Cure for Pain was the second album released by alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band Morphine

Morphine (band)

Morphine was an American alternative rock group formed by Mark Sandman and Dana Colley in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1989. They disbanded in 1999 after frontman Sandman died of a heart attack....

 through Rykodisc

Rykodisc

Rykodisc Records is an American record label. It is owned by Warner Music Group, operates as a unit of WMG's Independent Label Group and is distributed through Alternative Distribution Alliance.-Company history:...

 in 1993. The tracks "Sheila" and "In Spite of Me" were prominently featured on the soundtrack of the 1994 independent film Spanking the Monkey

Spanking the Monkey

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. The video for "Thursday" also appeared on an episode of Beavis and Butt-head

Beavis and Butt-Head

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The track "Buena" also appears in the first season of The Sopranos

The Sopranos

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Track listing

All songs written by Mark Sandman

Mark Sandman

Mark Sandman was an American singer, songwriter, musical instrument inventor and multi-instrumentalist.An indie rock icon and longtime fixture on the Boston/Cambridge music scene, Sandman was best known as the lead singer and slide bass player of the band Morphine...

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1. "Dawna" - 0:44
2. "Buena" - 3:19
3. "I'm Free Now" - 3:24
4. "All Wrong" - 3:40
5. "Candy" - 3:14
6. "A Head with Wings" - 3:39
7. "In Spite of Me" - 2:34
8. "Thursday" - 3:26
9. "Cure for Pain" - 3:13
10. "Mary Won't You Call My Name?" - 2:29
11. "Let's Take a Trip Together" - 2:59
12. "Sheila" - 2:49
13. "Miles Davis
    Miles Davis
    Miles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz,...
    
    ' Funeral" - 1:41

Production

• Produced by Paul Q. Kolderie
  Paul Q. Kolderie
  Paul Q. Kolderie is a record producer, engineer, and mixer. He has worked with Pixies, Radiohead, Orangutang, Hole, Dinosaur Jr., Juliana Hatfield, Wax, Warren Zevon, Uncle Tupelo, Throwing Muses, Morphine, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Abandoned Pools, and The Go-Go's...
  
  
• Tracks marked ^ Recorded and Mixed by Mark Sandman
  Mark Sandman
  Mark Sandman was an American singer, songwriter, musical instrument inventor and multi-instrumentalist.An indie rock icon and longtime fixture on the Boston/Cambridge music scene, Sandman was best known as the lead singer and slide bass player of the band Morphine...
  
  

Personnel

• Mark Sandman
  Mark Sandman
  Mark Sandman was an American singer, songwriter, musical instrument inventor and multi-instrumentalist.An indie rock icon and longtime fixture on the Boston/Cambridge music scene, Sandman was best known as the lead singer and slide bass player of the band Morphine...
  
   - 2-string slide bass; tritar; guitar; organ; lead vocals.
• Dana Colley
  Dana Colley
  Dana Colley is an American musician, best known as the baritone and tenor saxophonist in the alternative rock band Morphine.-with Three Colors :...
  
   - baritone saxophone; tenor saxophone; backing vocals.
• Jerome Deupree - drums.
• Billy Conway - drums on Tks 9 & 11; cocktail drum overdub on Tk 8.
• Jimmy Ryan
  Jimmy Ryan (musician)
  Jimmy Ryan is a mandolin player associated with Hi-n-Dry records and the band Morphine. He was one of the founding members of the band Blood Oranges.-External links:*...
  
  - Mandolin on Tk 7
• Ken Winokur - Percussion on Tk 13

External links

• Rykodisc: Cure for Pain