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Wikipedia article




{{Infobox song

| name = Pain

| cover = Pain single.jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Jimmy Eat World

| album = Futures

| released = September 14, 2004

| recorded =

| studio =

| venue =

| genre =

| length = 2:51

| label = Interscope

| writer =

| producer = Gil Norton

| prev_title = A Praise Chorus

| prev_year = 2002

| next_title = Work

| next_year = 2005

}}

"'Pain'" is a song by American rock band Jimmy Eat World. It was released in September 2004 as the first single from their 2004 album 'Futures' and became their second number-one hit on the 'Billboard' Modern Rock Tracks chart. Although its album is not their most successful and "Pain" is not the highest-charting single, the single has received Gold status by the RIAA, making "Pain" Jimmy Eat World's second best-selling single, after 2001's "The Middle".

Track listing



'CD'

# Pain (album version)

# Shame (demo)

# Yer Feet (live acoustic) (Mojave 3 cover)

# Pain (video)

'7"'

# Pain (2:51)

# Shame (5:40)

Music video



The video, which was directed by Paul Fedor, features a young man who constantly does things which cause him pain (including submerging himself in water for extended periods of time, throwing himself down a flight of stairs, and draping himself in meat and letting attack dogs maul him), but he doesn't appear to feel any of it. He is followed and constantly attacked by two twin children with baseball bats. At the end the young woman featured in flashes through the rest of the video arrives by his side, and when the twins hit him again, he finally has a reaction to pain. At the end of the video they walk off together. The video also features footage of the band playing inside a garage, and at the end of the video frontman Jim Adkins throws his guitar out of the garage and then throws himself to the ground.

Christina McDowell, who plays the young woman in the video, would become a critically acclaimed author in 2015 with her memoir 'After Perfect: A Daughter's Memoir'.

Popular culture



The song appears in the season 4 episode of 'Smallville', "Transference". It also appears in the video games 'Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition', 'Tony Hawk's Underground 2', 'Guitar Hero: Van Halen' and DLC for 'Rock Band'.

Charts



Cover



In 2006, Japanese singer Kyosuke Himuro covered this song on his album.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ9vWzSNpkw Pain by Kyosuke Himuro]

References



Category:2004 singles

Category:Songs about suicide

Category:Jimmy Eat World songs

Category:2004 songs

Category:Song recordings produced by Gil Norton


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