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.
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. "Who's Gonna Tell?" - 2:37
  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 " - 4:24
  10. "White Teeth" - 3:04
  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

    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 "
  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.
from "Closer Than Most"
from "Closer Than Most"
from "The River/Just Checkin'"
from "Just Checkin'"/The River"
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