Blue Is the Colour

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Blue Is the Colour
Studio album by The Beautiful South
Released October, 1996
Genre Pop, Rock
Length 49:56
Label Go! Discs Records
Producer(s) John Kelly
The Beautiful South chronology
Miaow
(1994)		 Blue Is the Colour
(1996)		 Quench
(1998)


This article is about the album. For the song of the same name performed by the Chelsea football squad, see Blue is the Colour (Chelsea).

Blue Is the Colour, released October 1996, is The Beautiful South's sixth album following the two singles "Pretenders to the Throne" and "Dream a Little Dream", which never featured on any album until the release of the second greatest hits Solid Bronze in 2001. It was named after a pub in Sheffield.

The album spawned 4 singles, the first being "Rotterdam", which flew to number 5 in the charts in September 1996. The follow ups were "Don't Marry Her" which got to number 8 in December, "Blackbird On The Wire", which got to number 23 in March of 1997 and finally the single "Liars Bar" which got to number 43 in June. The lyrics to "Don't Marry Her" were substantially altered for radio release - changing from "Don't marry her, fuck me" to "Don't marry her, have me", and with "sweaty bollocks" becoming "Sandra Bullocks". On "Liar's Bar", Paul Heaton's vocal consciously imitates the style of Tom Waits.

The album itself was a hit, getting to number 1.

  1. "Don't Marry Her"
  2. "Little Blue"
  3. "Mirror"
  4. "Blackbird On The Wire"
  5. "The Sound Of North America"
  6. "Have Fun"
  7. "Liars Bar"
  8. "Rotterdam"
  9. "Foundations"
  10. "Artificial Flowers"
  11. "One God"
  12. "Alone"
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