Gold by The Beautiful South is the third greatest hits album to be released by the band. It is similar in design to other "Gold" albums released by bands either currently or previously of various labels under the Universal Music Group. The album is a 2 disc collection of both single and album tracks taken from the first 8 of the bands back catalogue. It had zero input from the band.
Famous quotes containing the words gold, beautiful and/or south:
“John Brown of Ossawattamie
Who died to set Abstraction free
Stole Washington’s gold-handled sword
Less for the gold than for the Lord....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.”
—Graham Greene (1904–1991)
“Mormon colonization south of this point in early times was characterized as “going over the Rim,” and in colloquial usage the same phrase came to connote violent death.”
—State of Utah, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)