Take as Needed for Pain is the second album

Album

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 by American

United States

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 sludge metal

Sludge metal

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 band Eyehategod

Eyehategod

Eyehategod is an American sludge metal band from New Orleans who formed in 1988. They have become one of the most well known bands to emerge from the NOLA metal scene...

, released on November 22, 1993. According to Mike Williams

Mike Williams (singer)

Mike IX Williams is the singer for Eyehategod and former associate editor for Metal Maniacs. He has also worked on other projects.-Eyehategod:Mike was invited to join Eyehategod by Jimmy Bower in 1988...

, it was the favorite album of nearly all band members, and his favorite album title, with the exception of Poison Idea

Poison Idea

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's Record Collectors Are Pretentious Assholes

Record Collectors Are Pretentious Assholes

Record Collectors Are Pretentious Assholes is hardcore punk band Poison Idea's second EP, released in 1984 through Fatal Erection Records....

. It was reissued in 2006 as part of Century Media's 20th Anniversary series of reissues, with 6 bonus tracks, taken from rare 7" records and splits.

In 2009, the album was chosen as the number 1 sludge album by Terrorizer

Terrorizer Magazine

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. The magazine commented that

Track listing

1. "Blank" – 7:06
2. "Sisterfucker (Part I)" – 2:09
3. "Shoplift" – 3:14
4. "White Nigger" – 3:54
5. "30$ Bag" – 2:47
6. "Disturbance" – 7:01
7. "Take as Needed for Pain" – 6:06
8. "Sisterfucker (Part II)" – 2:37
9. "Crimes Against Skin" – 6:46
10. "Kill Your Boss" – 4:13
11. "Who Gave Her the Roses" – 1:59
12. "Laugh it Off" – 1:35
13. "Ruptured Heart Theory" – 3:33
14. "Story of the Eye" – 2:30
15. "Blank/Shoplift" – 3:58
16. "Southern Discomfort" – 4:24
17. "Serving Time in the Middle of Nowhere" – 3:20
18. "Lack of Almost Everything" – 2:28

All songs by Jimmy Bower

Jimmy Bower

Jimmy Bower is an American sludge/heavy metal guitarist and drummer who has played with six bands, most notably Eyehategod, Crowbar, Down, and Superjoint Ritual....

, Joey LaCaze, Marc Schultz, Brian Patton & Mike Williams.

All lyrics by Mike Williams.

All songs published by Magic Arts Publishing (ASCAP

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)

Tracks 13-15 taken from the Bovine Records "Ruptured Heart Theory

Ruptured Heart Theory

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" 7".

Track 16 taken from the Slap-A-Ham Records

Slap-a-Ham Records

Slap A Ham Records was a hardcore punk, thrash metal and grindcore label from San Francisco, California owned and operated by Chris Dodge of Spazz, Despise You, Lack Of Interest and several other bands.-Discography:Published albums include:...

 split 7" with 13.

Tracks 17 and 18 taken from the Ax/ction Records split 7" with 13.

Credits

• Mike Williams
  Mike Williams (singer)
  Mike IX Williams is the singer for Eyehategod and former associate editor for Metal Maniacs. He has also worked on other projects.-Eyehategod:Mike was invited to join Eyehategod by Jimmy Bower in 1988...
  
   – Vocalist
• Brian Patton – Guitar
  Electric guitar
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• Jimmy Bower
  Jimmy Bower
  Jimmy Bower is an American sludge/heavy metal guitarist and drummer who has played with six bands, most notably Eyehategod, Crowbar, Down, and Superjoint Ritual....
  
   – Guitar
• Mark Schultz – Bass
  Bass guitar
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• Joey LaCaze – Drums
  Drum kit
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• Robinson Mills – Engineer
• Perry Cunningham – Re-mastering (for DNA Mastering)
• Tom Bejgrowicz – Additional layout
• Charles Elliot – Reissue coordination