question: Which Eighties band was more successful in the British charts, The Darling Buds or The Housemartins?
answer: The Housemartins
context: Title: Catherine Zeta-Jones
  Passage: Catherine Zeta-Jones, CBE ( ; born 25 September 1969) is a Welsh actress.  Born and raised in Swansea, Zeta-Jones aspired to be an actress from a young age.  As a child, she played roles in the West End productions of the musicals "Annie" and "Bugsy Malone".  She studied musical theatre at the Arts Educational Schools, London, and made her stage breakthrough with a leading role in a 1987 production of "42nd Street".  Her screen debut came in the unsuccessful French-Italian film "1001 Nights" (1990), and she went on to find greater success as a regular in the British television series "The Darling Buds of May" (1991–93).  Dismayed at being typecast as the token pretty girl in British films, Zeta-Jones relocated to Los Angeles.
  Title: The Mating Game (film)
  Passage: The Mating Game (1959) is an MGM Metrocolor film in CinemaScope directed by George Marshall and starring Debbie Reynolds, Tony Randall, and Paul Douglas in his final screen appearance.  Reynolds sings the title song during the opening credits.  The film was written by William Roberts very loosely based on a British novel, "The Darling Buds of May" by H. E. Bates, which was later adapted into a more faithful 1991–93 British miniseries, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones in the role that Debbie Reynolds plays in the film.
  Title: The Housemartins
  Passage: The Housemartins were an English Alternative rock band formed in Hull who were active in the 1980s.  Many of the Housemartins' lyrics were a mixture of Marxist politics and Christianity, reflecting singer Paul Heaton's beliefs at the time (the back cover of "London 0 Hull 4" contained the message, "Take Jesus – Take Marx – Take Hope").  The group's cover version of the Isley Brothers' "Caravan of Love" was a UK Number 1 single in December 1986.
  Title: The Darling Buds of May (TV series)
  Passage: The Darling Buds of May is a British comedy drama television series, produced by Yorkshire Television for the ITV network, first broadcast between 7 April 1991 and 4 April 1993.  It is an adaptation of the 1958 novel of the same name, and its sequels, by H. E. Bates.
  Title: Pam Ferris
  Passage: Pam Ferris (born 11 May 1948) is a Welsh character actress.  She starred on television as Ma Larkin in "The Darling Buds of May", and as Laura Thyme in "Rosemary & Thyme", and has played parts in family films based on works by British authors, such as Miss Trunchbull in "Matilda" and as Aunt Marge in "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", and most recently as Sister Evangelina in "Call the Midwife".
  Title: The Darling Buds of May (novel)
  Passage: The Darling Buds of May is a novella by British writer H. E. Bates, first published in 1958.  It was the first of a series of five books about the Larkins, a rural family from Kent.  Pop and Ma Larkin and their many children take joy in nature, each other's company, and almost constant feasts.  Their only income is through selling scrap, picking strawberries, and selling farm animals or previous purchases that they've tired of.  Nevertheless, they joyfully spend money on horses, cars, perfume, fine furniture, and holidays abroad.  Pop Larkin opposes taxes and any barriers to free enterprise.
  Title: The Darling Buds
  Passage: The Darling Buds are an alternative rock band from Newport, South Wales.  The band formed in 1986 and were named after the H. E. Bates novel "The Darling Buds of May" – a title taken in turn, from the third line of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18: "Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May".
  Title: Isabelle Amyes
  Passage: Isabelle Amyes (born 13 June 1950) is an English actress best known for her role as Barbara 'Babs' Hunt in the British TV drama "Bad Girls" from 2000–03.  Her various guest appearances on other television programmes include "The New Statesman", "House of Cards", "The Darling Buds of May", "A Touch of Frost" and "As Time Goes By".
  Title: Erotica (The Darling Buds album)
  Passage: Erotica is the fourth and final studio album from the British indie band The Darling Buds.  It was released on Epic Records in 1992.  The album shares a name with, and a similar cover to, the Madonna album, which was released only one week later.
  Title: Faulter
  Passage: Faulter is a rock band from Anaheim, California.  They formed in 2003, while the members were attending various high schools in Anaheim.  The band self-released their debut album "Darling Buds of May" before being signed to Abacus Recordings.  The album was then re-released nationally on their new label.  Songs from their debut have been featured on "" twice.  In 2007, the band released an EP, "The Other Side" (available as a free download on their official website).  The EP includes 2 rerecorded songs from their debut along with 3 new ones.  In July 2007, they announced on their Myspace that they were no longer with Abacus Recordings.
citations: The Darling Buds The Housemartins