Jim's Big Ego

Flack and Infantino at the Budgiedome at the 2006 Falcon Ridge Folk Festival

Jim's Big Ego is a Boston, Massachusetts-based band formed in 1995 under the leadership of singer/songwriter Jim Infantino.

Among the band's songs are "The Ballad of Barry Allen," about the DC superhero Barry Allen/The Flash, a character co-created by Infantino's uncle Carmine Infantino; “Asshole”, a song about the George W. Bush administration that went viral, and "New Lang Syne" (sometimes also called "Thank God It's Over"), a new New Year's Eve song featured on National Public Radio's All Things Considered in 2001.

Members

• Jim Infantino – guitar, lead vocals
• Jesse Flack – double bass, vocals
• Dan Cantor – drums, vocals
• Josh Kantor – Keyboards, vocals

Discography

• 1996 – Titanic
• 1996 – More Songs About Me
• 1998 – Don't Get Smart
• 1999 – Y2K – Hooray! (EP)
• 2000 – Noplace Like Nowhere
• 2003 – They're Everywhere
• 2005 – Support the Truth (EP E-Album)
• 2008 – free*
• 2012 – Stay

External links

• Official website
• "New New Year Song" from NPR's All Things Considered December 31, 2001
• Jim's Big Ego at AllMusic
• Jim's Big Ego collection at the Internet Archive's live music archive
• The Ego & The Oracle: Stage show featuring Jim's Big Ego in an experiment of "musical fortune-telling."