The Eyes of Stanley Pain

The Eyes of Stanley Pain
Studio album by
Download
ReleasedMay 28, 1996
Recorded1995 - 1996 (Subconscious Studios, Vancouver)
GenreIndustrial
Length71:09
LabelNettwerk/Subconscious Communications
ProducercEvin Key & Ken Marshall
Download chronology
Sidewinder
(1996)		 The Eyes of Stanley Pain
(1996)		 III
(1997)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

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

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
  1. Allmusic review
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