Jim's Big Ego

Flack and Infantino at the Budgiedome at the 2006 Falcon Ridge Folk Festival

Jim's Big Ego is a Boston, Massachusetts-based band formed in 1995 under the leadership of singer/songwriter Jim Infantino.

Among the band's songs are "The Ballad of Barry Allen," about the DC superhero Barry Allen/The Flash, a character co-created by Infantino's uncle Carmine Infantino; “Asshole”, a song about the George W. Bush administration that went viral, and "New Lang Syne" (sometimes also called "Thank God It's Over"), a new New Year's Eve song featured on National Public Radio's All Things Considered in 2001.

Jim Infantino is an American singer-songwriter and leader of the band Jim's Big Ego, as well as being a graphic designer, web designer, poet, bartender and stalwart of the Boston folk scene. He majored in philosophy at Haverford College and lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. He is the nephew of Silver Age of Comic Books artist Carmine Infantino.

He was named as the best new artist of 1995 by the National Academy of Songwriters.

Discography

• Strawman (1993)
• The World of Particulars (1995)
• Also see Jim's Big Ego

Members

• Jim Infantino – guitar, lead vocals
• Jesse Flack – double bass, vocals
• Dan Cantor – drums, vocals
• Josh Kantor – Keyboards, vocals

Discography

• 1996 – Titanic
• 1996 – More Songs About Me
• 1998 – Don't Get Smart
• 1999 – Y2K – Hooray! (EP)
• 2000 – Noplace Like Nowhere
• 2003 – They're Everywhere
• 2005 – Support the Truth (EP E-Album)
• 2008 – free*
• 2012 – Stay

External links

• Official website
• "New New Year Song" from NPR's All Things Considered December 31, 2001
• Jim's Big Ego at AllMusic
• Jim's Big Ego collection at the Internet Archive's live music archive
• The Ego & The Oracle: Stage show featuring Jim's Big Ego in an experiment of "musical fortune-telling."