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Originally recorded on homemade cassette in 1981 and later released as a standardised version by Stress Records in 1988, Songs of Pain was recorded between 1980 and 1981 in Johnston's parents' basement in West Virginia. This remastered edition features eight additional unreleased tracks and a 12-page art and lyric book.
Tracklist
Disc: 1
1 Grievances
2 A Little Story
3 Joy Without Pleasure
4 Never Relaxed
5 Brainwash
6 Pot Head
7 Wicked World
8 Lazy
9 I Save Cigarette Butts
10 Like a Monkey in a Zoo
11 Wicked Will
12 An Idiot's End
13 Wild West Virginia
14 Since I Lost My Tooth
Disc: 2
1 Urge
2 Living Life
3 Tuna Ketchup
4 Premarital Sex
5 Don't Act Nice
6 Hate Song
7 Lead Belly Was an Outlaw
8 I Love You (I'd Like to Read You Some Poetry)
9 Why Don't You Love Me True
10 I'm a Rambling Kinda Guy
11 Sleepy Lagoon
12 Natalie Queen of Weirton
13 Golly Gee
14 You Need a Reason