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The Biggest Bands In The World Post

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

I’ve had a shitty week and I’m feeling exceptionally vitriolic tonight so watch out.

The Police
Don’t Stand So Close To Me ’86 (Dance Remix)
Don’t Stand So Close To Me (Live)
Tea In The Sahara (Live)
Someone To Talk To
Message In The Bottle (Live)
The Police are back together and on tour, and they suck (says Stewart Copeland). Thanks for saving me $125 bucks Stu! How the fuck can they get off on charging that much for tickets? It’s not like The Police are struggling for money. I think it should be a law that once your band sells 30 million records worldwide tickets can’t cost more than $25. Fucking whores.

Regardless I still like their music though and I thought I’d share some B-sides I picked up last month. The dance remix of their remake of ‘Don’t Stand So Close To Me’ and the live version of the same song are off of the song’s 12” single. The live take of ‘Tea In The Sahara’ is the B-side to ‘King Of Pain’, and the final two tracks are on the on the ‘Message In The Bottle’ 12” single.

U2
Boomerang I
Boomerang II
Touch
11 O’Clock Tick Tock (Pride Single Version)
Dancing Barefoot
When Love Comes To Town (With B.B. King – Live From The Kingdom Mix)
Yeah sure Bono is a saint and he’s trying to save the world everyone loves him yada yada yada. He’s also in a band that charges well over one hundred bucks for tickets to one of their shows. How can you preach the end of world poverty in one breathe and then ask your devoted fans to shell out an arm and a leg to see them live? What a hypocritical former mullet-headed prick.

They also dicked over their fans by making their B-sides collections only available for one week, and tacked on to their Greatest Hits compilations’ which are filled with songs that every U2 fan already owns. Last year they worked with Green Day to record an awesome version of The Skids’ classic ‘The Saints Are Coming’ but then shoved it onto another greatest hits compilation and didn’t even let fans download it separately on iTunes! That should have been a charity single. Speaking of iTunes, don’t even get me going on the fact that if you want all their rarities and unreleased tracks you can’t download them individually but instead you have to shell out $150 for the ‘digital box set’.

These vinyl rips off of two of their singles sound better than the DRM-fucked iTunes tracks that you can’t buy individually. Enjoy.

R.E.M.
Radio Song (Tower Of Luv Bug Mix)
Love Is All Around (Live)
Belong (Live)
Man, don’t get me started on R.E.M.! Michael Stipe is such a….I mean Peter Buck is a complete…Shit, I got nothing to say about R.E.M. I like them, except for the whole ‘Shiny Happy People’ thing. This sweet mix and live cuts are off of the ‘Radio Song’ 12”.

Dance Till Your Head Falls Off.

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

All electronic music today. Artists on this post start out “high-brow” and get progressively stupider. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not knocking stupid music, but I don’t think anyone is every going to call Tricky “silly dance music.” Inversely speaking, no one is every going to claim that Apollo 440’s ‘Stop The Rock’ was a deep and meaningful song.

Tricky
Aftermath (Hip Hop Blues)
Aftermath (I Could Be Looking For People Remix)
Aftermath (Version 1)
On my senior skip day I went to go see The Fifth Element (yeah, I was one of the cool kids). I remember watching it and being generally impressed with it overall. Then out of the middle of nowhere Tricky shows up and starts acting all bad-ass. 10 minutes later Gary Oldman blows him up. Man, that was a fucked up movie. These are remixes from Tricky’s first single, taken from a 12”.

Meat Beat Manifesto
Psyche-Out (Version 1)
Psyche-Out (Version 2)
Psyche-Out (Dub)
Psyche-Out (Sex Skank Stripdown)
Psyche-Out (Sex Skank Mix)
Best bad band name ever. I’ve always thought these guys should have gone on tour with The Circle Jerks.

Prodigy
More Girls
Under My Wheels (Original Mix)
Remember when these guys had the number one album in America? Man, 1997 was fucking weird. Anyways, these two tracks are off of the ‘Girls’ 12” single. ‘Girls’ originally appeared on Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned and album that I liked and no one else in the world did.

Apollo 440
Stop The Rock (@44 Extended Mix)
Stop The Rock (Mint Royale Mix)
Stop The Rock (Gigolo ‘Stop The Jocks’ Remix)
Stop The Rock (T-Total Remix)
Something I read once called Apollo 440 “electronic music for frat boys”. While I wouldn’t call Apollo 440 proponents of Intelligent Dance Music I think that criticism may be just a bit harsh. I dug some of their tunes aside from this one, which was their big hit single. Their remix of the theme to Lost In Space was definitely the best thing to come out of that ungodly shitstorm of a movie. Anyways, these mixes are off of a 12” single.

You Stooped Me All Night Long.

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

I previously said I wasn’t going to do theme posts. Well, I lied. This post isn’t a themed one but the next couple…few…dozen will be simply because it’ll give me an excuse to clear out some crap that probably couldn’t stand on it’s own. Expect a lot of mid-90s techno this week. This post is kind of a warm-up for that.

Lords Of Acid
I Sit On Acid 2000 (Soulwax Remix)
Scrood Bi U (Hush Scroo All Ya’ll Mix)
These are the last two Lords Of Acid tracks I’ll be posting for a while, meaning that my mom will no longer have to worry about accidentally downloading something she’s not old enough to hear.

Erasure
I Love Saturday (Beatmasters Dub Mix)
I Love Saturday (Beatmasters Club Mix)
I need to unload my Erasure, it’s gathering on my hard drive like some…big…gay…thing (I’m tired and out of similes. Expect an all-Erasure post in the near future.

INXS
Disappear (Extended 12” Mix)
Middle Beast
What You Need (Coldcut Force Mix)
My favorite INXS song hands down in ‘Disappear.’ In case anyone is wondering my second-favorite INXS song is ‘Need You Tonight/Mediate’ and my third is ‘Elegantly Wasted’ which is off of their criminally underlooked album of the same name. ‘Middle Beast’ is an instrumental track that happens to have a hilariously appropriate title considering the state of the world right now. The mix to ‘What You Need’ is the weakest of the three, with too many ‘ooh yeahs’ getting thrown in for no good reason. All of these are off of the 12” single for ‘Disappear.’

Lunatic Calm
Leave You Far Behind (Rollercoaster Mix)
Metropol (Lunatics Soundscape Mix)
Today marked the first time that I properly spelled Lunatic Calm on my first try. I always want to type their name out as ‘Lunatic Clam.’ And while I bet that is the name of some awesome porno movie about a bipolar hooker (or the worst nautical horror movie ever), it’s not the name of the band. I know nothing about these guys other than the fact that ‘Far Behind’ was on The Matrix Soundtrack. This remix of it is almost like a dub mix and I don’t think the “I want to leave you far behind” hook is ever mentioned. Both these remixes are off of some white-label promo that I bought for a buck at Half Price Books.

I Am Paris Hilton’s Cellmate.

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

Argh. I totally finished this post like night but got distracted by a shiny object or something because I never hit that little ‘Publish Post’ button. Expect another post in a couple of hours, which will be the one I was planning on doing tonight anyways.

Beck
Richard’s Hairpiece (Devil’s Haircut Remix by Aphex Twim)
Electric Music And The Summer People
I spend so much time digging through crates of records that I forget that I also have a substantial amount of CD singles. These two Beck rarities serve as an example of that. Both of these are from a maxi-single of ‘Devil’s Haircut.’ Aphex Twin’s remix is surprisingly normal for one of his, you can actually recognize the original song. I have some more rare Beck that I’ll get around to posting sometime.

Erasure
I Love Saturday (JX Remix)
I Love Saturday (Flower Mix)
The new Erasure album is good, go buy it. These two remixes are off of a white label promo 12” single. Two more from this one next post.

Lords Of Acid
Pussy (Disco D’s Ultra Buff Luv Muff Mix)
Pussy (DJ Assault’s Hit It Hard Hit It Quick Mix)
Pussy (I Love Pussy Mix)
One of the stupidest songs ever written, oh I love it so. I have some sick fantasy of taking a girl home, getting her in the mood for loving and then right when we start to get it on have this track blare out of my stereo. I wonder if anyone’s actually ever fucked to ‘Pussy’? It’s probably a better song to strip to, I hope and pray that there is a strip club somewhere in the world that just has this song on constant repeat. This was one of those songs I was exposed to during the halcyon days of Napster and college dorm file sharing. T’was a glorious time, filled with mislabeled ID tags (what do you mean ‘Cats In The Cradle’ isn’t by Bob Dylan?) and hard drives filled with random tracks like this and the techno remix of the theme to Das Boot. Anyways, these remixes of this opus to…um…kitty cats, is off of a 12” single. I’ll post the B-sides next time.

You Stooped Me All Night Long.

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

I previously said I wasn’t going to do theme posts. Well, I lied. This post isn’t a themed one but the next couple…few…dozen will be simply because it’ll give me an excuse to clear out some crap that probably couldn’t stand on it’s own. Expect a lot of mid-90s techno this week. This post is kind of a warm-up for that.

Lords Of Acid
I Sit On Acid 2000 (Soulwax Remix)
Scrood Bi U (Hush Scroo All Ya’ll Mix)
These are the last two Lords Of Acid tracks I’ll be posting for a while, meaning that my mom will no longer have to worry about accidentally downloading something she’s not old enough to hear.

Erasure
I Love Saturday (Beatmasters Dub Mix)
I Love Saturday (Beatmasters Club Mix)
I need to unload my Erasure, it’s gathering on my hard drive like some…big…gay…thing (I’m tired and out of similes. Expect an all-Erasure post in the near future.

INXS
Disappear (Extended 12” Mix)
Middle Beast
What You Need (Coldcut Force Mix)
My favorite INXS song hands down in ‘Disappear.’ In case anyone is wondering my second-favorite INXS song is ‘Need You Tonight/Mediate’ and my third is ‘Elegantly Wasted’ which is off of their criminally underlooked album of the same name. ‘Middle Beast’ is an instrumental track that happens to have a hilariously appropriate title considering the state of the world right now. The mix to ‘What You Need’ is the weakest of the three, with too many ‘ooh yeahs’ getting thrown in for no good reason. All of these are off of the 12” single for ‘Disappear.’

Lunatic Calm
Leave You Far Behind (Rollercoaster Mix)
Metropol (Lunatics Soundscape Mix)
Today marked the first time that I properly spelled Lunatic Calm on my first try. I always want to type their name out as ‘Lunatic Clam.’ And while I bet that is the name of some awesome porno movie about a bipolar hooker (or the worst nautical horror movie ever), it’s not the name of the band. I know nothing about these guys other than the fact that ‘Far Behind’ was on The Matrix Soundtrack. This remix of it is almost like a dub mix and I don’t think the “I want to leave you far behind” hook is ever mentioned. Both these remixes are off of some white-label promo that I bought for a buck at Half Price Books.

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Thursday, May 31st, 2007

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Erasure
True Love Wars (Omni Plus)
Stay With Me (Guitar Mix)
The last two tracks from the 12” single for ‘Stay With Me’. Only 20-30 more Erasure songs to go and I’ll have featured my entire collection. Oy.

Fleetwood Mac
Landslide (Remix)
Landslide (String Mix)
Landslide (Analog Mix)
I’m sure that the last time you heard ‘Landslide’ you thought “You know what, what this dark introspective song about a dissolving relationship is great, but what it really needs is an up-tempo backbeat and a string section!” I’m usually a big fan of remixes and re-interpretations of songs but ‘Landslide’ is a song that was perfect the way it was. These three remixes were taken off of a promo single that was released to promote Fleetwood Mac’s reunion album/concert The Dance. I’m posting them mostly for the sake of just posting them, they are kind of interesting to hear but really just want to make you listen to the original version. It’s not as bad as the remix to ‘Big Love’ though, eek.

The Whoring Of Pittsburgh Post

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

I’ve lived in Pittsburgh for about three years now and I love the place. One of the best things about this town are the surprising amount of quality record stores they have. I’ve mentioned the awesomeness of Jerry’s Records several times over by now, so I thought in this post I’d take the chance to single out some other retail outlets in the Pittsburgh area, some good, some not-so-good.

R.E.M.
Finest Worksong (Lengthy Club Mix)
Finest Worksong (Other Mix)
Time After Time (Live)
I got this single at Half-Price Books, which is a semi-national chain that sells used books, VHS tapes, DVDs, CDs, computer software and LPs. It’s a great place to buy stuff but a lousy place to sell. A while ago I was trying to unload my laserdisc collection and there only offered me 4 dollars for 40 laserdiscs. Not four bucks a disc, but four bucks total. I was able to get around 30 bucks for them at an Exchange down the street. Thankfully they’re idiots when it comes to selling stuff too, because I was able to get some great singles there for less than a dollar. I also picked up a rare Mindless Self Indulgence promo for a buck. These are three tracks taken off of the 12” single of ‘Finest Worksong’ that I got from them a few weeks ago. The two remixes are excellent and the live version of ‘Time After Time’ is actually a medley of a few different songs, including Peter Gabriel’s ‘Red Rain’. This track was a little scratchy and I did what I could to fix it, but it doesn’t sound that great. Sorry about that.

Erasure
Stay With Me (NY Mix)
Stay With Me (Flow Mix)
If I don’t start posting Erasure more often my backlog of semi-gay dance tunes is going to become overwhelming. I got their latest on order at Dave’s Music Mine, a quality CD store that shares space with Jerry’s Records. It’s a good store, but is a little unorganized and disheveled. I’m willing to credit that to the fact that they’ve only been in that location for a few months though and they are still trying to figure out how to use the space. They have a ton of great used CDs and sometimes get some pretty oddball stuff that’s not easy to find new, like the Depeche Mode box sets. Check them out if you are ever in Pittsburgh – they get The Lost Turntable Seal Of Approval. These Erasure remixes are off of the single for ‘Stay With Me’ more from it later in the week.

Garbage
Bleed Like Me (Kupper’s Klub Extravaganza)
My collection of Garbage singles is severely lacking. In fact this is the only one I have, and the B-side instrumental was so fucking scratched I couldn’t record it. I got this one at Eide’s Entertainment, another locally-owned store here in Pittsburgh. I have mixed feelings about Eide’s. On the plus side they have a ton of stuff and it’s an absolutely huge place. Throughout their three floors you can buy comic books, new and used CDs, VHS tapes, laserdiscs, DVDs and books. They also have a decent selection of LPs and 45s as well. Just don’t expect to get much cheap there. A record I could buy for 10 bucks at Dave’s or Jerry’s would probably run twice as much at Eides. They sell a lot of bootleg videos of out-of-print and rare stuff, which is cool, but the quality of them usually sucks. I swear their copy of Urgh! was taken off of the same video that’s at my local video store. Most importantly, the people that work there can really be a bunch of assholes. They have a no cell phone policy there, which I kind of understand (trying to ring someone up while they blabber on their phone is amazingly annoying) but if you’re going to run a store that is so massively huge that people could easily spend hours in it, it’s unrealistic to expect them to not get any phone calls during that time. The clerks constantly bitch and moan in front of the customers and kind of go out of their way not to help you. Finally, the owner seems to have some ill-advised grudge against the local Exchange. Two years ago one of his employees stole a few thousand dollars of stuff from his store and sold it to the Exchange. After he found out he expected The Exchange to just give him the stuff back. It sucks that his stuff got stolen, but he shouldn’t expect The Exchange to take a two-grand loss just because he’s not good at screening his employees. I only go here when I have to.

Hardcore Belgium Hardcore Techno

Monday, May 28th, 2007

I’m really bummed out that my gigantic Howard The Duck post didn’t get a bigger response. Sometimes the internet confuses me. I’m never surprised when I get a lot of hits. It probably sounds pretentious of me, but since I think everything I post is totally awesome (if it wasn’t I wouldn’t post it) I just kind of assume that everyone else will agree and flock here bask in my super-neato-keen-awesomeness. It’s cool either way though, but to those of you who do think I’m consistently amazing, please spread the word about the Howard The Duck post, because I’m really proud of that one for some strange reason!

And while your at it, recommend this post about the first electronic album ever made.
And this one which features a brilliantly hokey all-Moog album.

Sorry for the shameless self-promotion.

Lords Of Acid
Lover Boy / Lover Girl (b[Eat] Me Up Mix by Ming & FS)
Lover Boy / Lover Girl (Special Blend Mix)
Lucky’s Fucking Sky (Weed Don’ Need No Fucking Sky Kompressor Mix by NYTQ)
Lucky’s Fucking Sky (John And Paul Tell It All Mix)
Whenever I hear a really good Lords Of Acid song I just picture all of them sitting in the studio humping the recording equipment. That would probably ruin the mixers, but whatever. I’ve always been a fan of sleazy, disgusting hardcore music like Mindless Self Indulgence and Peaches, and I guess Lords Of Acid helped to invent the style back in the 90s, so it only makes sense that I’d dig them the most. The awesomely titled ‘b[Eat] Me Up Mix by Ming & FS’ is a little bit of a let down, but the ‘Special Blend Mix’ more than makes up for it with its pounding guitars and beats. It’ll probably make you wanna fuck the person closest to you or beat the fucking shit out of them…or both if you’re into that kind of thing (don’t forget the safe word).

Pet Shop Boys
In Private (Tomcraft Club Mix)
In Private (Tomcraft 7 Inch Mix)
I’m trying to space out my Pet Shop Boys, Erasure and Depeche Mode stuff. If I just went through and only posted their songs until I was done it would get old after a week or two. Here are two remixes off of a 12” promo single I got.

The Cure
In Between Days (Extended Mix)
Stop Dead
Just when I thought he couldn’t sink any lower after his collaborations with Blink-182 and, most recently, Korn I read somewhere that Robert Smith is going to work with Ashlee Simpson on her new album. Someone needs to grab that boy by the hair…which should be pretty easy, and beat his pale goth ass. In the meantime, here are two tracks off of the 12” single for ‘In Between Days’. I’m sure both of these are on CD somewhere.

Howard The A. Platyrhynchos.

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

A little over a month ago I picked up the 12” single of the theme song to Howard The Duck. I was very happy.

Well, that was just an appetizer, because now I present to you the complete soundtrack to Howard The Duck! I had been looking for this one for a very long time and my excitement over finally finding it actually kind of scared the guys in the record store, who refer to Howard The Duck as “that movie where Lea Thompson almost fucks a duck.”

Whatever, they just don’t know real art when they see it. The album also came with a totally awesome Howard The Duck poster that I would love to frame and hang up in my room, but I want to get laid again at some point, and I think the two are mutually exclusive. Anyways, I dug up a lot of info on this hidden gem so lets get started:

Dolby’s Cube Featuring Cherry Bomb
Hunger City
Howard The Duck
It Don’t Come Cheap
Who knew Caroline In The City (that link goes to a Caroline In The City fansite…yes there is such a thing) could sing new-wave so damn good? In addition to Lea Thompson on vocals, both ‘Howard The Duck’ and ‘It Don’t Come Cheap’ feature Joe Walsh on guitar. But who else was in Cherry Bomb? I suspect many of the instruments on these tracks were either played by Dolby or session musicians, but backing vocals are credited to the women who starred as the band in the film. While none of them are household names, you might have seen them in other films and TV shows since ‘Howard’ crashed and burned. Holly Robinson (now Holly Robinson Peete) has been on 21 Jump Street and Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper. Dominique Dalavas hasn’t acted much since Howard The Duck, and now she’s in the L.A. band Drag. According to their website she scored a number one hit single in Belgium. Finally, there was Liz Segal. In addition to starring in Howard The Duck she had the misfortune of being in Grease 2. She was a writer on Charmed for a bit, and her sister is Katey (Peg Bundy) Segal. Not surprisingly, Howard The Duck is nowhere to be found on any of these actresses’ homepages.

Dolby’s Cube Featuring Tata Vega
I’m On My Way
Okay, who the fuck is Tata Vega? She sang the Oscar-nominated song “Miss Celie’s Blues (Sister)” from The Color Purple. That tune was written by Quincy Jones and Lionel Richie, and it lost to another Richie tune, “Say You, Say Me” from the White Knights soundtrack. Accoring to Tata’s MySpace page she’s appeared in the soundtracks to Forrest Gump and The Lion King, although the IMDB doesn’t mention either of those (it does have her credited as the “Singing Nun” from Spy Hard, so she has that going for her, which is nice. You won’t see any mention of Howard The Duck on her MySpace.

Thomas Dolby
Don’t Turn Away
In the movie this song is performed by Cherry’s Bomb but I guess Dolby had high hopes for this tune as he performs it himself on the soundtrack. As much as I love Thomas Dolby I prefer the version sung by Lea Thompson, I think the song works better with female vocals. This song, like the rest of the songs on the soundtrack were co-written by Allee Willis. While she’s not a household name, her music is. Her work includes:

  • The theme song to Friends
  • ‘September’ and ‘Boogie Wonderland’ by Earth, Wind and Fire
  • ‘Neutron Dance’ by The Pointer Sisters
  • ‘What Have I Done To Deserve This’ by Pet Shop Boys

She actually does mention Howard The Duck on her site, but she also wrote songs for Richard Simmons, so I guess she has nothing to hide.

Bonus!
The Original Score
If there already wasn’t enough talent associated with the Howard The Duck soundtrack, Lucas was able to get John Barry to write the score. Barry’s best-known for writing the James Bond theme, but he’s composed scores for over a hundred movies, including Dances With Wolves and Indecent Proposal. He also wrote the score to the 1976 remake of King Kong, so he can’t even say that Howard The Duck was the worst movie he worked on.

Double Bonus!!
Howard The Duck Megamix
Don’t Turn Away (Single Version)
From my first Howard The Duck post, here are the two tracks from the 12” single.

My Culture Clashes With My Shirt.

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

Yay! I am back in lovely Pittsburgh. I missed my apartment. I missed my quietly-confused Chinese roommate. I missed my goldfish. I missed my computer and my mess of a computer desk. And I missed my happy hard drive full of music and the pile of vinyl sitting next to it begging to be recorded. Luckily while I was trapped in Northwest Ohio I was able to pick up some quality stuff, most of which I’m getting out of the way by posting tonight.

If anyone ever accidentally winds up in the greater Toledo area you can make you stay a little less depressing by heading down to 4020 Secor Rd., home of The Culture Clash. Risen from the ashes of Toledo mainstay Boogie Records, The Culture Clash is a bitchin’ record store full of awesome rarities, imports and the latest indie-releases. Sometimes you can even pick up a sweet little bonus exclusive single or poster also. The place even smells cool. I’m glad The Culture Clash picked up the slack left when Bowling Green’s resident awesome record store The Mad Hatter turned all metal.

The Arcade Fire
Broken Window
I’m not that into The Arcade Fire right now. Don’t get me wrong, I love Neon Bible and still listen to Funeral now and then, but I’m kind of in a “fuck you” mood right now and need something a little heavier. My only complaint with the Canadian indie-rock scene (other than the fact that you can nearly trace every band in Canada to Dan Bejar) is that it’s not really bringing the rock. If someone in the middle of this scene deciding to crank up the tempo and really jam on their axe then I might get more behind the scene. This track is the B-side to The Arcade Fire’s single for ‘Keep The Car Running.’

Patti Smith
Perfect Day
Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect
Pitchforck Media called Patti Smith’s Twelve a “pointless misstep”. And while I am not a huge fan of cover albums I figure that if Patti Smith wants to records an album entirely of other people’s music we should probably let her. The album isn’t great (I’d probably give it 3 or 3.5 stars) but it has some great cuts on it. Highlights for me include her down-home blues rendition of The Allman Bros. ‘Midnight Rider’, a surprisingly faithful take of ‘Everybody Wants To Rule The World’ and her insane bluegrass reworking of ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’. And while the world didn’t really need another version of ‘White Rabbit’ it’s nice to hear it sung by a woman who isn’t a heartless drunken whore. These two additional covers are from a 7” promo that was given to certain independent record stores (including The Culture Clash). ‘Perfect Day’ has been covered by everyone from Duran Duran to half of Europe all at once, but Smith’s haunting and heart-breaking take on the song is probably the best since Lou Reed’s original (although I’m still a sucker for the glossy Duran Duran version). ‘Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect’ is a cover of a Decemberists song, the original unheard by me.

Nine Inch Nails
Survivalism_opalheartclinic_Niggy_Tardust (Escaped… (Featuring Saul Williams)
The Hand That Feeds (The Ruff Mix)
The Hand That Feeds (Dub Instrumental)
When I first heard With Teeth I didn’t like it that much, but it really grew on me over time. Considering the strength of that album I was surprised that Trent returned so quickly with his latest record. Year Zero was released just two years after With Teeth, the shortest time period between NIN album releases (Downward Spiral and Broken came out two years apart as well, but Broken was just an EP). Unlike With Teeth I’ve embraced Year Zero from the get go, and I think that Survivalism is his best single since Hurt. This remix of that track is off of the 7” single. The odd spelling, punctuation and parenthesis in the song title is exactly as it appears on the record. For those of you who don’t know, Saul Williams is a great poet/rapper and is worth checking out if you get the chance. The remixes of ‘The Hand That Feeds’ are off of a promo 12” I picked up, and are not on the Everyday Is Exactly The Same EP that featured two other remixes of the same song.