I Love To Paint is a compilation of previously-unreleased and rare music by Saint Etienne

Saint Etienne (band)

Saint Etienne are an English Pop group comprising Sarah Cracknell, Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs. They are named after the French football team AS Saint-Étienne.-History:Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs were childhood friends and former music journalists...

. 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

Boxette

Boxette is a 4 CD box set by Saint Etienne available for purchase only to people registered with their fan club, Lovers Unite. It contains I Love to Paint , Built on Sand , Asleep at the Wheels of Steel and Eric Random....

compilation of fan club material.

• "Flight to Tashkent" is an outtake from the So Tough
  So Tough
  - CD: Warner Bros. / 9 45166-2 :- CD: Warner Bros. / WPCP-5209 :- CD: Heavenly / HVNLP6CDDE :- Personnel :The liner notes list the album's personnel as follows:...
  
  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
  Elvis Presley
  Elvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....
  
   in the film Girls! Girls! Girls!
  Girls! Girls! Girls!
  Girls! Girls! Girls! is a 1962 musical comedy film starring Elvis Presley as a penniless Hawaiian fisherman who loves his life on the sea and dreams of owning his own boat. "Return to Sender", which reached #2 on the Billboard pop singles chart, is featured in the movie...
  
  
• "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
  Foxbase Alpha
  - CD: Warner / 9-26793-2 :2009 release- CD: Heavenly / HVNLP1CDDE :- Credits :The liner notes list the album's personnel as follows:* Sarah Cracknell - vocals.* Bob Stanley - Roland Jupiter 4, Korg M1, tambourine...
  
  sessions.
• "Everything I Touch Turns to Gold" features a fragment of dialogue from the Audrey Hepburn
  Audrey Hepburn
  Audrey Hepburn was a British actress and humanitarian. Although modest about her acting ability, Hepburn remains one of the world's most famous actresses of all time, remembered as a film and fashion icon of the twentieth century...
  
   film Roman Holiday
  Roman Holiday
  Roman Holiday is a 1953 romantic comedy directed and produced by William Wyler and starring Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn. It was written by John Dighton and Dalton Trumbo, though with Trumbo on the Hollywood blacklist, he did not receive a credit; instead, Ian McLellan Hunter fronted for him...
  
  .

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 was the Beethoven-adoring piano player from the Peanuts

Peanuts

Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz, which ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, continuing in reruns afterward...

comic strip by Charles M. Schulz

Charles M. Schulz

Charles Monroe "Sparky" Schulz was an American cartoonist, whose comic strip Peanuts proved one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium, and is still widely reprinted on a daily basis.-Early life and education:Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Schulz grew up in Saint Paul...

.

"Stranger in Paradise" is also an outtake from So Tough

So Tough

- CD: Warner Bros. / 9 45166-2 :- CD: Warner Bros. / WPCP-5209 :- CD: Heavenly / HVNLP6CDDE :- Personnel :The liner notes list the album's personnel as follows:...

, and was released on the NME

NME

The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...

three-disc charity album Ruby Trax--The NME's Roaring Forty. The original composition is credited to Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett is an American singer of popular music, standards, show tunes, and jazz....

; however, Saint Etienne also pays homage to Mudhoney

Mudhoney

Mudhoney is an American alternative rock band. Formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1988 following the demise of Green River, Mudhoney's members are vocalist and rhythm guitarist Mark Arm, lead guitarist Steve Turner, bassist Guy Maddison, and drummer Dan Peters. Original bassist Matt Lukin left the...

 by referencing the song "Touch Me I'm Sick

Touch Me I'm Sick

"Touch Me I'm Sick" is a song by the American alternative rock band Mudhoney. It was recorded in March 1988 at Seattle's Reciprocal Recording studio with producer Jack Endino. "Touch Me I'm Sick" was released as Mudhoney's debut single by independent record label Sub Pop on August 1, 1988...

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CD: Heavenly / HVNLP9CD

1. "Flight to Tashkent" - 2:48
2. "Sushi Rider" - 5:23
3. "Deutscher Kendals" - 0:51
4. "Think Twice" - 3:04
5. "Studio Kinda Filthy" - 4:58
6. "We're Coming in Loaded" (Blackwell
   Otis Blackwell
   Otis Blackwell was an American songwriter, singer, and pianist, whose work significantly influenced rock 'n' roll...
   
   /Scott
   Winfield Scott
   Winfield Scott was a United States Army general, and unsuccessful presidential candidate of the Whig Party in 1852....
   
   ) - 3:22
7. "Fife Coast" - 3:43
8. "Fake '88" - 5:02
9. "Parliament Hill" - 2:35
10. "Everything I Touch Turns to Gold" - 3:30
11. "Schroeder" - 3:43
12. "Stranger in Paradise" (Bennett
    Tony Bennett
    Tony Bennett is an American singer of popular music, standards, show tunes, and jazz....
    
    ) - 3:26