A Poke in the Eye... with a Sharp Stick

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A Poke in the Eye... with a Sharp Stick
A poke in the eye.jpg
Studio album by
PIG
Released1988
Genre Post-industrial
Length40:28
47:41 (CD version)
Label Wax Trax! Records
Producer Raymond Watts, John Caffery, JG Thirlwell
PIG chronology
A Poke in the Eye... with a Sharp Stick
(1988)
Praise the Lard
(1991)

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. [1]

Contents

Reception

The album holds a 4.5/5 rating on AllMusic and is designated as their album pick of his discography. [2]

Track listing

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

Track 10 is a bonus track on the US Wax Trax CD version, taken from the European 12" single Sick City/Shit For Brains (Potomak RTD M 28–1) [3]

Personnel

PIG

Guests and production

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References

  1. The Complete Pig Discography
  2. A Poke in the Eye... with a Sharp Stick - Pig | User Reviews | AllMusic , retrieved 16 March 2021
  3. "The Swining – Discography page". Archived from the original on 16 October 2007.