Hold on to What?

"Hold on to What?"

Song by The Beautiful South from the album Miaow

Released

March, 1994

Genre

Pop

Length

6:28

Label

GO! Discs

Composer

Paul Heaton, Dave Rotheray

Producer

Jon Kelly, The Beautiful South

Miaow track listing

"Hold on to What?"
(1)

"Good as Gold (Stupid as Mud)"
(2)

Hold on to What? is a song by English pop group The Beautiful South, the opening track of their fourth album Miaow. It was written at a time of alcoholism in lead singer Paul Heaton's life, and is one of their darkest and most sarcastic protest songs.

The song is a look at the phrase "hold on" from the perspective of a working class person, who has nothing to hold on to. The song changes tempo and becomes fast paced and angry towards the end, with the verse "To achieve the American dream, you need a Trampoline, to achieve the counter-effect, get that whisky down your neck" and the proclamation "Chamberlain had his paper, Jesus had his cross, they held on, we held on to what?

The song made a live comeback on the band's 2006 DVD 'Live at Dalby Forest'.

The Beautiful South

Paul Heaton Dave Hemingway Sean Welch Dave Stead David Rotheray Briana Corrigan Jacqui Abbott Alison Wheeler

Studio albums	Welcome to the Beautiful South Choke 0898 Beautiful South Miaow Blue Is the Colour Quench Painting It Red Gaze Golddiggas, Headnodders and Pholk Songs Superbi

Compilation albums	Carry on up the Charts Solid Bronze: Great Hits Gold Soup The BBC Sessions Live at the BBC

Singles	"Song For Whoever" "You Keep It All In" "I'll Sail This Ship Alone" "A Little Time" "My Book" "Let Love Speak Up Itself" "Old Red Eyes Is Back" "We Are Each Other" "Bell Bottomed Tear" "36D" "Good as Gold (Stupid as Mud)" "Everybody's Talkin'" "Prettiest Eyes" "One Last Love Song" "Dream a Little Dream" "Pretenders to the Throne" "Rotterdam (or Anywhere)" "Don't Marry Her" "Blackbird on the Wire" "Liars' Bar" "Perfect 10" "Dumb" "How Long's a Tear Take to Dry?" "The Table" "Closer than Most" "The River/Just Checkin'" "The Root of All Evil" "Just a Few Things That I Ain't" "Let Go with the Flow" "Livin' Thing" "This Old Skin" "This Will Be Our Year" "Manchester" "The Rose of My Cologne"

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