Painting It Red

Painting It Red is the seventh original album released by The Beautiful South in October 2000. A concept album about impending middle age, Painting it Red album is the band's joint longest, with 19 tracks. A two-disc UK bonus version contains 20 tracks. The American release on Ark21 has only 17 tracks.[1]

Painting It Red
Studio album by
The Beautiful South
Released9 October 2000 (UK)
October 31, 2000 (US)
GenreIndie rock, Pop rock
LabelArk 21
ProducerJon Kelly, Paul Heaton
The Beautiful South chronology
Quench
(1998)		 Painting It Red
(2000)		 Solid Bronze
(2001)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic link
Pitchfork Media6.1/10 link

The album made it to number 2 in the charts, but despite the number of tracks, only two singles were produced: "Closer Than Most", which reached number 22 in September and the double A-side "The River"/"Just Checkin'", which reached number 59 in December.

Track listing

British, European, Canadian & Japanese versions

[1]

  1. "Who's Gonna Tell?" - 2:37 (UK, Canada, Europe & Japan only)
  2. "Closer Than Most" - 3:07
  3. "Just Checkin'" - 3:38
  4. "Hit Parade" - 3:45
  5. "Masculine Eclipse" - 3:55
  6. "'Til You Can't Tuck It In" - 3:30
  7. "If We Crawl" - 4:14
  8. "Tupperware Queen" - 3:34
  9. "Half-Hearted Get (Is Second Best)" - 4:24
  10. "White Teeth" - 3:04 (UK two-disc set only)
  11. "The River" - 5:23
  12. "Baby Please Go" - 2:46
  13. "You Can Call Me Leisure" - 4:31
  14. "Final Spark" - 5:03
  15. "10,000 Feet" - 3:01
  16. "Hot on the Heels of Heartbreak" - 4:00
  17. "The Mediterranean" - 4:02
  18. "A Little Piece of Advice" - 3:55
  19. "Property Quiz" - 3:50
  20. "Chicken Wings" - 4:29 (UK, Canada, Europe & Japan only)

US version

All songs written by Paul Heaton and David Rotheray.

  1. "Closer Than Most"
  2. "Just Checkin'"
  3. "Hit Parade"
  4. "Masculine Eclipse"
  5. "'Til You Can't Tuck It In"
  6. "If We Crawl"
  7. "Tupperware Queen"
  8. "Half-Hearted Get (Is Second Best)"
  9. "The River"
  10. "Baby Please Go"
  11. "You Can Call Me Leisure"
  12. "Final Spark"
  13. "10,000 Feet"
  14. "Hot on the Heels of Heartbreak"
  15. "The Mediterranean"
  16. "A Little Piece of Advice"
  17. "Property Quiz"

CD single/CDEP B-sides

As was their usual practice, the Beautiful South included unreleased material on the B-sides of the singles taken from their albums.[2]

from "Closer Than Most" (CD1)

  • "Closer Than Most"
  • "Moths"
  • "The Table" (Acoustic, recorded live at The Cambridge Folk Festival, July 29, 2000)

from "Closer Than Most" (CD2)

  • "Closer Than Most"
  • "The State That I'm In"
  • "Blackbird On The Wire" (Acoustic, recorded live at The Cambridge Folk Festival, July 29, 2000)

from "The River/Just Checkin'" (CD1)

  • "The River" (Edit)
  • "Just Checkin'" (Remixed by David Bascombe & Norman Cook)
  • "Valentine's Day W**k"

from "Just Checkin'"/The River" (CD2)

  • "Just Checkin'" (Remixed by David Bascombe & Norman Cook)
  • "The River" (Edit)
  • "Little Chef"

Personnel
The Beautiful South
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References
  1. ""Painting It Red" Versions". discogs.com. Retrieved 2014-11-18.
  2. King, David. "The Beautiful South Discography". xmission.com. Archived from the original on 2012-02-19. Retrieved 2014-11-15.
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