The Eyes of Stanley Pain

The Eyes of Stanley Pain
Studio album by Download
Released	May 28, 1996
Recorded	1995 - 1996 (Subconscious Studios, Vancouver)
Genre	Industrial
Length	71:09
Label	Nettwerk/Subconscious Communications
Producer	cEvin Key & Ken Marshall
Download chronology
Sidewinder (1996) The Eyes of Stanley Pain (1996) III (1997)

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The Eyes of Stanley Pain is an album by Download.

Track listing

1. "Suni C" – 5:29
2. "Possession" – 4:07
3. "The Turin Cloud" – 4:31
4. "Glassblower" – 3:01
5. "H Sien Influence" – 4:45
6. "Base Metal" – 5:00
7. "Collision" – 10:37
8. "Sidewinder" – 4:18
9. "Outafter" – 4:56
10. "Killfly" – 4:04
11. "Separate" – 5:53
12. "Seven Plagues" – 4:48
13. "Fire This Ground (Puppy Gristle, Pt. 1)" – 5:06 (see "Notes")
14. "The Eyes of Stanley Pain" – 4:47

Personnel

• cEvin Key
• Dwayne Goettel
• Mark Spybey - vocals, lyrics, and various other sounds

Guests

• Genesis P. Orridge (vocals - 5, 11; gristlebox - 13)
• Anthony Valcic (keys - 4)
• Larry Thrasher (drums - 13)
• Philth (keys - 7)

Design

• Dave McKean - design and illustration
• Lorne Bridgman - "Download" photo

Notes

• The track "Outafter" is dedicated to Brandon Lee. It was originally to be used as a Skinny Puppy song for the movie The Crow, though plans fell through. Lee was also a Puppy fan.
• "Fire This Ground" is subtitled as "Puppy Gristle, Pt. 1", referring to the 1994 jam between Skinny Puppy and members of Psychic TV/Throbbing Gristle, which was later released as the Skinny Puppy album Puppy Gristle.
• The inside cover contains a quote from French poet Charles Baudelaire:

"that which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal: from which it follows that irregularity - that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are an essential part and characteristic of beauty"

• The track "Collision" contains a notably contrasting part which is more harmonic and rhythmically concise than the rest of the track. The initiating rhythmic loop of this "embedded" part begins exactly 7 minutes and 7 seconds into the track. "Collision" being track 7 arguably indicates a deliberate choice of timing.

References

External links

• Litany Page for the album (with lyrics)