Beautiful South Old Red Eyes Is Back

[danspivey91]

my mates mum looks exactly like paul heaton

[kelabz111]

the drunk looks like peter kay as morial 

[s0n1q69]

Great song, superb lyrics .... wank video

[als1uk]

fantastic song! i drink the drink but im poorly have emphysema and fibrosis of the lungs! think i am old red eyes to this day!!!

[als1uk]

is me !!! lol

[dougieakadougal]

CHHOOOOOOOON!!! :D

[thegeezerdan]

Good song.

[tatiania77]

@thegeezerdan 

[thegeezerdan]

@tatiania77

[iampunitan]

the beautiful south did a lot of great tunes like this - songs that were kind of sad but uplifting at the same time - a top band ...

[the81kid]

Wow, Paul was such a good songwriter! And just listen to that melody!

[dimmyno1]

had paul in pearsons n wasnt that great, paul if ur readin this why u no call from stains at back of my trout i know u enjoyed ,u did a a a a h h h h h h happy days. im waiting beautiful boy x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x

[dimmyno1]

Lived round corner from grafton, loved since housemartins. Read last orders at liar's bar, and think Paul Heaton is a musically gifted genious. No wing near Pearson peirdo or stalker but last I knew he was living near Pearson park [may explain a lot ie stone island]

[Oldfaithfullyours]

The songs about a bloke called Swiller in the Grafton pub in Hull.

[23hublock1]

The stairway we all will take one day. Mad isn't it!

[etuberalism]

This is classic, cool. tx agin

[dougieakadougal]

love it :D May these songs go on through the ages!

[andygracey1]

love love love this song. when people hear it they think i could write this, but they didn't think of it. they do it brillantly, everyone knows someone like old red eyes

[stig107]

these guys are awsome come back soon

[MrBirchmoor33]

Totally agree with alternatereality85.This is an great example of both Paul Heatons songwriting and his skill in producing hardhitting personal vidoes.Same with A Little Time.Awesome.Its hard to imagine todays wannabees producing gems like this,because its all done for them.Very sad for music

[33hegemon]

Charles Bukowski

[falmouth2011]

My fave Beautiful south song. The a little time vid is a good one

[Obltzs]

Great song, but these guys had the worst music vids in the world

[ecksact]

@Obltzs Clearly the subtlety is over your head! Shame really!

[march2fuzz]

my childhood!!!!!!!!!

[JunglistMassive0121]

is that robert smith at the doctors?? Lol jokes

[harryowen16]

i remember when i was about 5 and my dad listened to this song and i didnt know what it meant :P

[ambers4life]

thank the lord for this gup uploading the video love you loads!!!

[dazmalski]

great tune, great lyrics, good message - and yes, a bit autobiographical from heaton, no doubt. Also, makes you check yourself for overindulgence - cos it's essentially a sad story.

[sufcwraggy]

THIS SONG REMINDS ME OF MYSELF,IVE GOT HALF A LIVER LEFT...

[elliotwray]

great song :D though only good bit in the video in my opinion is the funeral bit

[gards2]

I hapen to know for a fact that 'Heaton' was a terrrible drunk lol self biog song no doubt.

[samiix86]

top tune want this at my funereal

[thegeezerdan]

In the video at the end it is showing him going to i suppose heaven isnt it.

[ensad]

hmm how many singers is in this band?

[ensad]

@ensad

are*

[suckmydick751]

@ensad there is 3 :)

[artyfarty1996]

Paul Heaton should have been an actor, too. I think this video, combined with the video for "My Book" proves that he could have successfully filled any part a director threw at him.

[seandeeify]

Great song, along with 36D which I just watched. Forgot about them for a while and was watching The Housemartins Caravan of Love and saw their Beautiful South's name on a can of soup in the video. Funny that.

[diegoinhoops]

@kingofchaos- dont lose hope ma friend. You d be surprised how many would miss you. problems tend to float, that much i know now.

good luck mate

[KingOfChaos213]

The way my life is going at the moment i think i will have this song playing at my funeral, i'm 28 years old.

[only1McBoyd]

@KingOfChaos213 give yer heed a shake

[AaronBirchy]

Love this song but Paul Heaton's dancing is rather crap

[titortizjr]

@AaronBirchy

It's funny, likeable crap though.

[lontok11]

brilliant storytelling, brilliant lyric

[Lindsay1000]

Speaks to me directly

[thegeezerdan]

Good song and video for the song.

[benytezz]

brilliant song. haven't heard this since I lost the album it was on years ago.

[dizziefree]

<3

and the dancing is hot!

[ilovebagpuss2008]

Paul heaton is cool

[ikiloh]

Briliant brilliant song. I totally love it.  Paul Heaton is cool.

[snupoo]

love this so much

[Spankabuttux]

I read an interview with Paul Heaton years ago in which he said he realised he wasn't really going to the pub for beer, he was going for the social interraction with his mates. I assume this video, and maybe the song itself too, is about what would have happened had he not quit the booze.

[giddiand]

Autobiographical maybe? You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time. But if you're an alcoholic you ain't foolin' no one...

[pedalpowerprototype]

It was written about a guy called Swiller in the Grafton Hotel, Grafton street, where they formed.

Its also my local, great pub :)

[Stonejohn28]

wow

[THESTAFFIECHANNEL]

They are only red from all the years of growing up under thacthers fascist regime.

They are only red from from being let down by Blairs fucking mess.From which Brown was ment to clean.

So when you look into these eyes, i hope you realise they will still never vote blue.

[bkbetty1]

@THESTAFFIECHANNEL

obviously someone was let down by the education system and can't spell. That would be Thatcher, meant and perhaps cleanse for a bit of rhyme but I get your drift!

[THESTAFFIECHANNEL]

@bkbetty1 Yeah, I was piss drunk when i wrote that.sad i know.



[stevo71109]

Brilliant!

[skillscentre]

wow the vids shit but its a brilliant song!

[paulkirk1962]

FANTASTIC SONG.

[finchy633]

I love the dancing. Awesome song. If I flop the old guitar out, I always play this beast of a tune to get them going.

[iMacL0VE]

This song is great. Songs like this are really rare this time...

[stevecausey85]

great song 

[CarlingBlade]

Paul Heaton - 100% Blade

[Jrhynie]

A sad song really, I've known one or two Old Red Eyes myself.

[sourjellybaby]

What a great tune. Video doesn't give the song justice but agree with alternatereaility85 in that its a great piece of songwriting. Speaks to me about so many alkis I have met in my time in the world.

[Lindsay1000]

@sourjellybaby  Speaks to me directly

[benytezz]

@sourjellybaby

i disagree with you about the video. I think it's very good. it's a shame the volume of this vid is so low, because it is REALLY very good. he does drunk VERY well, don't you think? lol

[unclemort1960]

@sourjellybaby the BS certainly wrote some great songs about drinking .i speak as a alky 5 years dry.

[HughFran10]

Totally agree with Last post

[alternatereality85]

Old red eyes probably has given a few songwriters green eyes of jealousy. Genius just doesn't cover this great piece of songwriting. The band were a national treasure and I don't think the nation realised it.

[fanboychumchum1972]

@alternatereality85

AMEN...Paul Heaton must have realised his fight with the bottle was a losing one when he wrote this.

[Sham3214]

@alternatereality85 Couldn't have put it any better myself....Glowing tribute.

[pb9uk1]

love this love them,hull is a graet city

[christinalouiseholt]

Hulls not a big city - this was filmed by the King Billy pub

[sixtyeightspecial]

Tremendous! Thanks for uploading this. Hopefully the gaybob youtube fascists won't remove it.