I Love to Paint

I Love To Paint
Compilation album (Fan Club} by Saint Etienne
Released	February 1995
Genre	Indie pop
Label	Heavenly - HVNLP9CD
Producer	Saint Etienne
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Saint Etienne chronology
Tiger Bay (1994) I Love to Paint (1995) Fairy Tales from Saint Etienne (1995)

I Love To Paint (1995) is a compilation of previously-unreleased and rare music by Saint Etienne. It was made available only by mail order to members of the band's fan club. It is now a collectable and sought-after item, regularly selling for high prices second-hand. In 2008, it was reissued as the first disc of the Boxette compilation of fan club material.

• "Flight to Tashkent" is an outtake from the So Tough sessions.
• The version of "Sushi Rider" included on I Love to Paint is known to fans as "The Greener and Woodier Version", and is different from the version commercially released on the "Like a Motorway" 7" single.
• "Deutscher Kendals" is an instrumental recorded in 1994. "Fife Coast" was recorded at the same session.
• "Studio Kinda Filthy" originally appeared as the B-side on the "Filthy" promotional 12" single, July 1991.
• "We're Coming in Loaded" is a cover of a song popularized by Elvis Presley in the film Girls! Girls! Girls!
• "Fake '88" originally appeared on a UK indie music magazine compilation disc, Volume 6, as well as Volume's own best-of compilation Sharks Patrol These Waters--The Best of Volume Too.
• "Parliament Hill" is an outtake from the Foxbase Alpha sessions.
• "Everything I Touch Turns to Gold" features a fragment of dialogue from the Audrey Hepburn film Roman Holiday.

Regarding "Schroeder," the CD liner notes explain, "From our Charlie Brown-obsessed period at the beginning of 1994, this is the twin brother of 'Highgate Road Incident,' the b-side of 'Pale Movie.'" Schroeder was the Beethoven-adoring piano player from the Peanuts comic strip by Charles M. Schulz.

"Stranger in Paradise" is also an outtake from So Tough, and was released on the NME three-disc charity album Ruby Trax--The NME's Roaring Forty. The original composition is credited to Tony Bennett; however, Saint Etienne also pays homage to Mudhoney by referencing the song "Touch Me I'm Sick".

Track listing

CD: Heavenly / HVNLP9CD

1. "Flight to Tashkent" - 2:48
2. "Sushi Rider" - 5:23
3. "Deutscher Kendals" - 0:51
4. "Think Twice" - 3:04
5. "Studio Kinda Filthy" - 4:58
6. "We're Coming in Loaded" (Blackwell/Scott) - 3:22
7. "Fife Coast" - 3:43
8. "Fake '88" - 5:02
9. "Parliament Hill" - 2:35
10. "Everything I Touch Turns to Gold" - 3:30
11. "Schroeder" - 3:43
12. "Stranger in Paradise" (Bennett) - 3:26