A Poke in the Eye... With a Sharp Stick (PIG album)

:"This article is about the 1988 indie album by the industrial rock band "PIG"
:"For the unrelated live album of the 1976 benefit show for Amnesty International" - see: A Poke In The Eye (With A Sharp Stick)"

Infobox Album |
Name = A Poke in the Eye... With a Sharp Stick
Type = Album
Artist = PIG


Background = orange
Released = 1988
Recorded =
Genre = Industrial
Length = 40:28, 47:41 (CD version)
Label = Wax Trax! Records
Producer = Raymond Watts, John Caffery, J. G. Thirlwell
Reviews =
Last album =
This album = "A Poke in the Eye... With a Sharp Stick"
(1988)
Next album = "Sick City"
(1989)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Japanese Reissue
Type = Album


Lower caption = The cover from the 1998 Japanese reissue

"A Poke in the Eye... With a Sharp Stick" is a 1988 album by Raymond Watts under the moniker PIG. It was reissued in Japan in 1998 by Blue Noise. An extremely low-budget promotional video for "Shit for Brains" exists, and was released on the "Best Of Berlin Independence Days '88" compilation VHS. [ [http://www.mnine.com/pigdiscography.html The Complete Pig Discography ] ]

Track listing

# "It Tolls for Thee (Pig Breath)" (Raymond Watts) – 4:25
# "Scumsberg" (Watts) – 4:02
# "One for the Neck" (Watts) – 3:54
# "Hildelinde" (traditional) – 2:45
# "My Favourite Car" (Watts) – 5:01
# "Never for Fun" (Watts) – 5:26
# "Shit for Brains" (Watts) – 4:36
# "Red Man" (Watts) – 6:06
# "The Press" (Watts) – 3:59
# "Peoria" (Watts/J. G. Thirlwell) – 7:13

*Track 10 is neither available on vinyl releases of this album nor on the CD release YELLOW 28. The release "Sick City" (RTD M 28-1) features this track. [Cite web|url=http://theswining.com/r.php?id=6|title=The Swining - Discography page]