JIM PAINTON: painton, a picture

Jim Painton

painton, a picture

© 1998 overdub

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Classic Rock: Beatles meet Zappa and have an illegitimate kid

tracks

1 Hung Overture
2 The Eddie Fan Club
3 Girls From High School
4 The Moon Is You
5 Cybergirl
6 Ten Months Before I Was Born
7 Love Never Says Good-bye
8 Love Is To Be Shared
9 Wife
10 Straight Down
11 Mince Me
12 Coney Island
13 Mr. Bummer Man
14 Consider Me
15 Feelin' No Pain

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notes

"Painton A Picture" defies classification. Newcomer Jim Painton has created a clever album of his greatest non-hits, culled from over 30 years of his NOT being a public musical performer.

If you like Beatlesque melodies, Beach Boyish harmonies, and Zappa-type humor, you'll love Jim. So far, major labels have snubbed their MTV-loving noses at this CD, while reviewers have cheered it as the second coming of Nilsson.

Sir Paul McCartney says this is his favorite album. Actually he says, 'Who the bloody hell is Jim Painton?' Then again, what does he know? He was the Fluff Beatle, the empty-headed pretty boy. John Lennon was the brains of THAT group. If he were alive today, he'd fire Paul and hire Jim Painton. He'd probably divorce Yoko and enter some kind of domestic partnership with Jim. They could write songs and bake bread together.

Speaking of bread, why not fork some over? The 24-page color booklet alone is worth the price. Well, maybe not. But the CD is still a pretty good deal at ten bucks.

You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll sing along with the wonderful sound paintings -- or sound 'paintons' -- of this premiere collection.

PS - Be sure to check out Jim's SECOND ALBUM, "Painton Place"... available right here at CD Baby!

reviews

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  • Jim Painton is great.
    author: Don Stout

    Jim Painton makes music that makes you feel good. He has a keen sense of rock history and borrows favorably from some of the best, ie. Beatles, Zappa, Brian Wilson, and Gary Lewis & The Playboys. Great melodies and clever word plays. You know he loves his music and that comes out loud and clear.

  • A more potent appetizer than sex, magic brownies, or B-12!
    author: Patrick Mcclellan

    All music is derivative, more or less, for better or worse. Accepting that, one of the values that makes good music good is it's ability to send you rummaging through your dusty cabinets to re-listen to the wonderful stuff you listened to in your youth but haven't touched for decades due to competing distractions such as finishing grad school, getting married, raising kids, launching a career, making a difference while making the mortgage, helping *your* kids reach grad school and/or get married, and planning your exit strategy. By this standard, Jim Painton's first CD is great music! After the second playing of "Painton a Picture" the first thing I rummaged for was 'How Could I Be Such a Fool' ("I always wondered if I could write a love song." --F.Z.), then on to vintage Floyd, Who, Byrds, Zombies, and Beach Boys' Summer Days (and Summer Nights!!) (which I've played through maybe twice since 1970) and thence to the '60's aberration of Kweskin-Mouldar-D'Amato-Richmond (on jug) and the deviant Dan Hicks & his Lickettes, pausing for the Harper's Bizarre doing Van Dyke Parks along my vinyl voyage. Good music is, indeed, a great appetizer! Jim's work is also very courageous -- a real musical departure: original, diverse, fresh, funny, in ways not unlike the novelty that made "Freak Out" so interesting back in '67. And not only is his music amazing in its production, it's also very clever, which I didn't get until the last track ended and I hit 'Play' once more -- whooshwhooooshwhooooosh...sucked right back into the Painton whirlpool to hear it all over again. Nice work, Jim! You've got my vote for a place in the PSML Pantheon alongside Phillips, Cathcart, Carpenter, Macreavy, "and a whole bunch of other people who are going to be bugged because their names aren't listed in detail, with addresses and pertinent facts about what they like about the government & their other fetishes." (-- F.Z., "Freak Out" liner notes). Recommendation: BUY IT. NOW! Patrick McClellan, Lurker, Pet Sounds Mailing List

  • I enjoyed it the way I would a meal that's not good for me.
    author: Sean Macreavy

    Got "Painton A Picture" this morning! Great stuff. I've yet to fully digest the kooky, totally f---ed-up mind set of the record, but I'm finding it fascinating, funky and funny! Is Jim an XTC and Jellyfish fan perhaps? (If not, he would be!) Sounds like ELO on Prozac. That's a big compliment.

  • author: Rob King

    What can I say? Ever since I received it, it's not been off the cd deck. It's refreshingly different, a reminder of the days when popular music was about innovation and imagination and you'd pick up an album with that sense of excitement about the direction it could take you. 'Painton A Picture' is slick and accessible enough to be mainstream, with echoes of ELO, Nilsson, even Lennon. But it rewards play after play. I find myself humming snatches in the most unlikely places, and it takes a lot to do that these dull grey days! Cheers, Rob King The Daily Star London, England

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