Pain (American band)

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Pain
Country The United States of America
Years active 1994 - 1999
Genres Punk
Labels Springman
Members Dan Lord
Mark Milewicz (Pose)
Adam Guthrie
Mark Kramer
Elizabeth Milewicz
Stuart McNair
Chris Johnson
Jason Reid

Pain is a punk rock band based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Though they have not produced any chart-topping hits, the band enjoyed a semi-mainstream following after Cartoon Network started airing 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 is sometimes confused with ska/ska-punk, due to similarities in instrumentation and similar sensibilities to third-wave ska-punk bands, but it cannot be accurately described as ska since it does not use the ska beat. The band includes a trumpet, trombone, and saxophone, which are often found in ska bands, but the band members have stated numerous times that they are not a ska band -- in fact they have claimed that they do not like the ska genre. The band is perhaps best defined by their fast-paced lyrics and clever rhythm schemes, both instrumental and spoken. Pain's lyrics are 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.

Most of the band's albums are now available on independent record label Springman Records[1]. The band's current status is "on hiatus", however, given that Mark "Pose" Milewicz is currently a faculty member at Gordon College in Barnesville, Georgia and the vast majority of the rest of the band remains in or around Tuscaloosa, any new material seems extremely unlikely.

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[edit] 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

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

[edit] 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

[edit] Midgets With Guns

Released in 1997 on Springman Records[2].

  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

[edit] Wonderful Beef

Released in 1998 on Springman Records[3].

  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

[edit] Full Speed Ahead

Released in 1999 on Springman Records[4].

  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

[edit] 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

[edit] EPs

[edit] Jabberjaw EP

Released in 1999 on Springman Records[5]. 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
  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

[edit] Trivia

  • In addition to the Jabberjaw (Running Underwater) music video, Pain has also received minor mainstream attention through the NBC sitcom NewsRadio. In a number of episodes station engineer Joe Garelli (played by Joe Rogan) 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. However, the album was never released.

[edit] External links

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