Staind
Staind is an alternative metal band formed on November 24, 1995 in Springfi… Read Full Bio ↴Staind is an alternative metal band formed on November 24, 1995 in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. After meeting through friends and covering pop hits of the day in smalltime clubs for a year and a half, Staind self-released their debut album, Tormented, in November 1996, citing influences in brutal latin thrash metal. Until recently, the album was difficult to obtain, as only four thousand copies were originally sold. Since then, the band's official website has released the album to meet the demand from fans.
During this time, Staind played a show with Limp Bizkit. When Fred Durst saw the controversial cover of the group's self produced album; tormented, he tried to have the band kicked off the bill, but when he saw the band's live show, he changed his tone and befriended them. Durst later sang harmonies on the live version of Outside, which was recorded at a Family Values Tour concert in Biloxi, MS, in late October 1999. Durst went on to be one of the executive producers for Dysfunction and Break the Cycle. He also directed a few videos for the band later on, including It's Been Awhile.
Dysfunction
The band's big break came in October 1997 after Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst witnessed the band open up for them at a Hartford, Connecticut show, eventually signed them to his Flip record label, and co-produced their 1999 breakthrough Dysfunction with Terry Date. Although it is supposed that the band owe a lot of success to Durst, Aaron Lewis has expressed in interviews that Durst never had much of a relationship with either the singer or the band, claiming the band 'only worked on four songs with Durst and recorded the rest of the album themselves.' [4] Staind has not been associated with Durst since he directed several videos from their 2001 follow-up. Dysfunction has sold over two million copies in the U.S. alone. The album was given mediocre reviews by critics for being "indicative of the times", but a large number of the band's fans nonetheless regard it as the group's best work. The nine-track LP (with one hidden track, "Excess Baggage") produced three singles, all of which enjoyed radio play. The most well known, "Mudshovel", (which also appeared on Tormented, spelled as "Mudshuvel"), has since become a staple of the band's live shows.
Break the Cycle
Staind toured with Limp Bizkit for the Family Values Tour during the fall of 1999, where Aaron Lewis performed their first mainstream hit "Outside" (a song he was working on at the time but had not yet finished—he finished it on the fly while performing) with Fred Durst to hundreds of waving cigarette lighters, and which set them up for their smash hit 2001 album Break the Cycle, which brought them international success (it went number 1 in both the U.S. and the UK), sold more than 7 million copies, and had first week sales of over 767,000 in the U.S. alone. The album sees the band move away from the nu metal sounds of their previous album and resort to an alternative metal sound [5] which has spawned five hit singles to date, "It's Been Awhile", (which hit the Billboard Top 10) "Fade", (which has been featured on a number of movie soundtracks and television shows), "Outside", "For You", and the acoustic ballad "Epiphany", and included a track called "Waste", devoted to two teenage fans who committed suicide shortly before the album was released. The album also received mixed critical praise; Rolling Stone magazine called them "the grim genre's most song-oriented, downright sensitive band in years" [3] while New Musical Express referred to the album as "14 tracks of parent-friendly grunge-flavoured soft rock that make Creed sound like GG Allin." [4]. 'It's Been Awhile' spent a total of 16 and 14 weeks on top of the modern and mainstream rock charts, respectively, making it one of the highest joint number 1s (30 weeks) of all time.
14 Shades of Grey
In early 2003, Staind embarked on a worldwide tour to promote the release of the follow-up to Break The Cycle, 14 Shades Of Grey, which sold two million albums and debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200. The fourteen-track collection was the band's most mainstream yet[6], and showed Aaron Lewis writing songs about his daughter, as well as moving on with his life and forgetting his past, hence the title representing uncertainty for the future and forgiveness. The album provided two mainstream hits: the lead single "Price to Play", and "So Far Away" (which spent 14 weeks on top of the rock chart); in addition, two other singles failed to crack the Hot 100—"How About You" and "Zoey Jane"— but "How About You" was a fairly popular song on modern rock radio. Their song "Price to Play" was the official theme song of WWE's Vengeance pay-per-view event in July 2003. As well, their song "So Far Away" was featured on an episode of WWE RAW as part of a video tribute to hardcore wrestling legend Mick Foley. The band's appearance at Reading Festival during the 2003 tour had another impromptu acoustic set, this time due to equipment failure. The singles "So Far Away" and "Price to Play" came with two unreleased tracks, "Novocaine" and "Let It Out", which were released for the special edition of the group's Chapter V, which came out in late 2005. In 2003, Staind unsuccessfully sued their logo designer Jon Stainbrook in New York Federal Court (blabbermouth.net) for attempting to re-use the logo he had sold to the band. They re-opened the case in mid-2005.
Chapter V
After extensive promotions, including an appearance on Fuse TV's 7th Avenue Drop, Staind's newest album, titled Chapter V was released on August 9, 2005, and became their third consecutive number one. The album opened to sales of 185,000 and has since been certified platinum in the U.S. The first single "Right Here" has been the biggest success from the album thus far, garnering much mainstream radio play and peaking at number 1 on the mainstream rock chart. "Falling" (the video of which does not feature the band members at all) was released as the second single, followed by "Everything Changes" and "King of All Excuses." Staind have been on the road since the album came out doing live shows and promoting it for a full year, including participating in the Fall Brawl tour with P.O.D., Taproot and Flyleaf, a solo tour across Europe and a mini-promotional tour in Australia for the first time. Recent live shows have included a cover of Pantera's This Love, a tribute to Dimebag Darrell. Staind appeared on The Howard Stern Show on August 10, 2005, to promote their new album Chapter V. They performed acoustic renditions of the single Right Here and Beetlejuice's song "This is Beetle." Their rendition of "Beetle" is immensely popular with fans and listeners alike and became a staple of the show. Staind also performed a version of "Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd. Kevin Lofton, who does all the animation for the Howard Stern website, created a black-and-white animated video for the song. During a January 2006 Episode of WWE RAW, a tribute video to then WWE Champion Edge featured the band's song "Right Here". In early November 2005, Staind released the limited edition 2-CD/DVD set of Chapter V. The set included several rarities and fan favorites— music videos; a complete, 36-page booklet with exclusive artwork; an audio disc with an acoustic rendition of "This is Beetle"; the original, melodic rendition of "Reply"; the previously released B-side singles "Novocaine" and "Let It Out"; and live versions of "It's Been Awhile" and "Falling", among many others.
The Singles: 1996-2006
Staind announced that they would be performing an acoustic show in the Hiro Ballroom, New York City on September 6 and the songs played would be recorded for their upcoming "Greatest Hits" album, scheduled for a November 14 release. They played sixteen songs including three covers: Tool's Sober, Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb and Alice in Chains's Nutshell.
The title was later renamed to "The Singles" and finally "The Singles: 1996-2006". The album had most of Staind's singles (including "Everything Changes" which was recorded at the New York show), the three covers performed at the New York show and a remastered version of "Come Again", from Staind's first independent release Tormented.
It was released on November 15, 2006.
The Illusion Of Progress
On August 19, 2008, Staind released their 5th studio album (6th overall), The Illusion of Progress. A limited edition of the album was also made available to fans, which included 3 bonus tracks and a year membership in the Staind Fan Club, along with other items (the first 200 fans who pre-ordered the album through Atlantic Records received a signed copy of the album by the band). Prior to the album's release, the track "This Is It" was available for download on the iTunes store, as well as for Rock Band. The album debuted at #3 on US Billboard 200, #1 on the Top Modern Rock/Alternative Albums Chart, #1 on the Top Digital Albums Chart, and also #1 on the Top Internet Albums Chart, with first week sales of 91,800 units. The first single on the album, "Believe", topped Billboard's Top 10 Modern Rock Tracks on September 05, 2008.
Not Again, the first single from Staind's self-titled seventh album was released to active radio stations on July 19, 2011 and made available for purchase on July 26, 2011. (Not Again Songfacts).
They are currently not Touring.
During this time, Staind played a show with Limp Bizkit. When Fred Durst saw the controversial cover of the group's self produced album; tormented, he tried to have the band kicked off the bill, but when he saw the band's live show, he changed his tone and befriended them. Durst later sang harmonies on the live version of Outside, which was recorded at a Family Values Tour concert in Biloxi, MS, in late October 1999. Durst went on to be one of the executive producers for Dysfunction and Break the Cycle. He also directed a few videos for the band later on, including It's Been Awhile.
Dysfunction
The band's big break came in October 1997 after Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst witnessed the band open up for them at a Hartford, Connecticut show, eventually signed them to his Flip record label, and co-produced their 1999 breakthrough Dysfunction with Terry Date. Although it is supposed that the band owe a lot of success to Durst, Aaron Lewis has expressed in interviews that Durst never had much of a relationship with either the singer or the band, claiming the band 'only worked on four songs with Durst and recorded the rest of the album themselves.' [4] Staind has not been associated with Durst since he directed several videos from their 2001 follow-up. Dysfunction has sold over two million copies in the U.S. alone. The album was given mediocre reviews by critics for being "indicative of the times", but a large number of the band's fans nonetheless regard it as the group's best work. The nine-track LP (with one hidden track, "Excess Baggage") produced three singles, all of which enjoyed radio play. The most well known, "Mudshovel", (which also appeared on Tormented, spelled as "Mudshuvel"), has since become a staple of the band's live shows.
Break the Cycle
Staind toured with Limp Bizkit for the Family Values Tour during the fall of 1999, where Aaron Lewis performed their first mainstream hit "Outside" (a song he was working on at the time but had not yet finished—he finished it on the fly while performing) with Fred Durst to hundreds of waving cigarette lighters, and which set them up for their smash hit 2001 album Break the Cycle, which brought them international success (it went number 1 in both the U.S. and the UK), sold more than 7 million copies, and had first week sales of over 767,000 in the U.S. alone. The album sees the band move away from the nu metal sounds of their previous album and resort to an alternative metal sound [5] which has spawned five hit singles to date, "It's Been Awhile", (which hit the Billboard Top 10) "Fade", (which has been featured on a number of movie soundtracks and television shows), "Outside", "For You", and the acoustic ballad "Epiphany", and included a track called "Waste", devoted to two teenage fans who committed suicide shortly before the album was released. The album also received mixed critical praise; Rolling Stone magazine called them "the grim genre's most song-oriented, downright sensitive band in years" [3] while New Musical Express referred to the album as "14 tracks of parent-friendly grunge-flavoured soft rock that make Creed sound like GG Allin." [4]. 'It's Been Awhile' spent a total of 16 and 14 weeks on top of the modern and mainstream rock charts, respectively, making it one of the highest joint number 1s (30 weeks) of all time.
14 Shades of Grey
In early 2003, Staind embarked on a worldwide tour to promote the release of the follow-up to Break The Cycle, 14 Shades Of Grey, which sold two million albums and debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200. The fourteen-track collection was the band's most mainstream yet[6], and showed Aaron Lewis writing songs about his daughter, as well as moving on with his life and forgetting his past, hence the title representing uncertainty for the future and forgiveness. The album provided two mainstream hits: the lead single "Price to Play", and "So Far Away" (which spent 14 weeks on top of the rock chart); in addition, two other singles failed to crack the Hot 100—"How About You" and "Zoey Jane"— but "How About You" was a fairly popular song on modern rock radio. Their song "Price to Play" was the official theme song of WWE's Vengeance pay-per-view event in July 2003. As well, their song "So Far Away" was featured on an episode of WWE RAW as part of a video tribute to hardcore wrestling legend Mick Foley. The band's appearance at Reading Festival during the 2003 tour had another impromptu acoustic set, this time due to equipment failure. The singles "So Far Away" and "Price to Play" came with two unreleased tracks, "Novocaine" and "Let It Out", which were released for the special edition of the group's Chapter V, which came out in late 2005. In 2003, Staind unsuccessfully sued their logo designer Jon Stainbrook in New York Federal Court (blabbermouth.net) for attempting to re-use the logo he had sold to the band. They re-opened the case in mid-2005.
Chapter V
After extensive promotions, including an appearance on Fuse TV's 7th Avenue Drop, Staind's newest album, titled Chapter V was released on August 9, 2005, and became their third consecutive number one. The album opened to sales of 185,000 and has since been certified platinum in the U.S. The first single "Right Here" has been the biggest success from the album thus far, garnering much mainstream radio play and peaking at number 1 on the mainstream rock chart. "Falling" (the video of which does not feature the band members at all) was released as the second single, followed by "Everything Changes" and "King of All Excuses." Staind have been on the road since the album came out doing live shows and promoting it for a full year, including participating in the Fall Brawl tour with P.O.D., Taproot and Flyleaf, a solo tour across Europe and a mini-promotional tour in Australia for the first time. Recent live shows have included a cover of Pantera's This Love, a tribute to Dimebag Darrell. Staind appeared on The Howard Stern Show on August 10, 2005, to promote their new album Chapter V. They performed acoustic renditions of the single Right Here and Beetlejuice's song "This is Beetle." Their rendition of "Beetle" is immensely popular with fans and listeners alike and became a staple of the show. Staind also performed a version of "Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd. Kevin Lofton, who does all the animation for the Howard Stern website, created a black-and-white animated video for the song. During a January 2006 Episode of WWE RAW, a tribute video to then WWE Champion Edge featured the band's song "Right Here". In early November 2005, Staind released the limited edition 2-CD/DVD set of Chapter V. The set included several rarities and fan favorites— music videos; a complete, 36-page booklet with exclusive artwork; an audio disc with an acoustic rendition of "This is Beetle"; the original, melodic rendition of "Reply"; the previously released B-side singles "Novocaine" and "Let It Out"; and live versions of "It's Been Awhile" and "Falling", among many others.
The Singles: 1996-2006
Staind announced that they would be performing an acoustic show in the Hiro Ballroom, New York City on September 6 and the songs played would be recorded for their upcoming "Greatest Hits" album, scheduled for a November 14 release. They played sixteen songs including three covers: Tool's Sober, Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb and Alice in Chains's Nutshell.
The title was later renamed to "The Singles" and finally "The Singles: 1996-2006". The album had most of Staind's singles (including "Everything Changes" which was recorded at the New York show), the three covers performed at the New York show and a remastered version of "Come Again", from Staind's first independent release Tormented.
It was released on November 15, 2006.
The Illusion Of Progress
On August 19, 2008, Staind released their 5th studio album (6th overall), The Illusion of Progress. A limited edition of the album was also made available to fans, which included 3 bonus tracks and a year membership in the Staind Fan Club, along with other items (the first 200 fans who pre-ordered the album through Atlantic Records received a signed copy of the album by the band). Prior to the album's release, the track "This Is It" was available for download on the iTunes store, as well as for Rock Band. The album debuted at #3 on US Billboard 200, #1 on the Top Modern Rock/Alternative Albums Chart, #1 on the Top Digital Albums Chart, and also #1 on the Top Internet Albums Chart, with first week sales of 91,800 units. The first single on the album, "Believe", topped Billboard's Top 10 Modern Rock Tracks on September 05, 2008.
Not Again, the first single from Staind's self-titled seventh album was released to active radio stations on July 19, 2011 and made available for purchase on July 26, 2011. (Not Again Songfacts).
They are currently not Touring.
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Staind Lyrics
4 Walls The thoughts from my mind Command my lips say I…
A Flat Just in me can't trust, I know, I don't believe…
All I Want What I leave, When you go, What I see, And what you show, An…
Believe I sit alone and watch the clock Tryin' to collect my…
Black Hey oooh Shades of empty canvas, untouched sheets of clay. …
Blow Away Live in my head for just one day I see myself…
Break Misery And company it keeps Is for me All these things We ke…
Bring the Noise Yeah, party Dance, how low can you go? Death row, what a…
Can't Believe Respect Respect is what is found Respect should be abound Re…
Can't Believe (MTV Unplugged) Respect Respect what is found Respect should abound Respect …
Change If you just walked away What could I really say? Would it…
Come Again Motherfucker! You push yourself on me Force yourself on me …
Comfortably Numb Hello Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear…
Could It Be Well I don't know what to say Because there's truth to…
Crawl I'm so lonely You're so beautiful Not the only One that's pi…
Cross To Bear Twisting Turning Crashing Burning All this Just to Break me …
Devil She sits alone again and tries her best not to…
Epiphany Your words to me just a whisper Your face is so…
Everything Changes If you just walked away What could I really say? Would it…
Excess Baggage (Hidden track on Dysfunction) Well I know the words, but I…
Eyes Wide Open The hating and the waiting, hesitating I just want to be…
Fade I try to breathe Memories overtaking me I try to face them…
Failing Yeah, like the threat of the darkest clouds rollin' in…
Falling You in your shell Are you waiting for someone to rescue…
Falling Down What's happened to you? It's obvious you've changed Somethin…
Fill Me Up I just had to let you know Cause I don't always…
For You To my mother, to my father It's your son or It's your…
For You (radio version) To my mother, to my father It's your son or, it's…
ForYou To my mother, to my father It's your son or It's your…
Four Walls The thoughts from my mind Command my lips say I…
Fray I was close, I was so close To everything that…
Funeral I will lift up mine eyes onto the Hills from whence…
Home I force myself through another day Can't explain the way tod…
How About You If someone else showed you the way Would you take the…
In this condition Is there something more for me? I know there's better out…
In Your Eyes As I walk along these streets I see a man that…
Intro Thank you to the people in my life For putting…
İntro Intro unplugged…
It And it's been awhile Since I could hold my head up…
It's Been A While (MTV Unplugged) And it's been awhile, since I could hold my head…
It's Been Awhile And it's been awhile Since I could hold my head up…
Just Go I'm kinda numb It's so distorted You left me here with this…
King of All Excuses You I trusted your intentions a trust you took Advantage of …
Layne I heard today that you were gone I had to stop…
Let It Out There's nothing left Nothing left to hold onto There is no…
Lost Along The Way We Change The Rhyme Forget The Reason Waiting For The Change…
Lowest In Me Trying to let go, but you won't let me So I'm…
Me This dark room, another cigarette The carpet's strewn, I'm g…
Mudshovel You take away I feel the same You take away I feel the…
Mudshovel (Live Family Values You take away I feel the same You take away I feel the…
Mudshuvel You take away I feel the same You take away I feel the…
Nameless Can't you see, I fucking hate me Can't you see, I…
No One's Kind What the fuck's the purpose I didn't scratch the surface…
Not Again Do you feel like you're falling? You've taken this step In f…
Nothing Else Matters So close no matter how far It couldn't be much more…
Nothing Left To Say Talk To Me You Never Talk To Me Do We Suffer From Social Atr…
Novocaine Impression and suffering Depression and hostility Obsess…
Now When you've come to a fork in the road You can…
Nutshell We chase misprinted lies We chase the tracks of time And y…
On The Outside And you Can bring me to my knees Again All the times That I…
Open Your Eyes As I walk along these streets I see a man that…
Outside And you Can bring me to my knees Again All the times That I…
Outside Live And you bring me to my knees again All this…
Outside (MTV Unplugged) And you, you bring me to my knees, again All the…
Painful I light another cigarette Stop to think about it Come to no…
Paper Jesus You take this all for granted All the things they choose…
Paper Wings Your pathetic Your fucking weak And I'm sick of it all Socia…
Pardon Me I'm one stop From a breakdown Two steps from Being safe Just…
Please Can't you see that I'm sick of this? Chances are you're…
Pressure I just need this to be alright I can't feel this…
Price to Play Fail to see how destructive we can be Taking without giving…
Question Which way do I go? Pain I swallow I cannot keep…
Raining Again A piece of glass In the sand under your feet It cuts…
Rainy Day Parade You the great pretenders,blood to paint your pictures While …
Raw RAW The pictures left with me won't fade These images…
Reality The lights are on but you're not home You've drifted off…
Reply I have seen Too many sad eyes look at me…
Right Here I know I've been mistaken But just give me a break And…
Run Away I'm still scared afraid of failing Anticipating, the ride to…
Safe Place Another day inside my world I'm married to you and this…
Save Me This dark road Another cigarette I'm getting sick of this Th…
Schizophrenic Conversations Are you afraid, afraid of the truth In the mirror staring…
See Through "What is your fucking problem!?" You want to know what…
Self Destruct Watch me suffer You'll feel better Stick the needle in…
So Far Away This is my life Its not what it was before All these…
So Far Away (Acoustic in 93.3 This is my life, it's not what it was before All…
So far away lyrics This is my life Its not what it was before All these…
Sober Every shadow just behind me Shrouding every step I make Bre…
Sober (Acoustic Every shadow just behind me Shrouding every step I make B…
Something Like Me Shards and broken pieces Shattered on the floor It's not …
Something to Remind You So this is it I say goodbye To this chapter of my…
Spleen Can't breathe! Shut up Shut up I feel I give everything…
staind-for you To my mother, to my father It's your son or It's your…
staind-open your eyes As I walk along these streets I see a man that…
Suffer Suffer Suffer Suffer The more you see the more you do The …
Suffer (Live Version) Suffer x3 The more you see the more you do The television's…
Suffocate I feel nothing Longing for something Lie in bed to…
Take a Breath You can take all the things you think I need All…
Take It I feel like this won't go away No matter how hard…
Take This I can't believe how far I've come Now watch me stumble…
Tangled Up in You You're my world The shelter from the rain You're the pills T…
The Bottom You suffocate, you cannot wait For this to just be over You…
The Corner It Sheltered Me From Nothing But The Weather I Called It…
The Funeral I will lift up mine eyes onto the hills from…
The Way I Am I'm not very good at just paying attention I'm not very…
This Is It Here we are There's nowhere else to go and that's so…
Throw It All Away It doesn't feel like this is over It's never felt like…
Tolerate It's been like this forever No more I hate my fucking life …
Tonight Just try to understand This isn't what I planned This ride's…
Trippy I can't believe how far I've come now watch me stumble…
Wanna Be I'm selling records What is it that you do? Sitting…
Wannabe I'm selling records What is it that you do? Sitting…
Warm Safe Place Another day Inside my world I'm married to you and this ro…
Waste Your mother came up to me, She wanted answers only she…
Yesterday You don't know what you've put me through It's okay, I've…
Zoe Jane Well I want you to notice To notice when I'm not…