Since it was the 30th anniversary of Slayer’s ‘Reign in Blood’ this week; I dusted off a copy, cracked open a Lone Star beer and was immediately reminded of the good ol’ days of having this on a crappy dubbed cassette. And by ‘crappy dubbed cassette,’ I mean the friend who dubbed it simply blasted it out of “boombox A” while recording into “boombox B.” Classic.
Damn, not having a lyric sheet handy really made me misinterpret a lyric or two. In “Jesus Saves,” the line “…a trait that’s grown as time has passed” became “blah blah blah blah cabbage patch”.
Also I couldn’t understand why Araya would be rhyming the words ‘red’ with ‘again’ in “Reborn”. So, perhaps sometime around when Ren & Stimpy Show was being broadcast, it was all I could do to keep my mind from hearing “I signed the book of red” as “I cite the Book of Ren”