The Beautiful South - Cover Songs, Volume 2: 1996-2004

Here's the second of three albums of the British band the Beautiful South doing cover versions.

All the songs here have been officially released. The first one come from the album "Blue Is the Color." The rest are B-sides. Clearly, this band very rarely put covers on their albums, but they loved putting them on B-sides.

This album in particular showed the band members had deep and eclectic tastes in music. There are a few famous, classic songs, like "God Bless the Child" by Billie Holiday and "Lean on Me" by Bill Withers. But more of the songs are relatively obscure. 

This album is 40 minutes long.

Here's a list of the original artists for each song:

01 Artificial Flowers - Ron Husmann / Bobby Darin
02 God Bless the Child - Billie Holiday
03 Without Her - Harry Nilsson
04 You Just Can't Smile It Away - Bill Withers
05 You've Done Nothing Wrong - Iris DeMent
06 Lean on Me - Bill Withers
07 I Sold My Heart to the Junkman - Basin Street Joys
08 Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now - Smiths
09 Another Nite with the Boys - Carole King / Drifters
10 Lipstick Traces [On a Cigarette] - Allen Touissaint / Benny Spellman
11 Lovin' You - Lovin' Spoonful

Here's the usual song list:

01 Artificial Flowers (Beautiful South)
02 God Bless the Child (Beautiful South)
03 Without Her (Beautiful South)
04 You Just Can't Smile It Away (Beautiful South)
05 You've Done Nothing Wrong (Beautiful South)
06 Lean on Me (Beautiful South)
07 I Sold My Heart to the Junkman (Beautiful South)
08 Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now (Beautiful South)
09 Another Nite with the Boys (Beautiful South)
10 Lipstick Traces [On a Cigarette] (Beautiful South)
11 Lovin' You (Beautiful South)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15124452/BeautifulSth_1996-2004_CverSongsVolume2_atse.zip.html

The cover photo was taken in 1996, but I don't know any other details.