To mark Pete’s three year anniversary (albeit 10 days too late) here’s what I would envisage as being what you need to have from Type O Negative, one of the best acts of the 90s:
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While I endorse this,I would list everything off of every album…never a bad moment for me…
Queer Bait is mostly right. I can dive into almost any ToN release and find very few songs I want to skip. The earlier Carnivore sounding stuff is take or leave (sorry). Everything from Bloody Kisses onwards is full album listening.
I tried doing this, but I quit when I realized that I really don’t listen to Bloody Kisses, October Rust, WCD, and Life is Killing me much at all any more. I made a rough list that turned out to be like half of Dead Again, 1/3 of SD&H, Too Late - Frozen, and the WCD throwaways from Least Worst Of.
I don’t like gloomy, doomy Type O as much as I like “Goddammit, not this shit AGAIN” Type O.
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Queer Bait is mostly right. I can dive into almost any ToN release and find very few songs I want to skip. The earlier Carnivore sounding stuff is take or leave (sorry). Everything from Bloody Kisses onwards is full album listening.
I love all of Slow,Deep and Hard also…
My favorites are Origin Of The Feces, Bloody Kisses (Digipak Edition) and October Rust. These are gold perfection for me. I have the rest of the albums too and I like them a lot, but they’re just not as well rounded.
My favorites are Origin Of The Feces, Bloody Kisses (Digipak Edition) and October Rust. These are gold perfection for me. I have the rest of the albums too and I like them a lot, but they’re just not as well rounded.
Hmmm,odd…I’ve never heard anyone say Origin of the Feces is one of their faves…especially since it’s mostly comprised of stuff from Slow,Deep and Hard in shorter form…
World Coming Down is my favorite but I love them all pretty much equally…won’t see a band like that come along again…
type O is easily one of my all time favorite bands. World Coming Down is in the running for most powerful mass-release album of all time.
there was just something about Peter that resonated with me in a shitton of ways, and as a result, every smirking tear in his words felt real and honest.
i miss the music, but more so i miss the man.
type O is easily one of my all time favorite bands. World Coming Down is in the running for most powerful mass-release album of all time.
there was just something about Peter that resonated with me in a shitton of ways, and as a result, every smirking tear in his words felt real and honest.
i miss the music, but more so i miss the man.
Quality post…
They went out with a great album. Dead Again stacks up with the best and has as always the sarcastic and self deprecating genius Pete was known for.
Biggest regret. Missing the ToN/Celtic Frost tour later that year. One thousand hurts…
They went out with a great album. Dead Again stacks up with the best and has as always the sarcastic and self deprecating genius Pete was known for.
Biggest regret. Missing the ToN/Celtic Frost tour later that year. One thousand hurts…
I was at that one and it was a hell of a show…both bands were great…they did several songs off of Dead Again,which I agree was an excellent album to go out on…'These Three Things"=HOLY FUCK!!!
I wouldn’t be that gone on Dead Again. It wasn’t a wrong move as such going back to hardcore elements where they/Pete first came from and it did offer good energy (and to use real drums again). But I felt the album grew old quickly, much more so than previous albums (have been listening to October Rust since it came out and have never tired of it).
I know Pete may just have been taking the piss but the overt pro Christian lyrics I found to be not funny but intrusive. These Three Things at first sounds epic but I started to get annoyed with it. I believe Pete’s turn to Jesus in his final years was probably genuine and he didn’t sound, or look, right at all since Dead Again. He looked like he was in decline mentally and physically from about the time of the album and when I heard he died, though gutting as it was, came as no major surprise.
Though I’d rank Dead Again near the bottom of their catalogue I can see how it would have been cool to hear it live - in fact it’s probably one of their best albums to experience live. October Rust - the king - though I never witnessed it live, I can remember hearing did not transfer to a live setting well. Therefore one is left with having the option of seeing Dead Again or October Rust live, the latter the far superior album, one might swing for Dead Again. An answer to this predicament might just be World Coming Down - a strong album, their second best, but also heavy enough for a good live show
I saw them on WCD as well and for me they were at the peak of their power on that tour…I might be biased since I think it’s their best record but they were just really strong on that tour and they played a great set list…the only bad thing about that night was that Coal Chamber was the opener and they blew rancid diseased rhino cock…
the only bad thing about that night was that Coal Chamber was the opener and they blew rancid diseased rhino cock…
As much as I’m a fan of theirs, they don’t belong on the same tour as Type O.
I wouldn’t be that gone on Dead Again. It wasn’t a wrong move as such going back to hardcore elements where they/Pete first came from and it did offer good energy (and to use real drums again). But I felt the album grew old quickly, much more so than previous albums (have been listening to October Rust since it came out and have never tired of it).
I know Pete may just have been taking the piss but the overt pro Christian lyrics I found to be not funny but intrusive. These Three Things at first sounds epic but I started to get annoyed with it. I believe Pete’s turn to Jesus in his final years was probably genuine and he didn’t sound, or look, right at all since Dead Again. He looked like he was in decline mentally and physically from about the time of the album and when I heard he died, though gutting as it was, came as no major surprise.
Though I’d rank Dead Again near the bottom of their catalogue I can see how it would have been cool to hear it live - in fact it’s probably one of their best albums to experience live. October Rust - the king - though I never witnessed it live, I can remember hearing did not transfer to a live setting well. Therefore one is left with having the option of seeing Dead Again or October Rust live, the latter the far superior album, one might swing for Dead Again. An answer to this predicament might just be World Coming Down - a strong album, their second best, but also heavy enough for a good live show
ive had this talk with a lot of people…
see, i really respected the resonance he found with Catholicism. i think that people who dont come from immigrant catholic culture families will miss the importance that the dogma plays not only spiritually, but emotionally, and nostalgically. for a lot of people from strong italian, irish, polish, russian, mexican backgrounds, especially those who are raised steeped in the encompassing devotion of recent immigration there is such a safety and comfort in the patterning of catholicism.
when i saw him live and when i watched all the interviews i could get my hands on during that final period of his life, i could see so much more… strength and calmness within his words and jokes. even his wrathful moments had a sense of correct mourning to them that resonated with me and reminded me of some of my own cousins.
i am glad that he found his way back to the structure of catholicism, even though i personally DO NOT agree with a lot/most of it. im glad he found that, because i think it helped him let go of a lot of the demons and monsters within him that he had, instead of purging, been cultivating and engorging himself with.
also, September Sun might be the best single of his career.
So Pete found God? Does that mean they cut Christian Woman out of the set list?
He still played all the old stuff.
But yeah, his Catholic/Christian themes on “Dead Again” were all genuine.
Now here is a question: Does anyone have/has anyone ever seen World Coming Down on vinyl?
Checked discogs and no sign, apart from that big collection thing
Now here is a question: Does anyone have/has anyone ever seen World Coming Down on vinyl?
Checked discogs and no sign, apart from that big collection thing
I’ve never seen it and was under the impression that they never produced any…
I can’t remember where I got them but I have some cool fold-out promo thingys for WCD…