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'Good As Gold' or 'Carry On Regardless' or 'Stupid As Mud' is the new single from the outfit that have "a unique claim on the middle gound between Andrew Lloyd Webber & The Clash"... The lads have now been joined by new singer Jacqueline Abbott.
I don't normally bother to illustrate album covers on here, but I thought some people might be interested to see my copy of Miaow with the original artwork rather than the version that replaced it. Mind you, if you can see the £1:95 price sticker you'll notice that it's not exactly a valuable rarity.
This confusingly-titled song was one of their many smaller-than-you'd-think hits, although it did manage to spend two consecutive weeks at 23 before it began to drop out of the chart. Perhaps if they actually had called it 'Carry On Regardless' it would have made the Top 20. It was a huge airplay hit anyway, with its big bold chorus and the lively brass section that coincidentally fits in with the Britpop sound that was breaching the mainstream in early 1994 (it's performed by the Kick Horns, who are on legions of other hits by Blur, Shed Seven et al and even got a co-credit on a Dodgy single once). It has a happy-go-lucky air which perhaps draws your attention away from the downtrodden protagonist you tend to find in Heaton's songs. He seems to have been in an especially dark place at this point, in fact, and the two big hits from the album (this and a rather pointless version of 'Everybody's Talking') belie the rather miserable and bleak tone of the remainder; to say nothing of the (possibly ironic) sexism in some lyrics that caused former lead singer Briana Corrigan to leave and thus occasioned the arrival of Abbot. She's only really a backing vocalist here, but she does a good job.
Perhaps I don't love the band as much as I once did but this remains as good a track as we've heard on the album so far.
Also appearing on: Now 15, 16, 18, 22, 28, 32, 35, 36, 41, 42
Available on: Miaow
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