I Love to Paint

Infobox Album |
Name = I Love To Paint
Type = Compilation
Longtype = (Fan Club}
Artist = Saint Etienne


Released = February 1995
Recorded =
Genre = Indie pop
Length =
Label = Heavenly - HVNLP9CD
Producer = Saint Etienne
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3|5
Last album ="Tiger Bay" (1994)
This album =I Love to Paint (1995)
Next album ="Fairy Tales from Saint Etienne" (1995)

"I Love To Paint" (1995) is a compilation of previously-unreleased and rare music by Saint Etienne. It was made available only by mail order to members of the band's fan club. It is now a collectable and sought-after item, regularly selling for high prices second-hand. In 2008, it was reissued as the first disc of the Boxette compilation of fan club material.

* "Flight to Tashkent" is an outtake from the "So Tough" sessions.
* The version of "Sushi Rider" included on I Love to Paint is known to fans as "The Greener and Woodier Version," and is different from the version commercially released on the "Like a Motorway" 7" single.
* "Deutscher Kendals" is an instrumental recorded in 1994. "Fife Coast" was recorded at the same session.
* "Studio Kinda Filthy" originally appeared as the b-side on the "Filthy" promotional 12" single, July 1991.
* "We're Coming in Loaded" is a cover of a song popularized by Elvis Presley in the film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056023/ Girls! Girls! Girls!]
* "Fake '88" originally appeared on a UK indie music magazine compilation disc, "Volume 6", as well as Volume's own best-of compilation "Sharks Patrol These Waters--The Best of Volume Too".
* "Parliament Hill" is an outtake from the "Foxbase Alpha" sessions.
* "Everything I Touch Turns to Gold" features a fragment of dialogue from the Audrey Hepburn film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046250/ Roman Holiday] .

Regarding "Schroeder," the CD liner notes explain, "From our Charlie Brown-obsessed period at the beginning of 1994, this is the twin brother of 'Highgate Road Incident,' the b-side of 'Pale Movie.'" Schroeder, of course, was the Beethoven-adoring piano player from the "Peanuts" comic strip by Charles M. Schulz.

"Stranger in Paradise" is also an outtake from "So Tough", and was released on the NME three-disc sampler "Ruby Trax--The NME's Roaring Forty". The original composition is credited to Tony Bennett; however, Saint Etienne also pays homage to Mudhoney by referencing the song "Touch Me I'm Sick."

Track listing

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# "Flight to Tashkent" - 2:48
# "Sushi Rider" - 5:23
# "Deutscher Kendals" - 0:51
# "Think Twice" - 3:04
# "Studio Kinda Filthy" - 4:58
# "We're Coming in Loaded" (Blackwell/Scott) - 3:22
# "Fife Coast" - 3:43
# "Fake '88" - 5:02
# "Parliament Hill" - 2:35
# "Everything I Touch Turns to Gold" - 3:30
# "Schroeder" - 3:43
# "Stranger in Paradise" (Bennett) - 3:26