Name: Bloody Kisses
Brand: Roadrunner Records
SKU: 67569
Price: 14.97 USD
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Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)

Bloody Kisses

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Album: Bloody Kisses
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Machine Screw Album Version	More Info...	0:41
2)	Christian Woman Album Version	More Info...	8:58
3)	Black No.1 (Little Miss Scare-All) Album Version	More Info...	11:15
4)	Fay Wray Come Out And Play Album Version	More Info...	1:04
5)	Kill All The White People Album Version	More Info...	3:24
6)	Summer Breeze Album Version	More Info...	4:51
7)	Set Me On Fire Album Version	More Info...	3:28
8)	Dark Side Of The Womb Album Version	More Info...	0:28
9)	We Hate Everyone Album Version	More Info...	6:51
10)	Bloody Kisses (A Death In The Family) Album Version	More Info...	10:56
11)	3.O.I.F. Album Version	More Info...	2:06
12)	Too Late: Frozen Album Version	More Info...	7:51
13)	Blood & Fire Album Version	More Info...	5:33
14)	Can't Lose You Album Version	More Info...	6:06

Album: Bloody Kisses
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Machine Screw Album Version	More Info...	0:41
2)	Christian Woman Album Version	More Info...	8:58
3)	Black No.1 (Little Miss Scare-All) Album Version	More Info...	11:15
4)	Fay Wray Come Out And Play Album Version	More Info...	1:04
5)	Kill All The White People Album Version	More Info...	3:24
6)	Summer Breeze Album Version	More Info...	4:51
7)	Set Me On Fire Album Version	More Info...	3:28
8)	Dark Side Of The Womb Album Version	More Info...	0:28
9)	We Hate Everyone Album Version	More Info...	6:51
10)	Bloody Kisses (A Death In The Family) Album Version	More Info...	10:56
11)	3.O.I.F. Album Version	More Info...	2:06
12)	Too Late: Frozen Album Version	More Info...	7:51
13)	Blood & Fire Album Version	More Info...	5:33
14)	Can't Lose You Album Version	More Info...	6:06

Performer Notes

Type O Negative includes: Josh Silver, Peter Steele. Kenny Hickey.
Additional personnel: Paul Bento (sitar, tambura).
Recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, New York.
Composer: Pete Steele .
Personnel: Erasmus High School Boys Special Ed (vocals, background vocals); Chris Zamp, Karen Rose, Bonnie Weiss, Debbie Alter, Mike Palmeri, Bensonhoist Lesbian Choir, Joey Z. , Alan Robert, Pete Steele (vocals); Paul Bento (sitar, tamboura); Keith Caputo (background vocals).
Recording information: Sty In the Sky, Brooklyn, NY; Systems Two Studios, Brooklyn, NY.
Ensemble: Erasmus High School Boys Special Ed.
Photographers: John Wadsworth; Jeff Kitts.
Type O Negative has delivered either death-metal's first prog-rock concept album, or its "Good Vibrations"...or maybe both. Either way BLOODY KISSES is one of the most alluringly weird albums in the history of the genre--an hour-long ode to break-ups and suicide that mixes acoustic guitars and synthesizers with metallic power chords, and lush choral harmonies with a lead vocalist who sounds like he died sometime before the recording process began. That last bit is meant as a compliment; if you're going to attempt an eleven-minute suicide dirge like the title track, you better be either Leonard Cohen or dead, and Type O's Peter Steele has a bit of both in him.
For most of BLOODY KISSES, though, Steele and crew come alive as pop studio experimentalists in a field dominated by anti-pop, anti-studio shredders. "Christian Woman" is a three-part epic that ebbs and flows with a slow metal groove, pretty background vocals, synthesized strings, and a morose lead voice that spells out a story of sex, death and Jesus. "Too Late: Frozen" places a bright pop chorus over chord changes that echo Bruce Springsteen's "Tunnel Of Love." There's a surf-y organ line buried in "Blood & Fire." The best pop joke of them all, if that's what it is, is a heavily psychedelic cover of Seals & Crofts' "Summer Breeze"; try listening to the song (which is done straight) while reading the lyric sheet (which is not).

Professional Reviews

Kerrang (Magazine) (p.56) - "[T]he band specialised in deep, slow, sensual thrusts laced with black humour and the occasional slash of fired-up punk menace."

Record Collector (magazine) (p.98) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[The album] veered from hardcore punk via straightahead MTV fodder to ambient noise experiments....It's still highly entertaining."