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

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]

A Poke in the Eye... with a Sharp Stick
Studio album by
Released1988
GenrePost-industrial
Length40:28
47:41 (CD version)
LabelWax Trax! Records
ProducerRaymond Watts, John Caffery, JG Thirlwell
PIG chronology
A Poke in the Eye... with a Sharp Stick
(1988)
Praise the Lard
(1991)

Reception edit

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

Track listing edit

  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 neither available on vinyl releases of this album nor on the CD release YELLOW 28. The release "Sick City" (RTD M 28–1) features this track.[3]

Personnel edit

PIG edit

  • Raymond Watts – vocals, keyboards, programming, lyrics

Guests and production edit

  • Hanns Joachim Mennicken – guitar on "Scumsberg"
  • Alexander Hacke – guitar on tracks 1, 5, 9
  • Nikkolai Weidemann – guitar, piano and saxophone on "One for the Neck"
  • Axel Dill – drums and piano on "Hildelinde"
  • Uwe Wurst – guitar on "My Favorite Car"
  • JG Thirlwell – production, lyrics on "Peoria"
  • Christian Graupner – percussion on "Scumsberg" and "Red Man"
  • John Caffery – production on tracks 1-9

References edit

  1. ^
  2. ^ A Poke in the Eye... with a Sharp Stick - Pig | User Reviews | AllMusic, retrieved 16 March 2021
  3. ^ . Archived from the original on 16 October 2007.


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