Golddiggas, Headnodders and Pholk Songs


Golddiggas, Headnodders and Pholk Songs is the ninth and penultimate album by The Beautiful South, released in 2004. It is almost entirely a covers album, with one notable exception. The track "This Old Skin" was originally claimed to have been written by Bobby Christiansand/Barry Klein, and to have been originally performed by an obscure band called "The Heppelbaums" in the 1970s, but it was later revealed to have been an original composition by the usual Beautiful South writing team, Paul Heaton and Dave Rotheray. This was confirmed in 2006 by frontman Paul Heaton during a Question and Answer session entitled "Ask the Band". Prior to that, a website for The Heppelbaums had been created, in which many more clues to the real identity of the band were revealed. The domain was created on 5 August 2004 and registered to Sony, the band's record label. Although the website no longer exists, the contents can still be found on
"Livin' Thing", "This Old Skin", and "This Will Be Our Year" were all released as singles.

Track listing

  1. "You're The One That I Want"
  2. "Livin' Thing"
  3. "This Will Be Our Year"
  4. "Ciao!"
  5. "Valentine"
  6. "Don't Fear the Reaper"
  7. "This Old Skin"
  8. "Don't Stop Moving"
  9. "Till I Can't Take It Anymore"
  10. "Rebel Prince"
  11. "Blitzkrieg Bop"
  12. "I'm Stone In Love with You"

    Personnel

;The Beautiful South
;Additional instrumentation
As what was their usual modus operandi, The Beautiful South included unreleased material on the B-sides of the singles taken from the album. All are cover versions in keeping with the album's theme.
from the "Livin' Thing" CD1
from the "Livin' Thing" CD2
from the "This Old Skin" CD1
from the "This Old Skin" ECD2
"This Old Skin"
from the "This Will Be Our Year" CD1
from "This Will Be Our Year" ECD2