Take as Needed for Pain

Infobox Album |
Name = Take as Needed for Pain
Type = studio
Artist = Eyehategod


Released = November 22 1993
Recorded = Studio 13, New Orleans
Genre = Sludge metal
Length = Original: 49:33
Reissue: 1:09:48
Label = Century Media
Producer = Eyehategod
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusicguide.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fvfoxqthldte Link] |
Last album = "In the Name of Suffering" (1992)
This album = "Take as Needed for Pain" (1993)
Next album = "Dopesick" (1996)

"Take as Needed for Pain" is Sludge metal band Eyehategod's second album, released on November 22 1993. According to Mike Williams, it was the favourite album of nearly all band members, and his favourite album title, with the exception of Poison Idea's "Record Collectors Are Pretentious Assholes". 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.

Track listing

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

All songs by Jimmy Bower, Joey LaCaze, Marc Schultz, Brian Patton & Mike Williams.
All lyrics by Mike Williams.
All songs published by Magic Arts Publishing (ASCAP)
Tracks 13-15 taken from the Bovine Records "Ruptured Heart Theory" 7".
Track 16 taken from the Slap-A-Ham Records split 7" with 13.
Tracks 17 and 18 taken from the Ax/ction Records split 7" with 13.

Credits

* Mike Williams – Vocalist
* Brian Patton – Guitar
* Jimmy Bower – Guitar
* Mark Schultz – Bass
* Joey LaCaze – Drums
* Robinson Mills – Engineer
* Perry Cunningham – Re-mastering (for DNA Mastering)
* Tom Bejgrowicz – Additional layout
* Charles Elliot – Reissue coordination