charts, and Solid Bronze had also been a successful hits compilation, but Soup is the first time that both of Paul Heaton's bands' songs had been brought together. ~ Sharon Mawer
THIS LONG OVERDUE GREATEST HITS COMPILATION BRINGS TOGETHER THE WORK OF SONGWRITING SUPER-DUO PAUL "PD" HEATON AND DAVID ROTHERAY, AND ENCOMPASSES OVER TWENTY YEARS OF INDIE BRIT POP QUIRKINESS. HOUSEMARTINS TRACKS RANGE FROM BREAKTHROUGH SINGLE 'HAPPY HOUR' TO COMMERCIAL HITS 'ME AND THE FARMER' AND 'CARAVAN OF LOVE'. MEANWHILE THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH'S SELECTIONS PROVIDE AN EXCELLENT OVERVIEW OF THE BAND'S UNIQUE BRAND OF BITTERSWEET POP, INCLUDING CLASSIC TRACKS SUCH AS 'ROTTERDAM' AND 'ONE LAST LOVE SONG'.
Audio Mixers: Lance Phillips; Magic Pumpkin; John Brough; Paul Heaton.
Audio Remixer: John Brough.
Editor: John Brough.
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