EP · Catherine Wheel
Painful Thing by Catherine Wheel
Painful Thing is an EP by Catherine Wheel, released in 1991. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 5 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “I Want To Touch You”, on 5 lists with a best position of #85.
Painful Thing caught Catherine Wheel early: an EP released in May 1991 on Wilde Club Records by a band from Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft that had only got going the year before. Simon Davey mixed it at Purple Rain Studios in Norfolk, and it was pressed on CD and 12-inch vinyl, just 2,000 copies of each, so far more people met these songs when the band recut them for their debut album Ferment in 1992.
This is shoegaze with some muscle under the haze: guitars smeared into a warm, blurry roar, melodies floating up through the fog instead of fighting it. "I Want To Touch You" is the one that stuck, woozy and insistent, and it hints at the harder-hitting band they would turn into.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Painful Thing on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I Want To Touch You | 5 | #85 | – | 1992–2021 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.