Painting It Red

Painting It Red
Studio album by The Beautiful South
Released	9 October 2000 (UK) October 31, 2000 (US)
Label	Ark 21
The Beautiful South chronology
Quench (1998) Painting It Red (2000) Solid Bronze (2001)

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Painting It Red is the seventh original album released by The Beautiful South in October 2000. The 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

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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 modus operandi, The Beautiful South included unreleased material on the B-sides of the singles taken from their albums.^[2]

from the "Closer Than Most" CD1

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

from the "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 "The River/Just Checkin'" CD1

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

from the "Just Checkin'"/The River" CD2

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

Personnel

• Paul Heaton - vocals
• Dave Hemingway - vocals
• Jacqui Abbott - vocals
• Dave Rotheray - guitar
• Sean Welch - bass
• Dave Stead - drums

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