entries to make love to

what's this...an entry on a day when macabre isn't on? why yes, it is. today i'm not going to post anything "escape from l.a." as...well, i don't feel like it right now. that and i have other stuff to share. now, let us enjoy this bounty that you are about to receive:

Dry Kill Logic
Rot [Edit]
Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck
A Better Man Than Me [Mongo Remix]
SAB (Get The Fuck Out)

all of those came from the "rot" radio promo that roadrunner records gave out to a few lucky people years ago. now this promo is from "the darker side of nonsense" era when they only released this one album on roadrunner and then left when the label wanted the band to adopt a "more commercial sound". i guess that's exec speak for "sound like nickelback". anywho, apparently the band recorded their cover of prong's "snap your fingers, snap your neck" for this promo. it really doesn't stray too far away from prong's version except for the fact it's a bit faster...actually it's a bit faster than grinspoon's cover too. the "rot [edit]" is not a radio edit where they remove all expletives, but in this case, all they really did was just remove 1:20 from the beginning of the song. i have no clue why, but i suspect it's so they could fit more commercials on the radio. "a better man than me" is obviously a remix, but i can't really compare it to the original as i haven't heard it yet. "sab (get the fuck out)" is weird. it sounds like it was recorded at a party...well, all the vocals you hear. apparently this track was a redoing of a track on the album...i don't really know either. but it's fucking funny as hell as the only lyrics in the thing are "sab, get the fuck out". that and you can hear bitching before and after that. i don't know if these tracks were commercially released, but here you go.


Faith No More
Easy
Das Schutzenfest
Midnight Cowboy [Album Version]
Let's Lynch The Landlord

these are from the "songs to make love to" e.p. or as i know it the "easy" single. i say this as the cover on my copy actually says "easy" not "songs to make love to". only on the disc itself is this printed. now, this is a bit odd especially for faith no more. i mean, this entire single is just plain odd. you can tell this is where mike patton took over. "easy" is a commodores cover and is pretty good. this version is different from the version that was eventually included with later pressings of "angel dust". it does not contain the spoken intro and has strings throughout the song. "das schutzenfest" is...well, it sounds like something you'd hear at oktoberfest. i'm pretty sure it's in german and well...it's faith no more doing a german polka song. if that doesn't say how odd this song is, well...i don't know what does. "midnight cowboy" is the album version that was on "angel dust" so no need to go on about that one. finally another odd track..."let's lynch the landlord". now, obviously it's a dead kennedys cover, but this is perhaps the most fucking odd DK cover i've ever heard. you think of a DK cover, you'd think that it'd resemble the original in some form. not here because, once again, the polka vibe kicks in. there really is nothing else i can say about this track. i can't form words when i think about it. it's that indescribable. so...listen to it for yourself heh.

escape from the blog part 1...or 2...

i actually had started to post this entry a week or so ago, but alas...something happened and i didn't feel like retyping all that shit out again. i also had intended to add the "L.A. Remix" of "Blame" and a few other choice songs...but i got lazy and didn't upload them just yet. and yes...macabre is on right now, but i just don't feel like uploading today. maybe tomorrow...who knows heh. let's get on with the music.

White Zombie
The One

one of the last 3 original songs released by white zombie before their "hiatus". i swear, if you heard the word "hiatus" and a band's name in the same sentence, said band is dead. i just wish band's would just say "it's dead" instead of leaving false hope out there in the form of "hiatus", but i digress.

as i saying, this song like the other 2...well, i guess "i'm your boogie man" doesn't count since it's a cover and not an original song...ah shit, fuck it. this song like the other 2 songs strangely got relegated to soundtrack duty before the bands demise. of the 3 songs, i feel this one is the more superior and yes i do like "ratfinks, suicide tanks and cannibal girls" but this one just packs more punch. it's prolly the most industrial white zombie song ever released. anywho, i think this song could've worked better as a swansong than "ratfinks". i'm prolly the only who feels this way, but what can i say? i love this one.


Stabbing Westward
Dawn

whats not the love about this one too? it has the most memorable line in the history of stabbing westward: "so let's fuck until we fall asleep". c'mon how many bands can actually think of a lyric completely obvious like that and make it work? i dare you to listen that line and not chuckle just a little bit when you hear christopher hall say "fuck". enough of that hehe. this song also sadly got demoted to soundtrack duty too (obviously as it's on the same damn soundtrack as the previous song heh). i guess it doesn't fit anywhere on "wither blister burn + peel"...too slow i suppose, who knows? but what i do know is this, "dawn" existed before in a previous incarnation as a song known as "plastic jesus" on the "iwo jimma" demo.

how the hell "dawn" arose from that track i'll never know as there is virtually nothing from that track that made it's transition into it's final form (now notice i said "virtually" to cover my ass just in case i'm dead wrong hehe). i'd prolly be able to figure it out more if the copy of the demo i have was of better quality, but you take what you can get. for a long time, this soundtrack was the only place to get this song until the release of "the essential" which just detracts from this release as a whole as this was one of the jewels of the cd, i say this as the soundtrack starts off with this very song. strangely "the essential" also contained the josh wink version of "torn apart" which stabbing westward apparently hates...*shrug* i'll get around to posting that another time.

ok, enjoy what little i've given you today and hopefully i can repeat the xXx-mas entry again on another day.