Solid Bronze

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Solid Bronze

Greatest hits album by The Beautiful South

Released

November, 2001

Genre

Alternative Rock

The Beautiful South chronology

Painting It Red
(2000)

Solid Bronze
(2001)

Gaze
(2003)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Solid Bronze: Great Hits is The Beautiful South's ninth album and second greatest hits compilation. It was released in November 2001 and contains 19 tracks. The album contains two songs ("Pretenders to the Throne" and "Dream a Little Dream") that were released between Carry on up the Charts and Blue Is the Colour, and never made it onto any album.

It produced one single, "The Root of All Evil", released the same month as the album, and only getting to number 50 in the UK Singles Chart. The album got to number 10. The name of the album parodies other compilation albums e.g. "Solid Gold - Greatest Hits" by self-deprecating the popularity of the band.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Dave Rotheray/Paul Heaton, except where noted.

No.	Title	Notes	Length
1.	"Rotterdam (Or Anywhere)"	(Taken from the album Blue is the Colour)	3:38
2.	"Perfect 10"	(Taken from the album Quench)	3:39
3.	"You Keep It All In"	(Taken from the album Welcome to the Beautiful South)	2:54
4.	"Don't Marry Her"	(Taken from the album Blue is the Colour)	3:24
5.	"A Little Time"	(Taken from the album Choke)	2:59
6.	"Everybody's Talkin'" (Fred Neil)	(Taken from the album Miaow)	2:38
7.	"Good as Gold (Stupid as Mud)"	(Taken from the album Miaow)	3:49
8.	"Dream a Little Dream" (Fabian Andre, Gus Kahn, Wilbur Schwandt)	(Taken from the US version of the compilation Carry On up the Charts)	3:35
9.	"Song for Whoever [Single Edit]"	(Original taken from the album Welcome to the Beautiful South)	4:06
10.	"Old Red Eyes Is Back"	(Taken from the album 0898 Beautiful South)	3:35
11.	"The Root of All Evil" (Rotheray, Heaton, Shields, Slattery)	(New Song)	2:39
12.	"One Last Love Song"	(Taken from the compilation Carry On up the Charts)	3:33
13.	"Dumb"	(Taken from the album Quench)	3:47
14.	"How Long's a Tear Take to Dry? [Single Edit]"	(Original taken from the album Quench)	3:18
15.	"Blackbird on the Wire [Radio Edit]"	(Original taken from the album Blue is the Colour)	3:12
16.	"Closer Than Most"	(Taken from the album Painting It Red)	3:08
17.	"The River [Single Edit]"	(Original taken from the album Painting It Red)	4:12
18.	"Pretenders to the Throne"	(Non-Album single from 1995)	3:14
19.	"The Mediterranean [ Morcheeba Mix]"	(Original taken from the album Painting It Red)	3:42

References

↑ Allmusic review

v t e The Beautiful South

Paul Heaton Dave Hemingway Sean Welch Dave Stead David Rotheray Briana Corrigan Jacqui Abbott Alison Wheeler

Studio albums	Welcome to the Beautiful South Choke 0898 Beautiful South Miaow Blue Is the Colour Quench Painting It Red Gaze Golddiggas, Headnodders and Pholk Songs Superbi

Compilation albums	Carry on up the Charts Solid Bronze: Great Hits Gold Soup

Singles	"Song For Whoever" "You Keep It All In" "I'll Sail This Ship Alone" "A Little Time" "My Book" "Let Love Speak Up Itself" "Old Red Eyes Is Back" "We Are Each Other" "Bell Bottomed Tear" "36D" "Good as Gold (Stupid as Mud)" "Everybody's Talkin'" "Prettiest Eyes" "One Last Love Song" "Dream a Little Dream" "Pretenders to the Throne" "Rotterdam (or Anywhere)" "Don't Marry Her" "Blackbird on the Wire" "Liars' Bar" "Perfect 10" "Dumb" "How Long's a Tear Take to Dry?" "The Table" "Closer than Most" "The River/Just Checkin'" "The Root of All Evil" "Just a Few Things That I Ain't" "Let Go with the Flow" "Livin' Thing" "This Old Skin" "This Will Be Our Year" "Manchester" "The Rose of My Cologne"

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