South (Shona Laing album)

South is a 1987/1988 album by New Zealand musician Shona Laing and her most commercially successful release to date. It was released twice; in 1987 as a worldwide release, and again in 1988 in the United States. Laing reprised four of the tracks from her 1985 album Genre[4] ("(Glad I'm) Not a Kennedy", "The Migrant and Refugee", "Neat and Tidy", and “Day Trip” retitled as “Your Reputation”) for the U.S. release of South (only "Kennedy" was included on the international release).

South
Studio album by
Shona Laing
Released1987/1988
RecordedMandrill Studios, Auckland, New Zealand/Studios 301, Sydney, Australia
GenrePop rock, new wave, synthpop
Lengthvariable[1]
LabelTVT Records, Virgin Records, Pagan Records
ProducerShona Laing/Stephen McCurdy/Graeme Myhre/Bruce Lynch
Shona Laing chronology
Genre
(1985)		 South
(1987)		 1905-1990 A Retrospective
(1991)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
Rolling Stone[3]

Three singles from the album reached the charts in New Zealand, Australia and the U.S.; "(Glad I'm) Not a Kennedy", "Drive Baby Drive" and "Soviet Snow". "(Glad I'm) Not a Kennedy" became the biggest hit of Laing's career, reaching number 2 in New Zealand and number 9 in Australia. The song also charted in the U.S. on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart at number 14, the first of two singles to chart in the U.S.; the other being "Soviet Snow" which reached number 32 on the Dance Club Songs chart.

Original track listing

[5]

  1. "Soviet Snow"
  2. "(Glad I'm) Not a Kennedy"
  3. "Caught"
  4. "The Bishop"
  5. "Highway Warriors"
  6. "Drive Baby Drive"
  7. "Under the Cover of Darkness"
  8. "Poles Apart"
  9. "Neutral & Nuclear Free"
  10. "Dockyard on a River"
  11. "South"
  12. "Soviet Snow" (American Remix)

All songs by Shona Laing.

U.S. track listing

[1]

  1. "Drive Baby Drive"
  2. "Caught"
  3. "Neat and Tidy"
  4. "The Migrant and Refugee"
  5. "Soviet Snow"
  6. "(Glad I'm) Not a Kennedy"
  7. "Your Reputation"
  8. "The Bishop"
  9. "Dockyard on a River"
  10. "Highway Warriors"
  11. "South"

Charts
Chart (1987) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[6] 62

References
  1. CD Universe Sorry
  2. Allmusic review
  3. Rolling Stone review
  4. Shona Laing - NZ singer/songwriter
  6. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 172. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
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