Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Christgau's Consumer Guide(1-star Honorable Mention)[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide[4]
PopMatters6.7/10[5]

Quench is the Beautiful South's sixth original album, released in the UK on 12 October 1998. Including the compilation Carry On Up The Charts, it was the band's third album in a row to reach the top of the charts.

The cover depicts a boxer by Scottish painter Peter Howson. Commissioned for the album, the original painting can be seen in the Ferens Art Gallery, Hull. After the band cropped the image and used it in merchandise and promotional material, Howson took legal action against the band, receiving around £30,000 in damages.[6] Whilst the first two singles from the album also have artwork by Howson, "How Long's a Tear Take to Dry?" and "The Table" do not.

Singles

Track listing

All songs written by Paul Heaton and Dave Rotheray

  1. "How Long's a Tear Take to Dry?"
  2. "The Lure of the Sea"
  3. "Big Coin"
  4. "Dumb"
  5. "Perfect 10"
  6. "The Slide"
  7. "Look What I Found in My Beer"
  8. "The Table"
  9. "Window Shopping for Blinds"
  10. "Pockets"
  11. "I May Be Ugly"
  12. "Losing Things"
  13. "Your Father and I"

B-sides

As was their usual modus operandi, The Beautiful South included unreleased material on the B-sides of the singles taken from their albums.[7]

from the "Perfect 10" CD1

  • "Perfect 10"
  • "If"
  • "I'll Sail This Ship Alone" (performed by the East Yorkshire Motor Services Band)

from the "Perfect 10" CD2

  • "Perfect 10"
  • "Loving Arms" (Tom Jans)
  • "One Last Love Song" (performed by the East Yorkshire Motor Services Band)

from the "Dumb" CD1

  • "Dumb"
  • "Suck Harder"
  • "Especially For You" (performed by the East Yorkshire Motor Services Band, sleeve lists "Blackbird On The Wire")

from the "Dumb" CD2

from the "How Long's a Tear Take to Dry?" CD1

  • "How Long's A Tear Take To Dry?"
  • "How Long's A Tear Take To Dry?" (Remix)
  • "Perfect 10" (Acoustic)

from the "How Long's a Tear Take to Dry?" CD2

  • "How Long's A Tear Take To Dry?"
  • "Big Coin" (Acoustic, live on BBC Radio 1's The Mark Goodier Show)
  • "Rotterdam" (Acoustic with Paul Heaton on vocals, recorded for BBC Radio 2 and UK Arena's songwriter circle 'In The Round' Dec. 2, 1998.

from "The Table" CD1

from "The Table" CD2

All the acoustic tracks were recorded for BBC Radio 2 and UK Arena's songwriter circle 'In The Round' Dec. 2, 1998.

Personnel

The Beautiful South

with:

Charts

Weekly

Chart (1998–99) Peak
position
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[8] 26
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[9] 58
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[10] 28
UK Albums (OCC)[11] 1

Year-end

Chart (1998) Position
European Albums (Music & Media)[12] 91
UK Albums (OCC)[13] 14
Chart (1999) Position
UK Albums (OCC)[14] 85

References

  1. ^ a b Allmusic review
  2. ^ Christgau, Robert (15 October 2000). Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. Macmillan Publishing. p. 22. ISBN 9780312245603.
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin (27 May 2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 2496. ISBN 9780857125958.
  4. ^ Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian David (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon and Schuster. p. 55. ISBN 9780743201698.
  5. ^ Zupko, Sarah (3 September 2000). "The Beautiful South, Quench". PopMatters. Archived from the original on 3 September 2000. Retrieved 9 November 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  6. ^ Beautiful South Legal Action Settled Accessed 2008-10-09
  7. ^ King, David. ""The Beautiful South Discography"". xmission.com. Retrieved 15 November 2014.
  8. ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – The Beautiful South – Quench" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  9. ^ "Swedishcharts.com – The Beautiful South – Quench". Hung Medien. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  10. ^ "Swisscharts.com – The Beautiful South – Quench". Hung Medien. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  11. ^ "The Beautiful South | Artist | Official Charts". UK Albums Chart. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  12. ^ "Eurochart Hot 100 Albums 1998" (PDF). Music & Media. 19 December 1998. p. 8. OCLC 29800226. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
  13. ^ "End of Year Album Chart Top 100 – 1998". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  14. ^ "End of Year Album Chart Top 100 – 1999". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 6 January 2016.
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