Musical style ĪllMusic wrote "guitarist Kenny Hickey's passages have grown increasingly melodic, and the keys of Josh Silver possess a timeless melancholy" despite "how bleak or odd the lyrical proceedings get". The album's title track further references Steele's father's death, while "Nettie" was written about his mother. "I Like Goils" is described by Steele as "poking fun at PC" (political correctness), with lyrics centred on Steele's frustration with having homosexual men make sexual advances towards him following his 1995 Playgirl photoshoot, which, at the time, Steele agreed to pose for unaware that women made up only a minority of the readership. "Todd's Ship Gods (Above All Things)" was written by Steele about his father. The track "Thir13teen" is a cover of music featured in the TV show The Munsters.īillboard described the record's lyrical themes as "infidelity, death and depression". The album contains a cover of the song "Angry Inch" from the off-Broadway musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch. It is like my dreams are dead." The album's title was originally going to be The Dream Is Dead. I was with a girlfriend for 10 years but she left. And all the things I took for granted, my health, my life, people I love dying, people I loved walking away. Content ĭescribing the inspiration behind the title and theme of the record, Steele responded in an interview: "I guess I am going through some sort of midlife crisis being 41 years old now. This is the last album by the band to make use of programmed drums, which had previously been used on October Rust and World Coming Down the band's next and final studio album, Dead Again, would feature only studio drums. Vocalist and bassist Peter Steele used a custom Fernandes Tremor bass guitar for the recording of the album, an instrument which was built to his exact specifications under his sponsorship with the company. The man that walks into he house looks like he works in an office and it shows that Type O Negative being a commercially successful band for the company is just a pathetic fantasy and that it's not going to happen, which explains the last scene where the man acts as though he can't believe what's happening and he becomes trapped.Life Is Killing Me was recorded at Systems Two Recording Studio in Brooklyn, New York. The music video is about how the music company wants them to be something that they're not, a money making sellout. Hell, like his idol (and mine) Kurt Cobain of Nirvana who felt the need to isolate the band from the masses of fans, he feels that if fewer people listen to him then he's not out anything. He's saying that he's not doing it for the popularity. He's speaking out against the stereotype of rock bands struggling to maintain popularity and then only being heard of every now and again. He also mentioned that they don't have true fans that stick with them over time (between albums, sounds, after one hit, etc.) and they forget about the band, and once you lose a following it's hard to get them back, which is why they've lost popularity over the years. He recieved pressure from the label to create more songs with a mainstream style after the commercial success of this song and album. On top of that, when he was interviewed by one of the members of Anthrax he mentioned how his music was being exploited by the recording label (Roadrunner?) to make money. He doesn't enjoy live shows because he's self conscious about himself when infront of people. When you mix yellow and blue you get green, the color of the onstage attire that is attributed to them, as you can see in the music video.Įvery step forward in their Peter's career is also a step back because he hates publicity at times. The other, the side that is most often commericalized, put on the radio, and sold to the masses for profit, the side with the big record labels, airplay, touring and often "selling out" side of music.īecause they are always (ever) caught between the two a step towards one is a step away from the other, hence the throwing the stones at his home. One, you have the people who like the (realitively speaking) unpopular style of music that they do, the slow, dragging, dark music that Type O Negative is most often associated with. There are two sides (each represented by a glass house) to what's going on with the band when it comes to audiences. General Comment"I don't wanna be me anymore"
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