Primitive Painters

The album credit goes to Lawrence and Deebank, and the Vinyl Factory says Deebank wrote the music. It is track five at 5:58. The single came out in August 1985 on Cherry Red, reached number 1 on the UK independent singles chart and was Felt's most successful. Elizabeth Fraser sings backing vocals on the chorus, an idea from Guthrie, and Medialoper's Jim Connelly notes layered vocals and Duffy's keyboards. It was the last lyric Lawrence wrote for the album; he told Uncut, as reported by Songfacts, that it is about wanting to be more than you are, feeling neither here nor there, and wanting to belong to a select group, imagining cool kids in galleries instead of pubs while he was often alone in a gallery. God Is In The TV's Jonathan Wright called it the band's best work. Rolling Stone Italia places it in the John Peel Festive 50 top ten, without a year.

Clash shared a new video on November 27, 2023, commissioned by Lawrence and directed by Douglas Hart, in Super 8 footage with people from the Felt and Creation scene including a young Alan McGee. Feel performed it on August 15, 2026 with Stuart Murdoch and Radhika. We found no setlist count, B-side confirmed by a fetched source, covers or samples.