Pain was an American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 band from Mobile

Mobile, Alabama

Mobile is the third most populous city in the Southern US state of Alabama and is the county seat of Mobile County. It is located on the Mobile River and the central Gulf Coast of the United States. The population within the city limits was 195,111 during the 2010 census. It is the largest...

 and Tuscaloosa

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Tuscaloosa is a city in and the seat of Tuscaloosa County in west central Alabama . Located on the Black Warrior River, it is the fifth-largest city in Alabama, with a population of 90,468 in 2010...

, Alabama

Alabama

Alabama is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama ranks 30th in total land area and ranks second in the size of its inland...

. The main songwriters Dan and Pose, grew up in Mobile and graduated from Mcgill Toolen High school in midtown Mobile. Though they have not produced any chart-topping hits, the band enjoyed a semi-mainstream following after touring relentlessly. Cartoon Network

Cartoon Network

Cartoon Network is a name of television channels worldwide created by Turner Broadcasting which used to primarily show animated programming. The channel began broadcasting on October 1, 1992 in the United States....

 also aired a short two-minute music video set to their song "Jabberjaw (Running Underwater)", featuring the cartoon character of the same name along with "updated" versions of the rest of the show's characters.

Pain's sound features fast-paced lyrics, energetic punk rock

Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

 rhythms, and frequent use of horn instrument

Horn (instrument)

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s. Their lyrical content is often humorous, touching lightly upon such subjects as Dungeons and Dragons as well as Greek and Arthurian legends, often creating entire plots and stories about fictional characters. Despite similarities in instrumentation and sensibility to third wave ska, Pain has expressed resentment towards being labeled as ska

Ska

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, stating a dislike for the genre.

Most of the band's albums are now available on independent record label Springman Records

Springman Records

Springman Records is an independent record label founded in 1998 by Avi Ehrlich that was run out of his parent's garage in Cupertino, California until late 2005, when Ehrlich moved the label to Sacramento...

. The band's current status is "on hiatus"; however, given that Mark "Pose" Milewicz is currently a faculty member at Gordon College

Gordon College (Georgia)

Gordon College, a four-year state college in the University System of Georgia, is located in Barnesville, Georgia. Gordon's college year is made up of three 15-week academic semesters: fall, spring, and summer. Enrollment at Gordon College for the 2010 fall semester is around 4,500 students, with...

 in Barnesville, Georgia

Barnesville, Georgia

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 and the vast majority of the rest of the band remains in or around Tuscaloosa, any new material seems extremely unlikely.

Band members

• Dan Lord—vocals
• Mark Milewicz (Pose)—bass
• Adam Guthrie—guitar
• Mark Kramer—drums
• Elizabeth Milewicz—keyboard
• Stuart McNair—trumpet
• Chris Johnson—saxophone
• Jason Reid—trombone

Former members

• Steve Scott—original drummer (1994–'95)
• Jay Campbell—original sax player (1996–'98)
• George Kennedy—drums (1998–'99)

Goggins

Released in 1994 on Goggins Records. Currently out of print.

1. "Idle Hands"
2. "Milk"
3. "Gavin"
4. "The Man Upstairs"
5. "Excalibur"
6. "Nitro"
7. "Put Together"
8. "Enough"
9. "Army Of The Bored"

Midgets With Guns

Released in 1996 on Springman Records

Springman Records

Springman Records is an independent record label founded in 1998 by Avi Ehrlich that was run out of his parent's garage in Cupertino, California until late 2005, when Ehrlich moved the label to Sacramento...

.

1. "Pose Ode"
2. "Milk"
3. "Square Pegs"
4. "Fight"
5. "Midgets With Guns"
6. "One-Legged Girl"
7. "The People, The People"
8. "Grudge"
9. "Chuck Al Hashib"
10. "Derision"
11. "Island Of Fear"
12. "Adam's Apple"
13. "Ellen"
14. "Pose Ode" (fast)

Wonderful Beef

Released in 1997 on Springman Records

Springman Records

Springman Records is an independent record label founded in 1998 by Avi Ehrlich that was run out of his parent's garage in Cupertino, California until late 2005, when Ehrlich moved the label to Sacramento...

.

1. "Malk"
2. "In A Band"
3. "Antidote"
4. "Thimbledrome"
5. "Put 'Em Back"
6. "The Man Upstairs"
7. "The Song Of The Seven Inch Cowboy"
8. "Kokamantratarius"
9. "The Bottlerocket War"
10. "Gavin"
11. "Suckerpunch"
12. "Umbrella"
13. "Easy Out"

Full Speed Ahead

Released in 1999 on Springman Records

Springman Records

Springman Records is an independent record label founded in 1998 by Avi Ehrlich that was run out of his parent's garage in Cupertino, California until late 2005, when Ehrlich moved the label to Sacramento...

.

1. "Juice"
2. "Right On"
3. "Full Speed Ahead"
4. "Upright"
5. "Codcake"
6. "Who Took Botu's Picture?"
7. "Futz Said Julie"
8. "Goggins"
9. "The White Recluse"
10. "Jonathan Fallow"
11. "Cap’n Scrub"
12. "Excalibur"
13. "Bean Bag"
14. "Ukulele"

On Air

Released in 2001 on Vegas Records. Live radio recordings.

1. "Antidote"
2. "In A Band"
3. "Put 'Em Back"
4. "Midgets With Guns"
5. "The Man Upstairs"
6. "The Bottlerocket War"
7. "Gavin"
8. "Milk"
9. "Juice/Square Pegs"
10. "Derision"
11. "Suckerpunch"

Jabberjaw EP

Released in 1999 on Springman Records

Springman Records

Springman Records is an independent record label founded in 1998 by Avi Ehrlich that was run out of his parent's garage in Cupertino, California until late 2005, when Ehrlich moved the label to Sacramento...

. Available as CD/CD-ROM or 7" vinyl. CD-ROM version is enhanced for computer with music videos, pictures, and more.
CD/CD-ROM Version

1. "Jabberjaw (Running Underwater)"
2. "Full Speed Ahead" (Battleship Version)
3. "The Comeback"
4. "The White Recluse" (demo)
5. "Chris Gets Up On It!"
6. "The Man Upstairs" ("What a Man" version, Live)

7" Vinyl Version

1. "Jabberjaw"
2. "Full Speed Ahead"
3. "The Comeback"

Trivia

• In addition to the "Jabberjaw
  Jabberjaw
  Jabberjaw is a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears and produced by Hanna-Barbera and aired from September 11, 1976 to September 3, 1978 on ABC.-Premise:...
  
   (Running Underwater)" music video, Pain has also received minor mainstream attention through the NBC
  NBC
  The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
  
   sitcom
  Situation comedy
  A situation comedy, often shortened to sitcom, is a genre of comedy that features characters sharing the same common environment, such as a home or workplace, accompanied with jokes as part of the dialogue...
  
   NewsRadio
  NewsRadio
  NewsRadio is an American television situation comedy that aired on NBC from 1995 to 1999. The series was created by executive producer Paul Simms, and was filmed in front of a studio audience at CBS Studio Center and Sunset Gower Studios...
  
  . In a number of episodes station engineer Joe Garelli (played by Joe Rogan
  Joe Rogan
  Joseph James "Joe" Rogan is an American comedian, video blogger, actor, writer, podcaster, and martial artist. He is best known for his work on NewsRadio, his work as color commentator for the Ultimate Fighting Championship, and his hosting work on Fear Factor.-Acting:In 1994, Rogan co-starred on...
  
  ) can be seen wearing a T-shirt bearing the Pain logo.
• Pain recorded a version of "The Time Warp" for a ska tribute to The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the 1975 film adaptation of the British rock musical stageplay, The Rocky Horror Show, written by Richard O'Brien. The film is a parody of B-movie, science fiction and horror films of the late 1940s through early 1970s. Director Jim Sharman collaborated on the...
  
  . However, the album was never released. The song is now available on the Pain DVD entitled In A Band: The Pain Years 1994-2000. This DVD was limited to 1,000 prints.

External links

• Official Band Website
• Official Springman Records Website
• "Square Pegs" Music Video
• "In A Band" Music Video
• "Jabberjaw (Running Underwater)" Music Video