Trivia / The Beautiful South

• Acclaimed Flop: The band's third album 0898 Beautiful South was well-received by critics but didn't perform well in the charts.
• Career Resurrection: After the lukewarm commercial success of their third and fourth albums 0898 Beautiful South and Miaow, the band bounced back with their fifth album Blue Is the Colour, which was supported by the singles "Rotterdam (Or Anywhere)" and "Don't Marry Her", both of which became their first UK top ten hits since their 1990 chart topper "A Little Time".
• Creator Backlash: Original female vocalist Briana Corrigan disliked the lyrical content of the song "36D" as it painted glamour models (mainly Page 3 girls) in a bad light, when really the media portrayed them should've been at fault instead, which prompted her not to take part in the song and contributed to her decision to leave the group in late 1992. Dave Hemingway would later admit in a Chicago Sun-Times interview that Corrigan was right five years later, saying that it was a mistake to portray the models in a bad light.
  Hemingway: We all agree that we should have targeted the media as sexist instead of blaming the girls for taking off their tops. It was a case of rushing headlong into the recording of the song.
• Cut Song: The band tended to record over twenty tracks per album and cut half of the songs with said songs ending up as B-sides for their singles. With that said, some of the B-sides did get included on their first three albums in some form:
  • Five of the eight B-sides from Welcome to the Beautiful South was included on the Japanese reissue in 2004 ("You and Your Big Ideas", the Cover Version of "You Can't Just Smile It Away" by Bill Withers, "It's Instrumental", "But 'Til Then" and the orchestral mix of "I'll Sail This Ship Away"); while "Straight in at 37" was included on the cassette and CD versions of the album.
  • The Cover Version of "Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get" (retitled "What You See Is What You Get") by The Dramatics was included on the German release of Choke.
  • "His Time Ran Out" and the Choke B-side "Danielle Steel (The Enemy Within)" was included on the original French release of 0898 Beautiful South.
• Two-Hit Wonder: "We Are Each Other" and "You Keep It All In" both cracked the top 20 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, and remain their only songs to ever make a dent on the American singles charts.
• What Could Have Been: Miaow was originally going to be Briana Corrigan's third full album as co-lead vocalist but she quit the band before recording due to her being uncomfortable with some of the songs' lyrics, such as "Mini-Correct" and "Worthless Lie" as well as being disappointed at being unable to have her own compositions on to the band's albums.