The original album cover depicted two pictures by Jan Saudek,one of a woman with a gun in her mouth,and another with a man smoking. Woolworths refused to stock the album,in the words of the band,to "prevent the hoards [sic] of impressionable young fans from blowing their heads off in a gun-gobbling frenzy,or taking up smoking";[4] An alternative cover featuring a picture of a stuffed toy rabbit and a teddy bear was therefore made. A second alternative cover was also prepared for the Canadian edition of the album;this version omitted the picture of the woman,and featured only the smoking man.
The Calgary Herald stated that "Paul Heaton and Dave Hemingway set killer-clever lyrics against clean,techno-free arrangements."[6]The Times noted the success of the first two singles,but opined that the rest of the album "offers little advance on that same tuneful but ineffably twee indie-pop formula."[12]
NME included the album in their "Top 100 Albums You've Never Heard" list,in 2012.[13]
As what was to become their modus operandi,Welcome to The Beautiful South included unreleased material on the B-sides of the singles taken from their albums.[14]
from the "Song for Whoever" 12-inch single and CDEP
"Song for Whoever"
"Straight in at 37"
"You and Your Big Ideas"
from the "You Keep It All In" 12-inch single and CDEP
↑ Gittins, Ian (7 October 1989). "Beautiful South: Fanfare for the Common Man". Melody Maker. Vol.65, no.40. p.30.
↑ Smith, Robin (21 October 1989). "This Week: Releases". Record Mirror. Vol.36, no.42. London, England, U.K.: Punch Publications. p.Pages. ISSN0144-5804. Retrieved 1 September 2025. The Beautiful South release their debut album 'Welcome To The Beautiful South' on October 23.
↑ Waller, Don (13 May 1990). "The Beautiful South, 'Welcome to the Beautiful South,' Elektra / Beats International, 'Let Them Eat Bingo,' Elektra". Los Angeles Times.
↑ Brown, Len (21 October 1989). "Heaton Trifles". NME. p.41.
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