Pain Makes You Beautiful

Judybats

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 9, 1993)
• Original Release Date: 1993
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Warner Bros / Wea
• ASIN: B000002MHP
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #118,143 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

This Knoxville, Tennessee, quintet travels to an unexplored corner of the guitar-pop universe and beams back a tuneful, edgy, and amazingly fresh third album. --Jeff Bateman

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 1993 Release - 13 YEARS OLD?, April 3, 2006

By	Dubya Too (Texas, USA) - See all my reviews

Timeless is more appropriate. I remember walking in to but Matthew Sweet's "Girlfriend", and the latest REM release and bought "Pain... " as an afterthought after reading a good review. It was the best of the three and still gets pretty heavy rotation. It's a lyrical & musical masterpiece. The noted Pop tunes are great but the slower more melodic songs always stood out for me. "Geography" and "Wasting Time" are by far my favorites with "Being Simple" folling close behind. A smart, well-executed album.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun Album.... suddenly hearing it places, August 11, 2003

By A Customer

I bought this CD over 6 years ago and all of a sudden I am hearing "Pain Makes You Beautiful" (the song) during my lunchbreak... a little disoreinting but still a pleasant tune. I recommend this album for anyone who enjoy silly lyrics and fun, boppy tunes.... The best being "Ugly on the Outside".

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "There's a gentle artifice to loving...", April 5, 2006

By	David Brent's Tie - See all my reviews

This is a great work that somehow slipped through the cracks of the 90s alternative music conciousness. The CD is consistent, the songs are well-written, nicely-arranged, and get under your skin. (quirky and still tuneful) 13 years later the songs are not dated.
Hard to get the chorus of "Ugly on the Outside" out of your head once you hear it. "Wasting Time" is a gem of a song, but there are many other great ones on here. In fact I can't think of a record of that time that could succeed on both MTV and VH1. A strong record can do that because of the breadth of the material, a weak one can (Cracked Rear View, Better than Ezra) because of lowest common denominator blandness. "Pain" falls into the 1st category.

I urge anyone who has not heard this to gamble and at least buy a cheap copy from amazon. Odds are you will like it.

This is a personal fave of the early 90s along w/ Buffalo Tom's "Let Me Come Over", MBV "Loveless", "In Utero", "Definitely Maybe", PJ Harvey's "Dry", "Auctung Baby", "Check Your Head", "Automatic for the People", "The Bends", etc.