Painting It Red

by The Beautiful South

Painting It Red cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 9 October 2000
  • Label: Go! Discs
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:13:25
  • Community rating: 3.2/5 from 1 rating

Artists on this release: David Stead, David Hemingway, John Brough, Andrew Nichols, Chris White, Paul Heaton, Sean Welch, Jacqui Abbott, Lawrence Watson, Neil Sidwell, Ryan Art, Marco Migliari, David Rotheray, Jon Kelly, Damon Butcher, The Black Dyke Mills Band, Steve Sidwell, Gary Hammond

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Painting It Red' is the seventh album by The Beautiful South, a concept album about impending middle age produced by Jon Kelly with the band's Paul Heaton. Its pop soul and sophisti-pop arrangements carry witty, melancholic songwriting in the group's established melodic register.

Genres

Descriptors: existential, death, melodic, witty, sophisticated

Tracklist

  1. Who's Gonna Tell? (2:37)
  2. Closer Than Most (3:06)
  3. Just Checkin' (3:37)
  4. Hit Parade (3:43)
  5. Masculine Eclipse (3:54)
  6. 'Til You Can't Tuck It In (3:29)
  7. If We Crawl (4:13)
  8. Tupperware Queen (3:34)
  9. Half Hearted Get (Is Second Best) (4:23)
  10. The River (5:20)
  11. Baby Please Go (2:44)
  12. You Can Call Me Leisure (4:29)
  13. Final Spark (5:03)
  14. 10,000 Feet (3:02)
  15. Hot On The Heels Of Heartbreak (3:58)
  16. The Mediterranean (4:01)
  17. A Little Piece Of Advice (3:54)
  18. Property Quiz (3:49)
  19. Chicken Wings (4:29)

Credits

  • David Rotheray - guitar, written-by
  • Norman Cook - musical assistance [open groove surgery]
  • Martin Ditcham - percussion [additional percussion], zabumba
  • Dave McCragen - programmed by [additional programming]
  • Jon Kelly - mixed by, producer
  • John Brough - engineer, mixed by
  • Ryan Art - artwork
  • Lawrence Watson - photography by

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