"Serving Time in the Middle of Nowhere" (from the Ax/ction Records split 7-inch with 16) "Southern Discomfort" (from the Slap-A-Ham Records split 7-inch with 16) "Blank/Shoplift" (from the Bovine Records 7-inch Ruptured Heart Theory) "Story of the Eye" (from the Bovine Records 7-inch Ruptured Heart Theory) "Ruptured Heart Theory" (from the Bovine Records 7-inch Ruptured Heart Theory) 92 on its list of The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time. In 2017, Rolling Stone listed the album at No. In 2016, Metal Hammer named the album in their list "The 10 Essential Sludge Albums", stating the album "raised the bar". In 2013, the song "White Nigger" was officially retitled "White Neighbor" during a rehearsal with Melvins drummer Dale Crover.
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"The essential sounds of Tony Iommi drowning in a bath full of whiskey and dirty needles, it might lack the 'hits' of its successor but as a catalyst for the movement, it's utterly essential." In 2009, the album was chosen as the number 1 sludge album by Terrorizer. According to Mike IX Williams, it was the favorite album of nearly all band members, and his favorite album title, with the exception of Poison Idea's Record Collectors Are Pretentious Assholes
Take as Needed for Pain has received praise since its 1993 release, and is considered by many as one of the band's best albums. Reception Professional ratings Review scores Studio 13 was a small recording studio located on the 13th floor of an abandoned department store located in New Orleans, about a few minutes away from where Mike Williams was living.
After being signed to Century Media in the early 1990s, the band began to self-record and produce their first album for the label, and second album total, in Studio 13.