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Fine Friend

The single from Slow Buildings, adapted from a 1981 song by Persian Rugs.
Pale Saints, from Slow Buildings (1994)

Written by
Meriel Barham, Colleen Browne, Chris Cooper, Graeme Naysmith, Jamie Watson
Released
15 August 1994
Length
4:05
Album
Slow Buildings

Fine Friend was released as a single on 15 August 1994 on 4AD, with Special Present, Marimba and a Reprise of the title song. It was adapted, with new lyrics, from Poison in the Airwaves, a 1981 song by the Scottish band Persian Rugs, and Jamie Watson is credited with additional writing. Hugh Jones produced and engineered it at Palladium Studios in Edinburgh, and it was mixed at Master Rock and Maison Rouge.

The album version runs 4:05 and the single version 4:03. A video was made in 1994.

More songs by Pale Saints

Sight of You, Kinky Love, Fell from the Sun, Hunted, Throwing Back the Apple

Sources

  1. Slow Buildings, Wikipedia
  2. Pale Saints, Wikipedia
  3. Fine Friend (UK CD single), Discogs
  4. Fine Friend (master), Discogs
  5. Slow Buildings (UK CD), Discogs