In The Beautiful South, Heaton remained lead singer however was joined by Hemingway & female singer Briana Corrigan to create the trio of lead vocalizer. This placed-higher helped to characterize a bittersweet kitchen-sink dramas played call at Heaton's typically barbed songs.

A band's music can healthy such as champagne, catchy, lightweight pop however Heaton's sour, savage & amusing worldview in all about & anything (alcoholism, religion, sex, politics &, mostly, a down side of relationships) is universally lurking below a surface of the offbeat melodies. the tastes & smells of a local public house come never far away either, sustaining the band gaining a reputation for drinking. A band's number one album was Welcome to the Beautiful South (1989) and spawned a hits "Song For Whoever" & "You Keep It All In." A release of 1990's Choke album saw the band claim its merely First hit up to now, "A Little Time". 0898 followed in 1992, by owning hits including "Old Red Eyes Is Back".

Around 1994, fallowing Corrigan quit a band once she saw Paul's lyrics for the forthcoming album "miaow", St Helens supermarket shelf-stacker, Jacqui Abbot, was brought on board to fill within. Heaton got heard her sing at an when indicate person within St Helens & remembered her vocal talents.

Jacqui's number 1 album by using a band was Miaow in 1994. Hits involved "Good as Gold (Stupid as Mud)" & the handle of Harry Nilsson's "Everybody's Talking". A prevent of that season saw a release of Carry on up the Charts, a "best of" compilation consisting of the singles up to now + recently track "One Last Love Song". the album was massively successful & these are said that Unity inside Heptad zero in the UK owns a copy.

Blue Is the Colour (1996), Quench (1998) and Painting It Red (2000) followed with varying profits. Jacqui likewise quit a band around 2000. Fallowing another Greatest Hits album Solid Bronze in 2001,they recorded Gaze in 2003 with eventually a second female singer, Alison 'Lady' Wheeler. Wheeler was however in situ for 2004's Golddiggas, Headnodders and Pholk Songs (An album of unusually ordered cover song including "Livin' Thing", "You're The One That I Want", "Don't Fear The Reaper" & "I'm Stone In Love With You").

Discography
Albums
Welcome to the Beautiful South (1989) U.K. There are no.2 Choke (1990) U.K. There are no.2 0898 (1992) U.K. There is no.4 Miaow (1994) U.K. There is no.6 Carry on up the Charts (1994) U.K. There is no.1 Blue Is the Colour (1996) U.K. There are no.1 Quench (1998) U.K. There is no.1 Painting It Red (2000) U.K. There are no.2 Solid Bronze (2001) U.K. There are no.10 Gaze (2003) U.K. There are no.14 Golddiggas, Headnodders and Pholk Songs (2004) U.K. There are no. 11

Singles
Song For Whoever (1989) U.K. There is no.2 I'll Sail This Ship Alone (1989) U.K. There are no.31 A Little Time (1990) U.K. There is no.1 My Book (1990) U.K. There is no.43 Let Love Speak Up Itself (1991) U.K. There is no.51 Old Red Eyes Is Back (1992) U.K. There is no.22 We Are Each Other (1992) U.K. There is no.30 Bell Bottomed Tear (1992) U.K. There are no.16 36D (1992) U.K. There are no.46 Good As Gold (Stupid As Mud) (1994) U.K. There are no.23 Everybody's Talkin' (1994) U.K. There are no.12 Prettiest Eyes (1994) U.K. There are no.37 One Last Love Song (1994) U.K. There are no.14 Pretenders To The Throne (1995) U.K. There are no.18 Rotterdam (1996) U.K. There is no.5 Don't Marry Her (1996) U.K. There are no.8 Blackbird On The Wire (1997) U.K. There is no.23 Liar's Bar (1997) U.K. There is no.43 Perfect 10 (1998) U.K. There are no.2 Dumb (1998) U.K. There are no.16 How Long's A Tear Take To Dry? (1999) U.K. There are no.12 The Table (1999) U.K. There are no.47 Closer Than Most (2000) U.K. There is no.22 The River / Just Checkin' (2000) U.K. There is no.59 The Root Of All Evil (2001) U.K. There are no.50 Just A Few Things That I Ain't (2003) U.K. There is no.30 Let Go With The Flow (2003) U.K. There is no.47 Livin' Thing (2004) U.K. There is no.24 This Old Skin (2004) U.K. There is no.43 This Will Be Our Year (2005) U.K. There are no. 36

|rowspan="2"|Year |rowspan="2"| Title |colspan="4"| Chart positions |rowspan="2"| Album |-

|US Hot 100 |US Modern Rock |US Mainstream Rock |UK |- | 1990 | "You Keep It All In" | - | #19 | - | #8 | Welcome to the Beautiful South |}