Painful

Tracklist

• 1
  Big Day Coming
  7:05
  4.0 ★
• 2
  From a Motel 6
  4:09
  4.5 ★
• 3
  Double Dare
  3:28
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Superstar‐Watcher
  1:45
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Nowhere Near
  6:03
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Sudden Organ
  4:46
  3.0 ★
• 7
  A Worrying Thing
  2:54
  4.0 ★
• 8
  I Was the Fool Beside You for Too Long
  5:07
  5.0 ★
• 9
  The Whole of the Law
  2:20
  5.0 ★
• 10
  Big Day Coming
  4:15
  3.5 ★
• 11
  I Heard You Looking
  7:01
  4.5 ★

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Release credits

• Chris Knox
  design/illustration
• Georgia Hubley
  photography
• Greg Calbi
  mastering
• Roger Moutenot
  engineer, producer

Issues

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  P
  (Combined release view)
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  P
  Painful

  CD
  5 October 1993
• 

  P
  Painful

  12" Vinyl
  5 October 1993
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  P
  Painful

  CD
  5 October 1993
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  P
  Painful

  12" Vinyl
  1993
• P
  Painful

  CD
  2000
• 

  E
  Extra Painful

  2x CD, 2x Digital Media
  2 December 2014
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  E
  Extra Painful

  2x Digital Media
  2 December 2014
• 

  E
  Extra Painful

  2x 12" Vinyl, 7" Vinyl, Digital Media
  2 December 2014
• P
  Painful

  Digital Media
• P
  Painful

  CD