Morphine
Cure For Pain
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Date:  1993
Length:  37:17
Format:  CD
Genre:  Alt. Rock
  Category:  rock
  Ref#:  rock-0003
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 Dawna    0:43
      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    3:14
      10.  
      		 Mary Won't You Call My Name    2:29
      11.  
      		 Let's Take A Trip Together    3:00
      12.  
      		 Sheila    2:48
      13.  
      		 Miles Davis' Funeral    1:41
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      Cure for Pain is a most unlikely artistic breakthrough from a thoroughly unlikely band. Fronted by saxophone and two-string slide bass guitar, Morphine earned a modicum of critical praise for their prior recording, Good, but Cure for Pain has a harder edge and a distinctly bigger sound. "Buena" urges the listener, with singer and bassist Mark Sandman's best come-hither baritone voice, "closer to the front of the stage," and then "Candy" tells a love-lost story that could come right out of Tom Waits's book. But for all the strange possibilities inherent in a guitarless band that plays off their singer's wry lyrics, Morphine's sophomore effort shows their versatility, their ability to be a rock band in a very unrock, rolling-baritone-saxophone way. Alas, singer Mark Sandman perished in action on an Italian stage on July 3, 1999. --Andrew Bartlett
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