Stain (album)
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| Studio album by Living Colour | ||||
| Released | March 3, 1993 | |||
| Recorded | 1992 | |||
| Studio | Bearsville Studios, Bearsville, New York and Long View Farm, North Brookfield, Massachusetts | |||
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| Length | 44:56 | |||
| Label | Epic | |||
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Ron Saint Germain Living Colour |
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| Robert Christgau | A− |
| Entertainment Weekly | C− |
Stain is the third album by Living Colour. It was released on March 2, 1993, by Epic Records. It is the first album to feature bassist Doug Wimbish. Stain features a much heavier and aggressive Living Colour, containing elements of thrash metal and industrial music. It reached No. 26 on the Billboard 200. The band split up in January 1995 following a tour with Bad Brains.
The cover art shows a woman wearing a brank.
From the mid-1990s through the early 2010s, the album was out of print due to rights issues after a lawsuit from Jon Stainbrook of the band The Stain forced Sony to cease production of the album. In November 2013, the album was reissued by Music On CD and is also available as an MP3 download.
In 2012, to celebrate the 19th anniversary of Stain, website Metal Sucks published an article citing CDs in circulation carried different guitar solos on three tracks (Leave It Alone, Ignorance Is Bliss and Bi). Around 25,000 early copies of the US release carry the of the CD (editor note; my personal copy of the Epic release, catalog number EK52780 has different solos to that of the UK, Australian and Promo releases). For fanboy reference, timing of the solos: Leave it Alone (2'36"), Ignorance Is Bliss (2'28"), Bi (1'40").
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