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Song · On a Friday / pre-Pablo Honey (1986–92)

To Be a Brilliant Light

A miserable mini-epic with a saxophone on it, from the years when the band had a horn section.

Unreleased cover artUnreleasedalbum
  • 1988released

1988

on a friday

On a Friday were briefly larger than five people: the line-up included saxophones, and this is one of the places that shows. It is long and ambitious in a way the players could not yet support, which is the honest description of most bands at eighteen.

the video

A recording of a song they never released.· AllRadioheadwatch on youtube →

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  • The site's own catalogue note, based on Stereogum and Citizen Insane.
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