Beautiful South, The - 36D Lyrics

Class band, saw them live in Brighton.... unreal! 30 years and still top quality 👌🏻

Just amazing

Sing this to my missus as a joke ...she got me back one time by changing the word to ....3 to 6 inch .so what is that all that you got ....was quick thinking for her ...had to grin

Terry Casey so u got a 3-6 inches chin up la

0898 is one of the best pop albums ever hugely underappreciated

David Godfrey definitely

rather awful video imho

That guitar sounds very much like Def Leppard's Hysteria.

First Housemartins and Beautiful South later on... never getting bored again!!! Thanks for sharing these magnificent tunes!

Magic. Best Beautiful South Record by far.

I’d had the chorus stuck in my head for my entire life. My dad played this today and when it got to the chorus I immediately sat up and yelled “I know this” and started singing along

I like 36Ds!..... I want more.

I'm 38 DD abouts..anyone interested?They do inflate / deflate depending on my hormones...

Tip ruddy Top tune! Beautiful South score again. Wish they would play reunion concert down here in Oz.

Is it just me or have the Foo Fighters ripped this off, both video and even guitar arrangements

is that allya got

Fav song

Have always liked this song from back in the day. I had never seen the video until now. Wow! Just wow! Great work. Thanks!

A song for this shallow-plastic generation.

The drummer - Dave "steady" Stead - was my dad's apprentice Electrician; always remember answering the door to him in the morning before school. Top lad, top drummer, but a massive piss-head by all accounts, as they all were back then. ;-)

Don't forget cocaine

cleverest song ever

Thanks for posting. Gorgeous.

A real song written about real issues. Doesn’t happen now with the auto tune. Sad.

Stephen was actually the pimp this song is about pors and the dangers that that face because if dirty old men Manny were getting killed because of it all

Thanks for posting this. I was a huge fan when their first three albums came out. Seeing this video has me going back to their discography.

An amazing band.Saw them in 95 at Alfred McAlpine stadium supporting REM.What a day that was!

Was that the one where her voice broke trying to hit some of the high notes?

+Mickolaus Mickelby could've been!ha ha but what an afternoon..terror vision. .echo belly . .and REM..

I read that this song is the reason why Briana Corrigan left the band, because she felt the song targeted the glamour models instead of targeting the media as sexist. Doesn't really change the fact that this song is amazing.

Just one song? She could of just refused to sing it. I can understand if she didn't agree to the direction he was taking with a few, but one? :/

KiyokaMakibi this was the breaking point. She was getting angry at the band’s constant rude songs like mini-correct, and so she left

one of my favourite songs .....

From the album Carry on up the Charts, probably some of the best lyrics bolted onto some of the best tunes ever written...

Neil Turnbull This is from 0898 album. Carry on... is a singles compilation. If u don't know 0898, check it out, probably their best album.

You're just another 365 night stand, brilliant!

An invaluable song, underrated band

sonniakamillo completely under rated!

The perfect pop song and the best lyrics

fasten that coat paul please

That final image, is an accurate summing up of my life...

Brilliant wit of Paul Heaton at its best , all the best songs have a story and message.

Dave looks like Marc Bolan in that wig and make up.

Or my big sister lol

Good legs in fairness..just saying :)

+Greg Leather O.O

Great song.
Where's the goddamn ending guitar thrashings?
Fuckers.

+crazyfeline exactly.

never get bored of the beautiful south

Clever guys, clever songs. Just great clever music.

How is it clever?

All their songs are pure irony... 36d so what :p

@David Talbot ironic

In the 90s part of YouTube again!

BEST BAND EVER!!!!!!!

This is real music. Not the Hip Hop crap.

I came from a hip hop video actually and I can appreciate both. So out of the two of us, My knowledge of music will be greater because I can open my mind. You should try it. 

Your knowledge is greater because you listen to hip hop crap while he doesn't? Seems like very flawed logic here. You don't have enough elements to boast of "better knowledge".
Who's saying Blu Milotic is listening only to Beautiful South? He could very much hate hip hop (and so do I and million others) and listen to tons of other things in music and therefore have a greater knowledge of music than you anyway.
Logic is a great thing. You should try it.

i know the comment from mr colt or whatever he is called was made some time ago but im only just reading it, my jaw has hit the floor!! seriously this guy has to be taking the piss to get a reaction. I also happen to think paul has one of the most distinctive voices ive heard and i just think a lot of people dont actually get this song and what it represents

+Jo Fletcher I think it's multiple meaning mate, from one perspective it's a prostitute who is trying to tell the gentlemen she services that she's more than a chest, yet the opposing argument is of men who look to find her business want a little more than a bird with big tits. Or it could be the relationship between fuck buddies who just can't live with each other but cannot exist without each other too. Or it could be a local 'bike' looking to escape her destiny as a another single mum statistic by wishing for more in life. Or it could be the plight of men who have to act a certain way because society expects them to be menly men and just man up and shag her, when all the time wanting to treat her with a bit more compassion, yet all he gets in return is a mouth of abusive shouting. It's subjective I'm sure.

It is tragic when this generation of teenagers, which happens to be my generation, doesn't know good music. The Beautiful South are one of the greatest bands ever, in my opinion, and kids haven't even heard of them. It's sad.

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Talia Sykes i just found this after reading how coldplay most likely ripped this song, just heard this after just hearing that and prefer this much more damn someone actually wrote about the now most prevelant subject of female insecurity gold dighing and leeching attachment and whoredom and back in the early 90s when i was 10 or 11 damn, that alone is enough to adore it

I'm 26 so i would have been 2when carry on up the charts came out and in my opinion it's one of the greatest albums ever written

I am 25 and like this band.

Respect.

only 275,000 views what the fuck! This is an amazing song! Oh to add I had a massive crush on Dave H

I always thought it was "36 Days" and couldn't figure out what that meant... now its all clear.

Love this. From a chick who thought men could not be feminists. She stands corrected. Love you, Colby-babe.

@MrCOLTSR2 you do know that PH was both bands creator / front men / writer... how he could have destroyed his own creation, i'm not sure..

Thank you, I love this group

Why the ruddy fuck is Connor Maynard in the related videos on the right???

Yeah. I remember Brianna walking of stage at Wolverhampton Civic because of some numptys mouthing off in the crowd

Take me back to the 1990s please...enlightened me like Heaton and Stipe dominated music - and you could still buy a flat in North London for £80,000.

If Paul Heaton (aka House Martins) spoils The Beautiful South, yet Paul Heaton, Dave Hemingway and Sean Welch were all involved in The Housemartins and were all founding members of The Beautiful South then you don't really make any sense brah? Plus if Paul Heaton is involved in writing all songs prior and post this song of The Beautiful South then you're just contradicting yourself

He's got better legs than me!!

i just love this song. i can't help it, i don't care what other people say.

I've always loved Beautiful South - I feel blessed that I managed to see them play live many times - 36D is a masterpiece in music and lyrics - from that dreamy intro it's such a song of beauty - hope they come back to do what they do best - playing live...

Lmao saying Paul Heaton ruined The Beautiful South is like saying Morrissey ruined The Smiths, Robert Plant ruined Led Zeppelin or Freddie Mercury ruined Queen

Is it me or does the riff sound like Part 1 of The Damned's 'Smash It Up?"

such a beautiful song by beautiful south

Yeah what does this mean? There was no Beautiful South before Paul Heaton. He co-wrote the first album, and every album after it. You talk nonsense my friend.

there wasnt a "beautiful south" b4 paul heaton u idiot!

did i cause a riot?

Its such a shame aswell that an opinion like that would be met with mainly hostilities from a bunch of ignorant cunts.

from 0898.....brilliant song writing from heaton and rotheray.....better than lennon and mcartney anyday...

Fookin brill.

did you just say that paul heaton spoiled the beautiful south?? i would be removing that comment in fear of ridicule if i had wrote it my friend!!

paul heaton wrote this song so how did he spoil it? he has always been the beautiful south without him there would be no beautiful south, paul heaton and dave rotheray are the housemartins and beautiful south, them two have wrote more songs than any other singer/song writer duos in history including lennon/mcartney

This was the great sound of the Beautiful south before Paul Heaton aka house martins spoiled it all!

MrCOLTSR2 fuck off he was my uncle's best man and probably one of the most distinctive voices ever

Hoose Martins came a few years before the Beautiful south where most of the house martins are in the beautiful south. Song written by Paul Heaton before this song and after so the comment makes no fucking sense. Paul is a lyrics master if you listen to the songs. So don’t know wtf you mean??

Lol auto correct House*

MrCOLTSR2.

You Are Talking Talking Through Another Orifice Not Your Mouth.

Uploaded 3 years ago today!

Dave sings well in this song, but it's Pauls unique voice that attracted me to this band.

Gary McCaffrey if anyone ever doubts Paul Heaton’s vocal ability, just play I’ll Sail this Ship Alone or Prettiest Eyes. Both are Dave-less and utterly, utterly wonderful.

i cover this group. x

fine group poor song

It's about glamour models/page 3 girls. This song is one of the reasons they had to find a new female singer.

In my personal opion this is one of there best song they have ever recorded, the lyrics have such a poiniont message, and Dave's voice is perfect for this song.

From a purely musical stand point, Dave has a much better and purer singing voice than Paul. I would love for him to have sung more.

I miss them.

Gotta be.

Their best - what a verse!!!

best start drinking again, lol.

first heard this while travelling in England, thanks Stu for introducing this band to me, great chill out mousic

Long live The Beautiful South

Jay's Dad from the Inbetweeners around 3:20 ??

Scratch that, easily lead

Dave Hemmingway, realistically your'e a fucking clown.

@clarryhead Paul Heaton is still touring, seeing him in Newcastle in May!

@ThroughRock Might want to listen to the rest of the words...

@uncledooley they always sang this fab track in there concert

it's the most PC song in history and it was banned by the BBC!!! ha ha ha!!

Why is everybody wearing a flat cap?!!

Think that you are suppossed to feel uneasy. Kind of a theme in BS music is the beauty and the sadness/cynicism/evil linked in.

Anyone know the importance of the butterfly at the end?
Surely it's more than symbolising a trapped butterfly ie the woman he is singing about are all trapped butterfly's to shallowness.
Makes me feel a little uneasy seeing that at.

I think definitely one of the best songs by this group.

One person is a 32AA

one dislike. obviously well endowed.

In this life if you have 36 D, that's all you need.
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reminds me of my wife! ha

up the blades

to have two amazing voices like dave and paul in the same band, what a waste.

this is my most played song on my I-pod

love this lyrics a peach

truly a great song