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“Perfect 10” by The Beautiful South
From the album Quench (1998)
“Perfect 10” by The Beautiful South appears on 3 radio countdowns from 1 station between 2001 and 2006. It was first released in 1998 on the album Quench. Its best result is #232 on the Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2001). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #4,034 alternative song of all time.
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"Perfect 10" was the first single from Quench, the Beautiful South's sixth album, arriving in September 1998, and it's Paul Heaton at his cheekiest. He and Jacqui Abbott take turns on the verses, swapping a string of saucy double meanings about clothing sizes and, well, other measurements, all in the service of a sweet point: love between two people who look nothing like the magazine idea of perfect.
Heaton wrote it with Dave Rotheray and produced it with Jon Kelly, with the Kick Horns on brass, Damon Butcher on keyboards and, by Heaton's account and the liner notes, a hand from Norman Cook on production and Paul Weller on rhythm guitar. It entered the UK Singles Chart at number two, sold 89,000 copies in its first week and remains the band's last UK top-10 single.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 232 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 500 |
| 2005 | 353 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 500 |
| 2006 | 389 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2006) | 500 |
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