Painting It Red is the seventh album by the Beautiful South, released in 2000.

[5] A concept album about impending middle age, Painting it Red is among the band's longest.

wrote that the album "shows the strains of a band running out of new ideas [although] the music is certainly not terrible and there are good moments, such as 'Baby Please Go' or '10,000 Feet'.

"[7] The Washington Post wrote that it "does occasionally muster an assertive beat--in part thanks to the assistance of Norman 'Fatboy Slim' Cook, who formerly played with Heaton and Hemingway in the Housemartins.

As was their usual practice, the Beautiful South included unreleased material on the B-sides of the singles taken from their albums.