Painting It Red
Painting It Red | ||||
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Released | 9 October 2000 (UK) October 31, 2000 (US) | |||
Genre | Indie rock, Pop rock | |||
Label | Ark 21 | |||
Producer | Jon Kelly, Paul Heaton | |||
The Beautiful South chronology | ||||
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Pitchfork Media | 6.1/10 link |
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]
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
- "Who's Gonna Tell?" - 2:37 (UK, Canada, Europe & Japan only)
- "Closer Than Most" - 3:07
- "Just Checkin'" - 3:38
- "Hit Parade" - 3:45
- "Masculine Eclipse" - 3:55
- "'Til You Can't Tuck It In" - 3:30
- "If We Crawl" - 4:14
- "Tupperware Queen" - 3:34
- "Half-Hearted Get (Is Second Best)" - 4:24
- "White Teeth" - 3:04 (UK two-disc set only)
- "The River" - 5:23
- "Baby Please Go" - 2:46
- "You Can Call Me Leisure" - 4:31
- "Final Spark" - 5:03
- "10,000 Feet" - 3:01
- "Hot on the Heels of Heartbreak" - 4:00
- "The Mediterranean" - 4:02
- "A Little Piece of Advice" - 3:55
- "Property Quiz" - 3:50
- "Chicken Wings" - 4:29 (UK, Canada, Europe & Japan only)
US version
All songs written by Paul Heaton and David Rotheray.
- "Closer Than Most"
- "Just Checkin'"
- "Hit Parade"
- "Masculine Eclipse"
- "'Til You Can't Tuck It In"
- "If We Crawl"
- "Tupperware Queen"
- "Half-Hearted Get (Is Second Best)"
- "The River"
- "Baby Please Go"
- "You Can Call Me Leisure"
- "Final Spark"
- "10,000 Feet"
- "Hot on the Heels of Heartbreak"
- "The Mediterranean"
- "A Little Piece of Advice"
- "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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- Paul Heaton - vocals
- Dave Hemingway - vocals
- Jacqui Abbott - vocals
- Dave Rotheray - guitar
- Sean Welch - bass
- Dave Stead - drums
References
- ^ a b ""Painting It Red" Versions". discogs.com. Retrieved 2014-11-18.
- ^ King, David. "The Beautiful South Discography". xmission.com. Archived from the original on 2012-02-19. Retrieved 2014-11-15.