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Friday, February 15, 2019

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart EP



RELEASED
Cloudberry, 2007 (Three-track version)

PERSONNEL
Kip Berman - Guitar and vocals
Alex Nadius - Bass
Peggy Wang - Keyboards and vocals

Recorded May and June 2007, Honey Land Studios, Brooklyn, NY

FACTS
This early Pains recorded was released in two versions. Cloudberry Records put out a mini CD EP with three songs - This Love Is Fucking Right!, Orchard Of My Eye and Doing All The Things THat Wouldn't Make Your Parents Proud. This EP was limited to 100 hand-numbered copies. 

A five-track version with Hey Paul and the band's self-titled song emerged in August 2007. The CD was put out by Painbow Records as Painbow 01. Considering the fact that much later releases by the band itself were credited to Painbow, it seems fair to assume that this was basically a self-release.

While CD copies of the EP, in either version, can command high resale prices, the songs are not rare. These early recordings are still available for sale on major digital music marketplaces, as of 2019. These versions of This Love Is Fucking Right!, Hey Paul and The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart are different from the later versions that appeared in 2008 and 2009 on the self-titled album and Everything With You single. The other two songs were not re-released later and can only be found on this release.

This EP was created before Kurt Feldman joined Pains on drums, meaning the band was still a trio, with an iPod Nano playing drum beats serving as the live fourth member. Since no Drummer is credited on the CD, it appears all the beats on the record are digitally generated.
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