Painful Thing

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Painful Thing
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ReleasedMay 1991 (1991-05)
Recorded1991
Genre Alternative rock, shoegazing
Length15:09
Label Wilde Club
Producer Simon Davey
Catherine Wheel chronology
She's My Friend
(1991)
Painful Thing
(1991)
Ferment
(1992)
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Painful Thing is an EP by English alternative rock band Catherine Wheel, released in May 1991 on Wilde Club Records. [2] The EP was mixed by Simon Davey at Purple Rain Studios in Norfolk. [3]

Contents

The EP was released on CD and 12" vinyl [4] and limited to 2,000 copies of each. [1]

The songs were later rerecorded for the band's debut studio album, Ferment (1992). [5]

Track listing

All songs written by Catherine Wheel.

  1. "Shallow" – 3:24
  2. "Spin" – 2:42
  3. "Painful Thing" – 3:58
  4. "I Want to Touch You" – 5:05

Personnel

Catherine Wheel
Technical personnel

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  3. Painful Thing (LP). Catherine Wheel. United Kingdom: Wilde Club. 1991. WILDE5.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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